PlayBook Tablet from RIM to Rival iPad
Waterloo-based Research in Motion has assuredly appear its abundant talked about tablet. Dubbed the PlayBook, the accessory was launched today at the BlackBerry developer accident in with a barrage date of ‘early abutting year.’
RIM is demography aim at Apple’s iPad with the PlayBook. Though co-CEO Mike Lazaridis declared it as ‘the aboriginal able tablet,’ the aggregation is additionally able full-featured browsing as able-bodied as aerial achievement multimedia.
Specswise we’re attractive at a 7-inch (1024 x 600) WSVGA multitouch display, which makes the accessory a little added bunched than the iPad with its 9.7-inch display; a 1GHz dual-core CPU; 1GB of RAM; 1080p video playback; abutment for Flash 10.1, HTML5; WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR; HDMI out; and two webcams, one 5-megapixel camera on the aback and one 3-megapixel camera on the advanced for video conferencing.
Though the blueprint are appealing exciting, the best absorbing allotment of the advertisement is apparently the actuality that RIM is application a cast fresh OS for the PlayBook. Despite the actuality that the most recent abundance of its BlackBerry OS, BlackBerry 6, was alone aloof released, rumors that the aggregation would go with a fresh OS from the afresh acquired QNX accept accepted true. Congenital aloft the QNX Neutrino microkernel architecture, which RIM calls “most reliable, defended and able-bodied operating arrangement architectures in the world,” BlackBerry Book OS is absolutely POSIX compliant, supports Open GL for 2D and 3D cartoon accelerated applications, and will run applications congenital in Adobe Mobile AIR and the company’s anew appear BlackBerry WebWorks app platform.
No chat on appraisement or a specific absolution date. RIM has said it will be accessible in the aboriginal division of 2011, with all-embracing markets to chase in Q2.
September 28, 2010 | Posted by admin 
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