RIM Tablet BlackBerry PlayBook Features Price/Cost Reviews and Release Date 4G

Look and Feel:
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Looks very sleek, snappy and powerful. Easy to hold in on hand as its less than a pound and its dimensions fits in you palm.  Very fast response to multi touch, gesture and keyboard inputs.

• Multi-touch capacitive screen
• Gesture support
• Fluid keys
• 7″ LCD display, 1024 x 600 screen resolution
• 5.1″ x 7.6″ x 0.4″ (130mm x 194mm x 10mm)
• 0.9 lbs (400g)
• On-screen keyboard
• Accelerometer, 6-axis motion sensing (gyroscope) and digital compass (magnetometer)
• GPS

BlackBerry PlayBook Navigation :

Performance and OS:
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QNX OS means high reliability, performance and load. Its a proven OS on highest capacity routers, nuclear reactors. QNX OS along with 1 GHz dual core processor having symmetric multi processing capabilities gives a zip zap fast performance along with 1 GB RAM.

Full computing power in a tablet format

• 1 GHz dual-core processor
• 1 GB RAM
• Symmetric multi-processing

What QNX on PlayBook means, see the video :

Multi task with ease on BlackBerry PlayBook Ad :

Real Web Browsing experiences:
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1.6 million flash sites flash support is desired by all regular web browsers. Adobe flash, Adobe Mobile Air, Java, HTML 5 and powered by WebKit. RIM shows in its videos, Acid3 test and Java script test a better browsing performance compared to iPad.

• Great for games, media, apps and everything the real Internet offers
• Full Adobe® Flash® 10.1 support
• Built in support for HTML 5

BlackBerry PlayBook Web Experience:

High End Multimedia:
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Best media player, stereo sound, gaming, video and HD cameras used to video conference.

• Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1ጐp HD video recording
• Video playback: 1080p HD Video, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV
• Audio playback: MP3, AAC, WMA
• Codec support for superior media playback, creation and video calling
• Stereo speakers and stereo microphones

BlackBerry PlayBook Web Fidelity Video( Multimedia, games and socialnetworking)

Gaming Experience on PlayBook:

Connectors:
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Micro HDMI and Micro USB ports make it different from other Tablet PC’s in market today.

• microHDMI
• microUSB
• charging ports

BlackBerry PlayBook Walk Through:

High Speed Connections:
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Even though the initial release will not have 4g the later models will have all the 4g versions  i.e, WiMax, LTE and HSPA. The BlackBerry PlayBook 4G version is delayed by another 2-3 months.

• Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n
• 4G,Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n + WiMax
• 4G,Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n + LTE
• 4G,Wi-Fi 8Ǣ.11 a/b/g/n + HSPA+
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

Application  Support:
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A wide variety of platforms to support on BlackBerry PlayBook. So the existing developers of all these technology feel well versed to develop for PlayBook. The consumer will have plenty of choice to choose with all available android apps or the exclusive PlayBook apps.

• POSIX OS
• SMP
• Open GL
• Adobe Air
• Adobe Mobile Air
• BlackBerry® WebWorks™
• JavaScript®, HTML5 and CSS
• Java
• Android apps can be run using app launcher

BlackBerry PlayBook OS SDK Overview:

BlackBerry Smart phone Integration:
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Wirelessly connect to your BlackBerry® smartphone1 in a secured and data efficient bridge for a real time access to:

• Push technology
• Email
• Calendar
• Address book
• BBM™
• Tasks
• Documents and more

BlackBerry PlayBook paired to a BlackBerry Smartphone:

Enterprise Ready:
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BlackBerry security and data efficiency is a well known feature of all BlackBerry devices. So in a secured connection between your smart phone and PlayBook, you can access all the existing enterprise apps you already use on you BlackBerry PlayBook.

BalckBerry PlayBook for Business:

BlackBerry PlayBook Business Side :

Good Storage and Battery Life:
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PlayBook will have 16GB, 32GB and even 64GB variants available and will be powered by a huge 5,300mAh battery.

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Sellers:
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AT&T
Cbeyond
Cellular South
Cincinnati Bell
Currys
Best Buy
Excell Mobile (UK)
Future Shop
Office Depot
OfficeMax
Phones4u
PC World
Dixons
Radio Shack
Sears Canada
Chapters Indigo
Sprint
Staples
ShopBlackBerry.com
Three.co UK
The Carphone Warehouse
Verizon Wireless
Wind Mobile
Insight
Vodafone
Orange

Price:
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16GB – $499.99
32GB – $599.99
64GB – $699.99

Release Dates:
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USA – April 19th
Canada – April 19th
UK – June 16th
INDIA – June 22nd
All the below countries will get BlackBerry PlayBook with in 15days from June 22nd :
Netherlands
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Hong Kong
Australia
Venezuela
Spain
Germany
UAE
Singapore
Mexico
France
Italy
Indonesia
Colombia

Apps:
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The apps list for BlackBerry PlayBook looked meagre but with announcement to support android apps using launcher the apps kitty is full and fabulous.

The BlackBerry has signed up with Polar Mobile to get 100 apps developed exclusively for PlayBook this year.

With many major companies announcing their own app support to PlayBook their would be lot more change in native PlayBook apps list.

Amazon Kindle app, Kobo e-Reader app,  Sun Life Financial Enrolment app, Skype app, IBM Lotus Email app, eUnity Medical app, FaceBook app, 7Digital Music store app are some of the big apps in the list.

7Digital Music Store and HD Podcast apps on BlackBerry PlayBook:

The Astonishing Tribe PlayBook Apps :

What Big Companies had to say about this sleek and snappy black tablet pc ?

“BlackBerry PlayBook wins first every tablet world series”

– LAPTOP Magazine

“PlayBook’s multi task function makes it easier to jump between apps”

–REUTERS

“RIM seems to have put a very tasty little slate”

– TECHDIGEST

“The PlayBook looks very snappy”

– SmartphoneBlast

“The HDMI port, in particular, sets the PlayBook ahead”

– ImformationWeek

“It looks sleek, it seems powerfull”

– CNET

“Porting your app to the PlayBook looks like a breeze”

– BLACKBERRYCOOL

“If there is a businessman’s tablet then it definitely looks the part”

– CNET

Q&A BlackBerry PlayBook Video from CES 2011 :

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