We're all too familiar with Android tablets and the iPad so when we were introduced to the BlackBerry Playbook with its own mobile operating system, we paused for a while to re-think the UI, navigation and over-all usability. Read our full review of RIM's BlackBerry Playbook after the jump. Like many other 7-inch tablets, the Blackberry Playbook offers a more jacket-pocket friendly mobile device (or for the ladies, the usual hand or clutch bag) light enough not to be too cumbersome for all-day use. The Playbook runs on it's own operating system, the BlackBerry Tablet OS, which is based on the QNX Neutrino OS. What RIM did was introduce a built-in feature called BlackBerry Bridge -- a wireless Bluetooth connection between your Blackberry phone and Playbook so you can connect to the internet using your phone's 3G network. Would have been a nice idea but also crippling to many others who don't own a Blackberry phone (gives us the impression that RIM made the Playbook for BlackBerry users only). Here are some really nice features I found native to the BlackBerry Playbook: WiFi Sharing. The BlackBerry Playbook is a very promising tablet and is something worth waiting for. Read more in our articles including "BlackBerry Playbook Review" and "Blackberry Storm: RIM sheds the keypad".
We're all too familiar with Android tablets and the iPad so when we were introduced to the BlackBerry Playbook with its own mobile operating system, we paused for a while to re-think the UI, navigation and over-all usability. Read our full review of RIM's BlackBerry Playbook after the jump.
Like many other 7-inch tablets, the Blackberry Playbook offers a more jacket-pocket friendly mobile device (or for the ladies, the usual hand or clutch bag) light enough not to be too cumbersome for all-day use. The Playbook runs on it's own operating system, the BlackBerry Tablet OS, which is based on the QNX Neutrino OS. What RIM did was introduce a built-in feature called BlackBerry Bridge -- a wireless Bluetooth connection between your Blackberry phone and Playbook so you can connect to the internet using your phone's 3G network.
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