RIM Recalling A Few Playbooks

It seems that Research In Motion (RIM) have decided to recall a small batch (approx one thousand) of faulty Blackberry Playbooks. It seems that they were alerted by stationary and hardware retailer Staples who discovered the faulty tablets.

“RIM determined that approximately one thousand BlackBerry PlayBook tablets (16 GB) were shipped with an OS build that may result in the devices being unable to properly load software upon initial set-up,” said the RIM confirmation.

“The majority of the affected devices are still in the distribution channel and haven’t reached customers. RIM is working to replace the affected devices. In the small number of cases where a customer received a PlayBook that is unable to properly load software upon initial set-up, they can contact RIM for assistance.”

By the looks of things it seems that none of these faulty tablets have managed to reach customers yet, but that means there could be a chance that you might not be able to find a Blackberry Playbook for sale if you shop at a store that could have been affected by the faulty tablets, but it seems for now it has been limited to Staples.