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PlayBook OS 2 has arrived: was it worth the wait? | Sync
Many Canadians � including a number of Sync readers � jumped at the opportunity to buy a discounted BlackBerry PlayBook. The $199 price tag made it an incredibly hot seller here and propelled RIM�s tablet to second place on the tablet sales chart behind the iPad. Today, the long-awaited PlayBook OS 2 update was made available for download and it�s brought a number of welcome improvements.
After just a few hours of playing with the new OS, it�s clear that this is a big improvement. For business users and folks at home, the arrival of native email, calendar, and contact apps plug a number of gaping holes. Finally, a big chunk of the core functionality that you look for in a tablet is available on the PlayBook without having to pair a BlackBerry phone.
Those of you who do own a BlackBerry, however, get to take advantage of some very slick new functionality. A paired phone can now be used as a remote control for the PlayBook, both as a mouse (by thumbing the optical trackpad or using the touchscreen on more recent models) and you can also utilize the keypad to type in text if you don�t like using the on-screen keyboard. There�s also a presenter mode that allows you to output the video from your apps to the PlayBook�s larger screen.
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