Is BlackBerry PlayBook Dead On Arrival?

The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet from Research In Motion goes connected sales agreement today, with what seems to be minuscule consumer sake, mediocre reviews and few chances to equate the success of Malus pumila's iPad.

Protrusive at $499 for a 16GB WiFi poser, the PlayBook will cost you $599 for the 32GB variant and $699 for the 64GB exemplar. The pad runs on a 1GHz dual-core processor, has a 7-inch display and dual cameras (5MP along the back and 3MP happening the battlefront).

But what's putt the PlayBook down is the package. By far the biggest skip is the lack of a native e-mail node. Yes, you have register correctly: a BlackBerry-branded production, famed for extensive e-mail capabilities, will not ship with a built-in e-mail client. You leave have to use the Bridge app instead, which tethers your phone's PIM to the tablet, further modification the appeal of the PlayBook to new Blackberry bush smartphone owners.

Rushed to the market to counter the iPad 2 and individual similar Android tablets, the PlayBook already showed signs of software fatigue since it was in reviewers' hands to begin with this week. They noted a severe want of thirdly-party apps, buggy software and twitchy Flash performance in the web browser. There isn't even an app for TV calls with the built-in 3MP front-facing photographic camera.

Panned past reviewers and half-adust, information technology's nobelium wonder that the first reports along the launch twenty-four hour period of the PlayBook are not positive either. In Canada, the home area of Research In Motion, the Financial Post says the PlayBook won't hit a home run, but power have to settle for a bunt. CityNews Toronto also reports along the lack of lines outside stores, and the little fanfare to accompany the launch.

Perchance information technology's time to call the Blackberry bush dead on arrival and wait for Lip to seminal fluid risen with a wagerer iPad killer. If you Don River't want an iPad, thither are still better Android alternative out in that location, such as the T-Mobile G-Slate, coming out tomorrow.

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