Blackberry’s Playbook inscription will go on sale in the first entertain of subsequent year for “under $500″, according to Blackberry co-CEO Jim Balsillie. Speaking to Bloomberg, he pronounced that a 7-inch inscription “will be really competitively priced.”

$500 seems to be the limit for non-Apple tablets, as well as if this is a genuine price and not just the spoiler to stop be-suited business-types from shopping an iPad in the subsequent couple of months, then it will stick on a Samsung Galaxy Tab in a marketplace for small tablets. This $500 is essentially the warn, as Blackberry is offered the Playbook as the commercial operation machine, as well as you were expecting the tall price to compare.

The difficulty is, $500 is still as well most. How can you assign radically a same price as Apple does for the iPad, though for a machine with the half-sized shade? Worse, Blackberry isn’t exactly known for it’s third-party apps, as well as selecting the hideous Adobe Air runtime won’t assistance.

The Playbook might await Flash, but which is increasingly not pertinent as some-more sites switch to where a income is as well as offer iPad-friendly HTML5 video.

It’s removing tough to see who will buy a Playbook. And recollect: by a time it essentially limps into stores, the iPad 2 will be possibly available or approaching.

RIM to Sell Tablet for Less Than $500 to Take upon IPad [Bloomberg]