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The BlackBerry PlayBook was released to the public yesterday, and it’s already been fully disassembled for inspection by some hardware experts. A lot of the components have come from Texas Instruments (not just the processor). From a repairability standpoint, the PlayBook is easy enough to open, using standard screws, but replacing the battery requires you…
The BlackBerry PlayBook launched yesterday with little more than a home screen shortcut to the Facebook web page. Though admittedly, Facebook renders pretty nicely on RIM’s first tablet, a real app is what we’re waiting, and by the looks of this demo from Adobe, it’s not far off. Adobe was showing off a bunch of…
BlackBerry Bridge, the app which promises to bring all of your core smartphone apps to RIM’s latest tablet, has gone live with the launch of the PlayBook today. Despite a few hiccups with the app rollout, I managed to get my Torch 9800 paired up with the PlayBook just fine, and it’s now showing all…
Now that the BlackBerry PlayBook is out and in the wild, RIM has updated their software development kits so app-makers have some polished tools to work with. With WebWorks 2.0, RIM has separated JavaScript APIs from the OS, which should make it easy to add new and alter existing APIs through their open source project…
While most research shows that Android will be dominating the smartphone space in just a few years, many of these segment mobile devices into separate categories. New data from comScore is actually combining these connected devices and it shows that Apple iOS outreaches the Android platform by 59 percent with this new metric. The report…
It’s been almost six months since we first saw the BlackBerry PlayBook from Research In Motion but the 7-inch corporate-friendly tablet is now available. The PlayBook can be yours for about $500 for the 16 GB model. When the BlackBerry PlayBook was first introduced, it blew us away with its specs: 1 GHz dual-core processor,…
If you haven’t been able to get the Apple iPad 2 yet, you might want to check out your local Toys R Us because the mostly-kids store began selling the tablet this weekend. Not every Toys R Us store will have the Apple iPad 2 but the company has set up a web page to…
Following up on his Bloomberg interview last week, RIM’s co-CEO Jim Balsillie spoke with the Wall Street Journal about not only reviews of the BlackBerry PlayBook, but also the ongoing security situation in India and a few other issues. Balsillie replied to Walt Mossberg’s “codependent” label of the PlayBook by calling the relationship between RIM’s…
We finally have a retail-ready BlackBerry PlayBook unit in our hands, so we decided to give it a quick unboxing video to show you all what it will look like once you’re able to go out and buy one of your own. The packaging is actually quite nice. As you’ll notice from the start, it’s…
Hey, folks! We’re sure you’ve seen BlackBerry PlayBook reviews hitting the web the past few days, and our unit just arrived this morning. So, while we’re working away at our review to give you guys the details, we’re also live-streaming so that you can ask us questions for the next half hour or hour. Ask…