RIM Blackberry Tablet is a pleasant surprise for Blackberry advocators. It definitely lives up to the expectations of the Blackberry users whereas the people with no specific choice might end up buying an Apple iPad.
Features and performance
With 5.1x7.6x0.4 inches size, RIM Playbook sports a 7 inch 1024 x 600 resolution screen. Playbook has got all the major attractions of the iPad like a gyroscope, accelerometer, GPS and magnetometer. The Playbook speakers give out clear loud sound which makes the video gaming experience pleasurable.
Multimedia
The music application in the tablet is great to use. Deletion process of any item is pretty simple, although getting used to the gestures accepted by the Playbook might be uncomfortable in the beginning.
Office Applications
Among its many USPs is its quick opening of applications. The time taken for processing is probably the fastest in any of the tablets till date. Creation of PowerPoint presentations, Word and Excel documents are easily possible too in this device. The word document creator opens up special fonts and spacing keys at the top of the screen. A nice attempt by Playbook for all the professionals in mind is the addition of Adobe PDF reader.
Internet Experience
Playbook’s internet connection ability is through Wi-fi only which might be disappointing for some users. The internet browsing is smooth enough to not disappoint any user though. Viewing embedded content, flash pages and YouTube videos is a comfortable and impressive experience.
Games such as Quake III, Need for Speed and Tetris can be played more smoothly than any other tablets in the market.Playbook supports Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, which happens to be its most surprising element.
Device features
This tablet sports a 5 megapixel camera without a flash at the back and a 3 megapixel camera on the front. Both the cameras can easily record full high definition recording at 1080p.
Through the micro HDMI cable the videos can be joyfully viewed on an HDTV. Stills shot in daytime light come out to be pleasantly clear and pretty crisp. All in all Playbook offers ample amount of possibilities with hardware.
Drawbacks
Among all the drawbacks the most prominent one is that Playbook is yet to support Kindle. This might come as a shock to many users. The memory management too is not very efficient. Powered with only 1 GB RAM, Playbook users will most definitely feel it to be less than what is required of it.
The battery backup is less than 7 hours which is quite less as compared to 10 hours of iPad battery backup. Playbook’s controls are considered to be too uncomfortable. The power button is almost impossible to press which might irritate the user. Playbook offers less than 3000 games on Application World and most of them are still got to be Playbook compatible.
At the end..
RIM Playbook is a good surprise for blackberry lovers. Buying advice for prospective buyers would be, keep the drawbacks too in mind to take a wise decision.