This is the blackberry playbook. pretty sexy isnt it? we thought so too; this thing is definatly
one of those gadgets that make you feel richer when your out and about in public.
The funny part of that though, is this. $200.... thats it lol. half the price of some higher end
android tablets of comparable size - 7 inches by the way.
We loved this thing, it has one downside. its not Android OS; A good thing or a bad thing depending
on who you ask. We say bad; blackberry os will never keep up with android, its not going to.
Google android and the android market place will have at least 10 options of almost anything you
can get in this, and with 2 or 3 of those options being free its hard to justify them staying with their
own OS other then probably being just pride.
Enough bashing time to get to the good stuff. This tablet rocks a dual core processor with 1GB ram, it ran everything we tested at speeds that will not stutter. its a true widescreen tablet as well, so unlike "some, not all" android 7 inchers, it doesnt appear squeesed. Images were clear, and sharp, vivid and bright.
It has the typical features you want in a tablet, with GPS, 6 way gyroscope, HDMI HD output, cumpas, stereo sound and yada yada yada ( see below ).
Blackberry bridge is not a feature we used, as it required a Blackberry phone, but this basically allows you to bridge the 2 deviced together like your own personal network.
BlackBerry Bridge is a feature that allows BlackBerry smartphone owners to interact with core
BlackBerry applications including email (BIS and BES), calendar, contacts, on the Playbook's large 7
-inch high resolution screen but from your phone. BlackBerry Bridge links the two devices
notification systems so you are alerted of new emails, BBMs, and calendar reminders right on the
Playbook display. Through this same relationship, businesses running Blackberry Enterprise
Software can allow their employees to securely access information found on corporate internet sites
using PlayBook. You also have access to your Smartphone browser so you can get on the web from
virtually anywhere.
Would we buy one? No, without a blackberry phone, and the fact it uses blackberry OS means
to own one makes ZERO sense to us, since the Android market has far more options, free options
etc etc. But if you got a blackberry phone, and wanna basically use your phone on a larger screen
it may be worth it for you; even then it makes little sense to us, but to each their own.
Over all as far as that goes its an EXCELLENT device thats well built, has many features and will
please you "especially if you never had an android tab and dont know what your missing".
*** THERE IS RUMORS THAT PLAYBOOK IS GETTING ANDROID APP SUPPORT ***
** update **
While most of the comments in here are about the blackbooks terrible os and lack of options
when COMPARED to android; this is actually a good tablet, however using android apps
on this device isnt as easy as you would believe, see here ->>> clickey!!
Time for some of the nitty gritty.
CPU DualCore CPU @ 1GHz
RAM 1GB
HDD 16GB (32 available)
MEMORY
O/S Blackberry OS
FLASH Unknown
SCREEN SIZE 7 inch
SCREEN TYPE 4 point multitouch Capacitive.
Dimentions 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
Weight 0.9 lb
CAMERAS 3mp face & 5mp back
Rooted/Rootable yea.
MARKET On OS v2 rooted Check here.
MIC/Speaker Yes to both.
CONNECTORS hdmi, phones,
BATTERIES Unknown
NETWORKING Wireless a/b/g/n
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