The BlackBerry PlayBook isn’t exactly late to the party and its sales numbers from launch day are actually better than expected. But the bad news is that those sales numbers aren’t exactly huge either.

Mike Abramsky is the General Manager over at RBC Capital Markets and he estimates that RIM managed to sell about 50,000 PlayBook tablets on launch day, including pre-order sales. That’s more than what some analysts had predicted and, if the number holds true, it means the PlayBook did better on launch day than the Motorola Xoom and the Samsung Galaxy Tab.

However, we can also put these numbers in some stunning perspective. You know about a little company called Apple? Yeah, they pushed out half a million iPad 2 tablets on the first day. That’s ten times what RIM was able to achieve. We can take that comparison for what it’s worth, but there you have it.

In my brief time with the PlayBook at CES earlier this year, I must say that I was impressed with the true multitasking and the slickness of the QNX framework. It’s far from perfect, but the PlayBook should be able to hold its own in the increasingly popular tablet world. Stay tuned for a full review once we’ve put it through the ringer.

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Before you grab your sleeping bag and comic books for a good night of sleeping outside the Apple Store, you might want to know a little bit more about the iPad 2 launch day details for tomorrow. For starters, you’re not getting the iPad 2 first thing in the morning.

Press releases have been issued by Apple, AT&T, and Verizon Wireless that the in-store purchases of the second iPad will not start until 5pm local time on March 11. That means that if you’re camping tonight, you’ll need to pack a breakfast and a lunch (and maybe an afternoon snack) for the long wait.

If you don’t need to have the shiny new tablet in your hand tomorrow, you can actually buy it sooner by visiting either the AT&T or Apple website starting at 1AM PST (4PM EST) tomorrow. Pricing is the same, but you’d have to wait for delivery.

Verizon will only sell the CDMA iPad, of course, and it’ll have four data plans ranging from $20 for 1GB to $80 for 10GB. AT&T, on the flip side, will only sell the GSM iPad and it has two plans: $14.99 for 250MB or $25 for 2GB. Those of you outside the USA will have to wait until the 26th.

[via BGR]

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