Author: Sethe Published: May 4th, 2011
Recently released in the US, Blackberry fans are eagerly awaiting the release of the Playbook in the UK, which is expected to arrive anytime soon. However, upon arrival, the RIM tablet faces stiff competition. There are a number of dual-core tablets offered by Android and Apple. So how does Blackberry plan to deal with the competition? Here are a few exciting announcements by RIM.
- BlackBerry Playbook
When released in the US, users noticed that the Playbook was released in a Wi-Fi-only version. Will there be any Wi-Fi and 3G versions available in the future? RIM’s tablet has no need for a 3G connection. It instead will make use of the Blackberry Bridge app. The Blackberry Bridge allows the tablet’s users to tether the tablet with Blackberry smartphones such as the Torch, Bold, and Curve 3G and make use of the smartphone’s 3G connection. This eliminates the need to subject yourself to another lengthy contract for a separate 3G connection. This will also allow you to sync your Blackberry contacts, calendar, and email. It is also possible to tether with iOS and Android handsets, but syncing will not be an option.
RIM also announced that they would be bridging the gap between Facebook and BBM. An update would bring the Blackberry Messenger to the Playbook, and an especially designed Facebook app would be available for the Playbook as well. This will be the first Facebook app especially designed for a tablet. The app offers side-by-side chat conversations, seamless video and photo viewing, and the ability to directly upload multimedia taken on the tablet to your profile in Facebook. Furthermore, an HDMI connector allows you to enjoy everything in much larger screen.
To top it all off, the Video Chat app was also announced. This allowed users to make use of video chat via Wi-Fi just like Apple’s FaceTime. If you thought these announcements made the tablet complete, think again. Coupled with a diverse application ecosystem (the ability to make use of both Android and Blackberry apps), the Blackberry Playbook is definitely the most diverse tablet in the market.
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Category Tablet News |
Author: Sethe Published: April 4th, 2011
When Blackberry announced that it is in the process of designing its first tablet, we never expected it to be this good. Despite the amazing specifications, there was still one question that lingered in everybody’s minds. Will there be a wide range of apps to choose from? Since then, Blackberry has done well to provide apps for their customers. One of the ways they plan to do this is to get help from Polar. 
Currently, there are approximately 20,000 apps in Blackberry’s App World. This is not at all impressive compared to the Android Market’s 250,000 apps and the Apple App Store’s 350,000 apps. These figures were recorded on the Month of March of 2011. The number of apps available for Android and Apple continue to grow at a skyrocketing rate.
Regardless of how insignificant the number of apps Blackberry has in its App World, it made a move that got everyone jumping out of their seats. BB configured its tablet to not only run its own apps, but apps from the Android Market as well. Although the Playbook can only run apps from as far back as the Android OS version 2.3 Froyo to the current version, this is still a wide range of choices presented to the Blackberry Playbook’s future users. To top it all off, Polar has vowed to give BB an app boost.
Polar has been inexhaustible in creating apps for Android, iOS, WP7, and BB platforms. They specialize in newspaper, magazine, and media like apps. They have also committed to creating more than a hundred apps for the Playbook.
According to Polar, they like everything about the BB tablet. They added that the tablet is most likely to be used by its users for more than 5 times a day, compared to only the evenings and weekends from the iPad. Consumers will rely on the Playbook’s apps to provide easily accessible content.
With the versatility of the Blackberry Playbook, consumers will surely notice it to be a worthy adversary of the iPad and Honeycomb tablets such as the Motorola Xoom.
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Category App News |
