BlackBerry PlayBook Pre-Order Today
Today, Research in Motion announced pre-orders, pricing and in-store availability date from the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ tablet with Best Buy.
The BlackBerry PlayBook will be obtainable in Best Buy, Best Buy Mobile, Best Buy Canada and Future Shop shops April 19th inside the following designs and price points: 16GB Wi-Fi : $499, 32GB Wi-Fi : $599, 64GB Wi-Fi : $699
The PlayBook also keeps tempo with Apple’s iconic machine using a 1GHz dual-core processor. Elsewhere, it sports a 7-inch 1024 x 600 WSVGA capacitive LCD touch screen, 1GB of RAM, a 1080p HDMI output, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and dual cameras — 3MP front and 5MP back. Furthermore, it comes using a brand new QNX-based operating system, dubbed BlackBerry Tablet OS, and has a distinctive active bezel that responds to gestures created from the edge the screen.
The gadget will be accessible in Best Buy retailers and Best Buy Mobile stores within the U.S. and at Best Buy and Future Shop retailers in Canada. A 4G variant is anticipated to launch on Sprint later on this year but no specifics have already been shared so far.
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BlackBerry Dakota and Apollo Appears
Various leaks on new handsets continue to circulate in cyberspace. The one that was warmly discussed is the emergence of two units new BlackBerry smartphone, which is named Dakota and Apollo. BGR online seems to be the first to get the technology leaked specifications, complete with a picture of the BlackBerry Dakota. If the leak is accurate, it looks like Dakota that looks like a quite reliable Bold by Research in Motion (RIM) are at a great war in the realm of smartphones.
Dakota is reportedly has a 5 megapixel camera with HD video capability as well as the lights flash. Other features include 4GB of storage, 768 MB RAM, 3G mobile hotspots, Wi-Fi, MicroUSB port, BlackBerry OS 6.1, 2.8-inch screen and a qwerty keyboard. That said, Dakota will have touch screen capabilities resemble to Blackberry Torch.
In addition to Dakota, upcoming BlackBerry Apollo is touted as the latest generation in the family Curve. Leaked specifications include BlackBerry 6.1 OS , Wi Fi, GPS, 5MP camera with flash and 512MB RAM. Only 11 mm thickness. Excerpted from Digital Trends, yet no official announcement from RIM regarding these two handsets. It is estimated, Dakota and Apollo will be introduced at Mobile World event Congress (MWC), which took place in Barcelona next month.
BlackBerry Playbook Is Claimed Faster than iPad
As the originator of the tablet market booming, Apple iPad often become targets of comparison of competitors, including RIM BlackBerry Playbook. Though planned for next year, RIM claimed Blackberry Playbook is more advance than iPad. Videos on YouTube shows the Playbook has a faster web access , another display show multiple Web pages that looks more perfect than the iPad.
The absence of Flash on the iPad also features highlighted in it. Unlike Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO of RIM as quoted from BusinessWeek declared the importance of the application. But in some cases, the application is a substitute for a bad web browsing experience, the web is not supposed to turn into an application and we should not need a YouTube application for accessing YouTube, he added. Balsillie ask viewers to see it for them selves the speed on accessing YouTube.
Playbook will be thrown into the North American market in the first quarter of 2011. And after that, the tablets will be sold globally.
