BlackBerry Playbook
Mike Lazaridis, Research in Motion (RIM) co-CEO as well as founder reached the stage at its San Francisco Bay Area BlackBerry Developers Meeting today and lost no time announcing a series of remarkable figures, as well as unveiling the company’s long awaited tablet, the BlackBerry ‘Playbook’.
The actual ‘PlayBook’ offers a brand new 7-in. screen, operates on a WebKit web browser, and also facilitates HTML5 as well as Adobe Flash. On the inside of the ‘PlayBook’, it features a dual core One(1) Ghz processor chip along with One(1) of memory. The ‘PlayBook’ features two cameras, one on the front and one on the back, each digital camera supports high definition video as well. It is able to play back 1080p HD video utilizing hardware acceleration, and has the capacity to run content through a television through an HDMI (high definition multimedia interface) port. One thing that makes it great for delivering presentations is that it is able to display content other than what is on its own screen through the HDMI port. Lazaridis referred to the actual unit as a “BlackBerry amplified” encounter.
What’s most exciting concerning the’ PlayBook’ is that this totally abandons any kind of pretense of the aged BlackBerry OS, that has remained aesthetically similar, and right now very dated for several years. The actual ‘PlayBook’ instead utilizes the brand new “BlackBerry Tablet OS,” which seems to have much more in common with Palm’s card dependent WebOS (used on the actual Palm Pre as well as on the Pixi) than with iOS or Android. Applications are shown as individual thumbnails, which may be scrolled through. Whenever selected, that application is enlarged to full screen size. Beneath the thumbnails is possibly a quick switcher or perhaps a repository of commonly used applications.
The internet browser looks quite like the brand new WebKit dependent browser (which essentially means “modern,” these days, everything starting from Google Chrome to the particular iPhone’s Safari internet browser operates on WebKit) as seen in the brand new BlackBerry Torch, however it looks even better on the big screen. The actual ‘PlayBook’ supports Flash too, as well as HTML5 and Adobe AIR, so you will be able to load pretty much any kind of site on it.
BlackBerry’s greatest weakness lately has been applications, and RIM now promises to acquire developers to get an actual application scene started, particularly in gaming. The tablet will furthermore, as being a RIM product, include business friendly features, although not one was mentioned by name. Nonetheless the movie exhibits the tablet flashing spreadsheets as well as presentations through high definition multimedia interface to a projector, so you can most likely expect a full selection of corporate applications. It’s going to get some good ebook reader applications as well; Amazon.com has already announced how the excellent Kindle application will be going to the ‘PlayBook’ on release.
The ‘PlayBook’ will be obtainable sometime in earlier 2011, for a currently undisclosed price. Keep in mind, BlackBerry doesn’t just compete successfully against the Apple iPhone, in North America, it pretty much beats it, it always has. RIM could most certainly have developed a hit with the BlackBerry ‘PlayBook,’ it is at least worthy of a closer look upon release.
