The playbook has several missing features in Apple iPad, including cameras at front and back allowing video conferencing and video program of the Adobe Flash © AP / Sipa
Canadian Group Research in Motion (RIM) introduced on Monday its next tablet computer touch screen, the playbook, a fully integrated camera system of its BlackBerry phones are very willing to match its business customers. «This is the first tablet professional world, » he assured the co-CEO at RIM, Mike Lazaridis, at the DevCon conference he organized in San Francisco.
Almost six months after the launch of the Apple iPad tablet, which rapidly past several million copies, RIM launch turn on a segment that analysts say is already very promising, and which is grown by Many other manufacturers. Dell has already released early Streak and prepares a second unit a little larger, Samsung announced the Galaxy Tab, and Hewlett-Packard is among those who also work in a «Slate».
The Playbook expected in early 2011 in the U.S.
RIM, a group born of the phone is the first experience in the purely computer: the first version of the playbook, expected in early 2011 in the United States, and later in other countries, will be connected by WiFi only ( Wireless Internet) and Bluetooth.Connections to telephone networks 3G and 4G will wait for later. The aircraft, for which no price was announced, is as a "BlackBerry amplified. Featuring a high definition display, a little smaller than that of the iPad, 7 inches (17.8 cm), 9.7 mm thick and weighing 400 grams, the device has several missing features the Apple device, including cameras at front and back allowing video conferencing and video program from Adobe Flash, banned by Apple.
«You'll have all the experience of the Web,» assured Mike Lazaridis, touting the BlackBerry system integration: a simple Bluetooth connection to synchronize calendar, address book, messaging, etc.. from one device to another. He promised that developers would have access in the coming weeks to codes allowing them to develop tailored applications. On Monday evening, the retailer Amazon announced its Kindle digital library would be accessible on the playbook.
Develop «App World»
The applications are a key selling point for mobile phones and tablets. RIM, whose phones face competition from Apple and Android system designed by Google, began to convince developers to work on his system by making several improvements. «We allow developers to monetize their services better and more engaging consumers to create richer applications and interesting,» said an official with the Canadian group, Alan Brenner.
The new programs are expected to facilitate the development of applications for BlackBerry, and monetization through advertising or purchases made directly on the phone. The idea is to develop the online store application «App World», full of about 11,000 applications. As owners of the BlackBerry can also download applications on other sites, RIM said that a total of 1.5 million applications are transferred daily on its aircraft. Currently, App World accuses a big delay from the Apple App Store, which claims more than 250,000 programs tailored to the iPhone, the iPod or the iPad tablet. The Android Marketplace store displays, meanwhile, tens of thousands of programs.
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