Hey,
I got one for myself and one for my wife. Then promptly got one for my mother in law (we have kids and she lives in Idaho), it worked great. Then I got one for my Brother and one for my dad. I still love seeing my smiley boys faces on the screen.
It seems like I'm single handedly suiting up my entire family. But, to answer your question, I love it.
Now, if I may make a suggestion. My family is not techie, I'm not either but relatively speaking I'm the Einstein of tech in my family so what I did is ship it to myself and set it up for them. That way, if they hear it ring they just touch the answer and viola. We are video chatting.
Also, I downloaded a bunch of video from my kids and pictures as well. I also hooked up her dropbox/bluebox and she can see anything we drop in the pics folder.
When they opened their BlackBerry Playbook box, it was already in a convertible case, charged-up, video chat was set-up, etc. Now, the one thing to consider with this is that you will have to create a BB user ID for them. If there is one think I've seen people are ready to kill themselves over when starting with BB is the access codes. I just set it up for them and keep it simple. Be mindful that the only way you can change the ID on the Playbook is to wipe it clean. I mean wipe it blank. It is a security measure that I believe is still in place. So, make sure you know they will like the user name and password.
Enjoy it.
