Gear Diary Blackberry Takes A Shot At iPad Glory With The Playbook photo

At today’s Blackberry development conference RIM announced their soon to be released tablet device named the Blackberry Playbook.  The 7″ tablet features a 1GHz dual-core CPU, 1GB RAM, and front and rear facing cameras. It’ll run flash 10.1 with hardware acceleration and it supports HTML5.  The device also has both HDMI and USB ports.  It’ll hook up with Blackberry’s Enterprise Server straight out of the box too.

Specifications:

  • 7-inch 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)
  • RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future.

Check out the video preview of the device below.

Look for more details on the device as they are released.

Via Crackberry.com

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  • Haesslich

    Here’s hoping the developer support is up to it – the people I know with Blackberries love them for their keyboard… but not for the software. One example that comes to mind is a Blackberry which stops any running application to do the server push… and takes forever to do so. This is with a Pearl 8100, IIRC – I watched it literally try to load an application (Facebook).. and load.. and load… and load… and load…

    Given that the Storm hasn’t been the most successful competitor on the smartphone market as of late, I’m hoping the Playbook’s up to the challenge, although the description makes it sound less like an Android Tablet competitor than a keyboardless Foleo.

  • http://twitter.com/danielchow77/status/25805181285 Daniel Chow

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