For those of us who live outside of Apple’s distortion field, we know that 7” tablets will actually be a big portion of the market and we know that Adobe Flash support actually matters to customers who want a real web experience. We also know that while Apple’s attempt to control the ecosystem and maintain a closed platform may be good for Apple, developers want more options and customers want to fully access the overwhelming majority of web sites that use Flash. We think many customers are getting tired of being told what to think by Apple. And by the way, RIM has achieved record shipments for five consecutive quarters and recently shared guidance of 13.8 – 14.4 million BlackBerry smartphones for the current quarter. Apple’s preference to compare its September-ending quarter with RIM’s August-ending quarter doesn’t tell the whole story because it doesn’t take into account that industry demand in September is typically stronger than summer months, nor does it explain why Apple only shipped 8.4 million devices in its prior quarter and whether Apple’s Q4 results were padded by unfulfilled Q3 customer demand and channel orders. As usual, whether the subject is antennas, Flash or shipments, there is more to the story and sooner or later, even people inside the distortion field will begin to resent being told half a story.
– Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO at Research In Motion (RIM)
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
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Friday, October 1, 2010
The Blackberry Tablet “Playbook”
Lately we reported about RIM Blackberry to release a tablet this month end. Now here it is, the Playbook, launched fresh. Not similar to the coined name people had as BlackPad, the Blackberry Playbook is surely hell of a internet tablet.
The Blackberry Playbook comes with an amazing configuration, the best for a tablet I’ve seen.
- 1 GHz Dual Core Processor
- 1 GB RAM
- 7 inch LCD Capacitive multi-touch display
- Dual HD cameras – 5 Mega Pixels at back and 3 Mega Pixels in front for video conferencing
- Full support for Flash and HTML 5
- Video playback : 1080p HD video – H.264, MPEG4, WMV , DivX formats
- Runs on QNX platform
- Multi-tasking
It supports syncing with any Blackberry device for push email, BBM, calendar, documents etc. The current model supports Wi-Fi only and future 3G and 4G models are lined up.
The release is expected to be in early 2011 over all US. Global releases later the first quarter 2011. On the price point, the Blackberry Playbook is expected to be non so high like the other market competitors like recently announced Samsung Galaxy Tab.
The Blackberry Paybook configuration is currently the best in market. I will call it the perfect blend to compete in between the Apple iPad and Android tablets. A sure wish list gadget is here. I call it a #WIN and I’m officially a Blackberry Playbook fan now!
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