BlackBerry PlayBook and iPad Comparison: Web Fidelity (VIDEO)

Wow, nice job, RIM.

Ballsy move. I love it! You know that the second the PlayBook is released it will be compared anyways. Way to take charge of the conversation!

I have a new 3G iPad….drives mu nuts that it does not have Flash. What a waste of money!!!

[...] culture seems to be changing significantly as they move towards a more consumer focused company. Recently, RIM released a BlackBerry PlayBook versus Apple iPad speed test video which is risky consi…. Speed tests are also difficult because there are so many variables that can affect the test. [...]

[...] in stores until sometime in early 2011, you can imagine our ears will prick up when RIM offers a head-to-head comparison between their 7-inch slate and Apple’s iPad. This particular video – which you can see [...]

Looks better and better, but why the loong time to get to this device…

Nice job on HTML5, RIM.

awesome video! RIM keep it up! I wish this was available for holliday season – i’d pick up 3 of em for my family

CAN – NOT – WAIT

wow, soooo sweet – I hope this arrives on my Torch at some point

Make me a samich……..
Make me a samich!!!!!!……..

Both failed the Caspan is hungry test LOL Comparison videos are awesome would love to see some from Apples perspective. Nice to see both sides. Great job RIM cant wait to use this device. I am hollowing out the spot in my car dash for me to mount it as we speak! (I wish)

Owwwwwwned.

Amazing work! Go RIM, go. Bring down the sky high ego of “you know who I am talking about”.

This out today:

“Dare I say it, the PlayBook tablet might be a sign of trouble at Research In Motion. Are the target customers still the mobile executive that wants devices that serve email reliably, promptly, and securely? Or are they kids who want to play games and message friends? Judging by what the PlayBook has to offer, it’s awfully hard to say.”

I think RIM may need some help in learning what play is all about. I have been trying to contact someone about the National Institute for Play and our neuroscience of play and its applications.

Kristen Cozad
Director of Development
National Institute for Play
kristen@nifplay.org

More like pwned . Good stuff RIM!

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Awesome. i am just waiting for it to buy one. Too GOOD move from RIM

when will it be available and at what cost?

Will the Playbook have BBM? chuck that in and i’ll instantly jump ship. I am bored of the same old Apple products and your product looks amazing, oh an portable

Looks great. Where and when can I buy one in Alberta? Can they be pre-purchased now?

[...] PlayBook will be priced lower than Apple’s current entry-level iPad, and now they’re saying the PlayBook will significantly outperform the iPad for Web browsing—and the PlayBook supports Adobe Flash [...]

Looks great! You gotta love a device that supports flash and is not just, “flash”-y. Is the price still set to be under $500?

-Blackberry Enthusiast
@Justgil

wow!I would love to own one.I am willing tobe one of the ones to test the playbook down my way.

Tony Hsieu built Zappos on “Delivering Happiness”. RIM could build PlayBook on “delivering Play”.

Play? What is valuable about play in a culture that trivializes it and relegates it as children’s work? We stamp play out of life, eliminate recesses, tell employees to get to work and stop goofing off.

We are looking for a company that wants to identify itself as the Innovation through Play Company. You certainly have named a product using Play, but I dont think you guys have even a beginning knowledge of what Play is.

Our Founder of the National Institute for Play teaches From Play to Innovation at Stanford’s Design School, and has collected over 6,000 play histories- from mass murderers to many Noberl Laureates.

Play emanates from the reptilian brain as a survival force. The most playful wins! We have plenty of neuroscience on play deprivation and its consequences.

You have named a big product after PLAY. Dont you think you better know what play is and how you might use it for marketing?

If you dont want to learn about Play and take up its banner, that is fine. Another Company will and your opportunity will be lost forever to be identified with the newly emerging science of play.

We have contacted your company numerous times and have heard nothing back.

Kristen Cozad
National Institute for Play
kristen@nifplay.org

I thinks it to be released early 2011 if I’m not mistaken….Edmonton, AB?

Apple is a good company. I used to play over at the house of Steve Wozniak two doors down the street everyday after school when he was a four year old snotty kid. He would play with his sister Cindy and I.

RIM will have an uphill battle with Apple and its loyal following. Even if the PlayBook product is better, unless you have novel, cutting edge marketing, it may not do well.

I suggest you learn about Play.

Best wishes!

Play!

Kristen Cozad
National Institute for Play

[...] posted a comparison video today on Inside BlackBerry: The Official BlackBerry Blog. The video goes through comparing web speeds and flash support (or lack there of). Check out the [...]

I’m excited for this device, but this comparison is not quite legitimate.

You guys are using the Cortex A9, which wasn’t ready for the market when the iPad came out. So, this video is just comparing an A9 vs an A8, and no one should be surprised that the A9 is better than the A8. As you’re aware, when you release the playbook, Apple will be refreshing the iPad to use the A9 as well.

liar.

You should stop spamming and get a real job. No one cares about a company that has to make feeble spam attempts on other people’s blogs.

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I Love my Blackberry and think that the Playbook will bean AMAZING addition to the market! I am eagerly anticipating it’s debut! if you need any testers I know several people dedicated to RIM (including myself!) that would jump at the chance!

Bashing is indicative of play deprivation. I am not spamming.

I am simply pointing out the value of play in innovation, product development and marketing and that it may be a great investment on the part of RIM to look into the science of play.

BTW, I am not a company. The National Institute for Play is a non-profit that has consulted for Google, Microsoft, Cadbury and 2012 Olympics, Nike and many others on play science. With PlayBook coming out, I thought RIM would want to know more about the neuroscience of play and innovation.

Sorry if you found my postings offensive.

[...] gente de RIM publicó un video oficial mostrando un prototipo de su tableta PlayBook y cómo funciona su navegador Web. Lo hizo, además, [...]

Sorry you dont like my posts.

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Why couldn’t you realise this on the Torch?!?

[...] the BlackBerry PlayBook vs the iPad when it comes to surfing the web. The video entitles “BlackBerry PlayBook and iPad Comparison: Web Fidelity” runs through a a bunch of comparison tests with a PlayBook and iPad. The video helps demonstrate [...]

It is legit….as of right now your product cannot compete with the playbook. When/if the i-pad does update its technology then im sure youll try compparing it to something also to make it look lke yours is better.

This is really small. I didn’t understand the comparison and how it will benefit me. Can you provide comparison for the average person.

You cannot understand speed? Here is the chart
———————-
Device———Fast
PlayBook—–Yes
iPad———–No
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Wow the trolls are out today!

You cannot understand speed? Here is the chart
———————-
Device———Fast
PlayBook—–Yes
iPad———–No
———————–
Wow the trolls are out today!

So what does this have to do with the Woz? Any actual real meaning to your post other then to look important because you played with him when you were a kid so lending credibility to your post?

So what does this have to do with the Woz? Any actual real meaning to your post other then to look important because you played with him when you were a kid so lending credibility to your post?

It will have every thing your BlackBerry does. It wirelessly connects to bring your BlackBerry screen to the PlayBook or to bring data from your phone. Also it uses your phones plan and does not require its own plan….

But for education the Playbook can connect to a projector?

But for education the Playbook can connect to a projector?

sorry you didn;t like my little Woz story.

There is a correlation between play and innovation.

The culture of playfulness is open to the unknown world of the possible. Is PlayBook playful? How so, why, and for whom? Why call this device a PlayBook? How does it engender a state of play necessary for innovation to occur?

Hey, Im a big supporter of what RIM is trying to do… I just think the message on play must be clear, deep and full of insight.

The Name is PlayBook and in sports terms, it describing plays that a player or team may run in games. It is also used in the BUSINESS world as a term to describe STRATEGIES that the firm is going to employ.

There’s a time and place for Pure PLAY but looks like your institute is taking the use of PLAY a little too seriously.

“There’s a time and place for Pure PLAY but looks like your institute is taking the use of PLAY a little too seriously”

I know we take play seriously, but TOO seriously?

But funny our Founder and President would be a TED TALK presenter at SERIOUS PLAY in Pasadena.

Apparently there are some people who believe play is serious. Ever hear of IDEO and David Kelly? That company is serious about play and innovation and we partner with them. Google is another company that in the past harnessed the transformational power of play…

To be fair, the next iPad is just as real as the PlayBook. You can’t buy either of them today, you’ll be able to buy both soon. I agree with the parent, a legitimate comparison would be between both development devices … now we only Apple to boast about devices it doesn’t ship yet.

What IDEO and Google have not done is taken the newly emerging science of play, particularly the neuroscience, and capitalized upon it.

Knowing how humans create would be of import, me thinks. Bringing this information to public consciousness and using this understanding and knowledge in a marketing campaign would be of interest, I would think. No one company has done it yet. Maybe that is because many companies get stuck in marketing business play book strategies that are “by the book” and staid and obsolete.

But it will happen….some company will meet the challenge and bring it all to another level. And whoever takes this on will be seen as a cut above the pack not only in design and product but in their ability to influence and lead culture….

Visionaries and leaders are always needed when one pulls from the herd… In this Apple has been very good. Doesn’t mean they will always be seen as the visionaries and hip designers tho’.

RIM and PlayBook have the opportunity to approach their marketing in a competely positive, uplifting and refreshing way. This will be exceedingly important when in 2011 gov’t budgets are getting sliced to the bone (CA may have to default?) and the rug is being pulled out from under so many people.

People need the tools to RE-CREATE themselves. Maybe it’s time to consider that play is not too serious, but nature’s biological mandate to innovate.

Has a HDMI port out so as long as your projector can support that, else you can down convert with adapters to DVI.

any battery comparisons/tests?

[...] RIM has posted up a video of their upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook in action, and put against Apple’s iPad. The video quickly shows how fast the PlayBook’s WebKit browser is, and its wide support for Flash and HTML 5. Check out the video above and you can find more details at InsideBlackBerry. [...]

WILL YOU GUYS PLEASE – PLEASE PUT UP A LINK WHERE I CAN BUY THE PLAYBOOK! Did the all CAPS help get my point across? The Holiday Season is here and I want my gal to buy me a Playbook – I DO NOT CARE if you deliver it until January, just PLEASE start selling it for the holiday season. I will be livid if she buys me an iPad (have to return it, deal with her etc). START SELLING THEM ALREADY!! Geeeez!!

What exactly are you trying to say? Sorry every post I read all you talk about is playing. Just because the device is called the PlayBook does not mean its for play. Your coming at RIM like they are creating a toy and they better market it right or else it will fail. It might have some pleasure elements to it for gaming to cover the need for that in a device but wow you are hard core pushing yourself! Not a great way to get attention for a company. Just relax and enjoy the conversation instead of being a sales guy
Steve Main
steve@caspan.com

I can’t wait for this device to come out! The iPad is too big for my tastes, and I love the way a BlackBerry operates, not to mention it will compliment my device by the way they can be used together. Counting down the days to launch…I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas.

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Awesome. Need one Yesterday!

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enlighten me, where did you read that?

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That’s what I don’t get about Apple-haters. If the current version of the device doesn’t have what you think is essential (better screen, cameras, Flash) just don’t buy it and wait for the next release or some other company to release their own clone.

For everyone else who’s pretty happy with the current specs and would rather enjoy the device now instead of drooling on YouTube clips of unreleased hardware, we can buy it.

seems like a fantastic product. I decided to purchase the iphone a year ago because of ease of use and vast applications. However, the inability to view flash websites was a major annoyance. I am very optimistic about the playbook release. bravo

for those apple lover who follow steve’s lie, ipad was never good enough to go on the market, he just wanted to put it first to get all the attention and just have it first. ipad is a crapy apple product and its there just to be first not good face it.

not really a clone if you do it better, so much as an improvement

Great！

I want!!!! When will this ”Blackie” be available in Malaysia?

Fari play Steve, they just showed off that the Playbook and the iPad are not apples for apples. Go apple!!!

but the main aspect of the Playbook is that in the wild it would connect via a BlackBerry handset using 3g/gprs/edge using a local Bluetooth link – what is the speed like then rather than direct to Wifi?

Well… the PlayBook cannot compete with the iPad right now just because… Is not in the market. Test labs is not real life experience.

Hey cb55555,

Can you post a comment reply not using openID but your email address so I can get it from the back end and reach you directly? If you have a Twitter account where we could DM you, that would also be good!

This is just propaganda, here’s why.

1) iOS 4.2 is going to be released before the end of the month for the iPad and iPhone (already can be downloaded in GM for free). Why not compare Apple’s latest OS offering rather then 3.2.2?

2) Since the iPad is an actual shipping product and has been on the market for sometime the specs were written in stone over a year ago. I could only hope that the prototype PlayBook would out preform the iPad as it should have better hardware. Let’s compare the iPad 2 and PlayBook and see who wins in 2011.

3) The iPad actually browses the web faster at this point because it’s actually been shipped to customers.

Perhaps for the next video you could compare the Touch running BlackBerry OS 6 vs. the iPhone 4 running iOS 4.2. That’s might be a bit more fair to your users, of course I have a feeling you may not win that comparison.

lol @ Steve Jobs.

Does it really matter if the iPad 2 has similar specs to the Playbook? The Playbook integration with BlackBerry devices and BlackBerry infrastructures (250,000+ BES deployments around the world) blows any of the iPads attempt to compete in the business market away.

Having acquired the Storm 9530 only 1.5 years ago (voted worst cell phone ever by many tech magazines) I have no faith in any new products from RIM.

awesome ! I’m glad someone is entering the market so I don’t have yo “settle” for an iPad

WHAT?? This won’t be ready for the 2010 holiday season. SUX

While the performance of the playbook appears to out do the iPad, why not make the playbook just as parge to allow for easier viewing and reading of the information it can display?

both are missing something very important for students, professionals, etc. and that’s an EXTERNAL PEN for handwriting. Typing on this things isn’t the fastest way so a pen would be perfect. (to use it as a notebook)

I think Playbook has chance in competition with iPad and Galaxy Tab.

IS THERE AN INDICATION AS TO HOW MUCH THE PLAYBOOK WILL COST

its the Playbook already out for sale in the market???
if so where ?
and what is the price?

This is my video response to the Playbook vs iPad video made by RIM. I compare Galaxy Tab and iPad using the same demo and then I compare both videos. Do you guess which runs faster?

Me Too! I’d love a chance to test that product.

I like this, good for us who likes new-advance gadgets everynow and than; the Ipad initiated competition, by symply creating bigger size Ipod. so every other company has started producing tablet based on symple platform of Android. most powerful amongst it was samsung’s galaxy S, so samsung came out with galaxyPad, obviousely the bigger version of their smartphone galaxy S. now BlackBerry is preparing
its Playbook; guess, it would be a bigger version of which blackberry phone…?.. may be BB torch..?
I don’t understand why any of these company is not considering what we actually need and want?
only good thing here is the one is trying to improve a bit then another, thats really good for US, isn’t it?

I like this, good for us who likes new-advance gadgets everynow and than; the Ipad initiated competition, by symply creating bigger size Ipod. so every other company has started producing tablet based on symple platform of Android. most powerful amongst it was samsung’s galaxy S, so samsung came out with galaxyPad, obviousely the bigger version of their smartphone galaxy S. now BlackBerry is preparing
its Playbook; guess, it would be a bigger version of which blackberry phone…?.. may be BB torch..?
I don’t understand why any of these company is not considering what we actually need and want?
only good thing here is the one is trying to improve a bit then another, thats really good for US, isn’t it?

Form factor: What is the decision to have a 7″ form factor based on? Love Blackberry and use the Blackberry phone but just think that 7″ is too small for somebody who like to read tech books/PDFs with most lots of illustrations.

Hello MIKEY,

We are unable to comment on unreleased products. Keep an eye on http://www.blackberry.com/playbook for updates.

Thanks
Heather

Hello Luis_carlos_saenz,

We are unable to comment on unreleased products. Keep an eye on http://www.blackberry.com/playbook for updates.

Thanks
Heather

wOw,That’s amazing!Because the screen is small,so the speed of browser is faster than iPad!And,with dual-core processor,Playbook has be a faster than iPad,and support Adobe Flash Player in Playbook,made streaming is so easy.But,Apple will be re-freshing a new iPad with dual-camera,Adobe Flash Player support,and Cortex A9.So,this video can only survive a short time!

I like it , it very nice

what is the reason apple doesn’t support flash? that sucks? the screen looks a lot bigger than a playbook in the video?

I dont believe that Playbook will come soon, but I believe that Playbook is really iPad killer!!! RIM, you are the best…!!

I just really want a Playbook and now.

Good point. I’m a BlackBerry user and look forward to using the Playbook that purportedly will tether to my current phone. Also, I would prefer a device that uses Flash and that is one of the primary reasons I did not purchase the iPad. That said, I have other Apple products that I think are great. Saying you’ll never buy a product from one company or another simply because a single offering didn’t have all the features you want is a bit nutty.

You’re all absolutely ridiculous arguing about a screen thing that neither can even produce a word document. sure it can load and view one but you cant write one on it. neither can even do that.

are you guys seriously arguing about an electronic device?

[...] BlackBerry web browser engineer recorded a video experiment to prove that BlackBerry PlayBook has a faster web browser than the iPad. On top of that, it was also [...]

I agree with PlayBook Fan. It is named the PlayBook as a reference to the coach’s playbook on a football, where their plans and strategies are laid out, to be called as needed to WIN. I can kinda see where the spammer is trying to align it with her theory of unburdening the mind with tasks to stimulate the creative process, but I don’t think this is anywhere near why it was named PlayBook. Football players don’t really go out to “play”, they go out to WIN. I do agree it needs to be marketed properly; BlackBerry loyalists don’t necesarily shy away from he image we can be “all business”, and I personally prefer that to the image of a whiny brat afraid to break a nail- M or F- we’re out to SUCCEED, plain and simple. As Apple has shown, they can put out smarthphones that struggle to make phone calls and tablets that can’t/won’t handle flash, and have legions of loyalists ready to spew venom at those that simply point it out to them. Very little about Apple is all that innovative; but their engineers have managed to get working products of idea others have already been working on, well, except for the phone part anyway. But their marketing departments, those guys should be getting awards and have entire courses of study dedicated to them for the way people have fallen for their overrated products. BlackBerry gets the job done. The proof is in the pudding as they say.

Dear Steve,

First I want you to know that I don’t work with RIM or Apple, nor am I affiliated in any way.

Next, you will be happy to know that I owned the iPad. I was given the device as a gift. In my most honest opinion, to sum up my thoughts on your iPad, I will say this: The iPad is a horrible device.

I would come home, start it and then go to the Internet. I was never able to view any one of the millions of websites that had Flash as their introduction, information or educational videos. I would want to multitask (i.e. real and true, not what you think multitasking is), print to my home network printer from my email, video conference, take a pix, plug in my camera or device into the USB port. These were daily things I would do. The iPad did not do any one of these things. It did absolutely nothing but leave me wanting. As I closed it after each use, I would say to myself “what good is this thing?” No joke.

I put it for sale on eBay and as there was no rush to buy it from me I ended up trading it for a dell laptop so I didn’t have to “dumb-down” my Internet experience any longer.

Now, you guys are out talking about how great the iPad2 will be. Best of luck selling the iPad 2 to the next “biggest fool” as they will still not be capable of viewing the Internet the way it was meant to be experienced. However, I am curious; What do you say to all those poor saps that bought the iPad one?

In closing I will tell you this as a fact: I will buy two Playbooks the day they go on sale. I have no intentions of ever buying another Apple product. My phone does everything my iPod did and you couldn’t give me the iPhone for free.

However, if the iPad2 goes on sale for under $99 I will buy them as presents for my friends that are clueless.

The “crappy” iPad has basically allowed me to leave my unweildy 6 pound laptop at home 95% of the time. I can go online anytime, from virtually anywhere. I carry virtually my entire library with me, and can whip it out every time I have 5 minutes to spare, to read and be more productive. I can watch movies, and they actually look and sound great. And I can do all of this while standing in line at Costco.

Name one other device that’s available RIGHT NOW that can do all of this as well as the iPad, without having to sit down at a desk or a table.

That’s what I thought. It could have done a lot of things a lot better, but it does enough things well enough that it’s a great device as it is. If you think it costs too much, then maybe that’s a more legitimate argument, although it’s biased by your own ability or inability to personally afford it, but don’t cop out and just say it’s a crappy device because for what it was designed to do, it’s better than anything else you already own.

I think all the Tablet should come out with big screen size of iPad. It looks good everything in bigger screen. In future, if PlayBook comes out with diffrent model, please come with bigger screen.

Does anyone have a planned release date for the Playbook?

Anyone who does not read the specifications to see that it does not have flash is stupid for even buying Ipad. Don’t just buy a product thinking it will have flash when it does not have it and could have been found out with ease at BestBuy. And people that hate on apple are just bashing Steve jobs and Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) because they dont have the smarts to develop computer products.

Anyone who does not read the specifications to see that it does not have flash is stupid for even buying Ipad. Don’t just buy a product thinking it will have flash when it does not have it and could have been found out with ease at BestBuy. And people that hate on apple are just bashing Steve jobs and Steve Ballmer (Microsoft CEO) because they dont have the smarts to develop computer products.

First, I am not an Apple hater. I run Win XP, Snow Leopard, FreeBSD 8.0 and own, and am happy with, an iPhone 3GS . I have not purchased an iPad because I’ve never been happy with the specs. This is how consumers should behave. The marketers try to turn people into fanatics and so we have the odd circumstance of CEOs snipping at each other like petulant school boys rather than competing like highly intelligent and accomplished human beings. I very strongly dislike the Windows operating system, read above – satisfied users don’t seek other solutions. Yet there are certain programs that are unavailable on other platforms that are important enough to me that I purchased and use that OS.

It is not only the A9 processor that is responsible for the evident speed of the PlayBook, its also the 1GB of memory and its architecture. Should Apple truly wish to make this a competition they will have to improve more than the CPU.

My friends are astonished that I am going to wait for both the PlayBook and the iPad2, assuming the reports of the release date are accurate, to compare them. Again, this is how consumers should behave. Companies should produce the best product they can at the best possible value. Consumers should decide what is of value to them, evaluate that very personal value proposition, and then make the purchase. Irrational exuberance and fanaticism are poor substitutes for intelligence, see the last decade.

I want to be registered for the presell. When is the playbook release? I can’t wait!

Probably tell them the same as he did to the iPhone users, “Here’s $50 [or $100], now go away and buy some accessories with that”, or wait another 12 months, they’ll be a better one out next year. Sounding like Windows 3.0; 3.1; 98, …

just do it fast and delivery it now or you will “loose” the market

No, actually “Playbook” sounds like something out of the NFL. It’s a grown up name.

No, actually “Playbook” sounds like something out of the NFL. It’s a grown up name.

Well said!! Apple marketing is second to none. I would love the ability to sell a below par product at above par prices to a massive brainwashed load of people. Someone mentioned above that appled invented the idea of the tablet. hog wash, I am not sure who came with the first product but i do know that Arcos has had one for many years. Yes there marketing has failed to make it as big as Apple but that doesn’t change the fact that apple only took an exsisting product and marketed it better. I don’t hate Apple but i will take the facts as facts. I own a BB an iphone an ipod, and ipad, and a couple android devices. My BB is still my favorite Device. when it comes to business it is all business. no mistakes. that’s how a good product should be!

[...] interesting how their major competitors don’t really seem to be as aggressive in the space, and considering RIM is taking more shots at the competition, maybe they [...]

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Mr Jobs, dont know Steve personally, like Bill Gates has given us products that we want and look how they have stimulated competition for all our benefit, Galaxy Tab, Playbook, Palm, Windows Mobile 7 amongst many others. So don’t knock them as it only reflects badly on you.

The art is perhaps not to be loyal, technology moves too fast for that, I read too much from different camps which is frankly technological fanaticism… Either loved Apple hate Microsoft, hate Apple, love Blackberry… See a theme here, you might as well join the Taliban as this is wasted and mis-directed fanatical belief… Meant to be a joke… 3 years ago we would have jumped at any of these products but at least we have a wide choice now, well we will have daly next year which brings me to my original thought, Mr Jobs is being fair and polite when he points out that the A9 will be faster. The polite part was not making a big deal about the product not actually being on sale yet.

I have Windows 7, MacBook Pro, iPhone, previously Blackberry and iPad and will potentially switch to another Tablet OS that has faster rendering and Flash support. It must however have great battery life. The main point is not loyalty but that I buy based on what is best for my needs and will switch accordingly. I treat my politics the same way, it’s what the individual is like and what their policies of the moment are… How many get stuck on being a Democrat or a Republican all their life, different subject same theme.

So well done Blackberry, Apple, Microsoft, Intel, AMD, Google and many others, discounting a few naughty practices on the way, and as for the moaners and fanatical tech loyalist try and become a little more commercially and self aware.

I like the idea of the blackberry playbook, but currently it doesn’t exist in the market. I don’t see the point in launching a product after Christmas. I’m holding out for the playbook (in frustration) because I’m not too crazy about signing up for someone’s data plan to use it outside of Wifi. I just wish it were already available. I could stop taking my laptop to class. Also, why not make it in two sizes the current size and maybe the Apple Ipad size…just a thought. I’m buying a 32 Gig but again, I’m very frustrated with the 1st quarter (probably February U.S.) release date.

LIke to be honest I agree that companies should “produce the best product they can at the best possible value”. However, I must point out that as a consumer i appreciate ‘brands’.

The fact that one would prefer a slower iPAD over a faster BlackBerry PlayBook because apple has ‘duped’ consumers by effective marketing is wrong. I believe overall, the general consensus among consumers is that apple products are more reliablestable and … well… cooler.

Its the brands OVERALL presence which causes this, so while by all means, apple should give us the best offer, all the time we consumers must be mindful of ourselves before we go buffing a brand because we think it is “cool”. At the end of the day we consumers have the POWER of choice. If you decide to give that to an advertiser then its your loss and the “marketers”: are not at fault.

i agree with Ken, but for a different reason. I am addicted to my blackberry and absolutely love how it works. My brothers both have iphones and are apple junkies, and I cant stand to use any apple product because I havent cared enough about how to use it properly, I’m just fine with my PC and Blackberry. What I like about the Playbook is that I will already have a good grasp of how to use it right out of the box. I also like that it is bluetooth compatible with my Blackberry for my work and personal email accounts, BBM, calendar and contacts. The Playbook will make things easier at work, college and my social environment.

when does it come out

Shame that such a fab product won’t make sense here in Dubai. We DON’T have access to Blackberry App World! Come on RIM. Smell the coffee.

Hi Capsan,

THe question was to provide a comparison to the normal customer. Your comparison is pretty lame.
Speed should not be the only guide. I see the smoothness in the video on playbook as a plus. But on an IPAD most of the videos are smooth and great.

Sizewise, 10 inch screen is easier to work with than the playbook size.
Bottomline – Why are so many people buying the IPAD? cool may be one reason, but very few are disappointed…Market speaks. Most of the guys with blackberrys will immediately attribute it to their company offering blackberrys as a reason they are carrying it. Does that not tell you something?

Hey Steve, what do you have to say about the 12 Chinese workers who used to work for your biggest supplier’s factory manufacturing the iPad that committed suicide?

The size is good but the screen ratio 16:9 not the best choice for portrait mode look too narrow, I think using 3:2 ratio will be the ideal (4″x6″) screen size will be 7.2″ instead 7″. Also need a better res. screen 1024×600 should be at least 1280×854. Rear facing camera should be at least 8mp. I don’t even know why RIM using Adobe AIR as it’s interface, RIM shouldn’t use AIR at all expect for third parties, hope they succeed if the Playbook fail the company will be in really bad shape…

RIM has the worst interface designer and icon designer… Come one RIM get someone who is goooodddd…..

RIM has the worst interface designer and icon designer… Come one RIM get someone who is goooodddd…..

I’m curious why apple hasn’t taking the Mac air and turned it into a tablet. I’m a pc guy but that Mac air looks like a good product to turn into a touch screen tablet. Yeah, it will be more than 500 bucks but why buy an ipad when you can get a good laptop for the same price that does a lot more.

The playbook can use Flash and Silverlight. iPad cannot. Enough said. My stock porfolio needs Silverlight for me to see it. I’m not going to use a device that I can’t see a $1 million portfolio with. It’s stupid.

Tegra, anyone?

PS: Remember, China just assembled the fastest supercomputer in the world with help from the Tegra’s. Though widely purported that its PFLOPS will be surpased shortly, I cannot recall a time or an article which supports the fact that a portable processing chipset was used in this fashion. (IBM designed Sony cell processors excluded). So really, to compare sheer processing power, lets string together 3000 examples of each and benchmark the camps of ARM (Marvell? Samsung Hummingbird? Qualcomm Snapdragon?) to the Nvidia camp?

The playbook is showing its silk on what its not similar to. Good job at that. If I wanted a ‘Droid, I’d buy one instead of salivating over the PB.

Do you really believe that the “current maharaja” of tech would post a blog response without even an avatar/icon? Or without the the proper lawsuit or copyright disclosures to ensure that the masses of this thread know that the house of Jobs is listening? (I am actually Steve Jobs because my letter appears twice in his name).

hey valantines day is always a big deal when it comes to cell/porto-tech. Watch what the wind blows in for that Hallmark Card Holiday

I dont like Jobs’ {APL} <—(sp), a whole bit, but the dude is damn smart. At the current rate of developement, this is turning into a race between the playbook/ipad 2 launch… My guess is whoever jumps to production first will need to go back to the garage and tweak first. Then again playbook 1st gen vs ipad second gen may be a misnomer… Think of all of us 'Berry owners who thought the storm/storm2 would be a game changer. The best mindset that RIM can have is the mindset that the PB is actually the storm 3. Think about it from an evolutionary standpoint vs. starting fresh (rev). Gen's of Ipod/Iphones: 1~3 (4x). All replies should have nothing to say about Revolutionary. That is first gen… The "Revolution" was gen 1 aka Ipad/Iphone respectively of each. Is the "Revolution", the standing heavyweight champion, able to go fisticuffs with the contenders (Playbook)? Time will tell.

Wise tech knows its unwise to use “big FAIL!!!” and have their name as “Wise Techie” at the same time.

@ Morency Apple-haters. If the current version of the device doesn’t have what you think is essential (better screen, cameras, Flash) just don’t buy it and wait for the next release or some other company to release their own clone but that is better… E sits on his chair all the time, like too much more than being alot… I thought of my chair… Why is it not included in the latest Honeycomb release or in IOS 4. I demand I have a chair which upon E can sit and contemplate buying more chairs. >_>

so you can carry it with ease?

WE HAVE A WINNER! I agree with EVERYthing butch here had to say, I quite enjoy using my brothers iphone or macbook air but I’m a blackberry guy and I am waiting patiently for the playbook because it does everything I need plus it’s already built to work hand in glove with my torch and I won’t need a laptop or home computer again. some of you guys are a little intense and really… it’s an electronic device, relax.

This product doesn’t need marketing. It’s Blackberry, it’s a slate, it will sell to people who want both. Your marketing campaign speech is unnecessary. And remind me again how the apparent lack of interest in the “neuroscience” of play has in any way negatively affected Google. If I recall, they are a fairly successful company…

I must respectfully disagree. I own several PCs and several Macs. My brother has owned two or three iPhones and I own a Blackberry Tour 9630. By no metric are the apple produce in anyway more reliable or “cooler”. I would NEVER give up my Blackberry for an iPhone. When I first got into the Mac world I thought it was great but since, I’ve bought some Windows PCs again and
Windows 7 is every bit as stable as Mac’s OS and in terms of bang for your buck, well there is no comparison. I think Apple has gotten to the point of having a bit of “snob” appeal and in many areas they are trailing the competition. Their CD burners are dramatically slower than the ones I get from Dell. They do not offer any Blu Ray DVD playing capabilities. iTunes is restrictive to MP3 files as opposed to the far superior FLAC files. You can get a great music player for Windows that’s much “cooler” than iTunes and it’s free. It’s called MediaMonkey.

I got on the Apple bandwagon for a while but no more. There’s nothing wrong with their products and indeed they are beautiful, aesthetically speaking, but when you compare the guts of the hardware, Steve Jobs is laughing all the way to the bank at his customer’s expense.

No one seems to be talking about the lack of an email client! As an early blackberry user starting in 1999 when it was literally an email pager, RIM has departed from BB’s core strength – (push) email! You have to tether it to your BB phone. This is not “integration”, this is a “bone head omission” in my opinion. I saw one at CES last week and I actually like it as a standalone device. The battery life is still an issue – the demo unit suggested only 4 hours. This may be the “cost” of multi-tasking. I’m sure this will be addressed before release, but again, omitting email/push was a huge error!

I was given an iPad. It was stolen, if that wasn’t bad enough due to the poor security of the device my itunes account was hacked my credit card used and my email was abused as well. Blackberry security is famous and works. IPads are easy to hack and leave people open to identity theft. Apple would not help and had no solution other than purchase another device then buy an app that tells the thief to return the device. What a joke. Apple does this to sell more product and encourages theft. Now that I stopped the thief he can just clear the device and sell it with no fear of being caught. Try that with a Blackberry and the thief will be stuck with a brick that can be tracked. Add that to the list of Apple problems.

How can this be a valid comparison if the ipad has a much bigger screen to render?

Like cd’s are so yesterday and blue ray is dead in the water. The cloud is apples.

Is it just me or is the Playbook significantly smaller than the IPAD? I need to show photography and presentations so presume IPAD is better

I am going to just buy them all! moto Xoom, Playbook and ipad 2

The Playbook will always beat the iPad2 as long as they ignore Flash which most websites use.

can we make phone call with BBerry Playbook?

Hello Dolungan,

You can find out more about the BlackBerry PlayBook at http://www.blackberry.com/playbook

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i know its important for you to make public that you have a $1 million portfolio, but let me save you the suspense – it aint all that much, atleast not in the circles I run in. Hey, good luck with your $1 million – maybe you can get yourself a ferrari!

Hey Natasha,

You can find out more about the BlackBerry PlayBook at http://www.blackberry.com/playbook

Brian

coming into my life soon…..

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