Bristol boys use BlackBerry?
Originally Posted by
StueyMac40 Hello guys & gals,
I have a BB phone and want to get a tablet, so my first inclination is to get a Playbook - but why should I pick it over, say, an Android tablet?
This is not an obtuse question, I genuinely want to find out what makes a PB so essential for BB fans. My 9360 is the first BB I have ever owned and I will not be going back to any other make unless there is a seriously compelling reason.
I will be using my PB for social media, I blog a lot and am also a writer so is this something the PB would be able to handle? How will my BB pair with my PB and will they be seamlessly synced once paired up? Is the media output good? Is the video in HD, for example?
Sorry if these questions seem a bit lame but with 64gb PBs at �129 at PC World, I do not want to miss out.
Any help you can give me would be really appreciated.
Regards
Stuart
Hi Stuart
A quick response from a Bristol/Somerset lad (now relocated to the big smoke for work...)
For everything you have stated, the BB can either do it out of the box, or via the purchase of some very inexpensive apps. If you write a lot you may want to use a BlueTooth keyboard as well - there is the official RIM PB BT keyboard, but a lot of people use 3rd party ones as well (the official BT keyboard is a little small for stubby fingered touch-typists like myself)
When you get your PB and can't figure out how to do something, just search on this forum, and you will almost always find a solution, workaround or a suggestion of which pertinent app(s) to buy (most are �1 or �2). If you can't an answer from searching crackberry, then ask nicely, and lots of helpful people will give good advice (for example, if you want to seamlessly transfer your contacts to the PB, you may need to just set up a gmail account and install the account on both your BB & PB)
Just in case you are not aware, the PB does NOT currently support Skype!
fyi - the video IS HD, and I frequently connect my PB to hotel room tv's via an HDMI cable, so I can watch my own DVDs (digitised and copied to my PB) when I am travelling (instead of being forced to watch whatever overpriced movies the hotel is flogging that month)
I hope you order your PB today and then it will be a doubly good day for N. Somerset (as the Frome Flyer won the Belgian Grand Prix this afternoon!)
Good luck, hope you enjoy your purchase
Alex