The new BlackBerry Playbook from Research In Motion (RIM), scheduled for release in the US during the second quarter of 2011, has made its debut at the RIM Developer Day in Dubai.
The seven-inch device will have a battery life of up to eight hours continuous usage time, and even more in standby time, according to Mike Al Mefleh, Director of Product Management at RIM Middle East.
"[Battery life] in terms of talk time and performance time is up to eight hours and this is plenty of time to do your email and browsing. In terms of standby time, it is going to be much longer than that," Mefleh said. "The product is still in development and what I am going to show you is still a beta version so, we are still a few months away. However, we do know from our testing and everything that we have done that the battery is very competitive."
Playbook will support the Arabic language, and will have access to browsers besides the BlackBerry browser, such as Google Chrome and Firefox. The device will feature a dual core processor with I GHz per processor, and will have one gig of RAM.
PlayBook will operate on the powerful QNX, which is used in several high security applications.
"The OS QNX is very reliable, very robust, and very secure; it has been in the market for some time. It is being used in nuclear plants, in the very important banking systems, in transportation and healthcare,” Mefleh explained.
Featuring a 5MP camera on the back and a 3MP camera on the front, PlayBook’s camera boasts high-picture quality. The screen enjoys a high-definition of 1080x600 resolutions, and has an outstanding touch technology that is comparable to the iPad.
The PlayBook also supports the Adobe Flashplayer 10.1, which provides high quality video playback.
Both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi have been integrated into the tablet device. Users can link their devices to their existing BlackBerry phones, to download or view emails and documents, as long as they are on the 5.0 operating system and above.
Instead of storing the documents, any data is immediately wiped off the PlayBook once the BlackBerry phone is unplugged. This high-security feature is what will make the PlayBook appeal to the professional and executive market over its rivals.
Blackberry’s designer and manufacturer, RIM, has said that it hopes to release the device with at least 4,000 apps
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