Today BlackBerry Playbook become into conversation for gadget lovers. BlackBerry Playbook is the first tablet PC which is marketed by RIM and it has been launched on April 19.
The presence of BlackBerry Playbook makes the competition of PC tablet market tighter. Even though the iPad 2 is continuing to sell well, there are still a growing number of consumers who loyal with Apple’s product.
Playbook BlackBerry comes in three models of Playbook WiFi , and an estimated price as follows:
- BlackBerry Playbook 16GB Price: $ 500
- BlackBerry Playbook 32GB Price: $ 600
- BlackBerry Playbook 64GB Price: $ 700
Specification of BlackBerry Playbook:
· 7-inch LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, multi-touch screen and gesture sopported
· 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 400gram).
· RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future.
· Battery life around 7 hours
Things that you should know about BlackBerry Playbook:
1. Playbook will be 'useful' if connected with the BlackBerry
One of the most controversial features of this Playbook is BlackBerry Bridges. This means only BlackBerry that being 'bridge' for this Playbook for running BlackBerry Messenger, push email, calendar synchronization and other.
2. BlackBerry Playbook comes with 7-inch screen. On that size, RIM has said that this device will present far more mobile than others, such as Xoom Motorola, which has a 10.1-inch screen. However, 7 inches is rather small in relation to what's in the tablet market trend. Tablet market leader, iPad 2 came with 9.7-inch screen.
3. The number of applications is still small. Recorded only 3,000 applications available for this tablet. Whereas iPad has 65,000 applications available on the App Store. That's a big difference.
4. Using the new operating system. Playbook comes with the new operating system, named QNX Software so you must adapt with its operating system.
