Nov 25, 2010 07:20 GMT  ·  By

Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has unveiled officially back in September its first Tablet PC, the BlackBerry Playbook, and some more info on the device has just emerged, including details on the price tag at which the slate would be released on shelves.

The BlackBerry PlayBook is RIM's answer to Apple's iPad, as well as to a nice range of tablet PCs that run under Google's Android operating system, and every one expects for the company to price the slate accordingly.

While some speculation on the cost of this slate already emerged, the guys over at Mobility Insider claim they have the correct answer to all of these questions, and that the PlayBook will be priced starting at $399, depending on the amount of internal memory different models arrive on shelves with.

Thus, the $399 price tag would accompany an 8GB version of the tablet PC, while a 16GB model would be priced at $499. on top of that, RIM would also release a 32GB variant of the PlayBook, priced at $599.

It appears that the only differentiator would indeed be the amount of memory inside each model, as the rest of the specifications would remain unchanged from a version to another.

It appears that RIM also plans the release of another variant of the PlayBook, one that would pack wireless carrier connectivity, but that this version won't be released into the wild before 2012.

For the time being, however, there's no telling on whether these price tags would indeed be available when the slate is put on sale, sometime in mid-February 2011 (the PlayBook was reportedly delayed by a few weeks).

However, in case the rumor pans out, the device would indeed be competitive enough when compared to the price tags rival solutions sport at the moment.

The aforementioned news site also compared these prices to the cost of a Wi-Fi only iPad, which starts at $499 for the 16GB model, and goes up to $699 for the 64GB version.