Gadget Preview: RIM’s “BlackPad”

 

Readers may remember my previous post about the iPad and other Tablets (this one) , a few days later a friend told me about another tablet that is going to be made by Research In Motion, Blackberry’s mother company. Concept pictures were spreading around the internet and since there was no official move or statement from RIM themselves I didn’t quite think it was true.

 

Now however, I have seen it with my own eyes! ending all speculation about it’s existence and it’s name (Blackpad or Black Book?). It’s real and it’s going to be out very soon!

 

Introducing the Blackberry Play Book;

 

 

 

Should this come out, I am tipping it to out take Apple’s current iPad, that is unless Apple step up it’s game (which is highly expected) and introduce a better version of the iPad with all the missing features this time around integrated in the newer versions. The one thing I’d like to see is how Blackberry will compete with Apple in terms of  apps and games. Apple’s iPad has the large library of apps found in the iTunes Store, Blackberry has a miniature of that in the form of Blackberry World App. Will need to work on that field since arguably the best thing about the iPads are it’s apps and games!

 

 

RIM set a release date for it’s Blackberry Play Book sometime in the first quarter of 2011 in North America and out in the second quarter for the rest of the world.

 

Check out the specs:

• 7″ LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support.
• BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing.
• 1 GHz dual-core processor.
• 1 GB RAM.
• Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1080p HD video recording.
• Video playback: 1080p HD Video, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV.
• Audio playback: MP3, AAC, WMA.
• HDMI video output.
• Wi-Fi – 802.11 a/b/g/n.
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR.
• Connectors: microHDMI, microUSB, charging contacts.
• Open, flexible application platform with support for WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe.
• Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Adobe Reader, POSIX, OpenGL, Java.
• Ultra thin and portable.
• Measures 5.1″x7.6″x0.4″ (130mm x 193mm x 10mm).
• Weighs less than a pound (approximately 0.9 lb or 400g).
• Additional features and specifications of the BlackBerry PlayBook will be shared on or before the date this product is launched in retail outlets.
• RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future.

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