Whether the tablet will be able to make Blackberry compete with iPad?
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
The manufacturer of BlackBerry smartphones, RIM has finally entered into a confrontation tablets. At the annual conference of BlackBerry Developer Conference was officially announced its first Tablet PC PlayBook, rumors of which go further with this spring.
Obviously, the PlayBook is not inferior in many respects, and in some cases even superior to the current iPad model, though it is unclear how the new product will be able to compete with the iPad 2. (For output PlayBook is scheduled for early 2011, and by that time Apple will prepare a new model of its own tablet.)
For PlayBook developed the original operating system - BlackBerry Tablet OS, which is similar to the logic operation on the BlackBerry OS, some elements reminiscent of Palm webOS, but is a separate and extraordinary product. After all, for its development of responsible popular in certain circles, QNX, acquired by RIM in the spring. That its products are the basis of many industrial embedded systems, vehicle computers and even nuclear reactors. BlackBerry Tablet OS supports multitasking, well animated and, in theory, should be neresursoemka. Although productivity in the plate is more than enough.
PlayBook equipped with a 7-inch display, a capacitive touch panel with a resolution of 1024x600 pixels, SoC-based system with a dual-core processor ARM Cortex A9, 1GB of RAM, 16 GB or 32 flash memory. In addition, there microUSB ports and HDMI, 3-megapixel webcam on the front panel (for video conferencing), and a 5 megapixel camera - at the rear, modules Wi-Fi (802.11b / g / n) and Bluetooth 2.1.
The PlayBook now supports the system in companion mode for the BlackBerry smartphone. When connected via Bluetooth to the terminal, you can get access to all data stored in its memory content via the PlayBook screen. It should be noted that the tablet also supports Adobe Flash, Adobe AIR, HTML5, OpenGL and POSIX.
PlayBook will come in handy in the work of both business travelers and not so. It can be a great entertainment device due to its technical characteristics and support for the most popular media formats, including video at 1080p. Dimensions of the device are 130h193h10 mm, weight - 400 g Its price yet no details.