{"id":59092,"date":"2014-10-29T02:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T09:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/?p=59092"},"modified":"2014-10-29T02:10:17","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T09:10:17","slug":"john-chen-confirms-blackberry-is-working-on-tablet-concept","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/john-chen-confirms-blackberry-is-working-on-tablet-concept","title":{"rendered":"John Chen Confirms BlackBerry is Working on Tablet Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; margin: 11px 33px;\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5613\/15040297784_d9326a2f3b_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"216\" \/>John Chen was in Hong Kong this week for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitefhk.org\" target=\"_blank\">the MIT Enterprise Forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the event, <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/LPOADuOmP_A\" target=\"_blank\">Chen confirmed<\/a> that BlackBerry is indeed working on a tablet.<\/p>\n<p><!-- pagebreak --><\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry patents hit at a potential slider-based tablet concept, possibly similar to Microsoft&#8217;s Surface Pro devices, only the keyboard would slide under the tablet as opposed to disconnecting entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Speculation suggests the launch of a BlackBerry tablet in mid- to late-2015, but the Waterloo-based company has not released anything official.<\/p>\n<p>BlackBerry&#8217;s last attempt at a tablet was the PlayBook, which was a major flop. The device, which debuted at $500, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techvibes.com\/blog\/walmart-really-really-wants-you-to-own-a-blackberry-playbook-2012-09-11\" target=\"_blank\">saw its price plummet to $100<\/a> at many retailers as they looked to clear out stock at a loss because it wouldn&#8217;t sell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Chen was in Hong Kong this week for the MIT Enterprise Forum. At the event, Chen confirmed that BlackBerry is indeed working on a tablet. BlackBerry patents hit at a potential slider-based tablet concept, possibly similar to Microsoft&#8217;s Surface Pro devices, only the keyboard would slide under the tablet as opposed to disconnecting entirely. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54503,"featured_media":59094,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-59092","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/59092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/54503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/59092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/59094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59092"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=59092"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=59092"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=59092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}