BlackBerry Playbook
 

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Official Specifications
7” LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support
BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing
1 GHz dual-core processor
1 GB RAM
Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1080p HD video recording
Video playback: 1080p HD Video, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV
Audio playback: MP3, AAC, WMA
HDMI video output
Wi-Fi – 802.11 a/b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Connectors: microHDMI, microUSB, charging contacts
Open, flexible application platform with support for WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Adobe Reader, POSIX, OpenGL, Java
Ultra thin and portable:
Measures 5.1”x7.6”x0.4” (130mm x 193mm x 10mm)
Weighs less than a pound (approximately 0.9 lb or 400g)
Additional features and specifications of the BlackBerry PlayBook will be shared on or before the date this product is launched in retail outlets.
RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future.

Liking it so far... too bad these specs don't make it into the Torch...

Looks good, just waiting to see how their OS functions/performs.

Think this belongs more in the Computer forum than the Phone forum...

I am excited to see this in real life. I like how it can play all FLASH =D woot woot ! ! ! ! !

i read somewhere that the cost is somewhere in the ipad territory? $499 ish. Don't know how true that is

LOL its going to be terrible,

No 3G... OS is made from some random company..

But then again BB never had a good OS.

Looks good on paper but spec doesn't always translate to good user experiences. Can't wait to check it out in person though. IMO I can stay. Restricted os on a phone but not on a tablet which woul replace my laptop when I travel
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The Playbook seems to be an add on to the blackberry were the I pad seems to duplicate many of the I phones functions. I love the fact it has HDMI out, USB, can run power point presentations and run drive 2 different screens at the same time.

Unlike recent berry phones, the pad seems to stack up pretty decently against competitors.

I look forward to them not botching this, I hope.
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so many unconfirmed features... but the dual core should be awesome :) provided they go with a decent GPU.

Someone told me the Playbook piggyback on a blackberry's data plan, anyone else read that somewhere?

Only way to find out is to get a hands on review.

mmm interesting

Why did they have the make the bezel so thick?

QNX is random?

Of course! They don't even have stores lined with douchebags and dumbasses waiting to ask the genius bar for a tutorial on how to bookmark sites; they might as well be bankrupt.

meh...

It is said that QNX will be released onto devices in the near future.

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Were did you even get that idea it had no 3g?

Random guess:
Ipad has a bezel as well, it's somewhere to put your thumbs when you're holding the thing. The product is for younger crowds.

This berry will be targeted to an older crowd, grandpa's gonna need more bezel to hold on to, so he doesn't accidentally place his thumb on the screen and deem it unresponsive.

Can't think of any other reason why they would make it so large, wasted real estate, looks like a digital photo frame.

Wow. Are you out of your mind, QNX is a random company? I took an entire 300 level course in engineering learning the architecture, operation, and applications of the QNX Neutrino RTOS. What a waste that was. :rolleyes:

QNX has never came up with anything worth mentioning for the phone / tablet platform, also Jsunu they are not coming up with the 3G yet they are expecting people to have a berry already and tether with it.

...which is a much more sane option than having to pay Rogers an EXTRA $20/month just to share your current data plan between your phone and your iPad.

So? Google had never come up with anything worth mentioning for the phone / tablet platform, and oh look, now there's this thing called Android. Google had never even looked at an OS before: in the grand scheme of things, they're total amateurs. On the other hand, QNX practically invented the real-time operating system. So I don't know, I think I like their chances.

Good point. But they still could have made a bit thinner lol. Oh well. I'm leaning more towards something like a Samsung Galaxy tab anyways.