BlackBerry PlayBook.
Posted on 09/28/2010 8:21:13 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Research In Motion Ltd. lifted the wraps Monday off a touch-screen tablet device called the BlackBerry PlayBook, making it the latest wireless-device maker to step into the new market.
At the company’s annual DevCon conference in San Francisco, RIM co-CEO Mike Lazaridis billed the PlayBook as “the first enterprise-ready tablet.” He said the tablet is designed to “amplify” the experience of the company’s BlackBerry smart phones, which can pair with the tablet through a Bluetooth connection.
“This will enable a new world of computing that you can hold in the palm of your hand,” Lazaridis said during a keynote address Monday afternoon.
BlackBerry PlayBook.
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
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The PlayBook is also built on a new software platform based on QNX Neutrino. QNX is widely used in applications across the automotive, transportation and medical industries.
No price and no processor announcement.
Hmmm....
I like the choice of an embedded RTOS. Is this out any time soon, or is it another way early announcement to try to stem the tide of iPad sales?
A BlackBarry PlayBook?
Does it blame Bush for everything?
More info from this article:
RIM to launch tablet PC powered by new operating system
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By Windsor Genova | September 22, 2010 6:21 PM EDT
The BlackPad features a 7-inch touch screen and one or two built-in cameras. It has a Bluetooth and can connect to the Internet via mobile phone networks using a BlackBerry smartphone.
Instead of the BlackBerry 6 operating system, the BlackPad will run in an OS built by QNX Software Systems and chips made by Marvell Technology Group.
LOL!
Yeah. Makes it hard to justify a ping (in my view).
RIM Developing BlackBerry Tablet
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BY: Jamison Cush, TabletPCReview.com Editor PUBLISHED: 6/14/2010
The story credits "people familiar with RIM's plans" who claim the tablet will not have its own connection and will instead tether to a BlackBerry, essentially making it a BlackBerry with a bigger screen.
This is the big difference between Apple and others I was talking about earlier. Normally, Apple announces products that either are immediately available or will be available very soon. The product is finished, Apple is just building up supplies for the launch.
Every other company seems to have the need to announce something far in advance in order to say “Don’t buy the current competitor’s product, we’ll have something on the market soon!” This tactic traces back to IBM IIRC.
CPU is supposed to be a 1GHz dual-core ARM Cortex A9-based processor.
Core is supposed to be 1GB.
Price? TBD, but I think it will fall between $750 and $1500. If they’re going to be aggressive, they’ll try to price it at $999 or some such.
No battery life number.
Wonder how they can measure that...if when you use it ...it is tethered to the blackberry phone which will have the communication hardware....so battery life might be pretty good....<P.But not so good for the phone.
Yep. I don’t doubt that we’ll see more, given the ARM architecture.
The neat thing about ARM is the low power consumption. For mobile devices, it is the CPU architecture of choice. To get COGS as low as possible, you want integration to be as tight as possible, which means putting as much of your logic onto one chip.
So companies will choose a ARM CPU core+memory controller, pick the interface logic they need/want, add a GPU core to the die and have one of the big foundries spin them a run. Wha-la, low COGS and tight integration.
Tegra is year later than Nvidia hoped ( Waiting for Android 3.0 - Gingerbread )
I didn't quite believe that number....no way that many will every show up.
BlackBerry maker RIM unveils tablet computer
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PlayBook users can pair the tablet with their BlackBerry smartphone using a Bluetooth connection, RIM said, noting that content stored on the smartphone is only temporarily cached on the tablet.
RIM so far didn't announce price of PlayBook, but said it would be in the lower range for tablets already on the market.
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This doesn't look anything like a consumer type of device....
From the way it is announced,...the size....and the tether to a blackberry phone.....
actually I would say it should be lower than the ipad.
See my thoughts at #18.
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