The words "play" and "book" are a bit of an odd choice for RIM's latest attempt at consumer relevance, a tablet that, at its core, runs one of the most hardcore and industry-friendly operating systems known to man. The OS is QNX and the hardware is, of course, the BlackBerry PlayBook. It's an enterprise-friendly offering that's also out to conquer the consumer tablet ecosphere, hoping to follow in the footsteps of the BlackBerry handsets that have filled the pockets of corporate executives and BBM addicts around the globe.
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Through my work I've been fortunate enough to be able to test out the Xoom, Flyer and Playbook, and currently own an iPad 2.
I'm happy with that decision, but of the others the Playbook is definitely in 2nd place for me.. It's really speedy, and is fine as a tablet in its own right without pairing with a blackberry phone. The Xoom is too heavy and I don't like their interpretation of Android 3.0. It needs something like HTC's Sense. The Flyer, meanwhile, is too expensive.
One thing I would mention that the review seems to have omitted entirely is support for Android 2.3 apps (through virtualisation), though I'm not sure this has been implemented yet. The main issue is that it won't have direct access to the Android Market, so developers have to submit apps to RIM to be added to the App World. That will take a little time for everything to trickle down.
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