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Research In Motion (RIM) has officially announced the BlackBerry Playbook, BlackBerry tablet device that was referred to as BlackPad. What are its features?
Mike Lazaridis, President & Co-CEO of Research In Motion, officially announced a device called BlackBerry Playbook at the General Session BlackBerry Developer Conference 2010 in Moscone West, San Francisco, on Monday local time.
Lazaridis described the tablets as the first professional tablet that can access the web as a whole. Playbook can display content from a BlackBerry smartphone that is placed in a pairing. Also mentioned also that the Playbook is an amazing gaming device and "open a new era of computing that can be gripped in your hand."
Playbook do not have a cellular connection but this device can be connected wirelessly via pairing with BlackBerry. Playbook planned for early 2011 and rolled forward to say there are plans to make 3G and 4G versions of these tablets although not say when the plan will be realized.
Interestingly Playbook not use BlackBerry OS 6, but using a new platform created by QNX, the company that bought RIM early 2010.
Here are some key specifications of the BlackBerry Playbook as quoted from RIM:
The tablet is a great announcement for the rim, and that will shake the tablet market. Unfortunately the price has not been determined and you can guess, this will be a major factor affecting sales. Possible Blackberry Playbook price is around 500 USD - 1000 USD.
Mike Lazaridis, President & Co-CEO of Research In Motion, officially announced a device called BlackBerry Playbook at the General Session BlackBerry Developer Conference 2010 in Moscone West, San Francisco, on Monday local time.
Lazaridis described the tablets as the first professional tablet that can access the web as a whole. Playbook can display content from a BlackBerry smartphone that is placed in a pairing. Also mentioned also that the Playbook is an amazing gaming device and "open a new era of computing that can be gripped in your hand."
Playbook do not have a cellular connection but this device can be connected wirelessly via pairing with BlackBerry. Playbook planned for early 2011 and rolled forward to say there are plans to make 3G and 4G versions of these tablets although not say when the plan will be realized.
Interestingly Playbook not use BlackBerry OS 6, but using a new platform created by QNX, the company that bought RIM early 2010.
Here are some key specifications of the BlackBerry Playbook as quoted from RIM:
- WSVGA LCD capacitive touch screen 7 "(1024 x 600) which supports multisentuh and gesture (movement of the hand / finger)
- BlackBerry Tablet OS that supports symmetric multiproses
- Processor 1 GHz dual-core processors
- 1 GB RAM
- Dual HD camera (3 MP in front, 5 MP in the rear), supports 1080p HD video recorder
- Video Player: 1080p HD, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV
- Audio player: MP3, AAC, WMA
- Port HDMI output
- Wi-Fi - 802.11 a / b / g / n
- Bluetooth 2.1 EDRKonektor: microHDMI, microUSB charger
- Flexible and open application platform that supports WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Adobe Reader, POSIX, OpenGL, Java
- Very thin and portable, size 5.1 "x7.6" x0.4 "(130mm x 193mm x 10mm)
- The weight of approximately 0.9 lb or 400g
The tablet is a great announcement for the rim, and that will shake the tablet market. Unfortunately the price has not been determined and you can guess, this will be a major factor affecting sales. Possible Blackberry Playbook price is around 500 USD - 1000 USD.
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