RIM: PlayBook will be great, even without a BlackBerry smartphone

RIM’s entry into the tablet market, the PlayBook, is set to arrive in the U.S. within the next couple of months, but there have been some concerns about how much success it’ll see. Since the PlayBook relies on a BlackBerry smartphone to be tethered to it to perform certain functions, like calendar and contact management, some people are worried that sales of the tablet will suffer. RIM doesn’t think that it’ll matter much, though, telling Forbes that the PlayBook “is a great standalone tablet.”…

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