RIM did a good job of shocking the tech community by coming out of the gate on the first day of DevCon ( a developer conference ) with their first venture outside of a smart phone with the PlayBook tablet. Looking at the specs RIM didn’t play it safe packing a 1 Ghz dual core proc, 1 GB ram, HD capabilities, and a ton of other awesome features. The amazing thing is RIM was able to keep this under wraps from the interwebz with only whispers of a fabled BlackBerry tablet. We tend to find out about BB devices months before we get to hold them so that feat is an accomplishment in itself.
You know QNX didn’t just start this project when RIM acquired them back in May. During the DevCon keynote QNX head Dan Dodge said that it was a year in the making. The QNX operating system has a ton of applications currently from a bullet train in France, Cisco switches, and casinos in Las Vegas. Their POSIX OS makes for a system that can run on less memory and more efficient. Just what RIM needs as a common critique is they don’t “beef up” their devices enough or the BB OS is outdated.
RIM really needed to come out with a device we could all fawn over and I think they delivered. I am reserving full judgment until I am able to get my hands on the PlayBook. RIM seems to be marketing this as an enterprise ready tablet and “amplifying” the features of your BB like messaging and BBM. Hopefully developers will have a number of applications ready once this tablet finally launches.
In my opinion this really breaks the trend with RIM making minor software and hardware updates to the current model. In all I think this is really good news for RIM. I look forward to a QNX OS loaded BlackBerry handheld device and what else RIM has up their sleeves.
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