BlackBerry PlayBook, the first RIM’s Tablet PC – iPad killer? (video)
Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) has finally announced a Tablet PC BlackBerry PlayBook, details of which have repeatedly flashed on the World Wide Web. Presentation of the device held in the framework developer conference BlackBerry DEVCON 2010.
Despite “playing” name that novelty is positioned as a solution for the “professional” users. As a software platform used in the BlackBerry PlayBook BlackBerry Tablet OS, based on the QNX Neutrino microkernel to support a family of POSIX standards and specifications of OpenGL.
Declared support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR and Java. Web browser tablet, built on the engine WebKit, the markup language compatible with HTML5.
The model carries a two video cameras (with a resolution of 3 and 5 megapixels), which can simultaneously record video for “high definition” format 1080p. The tablet has a 7-inch capacitive touch screen with 1024 × 600 pixels and support for multitouch technology, Connectivity Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11a/b/g/n) and Bluetooth 2.1, ports and MicroHDMI MicroUSB, stereo speakers, and 1 GB of RAM.
The heart of a novelty – gigahertz dual-core processor architecture ARM Cortex-A9. Built-in PlayBook drive in RIM did not specify.
The tablet has an application to edit documents and e-book reader and media player with support for MP3, AAC, WMA, H.264, MPEG, DivX and WMV. Producer points out: novelty can connect to BlackBerry smartphones using Bluetooth-secure connections and access to your calendar, documents, messages, etc. stored in their memory. There is also support for enterprise platform BlackBerry Enterprise Server.
Dimensions – 130 × 193 × 10 mm, weight – 400 g.
Sales will start in early 2011. In the future, Canadians are going to release versions BlackBerry PlayBook with modules for use in cellular networks 3G and 4G.
Bluetooth and WiFi
In the Gaza Smartphone RIM, according to the company ComScore, is ahead with 39.3 percent market share. By the end of July the iPhone’s share in the U.S. was 23.8%, while the proportion of Android, produced by Google – 17%. Tablet Playbook will be able to support wireless communication systems in Bluetooth and WiFi.
He will have a 7-inch screen with cameras in front and behind – for videoconferencing, which is an important element that will attract business users. At the Playbook will not set a new operating system OS6, used on the latest products Blackberry, but the program recently acquired by RIM firm QNX, with considerable experience in manufacturing and communication systems for automobiles.
The new operating system designed specifically for the Tablet PC, and will avoid the difficulty podlazhivaniya OS smartphone platform to a tablet.
Playbook not liaises 3G, but it can receive packets of data through the 3G smartphone reference to the Blackberry. RIM plans to begin shipping tablet corporate customers in October.
The shops also Playbook will appear in early 2011.
The exact price has not yet announced, but RIM said that it will be toward the lower end of prices for tablet, which is already available in the market who find themselves suddenly very close. “While this is the most exciting product we’ve seen from Blackberry lately, and this time the buzz around him is justified” – believes Keith Solomon of the site for updates to the mobile recombu.com.
“It only remains to make sure that RIM will be able to keep the price of the Playbook at a level accessible to the average user. Despite the high quality, too high a price will scare away many people, “- adds Kate Solomon.
Playbook With the advent of competition in the Tablet PC has become more rigid, but to a large extent this has contributed iPad.
Since April, when Apple introduced the world to iPad, tablet immediately became the dominant product, and, according to research firm iSuppli, the end of the year “epplovskih” planshetnikov will be sold 12 million units.
Another research firm UBS, predicts that sales iPad in 2011 reached 28 million.
Market planshetnikov tipped a bright future: a few years later, he was considered by many to be 40 billion dollars.
Among the competitors iPad – the company HP. Concern Samsung recently introduced its tablet Galaxy, firm Dell – Streak with a 5-inch screen. Lenovo, Asus, HTC, as well as Acer, Google and Microsoft – all preparing to enter the market with its products.
In the category of products for businesses, Playbook will also face off with planshetnikov Cius from the company Cisco.
