BlackBerry is no longer the cherry on top of RIM’s cake. Recently, Researched In Motion already introduced their first ever tablet computer which would compete with the likes of iPad. The announcement was made during a conference held in San Francisco. But of course, they have not forgotten about BlackBerry yet. They called it as the BlackBerry PlayBook which targets mainly the corporate or business users.
Michael Lazaridis said that the BlackBerry Playbook is considered as the first professional tablet in the world. After their company made the wireless e-mail became popular, Research In Motion has never failed to become one of the leaders when it comes to the smartphone market.
And since R.I.M has just announced about their tablet, there is no doubt that critics and analysts would still endlessly talk how the company is trying to catch up with Apple Inc. But the co-chief executive of R.I.M said that their PlayBook is somehow different from the infamous iPad from Steve Jobs’ company. BlackBerry PlayBook has more and better features. Most of the features present at the PlayBook were requested by the corporate I.T. department of their company.
During the same conference, Michael Lizaridis kept on emphasizing that it is indeed the “first professional tablet.” At the same time, he said that the BlackBerry PlayBook is already compatible with the servers used by the government as well as corporations. In this way, they could use R.I.M’s new tablet to monitor and control their employees using their respective BlackBerry devices.
They did discuss about the features of the BlackBerry PlayBook, Research In Motion did not answered a couple of questions including the price of the tablet. Moreover, they still did not give a clear answer about the release date of the PlayBook as well. But one thing is for sure. You should watch out for the BlackBerry PlayBook early 2011.
Blackberry will be forgiven arriving late to the tablet market, if they really do bring an apple killer (shouldn’t be hard to do especially for RIM) and put it in the market before spring of 2011. Especially if it talks with Blackberry phones including vintage ones!!! They’ll be expanding their market just in time!!! Dear Blackberry. I love you, but you’d better not be delay much longer. You are losing customers to android and elsewhere.
Meh….this thing won’t even be available for another 5-6 months. By then another slew of tablets, including the Samsung Galaxy, will be available. When this thing hits the shelves, the Ipad 2 will be well underway as well and be improving on a popular design. The Playbook uses a new OS, and however well it has been designed, there are bound to be bugs. The main question though is this: why do business executives need this product? Every function it performs can be performed by what most execs have now i.e. a Blackberry and a laptop. What function does this serve for them?
The Ipad has been a success because it’s a fun and whimsical product that can serve the average consumer very well. The product performs the same functions as many other products but in a fun new way. If someone wants fun, they will get an Ipad with the fun factor and apps. If someone wants a portable business machine, they will get a laptop that runs Windows 7. I guess I just fail to see what consumer this product is going to serve.