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RIM Unveils BlackBerry PlayBook

Jaypee Habaradas — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:45:19 +0000

The much awaited BlackBerry Tablet was unveiled yesterday during RIM’s (Research In Motion) annual BlackBerry Developer Conference in San Francisco, California. CEO Mike Lazardis announced the company’s new product called the BlackBerry PlayBook. The BlackBerry PlayBook will run on an operating system called the BlackBerry Tablet OS that supports OpenGPL, POSIX, Webkit, HTML5, Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Mobile AIR, etc.

The BlackBerry PlayBook will also sport a 7-inch, 1024×600, WSVGA capacitive multitouch display, run on a (Cortex A9-based) dual-core 1GHz CPU and 1GB RAM. Other features include a 3-megapixel front-facing camera, a 5 megapixel rear lens that supports video conferencing, a HDMI port, microUSB jack, Bluetooh 2.1 and 802.11a/b/g/n WiFi. The PlayBook is expected to ship in two models – 16GB and 32GB.

Here’s preview video of the BlackBerry PlayBook:

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BlackBerry Playbook Tech Specs:

7-inch LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support
BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing
1 GHz dual-core processor
1 GB RAM
Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1080p HD video recording
Video playback: 1080p HD Video, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV
Audio playback: MP3, AAC, WMA
HDMI video output
Wi-Fi – 802.11 a/b/g/n
Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
Connectors: microHDMI, microUSB, charging contacts
Open, flexible application platform with support for WebKit/HTML-5, Adobe Flash Player 10.1, Adobe Mobile AIR, Adobe Reader, POSIX, OpenGL, Java
Measures 5.1″x7.6″x0.4″ (130mm x 193mm x 10mm)
Weighs less than a pound (approximately 0.9 lb or 400g)
RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future

The BlackBerry PlayBook is scheduled to be available in retail outlets here in the United States by early 2011 and international markets by the 2nd quarter of 2011. For now, there’s no information regarding the retail price of the BlackBerry PlayBook. It will be interesting to see how they’re gonna market their new product – whether they’re gonna sell it the same price as the Apple iPad or sell it cheaper to attract more people to buy the PlayBook.

What do you think of BlackBerry’s new tablet – the PlayBook? Would you consider it as an iPad Killer? Which one would you rather purchase – the iPad or the PlayBook? Please share your thoughts.

India Unveils $35 Tablet PC

Jaypee Habaradas — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 19:06:31 +0000

India recently unveiled a prototype of a $35 touchscreen tablet computer which they plan to mass produce next year. The total cost? $35. The tablet pc will run on Linux, has no internal storage but can store data via memory card. It also has a built-in word processor, video conferencing capabilities, a web browser and last but not least, it can also run on solar power.

Running Linux and using external memory (memory card) enabled the developers to keep the price low. The total cost to build this touchscreen tablet computer including the motherboard, memory, display, etc is around $35 but the Indian government plans to subsidize the cost of these tablets so students and low-income families can avail of them for only $20. Further plans include dropping the price to $10.

At $35, this tablet pc is much better than the $100 laptop developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) for the One Laptop One Child Program. If the Indian government will be successful in producing this tablet pc, it would do a lot of good for the students and low-income families in India. Aside from that, this can also be a source of income for the government if they decide to mass produce it and export it to other countries.

I’m sure it will not only be students or low-income families who will be interested in these type of tablet computers. Business and other organizations would definitely be interested in a touchscreen tablet computer that mobile workers can use for word processing, video conferencing and other cloud-based applications that costs less than 10% of the cost of an Apple iPad.

What do you think of India’s $35 tablet pc? Would you be interested in buying one? Aside from students and low-income families, who do you think can benefit from a low cost tablet pc like this? Please share your thoughts.

via BBC News

[image source: AFP]

Weekend Roundup #89

Jaypee Habaradas — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 16:50:49 +0000

Good day to all! Hope you’re all doing fine and enjoyed/enjoying your weekend. Finally get to publish this edition of the Weekend Roundup on time because I had enough time on my hands. This weekend wasn’t as busy as the last although I will be busy the next couple of days preparing and packing stuff for our trip to Atlanta and Maryland. I’ll do my best to prepare my drafts early so that I’ll have posts to publish during the week.

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Lenovo Pocket Yoga UMPC

Jaypee Habaradas — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:25:06 +0000

The mysterious netbook that had images floating around lately was confirmed today when Lenovo posted teaser images on their photo feed. It turns out to be a concept system called the Lenovo Pocket Yoga which has a very similar design/concept as the Sony Vaio P although this one was conceived two years ago.

Based on the leaked photos, the Lenovo Pocket Yoga has touchscreen support via stylus and has the ability to be converted into a tablet pc by flipping the display backwards.

It looks like Sony is not the only gearing towards creating pocketable netbooks. The Lenovo Pocket Yoga is still considered as an “experiment” or “concept system” and there are no specs available for it as of now but it won’t be surprising if they release it or something similar in the near future.

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The Lenovo Pocket Yoga looks nice and very portable. This device is ideal for people who are always on the go and need something to do certain tasks while traveling or while out of the office like check emails, create/edit/send documents, take down notes and surf the web. It would be nice if they’d also have it in black leather.

What do you think of Lenovo’s Pocket Yoga concept UMPC? What features would you want it to have? Would you buy one if they released it?

[via Electronista]