Blackberry Playbook - Almost Officially
Despite the fact that I am generally cool about such a thing as tablets, which, by some estimates, have already been released over 75 this year, the Blackberry Playbook was looking forward to it, largely because I am a user of the Blackberry 9700 smartphone and I really It’s interesting to check how the tablet will work in conjunction with it. Today, finally, for a limited number of journalists (there were four in total :)), a mini presentation and a product briefing took place, and Playbooks were handed out for tests. About what happened at this event and how such briefings are held at all - under the cut. As for the review - the day after tomorrow we will post it, but, of course, it will not be complete, sort of "in hot pursuit." A product such as the Playbook, you need to research carefully, and I will write my review after three weeks of testing, I will live with it for a long time.
And before the kata, a little fun - such a cool video promotes Blackberry tablets in India, and it is rotated exactly like that in Ireland, where they did not optimize it for their own market and change the dark-skinned Hindu faces to red-haired :). The meaning of the video: Blackberry is now not only a business, but also a fan, Canadians will reposition the brand in all markets.
The event was hosted by the well-known vice president of RIM, Paul Lucier, with whom we had already published a large interview with answers to questions from habra-people , as well as the Russian representative Andrei Kiselev (Bussiness Solutions Manager, who previously worked in Italy).
Paul began by listing the four key features that make the Playbook different from its competitors and showing them ...
1. Extreme Multitasking (hereinafter - Paul Lucie’s expressions, I specifically left them as they were, it seemed cool :)) The
main feature of QNX OS used in Blackberry is “live” multitasking, when programs running in the background really work in the background, Do not collapse and do not affect the performance of the system. This feature was demonstrated on the connected Playbook to the TV via HDMI and was combined with the second feature
2. Super HDMI capability
When you connect the tablet to the TV via microHDMI, you can adjust a lot of parameters, which is impossible in any other tablet. You can adjust the size of the picture, correlating with the TV diagonal (Normal, Zoom, Fill), on the fly you can change the resolution modes and frame rates and, finally, there is full support for HDMI Audio - this is for those who have a pretty acoustics connected to the TV. When you connect the tablet to the TV, the orientation of the first one is blocked: it will not go into portrait mode anyway (which, incidentally, was a surprise for Paul), so the picture on the TV will always be horizontally oriented. Paul began to launch a lot of different and heavy programs and switch between them, showing that the system does not slow down.
“Why is this necessary?” You ask. I also asked. Paul was ready to answer: imagine that you are on dacha and want to watch a movie on your tablet. Once the image is displayed on the screen, you only need to press one button that locks the image, that is, it is just the movie that remains on the TV, and you can continue to work with the tablet: check mail, surf and even play heavy games. For myself, I came up with another scenario: while I watch a movie, my son can play on the tablet. As I understand it, you can run 52 applications at the same time.
3. Uncompromise support of flash browsing
This can be translated as unprecedented flash support: Paul began opening heavy intense flash sites to show how the tablet handles flash. The first he opened wechoosethemoon.org - I have not seen this site before, it is about American space exploration, quite interesting and all on flash. He started Kennedy's speech and dropped it into the background, after which he brought out another video from Youtube. Programs work in the background, really, live - when you switch between them, there is movement everywhere, the clips are not paused, and the sound of the clip that is in the background (albeit muffled) is heard. Then another heavy flash site gettheglass.com was loaded - this is a flash game. Attention was drawn to the "ease of transition and smooth movement on the map, as well as how realistic the" sheep "on the waves were made, and other marketing blah blah, which, of course, do not attach much importance. All of this was shown under the motto "no need to search for games (which are not yet available under the Playbook), they say, play directly in the browser." There are still a few high-profile games - they showed Need for Speed installed on the tablet, as well as a piano synthesizer application (the stump is clear, there is a bold smiley).
4. Blackberry Bridge
After that, the tablets were handed out to reporters along with Bold smartphones (they had SIMs installed with the tariff on which BIS is connected) and offered to activate them so that this feature could be tested. Not everything went smoothly - while there is still no normal support for the Russian language, and even when choosing English in the initial settings, it was impossible to select the local time Moscow GMT +3, London GMT 0 had to be, the problem was solved only through Reset. After activation, the Playbook started downloading the 318 MB Tablet OS update, and then it was necessary to download the Blackberry Bridge software for the smartphone, after creating the Blackberry ID. Soon mail, contacts, calendar, SMS and BBM from a smartphone were visible on the tablet. As soon as Secured Bluetooth burst - all this became inaccessible, a “lock” hung on applications. By the way
There are some more cool chips that I found out. So, the Playbook has an interesting server that allows you to "rob" video from Youtube - you need to insert a link to the video on playbookyoutubedownlader.com, and it will be downloaded directly to the tablet. The idea is not new, such sites are full, but still amusing. And I also learned how to take screenshots on the Playbook: press volume- and volume + at the same time, after which the screen screen appears in the Pictures folder. I also learned about WiFi-Sharing: the tablet can be easily connected to the computer as a removable disk via WiFi - for this you need to connect the laptop and tablet to the same network, and on the laptop connect to the server, whose name is the name of the tablet, the Run command on the Windows type \\ 1.1.1.1 \ and smb: //1.1.1.1 on makoshi. Regarding Android Application Support - Paul said
And at the end of the event they showed the Blackberry 9900, which I really liked, unlike the same Bold.
Well, there was a lot of behind-the-scenes talk about the Blackberry RF office and its Russian team, about support for developers, etc., which I will not write about here :). If you have questions about the Playbook, you can ask them on my @turubar twitter , I will be walking with the tablet for a long time.
And before the kata, a little fun - such a cool video promotes Blackberry tablets in India, and it is rotated exactly like that in Ireland, where they did not optimize it for their own market and change the dark-skinned Hindu faces to red-haired :). The meaning of the video: Blackberry is now not only a business, but also a fan, Canadians will reposition the brand in all markets.
The event was hosted by the well-known vice president of RIM, Paul Lucier, with whom we had already published a large interview with answers to questions from habra-people , as well as the Russian representative Andrei Kiselev (Bussiness Solutions Manager, who previously worked in Italy).
Paul began by listing the four key features that make the Playbook different from its competitors and showing them ...
1. Extreme Multitasking (hereinafter - Paul Lucie’s expressions, I specifically left them as they were, it seemed cool :)) The
main feature of QNX OS used in Blackberry is “live” multitasking, when programs running in the background really work in the background, Do not collapse and do not affect the performance of the system. This feature was demonstrated on the connected Playbook to the TV via HDMI and was combined with the second feature
2. Super HDMI capability
When you connect the tablet to the TV via microHDMI, you can adjust a lot of parameters, which is impossible in any other tablet. You can adjust the size of the picture, correlating with the TV diagonal (Normal, Zoom, Fill), on the fly you can change the resolution modes and frame rates and, finally, there is full support for HDMI Audio - this is for those who have a pretty acoustics connected to the TV. When you connect the tablet to the TV, the orientation of the first one is blocked: it will not go into portrait mode anyway (which, incidentally, was a surprise for Paul), so the picture on the TV will always be horizontally oriented. Paul began to launch a lot of different and heavy programs and switch between them, showing that the system does not slow down.
“Why is this necessary?” You ask. I also asked. Paul was ready to answer: imagine that you are on dacha and want to watch a movie on your tablet. Once the image is displayed on the screen, you only need to press one button that locks the image, that is, it is just the movie that remains on the TV, and you can continue to work with the tablet: check mail, surf and even play heavy games. For myself, I came up with another scenario: while I watch a movie, my son can play on the tablet. As I understand it, you can run 52 applications at the same time.
3. Uncompromise support of flash browsing
This can be translated as unprecedented flash support: Paul began opening heavy intense flash sites to show how the tablet handles flash. The first he opened wechoosethemoon.org - I have not seen this site before, it is about American space exploration, quite interesting and all on flash. He started Kennedy's speech and dropped it into the background, after which he brought out another video from Youtube. Programs work in the background, really, live - when you switch between them, there is movement everywhere, the clips are not paused, and the sound of the clip that is in the background (albeit muffled) is heard. Then another heavy flash site gettheglass.com was loaded - this is a flash game. Attention was drawn to the "ease of transition and smooth movement on the map, as well as how realistic the" sheep "on the waves were made, and other marketing blah blah, which, of course, do not attach much importance. All of this was shown under the motto "no need to search for games (which are not yet available under the Playbook), they say, play directly in the browser." There are still a few high-profile games - they showed Need for Speed installed on the tablet, as well as a piano synthesizer application (the stump is clear, there is a bold smiley).
4. Blackberry Bridge
After that, the tablets were handed out to reporters along with Bold smartphones (they had SIMs installed with the tariff on which BIS is connected) and offered to activate them so that this feature could be tested. Not everything went smoothly - while there is still no normal support for the Russian language, and even when choosing English in the initial settings, it was impossible to select the local time Moscow GMT +3, London GMT 0 had to be, the problem was solved only through Reset. After activation, the Playbook started downloading the 318 MB Tablet OS update, and then it was necessary to download the Blackberry Bridge software for the smartphone, after creating the Blackberry ID. Soon mail, contacts, calendar, SMS and BBM from a smartphone were visible on the tablet. As soon as Secured Bluetooth burst - all this became inaccessible, a “lock” hung on applications. By the way
There are some more cool chips that I found out. So, the Playbook has an interesting server that allows you to "rob" video from Youtube - you need to insert a link to the video on playbookyoutubedownlader.com, and it will be downloaded directly to the tablet. The idea is not new, such sites are full, but still amusing. And I also learned how to take screenshots on the Playbook: press volume- and volume + at the same time, after which the screen screen appears in the Pictures folder. I also learned about WiFi-Sharing: the tablet can be easily connected to the computer as a removable disk via WiFi - for this you need to connect the laptop and tablet to the same network, and on the laptop connect to the server, whose name is the name of the tablet, the Run command on the Windows type \\ 1.1.1.1 \ and smb: //1.1.1.1 on makoshi. Regarding Android Application Support - Paul said
And at the end of the event they showed the Blackberry 9900, which I really liked, unlike the same Bold.
Well, there was a lot of behind-the-scenes talk about the Blackberry RF office and its Russian team, about support for developers, etc., which I will not write about here :). If you have questions about the Playbook, you can ask them on my @turubar twitter , I will be walking with the tablet for a long time.
