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BlackBerry PlayBook reviews say that it's not an iPad killer

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BlackBerry PlayBook reviews say that it's not an iPad killer

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RIM is aiming to launch its PlayBook tablet on April 19, but reviews of this QNX-powered tablet started to hit the wire last night. The consensus among reviewers suggests the PlayBook will not threaten Apple's dominance in the tablet market.

Most reviews point to the lack of available applications for the tablet as one major detriment. The PlayBook will launch with a catalog of 3,000 applications, a figure derived from the number of developers that have submitted applications to the BlackBerry App World. This number was bolstered by RIM's promise to give a free PlayBook to each developer whose application is approved before the launch of the tablet device. RIM expects to expand this catalog with Android and BlackBerry OS emulators that let users run applications from the Android Market and the BlackBerry World. This feature will land later this year.

A small application catalog is one drawback to the BlackBerry, but there are more. Read on to find out what other issues reviewers encountered when using RIM's tablet device.



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Not even close to an iPad killer. QNX is an awesome operating system but they will never get the apps support to keep up. It could have been a real competitor if the software was there. It can't even do email without bridge software (still in beta) to a Blackberry phone. No native e-mail or calendar apps. No Pandora or Skype etc. I'm afraid that thing is DOA for now.
 

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