- I have a playbook 64gb. Did not touch it for the last 3 years until now. I upgraded to its new OS, to think the lack and slowness of the PB will improved. But I was wrong. The PB was slow and still left behind. I don't even have any songs, pictures, and apps on this thing, yet it functions like it's running an old 1999 computer. This device is really dead. I have an RCA tablet that I bought last black friday for $49 bucks and it's freakin faster than my PB. Why BlackBerry!!!??? Why!!!???
PB back to the box where you belong..
" Initiated from my QNX10 "
Mine was mainly being used by my grandkids for a few games and movie. Now even they don't touch it very often as they both have iPads and the games a much more refined and entertaining. And even at 4 years old, they know what Netflix.... The PlayBook gets dusted off now just when we are going on a long trip and they don't have internet.12-23-14 09:35 AMLike 0 - No one, in the responses so far has said NADA,,,NUNCA,,, NOTHING about what can any newer tablet can give the user that playbook doesn't offer .??? Speed???, a few more apps, and watching netflix doesn' t count. (tapping my foot waiting for a reasoned, logical, response)...
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I got an account, I can watch Netflix via the default browser and if not on the default browser.
And why was it called PlayBook in the first place.
Since when was BlackBerry associated with play.
WorkBook, that's the name I've given mine.
jtvberry01-07-15 11:30 AMLike 0 -
Ummmmm; Bridge it and see, do a video chat and see.
Bout it can't text.
Your having a laugh, ani't Ya!!!
jtvberryCarl Estes likes this.01-07-15 12:33 PMLike 1 - The Z30 is what the Playbook "should have been"..........Just a wee bit smaller screen.
The Playbook was released to soon/without a full gestation period.
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- kbz1960Doesn't Matter01-07-15 03:29 PMLike 0
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- You know how empty those store shelves get in preparation for a natural disaster? Well, that's how the app store on Playbook looked like from day one...and it's only gotten worse.
Only thing left on the shelves now is expired milk, rotten cabbage and a box of crushed twinkles.
Posted via CB10blueberrymerry likes this.01-15-15 08:01 AMLike 1 - You know how empty those store shelves get in preparation for a natural disaster? Well, that's how the app store on Playbook looked like from day one...and it's only gotten worse.
Only thing left on the shelves now is expired milk, rotten cabbage and a box of crushed twinkles.
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jtvberry01-16-15 01:54 AMLike 0 - here's my take. right now I'm on a playbook, 64 on the crackberry app. its painfully slow to type. the touchscreen design on the first go around with qnx is obviously in its infancy. the zs were much better. I use a q10 for my phone. this is what I still use my playbook for....
a cellphone for text and bbm when my phone is in the bedroom charging.
a video player and music player for my own personal files I load. I run sound for bands so I have it loaded with tunes to use as set change music.
basic web browsing, email, and the crackberry app if I require I larger screen or my phone isn't around
the frogger rip off game.
youtube vids if I'm working or wanna show friends a video.
and that's it. everything has already been beaten to death here, its an ancient illfated tablet that does a few things very well. as much as I hate to say it, ipad has the superior media machine for 2015. I use mine often battery is great and it has great programs the pb os simply can't handle. it has its use, but the pb is basically a video mp3 player with a few other handy options, that are great for when you want your phone in your pocket or its out of reach.
awkwardly typed with my Blackberry Playbook01-17-15 05:18 PMLike 0 -
- haven't tried the nexus yet, but I'm sure its on par or in the same ballpark as the ipad. I guess my point was ipads, nexus, notes are all modern day full function tablets with large app eco systems and the playbook is not.01-17-15 06:17 PMLike 0
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- here's my take. right now I'm on a playbook, 64 on the crackberry app. its painfully slow to type. the touchscreen design on the first go around with qnx is obviously in its infancy. the zs were much better. I use a q10 for my phone. this is what I still use my playbook for....
a cellphone for text and bbm when my phone is in the bedroom charging.
a video player and music player for my own personal files I load. I run sound for bands so I have it loaded with tunes to use as set change music.
basic web browsing, email, and the crackberry app if I require I larger screen or my phone isn't around
the frogger rip off game.
youtube vids if I'm working or wanna show friends a video.
and that's it. everything has already been beaten to death here, its an ancient illfated tablet that does a few things very well. as much as I hate to say it, ipad has the superior media machine for 2015. I use mine often battery is great and it has great programs the pb os simply can't handle. it has its use, but the pb is basically a video mp3 player with a few other handy options, that are great for when you want your phone in your pocket or its out of reach.
awkwardly typed with my Blackberry Playbook01-17-15 06:53 PMLike 0 - My dad is not a tech guy. At all. Period. He had been using the playbook and a torch for the last 2.5 years. For Christmas after much fighting through with the things the playbook can't do and not being someone who would side load (in other words, the very people BB NEEDED to get right), he had an upgrade and left BB for good. He now has a GS4 and a Galaxy Tab 4. First thing he said was how nice it was to not have to wait so long for it to boot up. He was amazed.
This man doesn't give a fig about tech. He wants to be able to watch hockey games while he's working at night and he couldn't do that and he was sick of fighting to make it work. He loves being able to easily download pretty much any app he's ever wanted. Now he has that.
So that's something the playbook couldn't do for my dad.
Sent from my iPad Air using Tapatalk01-17-15 08:06 PMLike 2 - The PlayBook was my first tablet. It had a nice screen and reasonably good speakers. Playbook OS interface kicked Android's ****.
On the bad side, it was heavy, the browser was flaky and the screen seemed less and less nice as new tablets with higher resolution displays became available.
I ended up purchasing a nexus 7. While I missed the Playbook interface, the N7's light weight, full HD screen and horsepower won me over. It doesn't matter if it can do things the playbook can't (and it certainly can) what matters is that technology advances and the playbook Is far from state of the art at this point. But if it still meets your needs then more power to ya!
Now that I have my passport, the N7 has basically become a fancy interface for my Chromecast
Posted via CB1001-18-15 06:38 PMLike 0 - The PlayBook was my first tablet. It had a nice screen and reasonably good speakers. Playbook OS interface kicked Android's ****.
On the bad side, it was heavy, the browser was flaky and the screen seemed less and less nice as new tablets with higher resolution displays became available.
I ended up purchasing a nexus 7. While I missed the Playbook interface, the N7's light weight, full HD screen and horsepower won me over. It doesn't matter if it can do things the playbook can't (and it certainly can) what matters is that technology advances and the playbook Is far from state of the art at this point. But if it still meets your needs then more power to ya!
Now that I have my passport, the N7 has basically become a fancy interface for my Chromecast
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Ipad, (promptly sold) Note 10.1, Tab 3 7.0 LTE, Dell Venue 8 Pro, an extra PlayBook, and the Nexus 7 2013. (might have been a Kindle Fire in there somewhere)
PlayBook screen is I believe the same resolution as the Galaxy tab 3 7.0 but for whatever reason looks much better on the PlayBook. I love the interface and that and Add free email as apposed to Android Gmail are just a few things that keep me using it. And Flash, there is that too, with HDMI out.
Plus there is that CrackLight on there. She just keeps blinking calling my name...jtv1 likes this.01-18-15 07:55 PMLike 1 -
- I'm just glad none of my friends listened to me to get one after they canceled bb10 on it and pretty much doomed it. I have 4 in my house. They are used daily by my kids for games. I use it to stream amazon to my TV. Hate they canceled the video store because I bought many movies and shows on it. My wife used one in college until the school switched to some crap websites that only a pc will work on. Not even our mighty iPad will work. Now that was a waste of money we never use. I bought it for my business to integrate quickbooks mobile. What a joke.
Posted via CB1001-19-15 12:40 AMLike 0 - I'm just glad none of my friends listened to me to get one after they canceled bb10 on it and pretty much doomed it. I have 4 in my house. They are used daily by my kids for games. I use it to stream amazon to my TV. Hate they canceled the video store because I bought many movies and shows on it. My wife used one in college until the school switched to some crap websites that only a pc will work on. Not even our mighty iPad will work. Now that was a waste of money we never use. I bought it for my business to integrate quickbooks mobile. What a joke.
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mobility is being destroyed, bit by bit
jtvberry01-19-15 04:18 AMLike 0
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