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# BlackBerry PRD-38548-003 Playbook 7" Tablet, 64GB

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desertcart.com A professional-grade tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook helps transform the way you work and play by combining the features you need with a powerful, ultra-portable design you want. You'll enjoy uncompromised Web browsing, true multitasking, and brilliant multimedia playback, as well as advanced security features and out-of-the-box enterprise support. Works smarter, play harder with the BlackBerry PlayBook (see larger image). The vivid 7-inch multi-touch display looks and feels great in your hand (see larger image). Measuring less than half an inch thick and weighing less than a pound, the PlayBook features a vivid 7-inch high-resolution display that looks and feels great in your hand--and it supports 4-fingered multi-touch gestures. Wirelessly connect to your BlackBerry smartphone for real-time access to email, calendar, address book and task list, Documents To Go and BBM using BlackBerry Bridge (see more details below).In addition to ultra-fast Wireless-N Wi-Fi support, this PlayBook model features a 1 GHz dual-core processor, 64 GB of storage, 1 GB of RAM, GPS for navigation and location-based services, dual HD webcams for video chats and snapping pics, and a highly intuitive BlackBerry Tablet OS based on powerful, user-friendly QNX technology. Plus, you'll be able to discover new apps via BlackBerry App World. The PlayBook also offers a high-fidelity web experience with support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR and HTML-5--enabling you to enjoy all of the sites, games, media and richness of the full Internet. And you'll enjoy immersive 3D games thanks to the built-in accelerometer and 6-axis motion sensing (gyroscope).Key FeaturesUncompromised Web BrowsingWith the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, you get access to the full web--not a scaled down mobile version. That means you get all the rich websites, games, and videos, the way they are intended to be enjoyed. The PlayBook offers support for Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and Adobe Mobile AIR as well as HTML5 and Webkit browser technology.MultitaskingOther tablets claim to support multitasking, but it just isn't the same. On the BlackBerry PlayBook, apps can run simultaneously and in real time. It's a sophisticated approach to multitasking--giving you more choice around how your applications run, allowing you to tailor the experience to your individual needs.Stunning MultimediaDon't settle for amateur grade multimedia. Whether you're mobilizing your existing pictures, music, and videos, discovering new media or creating new content, the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet offers a high fidelity, multimedia experience allowing you to fully immerse yourself in whatever you enjoy. Video chat via the dual cameras with Full HD 1080p resolution. Facebook for BlackBerry PlayBook app. The 7-inch multi-touch capacitive display has a 1024 x 600-pixel resolution for stunning playback of video and immersive 3D games. The PlayBook also comes with an HDMI output for connecting to a compatible HDTV or monitor and playing back Full HD 1080p video. It's compatible with video encoded in H.264, MPEG4, and WMV formats.Ultra PortableYou don't spend your life on the couch, neither should your tablet. Your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is perfectly suited to your busy lifestyle--it's small enough to go anywhere and powerful enough to take you everywhere.And with the dual cameras, you'll be able to video chat with friends and family wherever you roam (and are connected to a Wi-Fi network). The forward-facing camera has a 3-megapixel resolution while the lens on the back offers a 5-megapixel resolution--and both cameras can capture video up to Full HD 1080p.More Apps, More ChoiceDiscover a huge catalog of rich apps developed and optimized just for the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet--all available through the BlackBerry App World storefront. Games like Need For Speed Undercover and Tetris, an eReader from Kobo and a powerful music store by 7Digital are just a few of the pre-loaded apps that come with the PlayBook. You can also download the Facebook for BlackBerry PlayBook app, which integrates popular features and functionality such as Facebook Chat, view and add friends, and interact with the News Feed.Business ReadyThe BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is designed to empower those who want tools to power achievement. PlayBook enhances personal productivity and offers businesses a straight forward, no hassle way to quickly embrace tablet technology. It includes DocsToGo and Adobe Reader software as well as support for enterprise VPN connectivity and corporate intranet browsing. BlackBerry BridgeOn its own, the BlackBerry PlayBook is a high performance tablet. But for BlackBerry smartphone users there are additional benefits added to the PlayBook experience, like access to BlackBerry services living on the handheld. Get access to BBM (BlackBerry Messenger), email, calendar, contacts, memo pad, tasks from your BlackBerry smartphone--all on the large display (see more details below). Specifications Frequently Asked QuestionsDo I need to have a BlackBerry smartphone for the BlackBerry PlayBook to work?If you don't have a BlackBerry smartphone, you still get all the powerful features of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet like the uncompromised web, true multitasking, stunning multimedia, and tons of apps. If you do own a BlackBerry smartphone you can realize additional benefits delivered by BlackBerry Bridge like access to your BlackBerry email and the ability to browse files found on your BlackBerry SD card--all right from your tablet.What is BlackBerry Bridge?BlackBerry Bridge allow you to wirelessly connect your BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to your BlackBerry smartphone for a secure, enhanced view of core BlackBerry services on the tablet's large high-resolution display--including full email inbox (BIS and BES), address book, calendar, memo pad, task list, and BBM.What is necessary to download attachments to the PlayBook via Bridge?MicroSD card in the BlackBerry Smartphone that is bridged. Room on the MicroSD card for the content being downloaded. The attachment has to be under 3 MB in size for it to download. Which apps does Bridge work with?BlackBerry Bridge is a feature that allows BlackBerry smartphone owners to interact with core BlackBerry applications including email (BIS and BES), calendar, contacts, on the Playbook's large 7-inch high resolution screen. BlackBerry Bridge links the two devices notification systems so you are alerted of new emails, BBMs, and calendar reminders right on the PlayBook's display. Through this same relationship, businesses running BlackBerry Enterprise Software can allow their employees to securely access information found on corporate internet sites using PlayBook. You also have access to your Smartphone browser so you can get on the web from virtually anywhere.What smartphone software version is required to use Bridge?All BlackBerry smartphones with OS 5.0 or above will be able to leverage BlackBerry Bridge, which accounts for approximately 60% of BlackBerry smartphone users today.Is it true that the BlackBerry PlayBook will support Android apps on the PlayBook?RIM has announced that it will launch an "app player" that provides an application run-time environment for Android v2.3 apps. This new app player will allow you to download Android apps from BlackBerry App World and run them on your BlackBerry PlayBook. The new app players for the BlackBerry PlayBook are expected to be available from BlackBerry App World in the summer of 2011. Product Description BlackBerry OS, 1 GHz dual-core processor 1 GB of RAM 7 inch multi-touch capacitive LCD screen, 1024 x 600-pixel resolution WIFI: 802.11 b/g/n, 3 MP forward facing, 5 MP rear cameras 14.4 ounces

Review: EVERYTHING AND THEN SOME!!! - First off, I would like to say that this Tablet is everything I've ever hoped for and then some, I have absolutly NO complaints what-so-ever with this baby, and after the price drop for only $379 you cannot beat it! With that said... There are so many reviews on here for the Playbook (all the bad reviews seem to complain about one thing, the amount of APPS, just craziness!), there is not much to be said that has not been said already, so I'll keep this simple, basically give the reasoning behind my decission to go with the Playbook over other Tablets/laptops... About 4 months back my "Acer ONE" laptop crapped out on me, and I've been saving for a new laptop ever since. It's been a hard 4 months, as I have been stuck using my Ipod Touch 1st generation to surf the net while at home, which BTW has NO Youtube or Flash on it (it had Youtube but no longer works on it anymore!)! Well, about 3 weeks back I finally saved enough and began surfing the net for the best laptop/netbooks on the market. When I started my search for a new laptop, the only thing I was looking for was a laptop, thats all I had on my mind. The main things I was looking for was a fast browser, the laptop/netbook must be small (9 to 10-inch screen or so) for potability, a decent amount of memory, a nice camera, and must be powerful enough to play movies and stream content without glitching up on me. While researching a couple weeks back, I decided to take a look at Tablets, thinking to myself that something like my Ipod but with a bigger screen would be absolutly perfect for what I was looking for! I must have looked at every Tablet on the market before deciding on the Playbook (The Acer Iconia, Moto Xoom, Ipad 2, etc), I even went to Best Buy just to test them all out, and in the end it was a no-brainer, the Blackberry was the Tablet for me. While there are some good Tablets at a cheaper price then the Blackberry, the main advantage the Blackberry has over them is Power, the camera/video (1080p video recording), the OS interface, browser speed, the size (portability), and more Power! I was amazed at the OS on this tablet, it is AMAZING!!! My favorit feature of this is to wake up the Blackberry, you simply swipe from the top edge down, and it turns on the Playbook! While there is a button to press inorder to turn off/on, you do NOT need it, a simple swipe of the screen does everything now (watch some of the Blackberry Interface video's on Youtube, you will see the beauty of the OS in it's full glory!)! I can now record video's in full 1080p and watch them on my TV with micro HDMI connection (only $5 bucks for a micro HDMI cord here on desertcart), when I am at home I surf the web on my 46-inch Samsung HD LCD Screen through my Blackberry Playbook, I watch movies, etc, all on my TV! :) I can now take wonderful Pics where ever I am without my Samsung Camera on me, the Playbook does it all! This Tablet is tiny, but the screen is sooo perfect in size, it is bigger then I expected! I was thinking that the screen was gonna be just a tad bigger then my Ipod Touch screen, NO SO! It looks more like 4 Ipod Touch screens put together, just the perfect size to read and watch movie's without having to squint. I am not a big app freak (never been), so the apps that this Playbook does have suit me just fine (Although RIM has stated they are adding apps daily, this is there first Tablet, so I do give RIM the benifit here). My goal now is to get me a Blackberry phone with a Internet plan, this way I will be able to "Bridge" the phone to the Playbook "at NO cost" and go on the internet on my Playbook anywhere there is a Cell Phone signal, so my fiance can be driving down the highway and I can be surfing the web sitting right next to her! : The awesome thing about this is you do not have to pay for a seperate plan for the Playbook, you simply buy the plan for your phone and Bridge the connection to your Playbook, and BINGO, internet everywhere! :D I also bought a "Defender Case" for my Blackberry Playbook, this case protects like you would not believe! If you decide to get this awesome Playbook, the Defender case is the only way to go! This case is sooo tuff, You can run over the Playbook with a car and there won't be a sctratch on it! Look up "Defender case for Blackberry Playbook" here on desertcart, and check the reviews. There are also video's on Youtube which shows the strenght of this case. There is nothing better then this case to protect your investment. With all this said, I am beyond happy with my Playbook, I could not be happier! If you are looking for what I was, just get this baby, you can thank me later. :) :)
Review: Wonderful - So far, so great. I never wanted a tablet before. And I am one of the people Blackberry doesn't even think about: the completely nontechnical type. People like us learn how to use whatever we are interested in, but we have no innate flair for it. We just slog slowly and carefully through directions until we understand each part of How To. So I bought this with a fairly good idea of my inevitable learning curve for a new ecosystem, as well as the rewards for my efforts later on. So far, I am extremely pleased. Between the tutorials on the Blackberry site and the generous enthusiasts at Crackberry.com, I was able to find out all the little steps I could not have guessed. (Patience at the beginning is the prerequisite virtue for those who have no idea how anything from Blackberry works. It is not that hard to learn. But if you have no knowledge, and no patience for learning either, then you have nothing to work with at all. In that case, buy an Apple.) The Playbook hardware is very well-constructed, and a real pleasure to use. The screen and the sound quality are exceptional, and 64GB is fine for my purposes. This combination is why I bought the Blackberry Playbook, and why I am glad I did: it has wonderful visual clarity, great sound and decent storage at a very good price. The app aspect is obviously extremely important: you have to know exactly what you want this tablet for, and what the available apps will and won't do. So far, my basic software needs have been easily satisfied. In this, I am in a minority. I wanted a simple browser, decent audio and video software, a good file manager, and an epub reader. And in particular, I wanted to be able to play my personal audio and video files from different sources- which is working well so far. Then I added a few extras, as everyone does, according to interests. I'm all set. But before buying this lovely little device, make sure you can use it according to your needs. I am delighted, rather than disappointed, because I knew what I wanted before I bought it. I read about the screen, but that didn't prepare me for just how clear and beautiful it really is. I knew the sound quality was very good too, but I was still surprised at just how good. Battery life is excellent so far. WiFi has been painless, and browsing has been easy. My desktop installed the device drivers and set up the Playbook without any problem. The included charger works just fine, and I ordered a separate rapid charger too, along with a good case. I know I have barely touched the surface of what this device is capable of, but I'm not in a hurry. I enjoy leisurely meandering around in the world of possibilities. All in all, I find this device somewhat astonishing: the sheer quality of it has exceeded my expectations by quite a bit. Having said that, I will add that if anything goes badly wrong, I will come back here and report it. Stars will fall. Meanwhile though, I am enjoying this as much as I have ever enjoyed any gadget, and then some. Update- nearly 2 years later: Tablets come and go, sometimes bringing frustration and dissatisfaction in their wake. (I still can't finesse my relatively new Dell Venue 8 Pro to function properly, no matter what. It exists as a permanent annoyance, neither mercifully dying nor ever working very well. Ugh.) But meanwhile, the Blackberry Playbook is humming along as beautifully as ever. It has never given me a moment's trouble in all this time. Even the battery still charges well. When I use it always I feel a little surge of gratitude, as you might feel for an older car that has always been a peach rather than a lemon. It shows no degradation from use, and that of course is the mark of exceptionally well-made technology. I wish now I had bought another one when it was on sale for 100$, since I see that it is currently selling for nearly twice the price it was 2 years ago! And I am very glad I bought the rapid charger and a good case too- for extremely low prices. I am sorry though that all this personal happiness (great device, relatively very small cost) is at the expense of Blackberry. They built the world's most well-constructed tablet I know of so far, and for their trouble received terrible publicity. But as I wrote in my original review, I knew exactly what it would and would not do before I bought it, and it remains a champion of enjoyable reliability. Update: 3 years later. I still enjoy this tablet every day. No aspect of what I loved about it in the first place has diminished over time. The battery is still great, the sound remains better than any other tablet I have, and its excellent peripherals are still working as well as ever. It has still never given me any trouble of any kind. The same cannot be said for my experience with other tablets. After a year or so of constant tinkering and tweaking my Dell Venue 8 Pro, it is finally working well. For now. But although I finally like it, the high price I paid in time and vexation left a very bad taste. Worse yet, users are having trouble upgrading it to Win 10. So if I want to do that, I probably have more misery to look forward to. And as for the original Nexus 7, there are many things I liked about it, and still enjoy. But its cheap construction means if I want to go on using it, I'll have to crack the case and install new parts. I might try that, but then it never worked perfectly in the first place either. So it too has left a bad taste despite many great features. The early failure of otherwise promising tablets from poor software or too-cheap parts is an ongoing problem in the tablet world. I know it all depends on the person and the tablet, and no two experiences are the same. But so far, this has been mine.

## Features

- 1 GB of RAM
- 7 inch multi-touch capacitive LCD screen, 1024 x 600-pixel resolution
- Wi-Fi: 802.11 b/g/n, 3 MP forward facing, 5 MP rear cameras
- 14.4 ounces

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ EVERYTHING AND THEN SOME!!!
*by G***N on September 24, 2011*

First off, I would like to say that this Tablet is everything I've ever hoped for and then some, I have absolutly NO complaints what-so-ever with this baby, and after the price drop for only $379 you cannot beat it! With that said... There are so many reviews on here for the Playbook (all the bad reviews seem to complain about one thing, the amount of APPS, just craziness!), there is not much to be said that has not been said already, so I'll keep this simple, basically give the reasoning behind my decission to go with the Playbook over other Tablets/laptops... About 4 months back my "Acer ONE" laptop crapped out on me, and I've been saving for a new laptop ever since. It's been a hard 4 months, as I have been stuck using my Ipod Touch 1st generation to surf the net while at home, which BTW has NO Youtube or Flash on it (it had Youtube but no longer works on it anymore!)! Well, about 3 weeks back I finally saved enough and began surfing the net for the best laptop/netbooks on the market. When I started my search for a new laptop, the only thing I was looking for was a laptop, thats all I had on my mind. The main things I was looking for was a fast browser, the laptop/netbook must be small (9 to 10-inch screen or so) for potability, a decent amount of memory, a nice camera, and must be powerful enough to play movies and stream content without glitching up on me. While researching a couple weeks back, I decided to take a look at Tablets, thinking to myself that something like my Ipod but with a bigger screen would be absolutly perfect for what I was looking for! I must have looked at every Tablet on the market before deciding on the Playbook (The Acer Iconia, Moto Xoom, Ipad 2, etc), I even went to Best Buy just to test them all out, and in the end it was a no-brainer, the Blackberry was the Tablet for me. While there are some good Tablets at a cheaper price then the Blackberry, the main advantage the Blackberry has over them is Power, the camera/video (1080p video recording), the OS interface, browser speed, the size (portability), and more Power! I was amazed at the OS on this tablet, it is AMAZING!!! My favorit feature of this is to wake up the Blackberry, you simply swipe from the top edge down, and it turns on the Playbook! While there is a button to press inorder to turn off/on, you do NOT need it, a simple swipe of the screen does everything now (watch some of the Blackberry Interface video's on Youtube, you will see the beauty of the OS in it's full glory!)! I can now record video's in full 1080p and watch them on my TV with micro HDMI connection (only $5 bucks for a micro HDMI cord here on Amazon), when I am at home I surf the web on my 46-inch Samsung HD LCD Screen through my Blackberry Playbook, I watch movies, etc, all on my TV! :) I can now take wonderful Pics where ever I am without my Samsung Camera on me, the Playbook does it all! This Tablet is tiny, but the screen is sooo perfect in size, it is bigger then I expected! I was thinking that the screen was gonna be just a tad bigger then my Ipod Touch screen, NO SO! It looks more like 4 Ipod Touch screens put together, just the perfect size to read and watch movie's without having to squint. I am not a big app freak (never been), so the apps that this Playbook does have suit me just fine (Although RIM has stated they are adding apps daily, this is there first Tablet, so I do give RIM the benifit here). My goal now is to get me a Blackberry phone with a Internet plan, this way I will be able to "Bridge" the phone to the Playbook "at NO cost" and go on the internet on my Playbook anywhere there is a Cell Phone signal, so my fiance can be driving down the highway and I can be surfing the web sitting right next to her! : The awesome thing about this is you do not have to pay for a seperate plan for the Playbook, you simply buy the plan for your phone and Bridge the connection to your Playbook, and BINGO, internet everywhere! :D I also bought a "Defender Case" for my Blackberry Playbook, this case protects like you would not believe! If you decide to get this awesome Playbook, the Defender case is the only way to go! This case is sooo tuff, You can run over the Playbook with a car and there won't be a sctratch on it! Look up "Defender case for Blackberry Playbook" here on Amazon, and check the reviews. There are also video's on Youtube which shows the strenght of this case. There is nothing better then this case to protect your investment. With all this said, I am beyond happy with my Playbook, I could not be happier! If you are looking for what I was, just get this baby, you can thank me later. :) :)

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wonderful
*by A***R on November 29, 2012*

So far, so great. I never wanted a tablet before. And I am one of the people Blackberry doesn't even think about: the completely nontechnical type. People like us learn how to use whatever we are interested in, but we have no innate flair for it. We just slog slowly and carefully through directions until we understand each part of How To. So I bought this with a fairly good idea of my inevitable learning curve for a new ecosystem, as well as the rewards for my efforts later on. So far, I am extremely pleased. Between the tutorials on the Blackberry site and the generous enthusiasts at Crackberry.com, I was able to find out all the little steps I could not have guessed. (Patience at the beginning is the prerequisite virtue for those who have no idea how anything from Blackberry works. It is not that hard to learn. But if you have no knowledge, and no patience for learning either, then you have nothing to work with at all. In that case, buy an Apple.) The Playbook hardware is very well-constructed, and a real pleasure to use. The screen and the sound quality are exceptional, and 64GB is fine for my purposes. This combination is why I bought the Blackberry Playbook, and why I am glad I did: it has wonderful visual clarity, great sound and decent storage at a very good price. The app aspect is obviously extremely important: you have to know exactly what you want this tablet for, and what the available apps will and won't do. So far, my basic software needs have been easily satisfied. In this, I am in a minority. I wanted a simple browser, decent audio and video software, a good file manager, and an epub reader. And in particular, I wanted to be able to play my personal audio and video files from different sources- which is working well so far. Then I added a few extras, as everyone does, according to interests. I'm all set. But before buying this lovely little device, make sure you can use it according to your needs. I am delighted, rather than disappointed, because I knew what I wanted before I bought it. I read about the screen, but that didn't prepare me for just how clear and beautiful it really is. I knew the sound quality was very good too, but I was still surprised at just how good. Battery life is excellent so far. WiFi has been painless, and browsing has been easy. My desktop installed the device drivers and set up the Playbook without any problem. The included charger works just fine, and I ordered a separate rapid charger too, along with a good case. I know I have barely touched the surface of what this device is capable of, but I'm not in a hurry. I enjoy leisurely meandering around in the world of possibilities. All in all, I find this device somewhat astonishing: the sheer quality of it has exceeded my expectations by quite a bit. Having said that, I will add that if anything goes badly wrong, I will come back here and report it. Stars will fall. Meanwhile though, I am enjoying this as much as I have ever enjoyed any gadget, and then some. Update- nearly 2 years later: Tablets come and go, sometimes bringing frustration and dissatisfaction in their wake. (I still can't finesse my relatively new Dell Venue 8 Pro to function properly, no matter what. It exists as a permanent annoyance, neither mercifully dying nor ever working very well. Ugh.) But meanwhile, the Blackberry Playbook is humming along as beautifully as ever. It has never given me a moment's trouble in all this time. Even the battery still charges well. When I use it always I feel a little surge of gratitude, as you might feel for an older car that has always been a peach rather than a lemon. It shows no degradation from use, and that of course is the mark of exceptionally well-made technology. I wish now I had bought another one when it was on sale for 100$, since I see that it is currently selling for nearly twice the price it was 2 years ago! And I am very glad I bought the rapid charger and a good case too- for extremely low prices. I am sorry though that all this personal happiness (great device, relatively very small cost) is at the expense of Blackberry. They built the world's most well-constructed tablet I know of so far, and for their trouble received terrible publicity. But as I wrote in my original review, I knew exactly what it would and would not do before I bought it, and it remains a champion of enjoyable reliability. Update: 3 years later. I still enjoy this tablet every day. No aspect of what I loved about it in the first place has diminished over time. The battery is still great, the sound remains better than any other tablet I have, and its excellent peripherals are still working as well as ever. It has still never given me any trouble of any kind. The same cannot be said for my experience with other tablets. After a year or so of constant tinkering and tweaking my Dell Venue 8 Pro, it is finally working well. For now. But although I finally like it, the high price I paid in time and vexation left a very bad taste. Worse yet, users are having trouble upgrading it to Win 10. So if I want to do that, I probably have more misery to look forward to. And as for the original Nexus 7, there are many things I liked about it, and still enjoy. But its cheap construction means if I want to go on using it, I'll have to crack the case and install new parts. I might try that, but then it never worked perfectly in the first place either. So it too has left a bad taste despite many great features. The early failure of otherwise promising tablets from poor software or too-cheap parts is an ongoing problem in the tablet world. I know it all depends on the person and the tablet, and no two experiences are the same. But so far, this has been mine.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ BlackBerry PlayBook is a near Home Run
*by J***C on September 1, 2012*

Its a shame to see Research In Motion's lack of innovation in support, marketing & advertising, and business dominance cause the company to take a backseat to other phone and tablet companies. At one point RIM was on top of the world. Everyone had a BlackBerry. They were a great company with a fantastic and functional smartphone. The trackball was cool. Brickbreaker and BBM were all the rage. Now, they are a company that's lost 80% of its value, has continued to see declining sales in the US and worldwide, and it rapidly losing its kung-fu grip on the business enterprise consumer. Its a shame. But this is what happens when a company fails to adapt to change, fails to recognize the threat of competition, and fails to innovate and keep its once loyal consumer base happy. That all being said, the PlayBook is a near Home Run. But likely few will be left to realize it. Enough with my RIM rant, on to the device. As for the PlayBook, if you are looking for a 7" ultra-portable tablet that has bulletproof construction, an incredibly simple and user friendly interface and OS yet CPU-like accessibility, fantastic web browsing with Flash support, and the added ability to Bridge up to your BlackBerry smartphone for a fraction of what other tablets cost...then the PlayBook is the tablet for you. PROS: By now I think a good number of people out there have or at least know the basic benefits and functions of what tablets can do. I will only go over the Pros and Cons that set the BlackBerry PlayBook apart from the competition. -Size: you are either a 7" tablet person or a 10" tablet person. At first I told myself I would wait for RIM to release a bigger version. After the realization that could be years (and doesn't look like its going to happen until late 2013 or 2014 if at all) I decided to buy the 16gig PB. I fell in love with the size. Small enough to fit in just about any bag comfortable, use inconspicuously, and hold and type smoothly using both thumbs when holding in hand. Size is going to be a personal preference in the end but I think the 7" size is a pro in my book. -Web Browsing: Hands down the best out there. Full Flash enabled websites make internet surfing almost identical to being on a desktop/laptop. Bill paying, media playing, online shopping, or just surfing is incredible. This is probably the main reason I bought one in the beginning. I almost never go anywhere in my house without my PlayBook because of this. At the dinner table and realize you need to pay that credit card bill (assuming you aren't stuck in the stone age and paying by check)...no problem. Want to quickly change your Fantasy Football team and watch that video snip about the latest injury report while watching the game...no problem. Reading outside on your deck and come across a word you don't recognize and want to lookup...no problem. No longer do you have to wait an hour and a half for the laptop to boot up. -Freedom from Ecosystem: some may consider this a downfall but I see it as a major positive. BlackBerry doesn't force you to become part of their ecosystem. There is no iTunes that is forcing you to use their system to download songs in a weird, unlockable format that may cause issues for other non-Apple devices. Loading songs or documents onto the device is and has always been as simple as plug the device in and drag-and-drop what you want to the folder on the device just like an external storage device. The charger slot is a mini-USB. The HDMI slot is a mini-HDMI. There are no $100 Apple-to-USB or HDMI adapters required. Its the $3 universal adapter on Amazon. If you want to use Amazon's Cloud player for your streaming music, you can...unlike Apple. -Guts and Multi-Tasking: without boring the non-techie geeks out there, the guts and OS of this tablet are phenomenal. I will just say that the processing speed, ability to multi-task between applications, screen clarity and resolution are top-notch. I have never once had a complaint about speed or the tablet functioning slow. And right now my 16gig is almost completely full with music and files. The OS which will soon be coming in an adapted version to BB's new phones in 2013 as BB10 is an OS-killer in my opinion. Its their last chance but all early indications is that they nailed it. The PB has the ability to multi-task between multiple applications unlike any other tablet. Think about having the ability of swiping between the video player, Internet Browser, Map, Weather app, Game app, an Excel spreadsheet, Calendar, PDF file, and Slacker Radio app all at once with each app running in the background and not causing a slowdown to processing. Incredible. Makes doing multiple functions at once on the PB a breeze. -BB Bridge: this is a bonus Pro for those with BB phones. The ability to Bridge the phone to the PlayBook over bluetooth is really cool. You can access all files through the PB and also add/delete/change things in the contacts, calendar, memos, and tasks on the phone. So if you are in an airplane and want a bigger screen to work in your calendar for example, its a nifty function. You can also use your phone's internet connection to tether to the PB to allow internet when outside of a wi-fi zone. Another big bonus since there isn't a 3g/4g version of the PlayBook in the states. (They just launched a 4G/LTE in Canada) CONS: -Lack of App Support: this is lone elephant in the room and its a big one. BlackBerry just doesn't offer the apps on the PlayBook that are available on Droid or Apple. It has gotten much better and there have constantly been talks of bringing Droid apps into the system but I'm still holding my breath. This is shocking also because some of the "no-brainer" apps are not available on PB. No Pandora app...really? Ok so use Slacker Radio...it is basically the same thing. No Bloomberg app...really? As someone in financial services I use that one everyday on my phone. Now granted, the PlayBook's internet experience is so spot on that many apps are unnecessary but that's not an excuse. Sure I can go to full website but sometimes I want the App only. -Lack of Sales and adoption: this isn't a huge con but its worth pointing out. Because of the lack of app support above and a variety of other reasons, there aren't very many PlayBooks floating around out there in circulation. I remember the 2nd quarter the PlayBook was available they SHIPPED less than 250,000 of them to retailers like Best Buy when Apple's iPad SOLD 12 million that same quarter. This means good luck trying to use some of the apps that are for PlayBook only. Video Chat...I bet it works great since there are two high quality camera eyes on both sides of the device but I will never know because I'm the only person I know on the planet who owns one. (truth be told, I actually did see someone walk by me in the airport with one...only time I have ever seen another one and I thought I should have said something or went to high five the random stranger as weird as that sounds. That's how "un-trendy" they are and how few are out there.) Bottom line is the PlayBook is a near home run. If they had more sales success and adoption from the consumer base therefore having the app support, this device would be as perfect as any tablet could be right now. They could nail it on their next one but that's an uphill battle. For now, I am sticking with my PB and actually just bought my 2nd one. My 16gig I bought 6 months ago will go to a family member and I am keeping the 64gig for myself. I liked the tablet at full launch price but I love it at half off. It is basically a steal. I just hope RIM as a company is still around in the next few years so they don't stop supporting the device, I don't know if I can live without it.

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