BlackBerry PlayBook users?

nolimit · 24 Dec 2011 at 12:59

I got the playbook for the wife this xmas, I think this will be perfect for light web browsing on the sofa, reading ebook and double as digital picture frame when its not used.

londonbairn · 24 Dec 2011 at 20:05

Hardly use mines now, and stupidly I went and got a HTC Flyer, which is going to be a glorified Sonos remote.

Now we have iPad, Touchpad, Playbook and a Flyer...and I want to get the new Asus haha

manic111 · 25 Dec 2011 at 15:39

Really tempted by one of these at £169, seems to be the bets deal going as I missed out on the Touchpads.

I've had a play with one in a store, and it seems nice. Solid performance, and a decent browser, but the apps are poo.

What are the odds of it being rooted and running Android at some point in the next few months?

w1lliam · 25 Dec 2011 at 15:46

Why not get a xoom at £199? At CPW tomorrow

manic111 · 25 Dec 2011 at 23:55

Can't get into town tomorrow. If they're online I'll pick one up though

chrismscotland · 26 Dec 2011 at 00:05

manic111 said:
Can't get into town tomorrow. If they're online I'll pick one up though

Seem to have gone from the CPW website, that said I'm sure other retailers will chop the price soon.

w1lliam · 26 Dec 2011 at 18:40

Had a play and found that the design is terrible, way too much bezel. It looked like a picture frame if i'm honest and the screen was smaller than my Tab and slightly bigger than the galaxy note. So not a 7inch screen, and could not get over the design. Now looking at alternative 7 inch tablets that have improved internal specs compared to my current tab.

chrismscotland · 26 Dec 2011 at 19:41

w1lliam said:
Had a play and found that the design is terrible, way too much bezel. It looked like a picture frame if i'm honest and the screen was smaller than my Tab and slightly bigger than the galaxy note. So not a 7inch screen, and could not get over the design. Now looking at alternative 7 inch tablets that have improved internal specs compared to my current tab.

I thought the same but the bezel is actually an integral part of the user experience, its touch sensitive and makes scrolling between apps and screens much much easier than having to go via the icon on Android.

londonbairn · 26 Dec 2011 at 20:54

I've decided to get sell mines.

In the tablet frenzy, I have amassed an iPad, Flyer, Touchpad, Xoom (managed to get one today for £199 before it was put back to 249 at CPW) and a Playbook. The Flyer I prefer, it has more use to me with Android and a nicer form factor.

The touchpad is now a glorified alarm clock/photo slideshow, iPad g/f has nicked and I use the flyer/Xoom mostly now.

Consumerism....

SFFNoob · 27 Dec 2011 at 12:01

Love mine but at £89 that was a bargain!

chrismscotland · 27 Dec 2011 at 12:32

rafster said:
I've decided to get sell mines.

In the tablet frenzy, I have amassed an iPad, Flyer, Touchpad, Xoom (managed to get one today for £199 before it was put back to 249 at CPW) and a Playbook. The Flyer I prefer, it has more use to me with Android and a nicer form factor.

The touchpad is now a glorified alarm clock/photo slideshow, iPad g/f has nicked and I use the flyer/Xoom mostly now.

Consumerism....

Is the Flyer fast enough with the single core CPU? Been toying with the idea of getting one to play with myself.

nolimit · 28 Dec 2011 at 08:12

I took the wife's playbook for a spin yesterday during the shopping frenzy and it worked like a charm.

It fits in the jacket pocket, didn't feel bulky or heavy. The speed of the 3G connection with the blackberry bridge was very fast, so website's even with flash loaded very quickly.

I'm sold with this Blackberry bridge idea, because you don't have to pay extra dosh for 3G tablet, just piggy back on your blackberry connection. I'm sure if Apple iPad had this option for the Wi-Fi version, it would outsell the 3G version by a mile.

Overall very impressed with the Playbook, it is a solid fast performing tablet and gives you FULL internet experience. (I'm not BB fanboy, I own iPhone, Blackberry, Macbook, iMac and PC)

londonbairn · 28 Dec 2011 at 11:03

chrismscotland said:
Is the Flyer fast enough with the single core CPU? Been toying with the idea of getting one to play with myself.

I think it's fine, I found the Playbook a bit too bulky, though its screen was nice and QNX was fast. At the prices it was available at (£180 for 16 gb / £225 for 3G 32gb) was a steal. I got the 3G on Xmas eve, managed to get a store to price match the online offer.

The Playbook was definately faster at browsing and true multi tasking was cool, but this was outweighed by having a native Android device, and I don't use a BB so I am not really using it to its potential.

Depends what you want to do I guess, and also if you have a BB or not.

SB118 · 30 Dec 2011 at 20:48

My dad picked one up for £169 this afternoon. He'd been playing with the kids cheapo android tablets for a couple of days and this seemed like a good deal, but i did warn him i've not gone near blackberry stuff for a while since getting my hands on an android device.

What a bag of ****, no kindle app, angry birds is a fiver, damn thing wouldn't even run for half an hour when we turned it on due to a compulsory software update!

Hope he can get his money back tomorrow.

Blackberry bridge? Connecting through your phones wireless hotspot? Well that is ground breaking. Next you'll be telling me you can copy & paste with an iphone.

chrismscotland · 30 Dec 2011 at 20:58

SB118 said:
My dad picked one up for £169 this afternoon. He'd been playing with the kids cheapo android tablets for a couple of days and this seemed like a good deal, but i did warn him i've not gone near blackberry stuff for a while since getting my hands on an android device.

What a bag of ****, no kindle app, angry birds is a fiver, damn thing wouldn't even run for half an hour when we turned it on due to a compulsory software update!

Hope he can get his money back tomorrow.

Blackberry bridge? Connecting through your phones wireless hotspot? Well that is ground breaking. Next you'll be telling me you can copy & paste with an iphone.

Yep no native Kindle App for now and yes Angry Birds is indeed a fiver.
I'm not surprised it needed an update, I think the Playbooks in the shop are on the first version of the OS.

helsinki98 · 30 Dec 2011 at 22:39

I picked one up a few days ago, from the few apps it has they seem to work great and ive liked it so far, hopefully 2.0 brings something good to the table.

Xcellenye · 31 Dec 2011 at 11:10

I really like the playbook but i thought there would me more games for it though i mean after all it is a PLAYbook

chrismscotland · 31 Dec 2011 at 11:12

Xcellenye said:
I really like the playbook but i thought there would me more games for it though i mean after all it is a PLAYbook

Theres been a lot more released in the last 5-6 weeks, but its not really a "Playbook" its really meant to be a work oriented tablet, despite the name.

Quite a few Gameloft and EA games on there now.

Xcellenye · 31 Dec 2011 at 11:15

chrismscotland said:
Theres been a lot more released in the last 5-6 weeks, but its not really a "Playbook" its really meant to be a work oriented tablet, despite the name.

Quite a few Gameloft and EA games on there now.

I saw them, asphalt,spiderman, modern combat, sim city deluxe etc a few nice games but thats it and all ps1 graphics, so beforelast 5-6 weeks there was almost nothing at all then? i only used the playbook recently

chrismscotland · 31 Dec 2011 at 11:17

There wasn't a lot no, RIM have made it a lot easier recently for existing games to be ported over to the Playbook, I suspect that once we get the OS 2.0 release in February that we will see a tonne more games released.

BlackBerry PlayBook users?

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