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I think the poster's forum handle describes his/her position at Research In Motion.Curious about that handle of yours.
Sorry, I could not resist.
If every statement about February of 2012 for the BlackBerry PlayBook comes to fruition, he/she might have to change their forum handle.12-03-11 05:05 PM - Yeah, he's gone, but not for long. I do own a forum, and this kind of trolling sock puppetry is well controlled by my excellent MOD team. IP address bannings, and having to submit verifiable bona fides as a condition of temporary membership, controls the nonsense that appears to be rampant and out of control in this forum. One false post, one anti-American post, one anti-military post, one anti-religion post, one anti-Christmas/Chanukah post, etc, and it's permanent sayonara bye bye.I think the poster's forum handle describes his/her position at Research In Motion. Sorry, I could not resist.
If every statement about February of 2012 for the BlackBerry PlayBook comes to fruition, he/she might have to change their forum handle.12-03-11 05:13 PM - Aside from feeling the pinch of the holiday price drop, I still love my little PlayBook. I often get scoffed at by a few Mac snobs here and there despite the fact that I own a Mac and an iPad.
I love the PlayBook for it's very practical design and not cutting corners on hardware. Sure the screen could have been a higher resolution panel such as a 1366x768 screen so we could get even more detail but despite that, this is a major powerhouse for a 7" tablet.
I bought mine out of insatiable curiosity. I wanted to see what the latest that RIM has been working on despite all the doom & gloom heckling I get nearly every day. I still carry my Bold 9700, so the PlayBook made even more sense to me.
My only problem is that I'm stuck with 16GB of storage and it gets eaten up very quickly once you start adding some music and videos and some games from the App World. A few of these games (one of note) actually present more visual effects than my original iPad and my fourth generation iPod Touch.
The game N.O.V.A. 2 is quite a visual benchmark as is Dead Space. On my PB, I was noticing bump mapping and lighting effects that were not showing in my supposed "superior" Apple products. Needless to say, I was quite surprised by this.
I am a gadget freak and love electronic goodies ever since I was a kid. Looming close to the big 40, I've never changed except the gadgets got far more expensive.
Needless to say, the PlayBook as I see it, has amazing potential and the OS is only in it's 1.0 stages thus far, the iPad released with iOS 3.2.x so Apple did already have some experience and put fourth a great marketing campaign. RIM needs to find a younger market to survive period, everyone I know is into touch screen devices and visual eye candy on their phones and when I pull out my Bold to show a picture, they automatically lose interest as "the screen is too small" and other silly banter.
Back to the PlayBook, this tablet has a market out there, RIM just needs to get their foot in the door with a major push in games and quality games at that. EA and Gameloft have given us a taste, but there are many more games from both publishers that could be easily handled on the PlayBook.
Another example of a curious notion. The wonderful game Machinarium (please buy and support this game) requires an iPad 2 to run with planned obsolescence of the original iPad stating in bold that the game requires an iPad 2 to run. Why?
This is another reason I'm happy to have my PlayBook as I was able to get the game and enjoy the incredible artwork and music of this puzzler. It's a thinking man's game but it won't bore you to tears.
PlayBook owners rejoice! We do have a wonderful product and while not entirely perfect, it's early hardware and spanks most other tablets now costing far more.
Now if only I could get my hands on a 64GB unit, 1080p recording really eats up space!12-03-11 09:39 PM
