MWC 2011, news from the fields: BlackBerry PlayBook
The current year, no doubt, will be saturated with tablets. I would even say re saturated. Therefore, no one was surprised that the main topic of the MWC 2011 (like its predecessor CES 2011), which is currently taking place in Barcelona, ​​was they.
And, of course, this conference has not been without the BlackBerry PlayBook of the Canadian company Research In Motion, which was announced last year. Since the previous announcement, a huge number of changes have been made, in particular in terms of the performance of both the tablet as a whole and the responsiveness of its UI. Added a number of applications.
I present to your attention a selection of video reports recorded by various conference participants.
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1. Demonstration of the general principle of interaction with UI, multitasking, multi-touch, performance (launching Quake 3 demo in parallel with playing HD-video), working with spreadsheets, integration with SAP:
2. Demonstration of the game Need For Speed ​​using an accelerometer and displaying it on an LCD TV via HDMI. Again, multitasking and performance (NFS was launched simultaneously with Q3 demo and a pair of HD videos in the background):
3. Demonstration of the Scrapbook application (creating photo collages). A good illustration of the responsiveness of the interface and multi-touch:
We can only hope that the device will be released soon.
Hope has every reason to at the current conference, co-CEO RIM Jim Balsillie said that the device will be launched for sale "in March or April" despite all the rumors about the delay, confirmed that the base model will cost "less than $ 500" (which could well be "$ 499" , but even in this case, competitors with requests of "about $ 1000" will be in a clear loss), and also denied rumors of a supposedly weak battery. The question of tablet support for Android applications (??? - my comment. I somehow missed the moment, did anyone ever promise this support), he left no comments.
Source: http://www.techeye.net
Brief information about the tablet for those who have not seen the first announcements:
More information can be obtained from previous topics:
UPD: another video demonstrating the “pseudo-3D” application (the one that you need to watch with glasses), another look at the Scrapbook (present in video 3), plus a completely awesome cataloger (IMHO, they didn’t show how it looks on large TV):
And, of course, this conference has not been without the BlackBerry PlayBook of the Canadian company Research In Motion, which was announced last year. Since the previous announcement, a huge number of changes have been made, in particular in terms of the performance of both the tablet as a whole and the responsiveness of its UI. Added a number of applications.
I present to your attention a selection of video reports recorded by various conference participants.
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1. Demonstration of the general principle of interaction with UI, multitasking, multi-touch, performance (launching Quake 3 demo in parallel with playing HD-video), working with spreadsheets, integration with SAP:
2. Demonstration of the game Need For Speed ​​using an accelerometer and displaying it on an LCD TV via HDMI. Again, multitasking and performance (NFS was launched simultaneously with Q3 demo and a pair of HD videos in the background):
3. Demonstration of the Scrapbook application (creating photo collages). A good illustration of the responsiveness of the interface and multi-touch:
We can only hope that the device will be released soon.
Hope has every reason to at the current conference, co-CEO RIM Jim Balsillie said that the device will be launched for sale "in March or April" despite all the rumors about the delay, confirmed that the base model will cost "less than $ 500" (which could well be "$ 499" , but even in this case, competitors with requests of "about $ 1000" will be in a clear loss), and also denied rumors of a supposedly weak battery. The question of tablet support for Android applications (??? - my comment. I somehow missed the moment, did anyone ever promise this support), he left no comments.
Source: http://www.techeye.net
Brief information about the tablet for those who have not seen the first announcements:
- Screen 7 ", 1024x600, capacitive, with multi-touch
- 1GHz dual core processor (ARM)
- 1GB of RAM
- HDMI, USB ports
- rear camera 5 megapixel front camera 3 megapixel
- Bluetooth, WiFi, 3G / 4G modules in the base model are not available (models with different mobile communication modules will be released later)
- RIM Tablet OS, based on QNX Neutrino
More information can be obtained from previous topics:
- BlackBerry PlayBook - a tablet from Research In Motion
- Interview with the founder of QNX Software Systems, dedicated to the release of the BlackBerry Tablet OS
- Engadget's BlackBerry PlayBook Review
UPD: another video demonstrating the “pseudo-3D” application (the one that you need to watch with glasses), another look at the Scrapbook (present in video 3), plus a completely awesome cataloger (IMHO, they didn’t show how it looks on large TV):
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/113931/
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