BlackBerry Playbook in detail

         

BlackBerry Playbook device may be a tablet computer, which really changed the position in the game. In a word: it is – a triumph! About Playbook all Internet resources, including MobileDevice, saying for months and now, finally, at CES 2011, journalists portal were able to “play” with this computer. According to them, the device does vpechatlyaet. Tablet computer is running the new operating system BlackBerry Tablet OS-based gigahertz dual-core Cortex-A9 and still remains the most serious opponent iPad.

At first glance, BlackBerry Playbook does not look special. Rather broad frame body, a 7-inch display and the whole computer does not seem very thin. However, in contrast to other tablet PCs, the frame body for BlackBerry Playbook hiding some secrets.

Most tablet multi-touch interface “applies” solely on the display area, the tablet Playbook function touch control plots and frame housing in the area of the display to the brink of a computer. And this method of control is an integral part of the operating system interface.

Touch your finger to the brink of tablet and spend on a frame in the direction of the display – the screen will all sorts of options and features, which vary from the side plate, you have chosen, and the running application. For example, in a web browser so you can call the menu (top-down), where you can switch to another tab or open a new one. Intuitive new interface is amazing, in the management of the tablet can understand almost instantly.

Tablet PC BlackBerry Playbook is equipped with two cameras. 3-megapixel front and a 5-megapixel camera on the rear panel. And both give surprisingly decent photos. Although conditions CES show and was not allowed to transfer captured images to other device, the screen of the tablet, they looked very good. Even with the front camera make good clear images.

The screen of the Tablet PC is a super-sharp, the resolution 1027h600 pixel is comparable with the resolution 9.7-inch iPad. Recall that in this Playbook is equipped with 7-inch display. HD-video on the new plate looks fantastic.

Let’s talk about the video. BlackBerry Playbook can play Full HD video resolution up to 1080 without much difficulty. Device is also equipped with mini-HDMI to play movies on other handheld device, moreover, this Tablet PC is able to play more than one HD-video simultaneously! Indeed, if you look at HD-video, you can call the media menu and switch to viewing another video. If you is not pressed pause in the original clip, it will be played in the background.

At the CES show on the tablet simultaneously launched two HD-video, and then opened YouTube and opened the Flash-video at the same time. Surprisingly, 7-inch plate perfectly coped with this problem!

Of course, a battery of such manipulations should be discharged catastrophically fast. All the samples presented at CES 2011 were connected to the network, so that the test battery was impossible to implement. Even if RIM will use the best batteries in the world, you need to be careful with the multitasking new tablet. Music and video in the background, put forward specific requirements for power consumption.

But if we leave aside the video, multitasking Tablet PC Playbook really looks fantastic. New cause shame multitasking in Android 2.2, but about iOS and pseudo-multitasking iPad and iPhone 4 you can not even mention it.

Interface innovations, too, deserves only positive assessments. For convenience it corresponds iOS. Unfortunately, at the demonstration were turned off the settings menu, so that this part of the system could not be properly addressed. But in terms of ease of finding and downloading applications, music and video, games and networking, BlackBerry Playbook, is certainly one of the best.

BlackBerry Playbook will go on sale in the U.S. in the next few months, and in Europe appear in the spring. Certainty as to the prices yet, it is clear only that with these features the device definitely will not be offered for a pittance.