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Blackberry Playbook
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http://crackberry.com/blackberry-playbook-heading-office-depot
Looks like $499 for the 16GB/wifi and in stores end of march (or early april).
Looks like $499 for the 16GB/wifi and in stores end of march (or early april).
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That would be way more competitive than the rumored price for the Moto Xoom.
Though you may have to figure in the price of a Blackberry and service too.
Rumor is there's going to be versions of the playbook with 3G (4G?) as well, supposedly verizon and sprint are online.
in other news a version of Need for Speed and Tetris will be available as launch titles. <edit> tetris will be preloaded and NFS will be available for download for free when you connect to Wifi.
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That would be way more competitive than the rumored price for the Moto Xoom.
Though you may have to figure in the price of a Blackberry and service too.
The Xoom could seem like the odd man out if HP's TouchPad launches at that same $500 price point.
Yep. The photo gallery UI thing looked really smooth.This thing seriously looks really awesome, and The Astonishing Tribe is doing some NICE stuff.
Playbook development will include native, java, flash, web and possibly Android?
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/the-engadget-interview-ryan-bidan-blackberry-playbook-senior-p/
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/the-engadget-interview-ryan-bidan-blackberry-playbook-senior-p/
Playbook development will include native, java, flash, web and possibly Android?
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/the-engadget-interview-ryan-bidan-blackberry-playbook-senior-p/
There's been a persistent rumor about android app support, and one of the guys at the blackberry booth even let that slip at the MWC.
Audio at about the 14 second mark.
Could it basically be running an Android install inside a VM?
They won't have access to the Android Market, but you don't need permission from Google to run third party Android apps. Android itself is released under the Apache Software License, thus anyone can use it.Im not a lawyer so im not sure, but wouldnt they require authorization/permission from Google to use Android apps?
Could it basically be running an Android install inside a VM?
Android apps run in a virtual machine (Davlik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_(software)), which is published under an open source license. From what I understand, they're just porting the vm.
They won't have access to the Android Market, but you don't need permission from Google to run third party Android apps. Android itself is released under the Apache Software License, thus anyone can use it.
So since they cant access the Android market, basically they have to host the apk's on their own Blackberry App World or through some other way. It would be a nice feature to have in the playbook, and would mean it has access to 100,000+ apps at launch
Android apps run in a virtual machine (Davlik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalvik_(software)), which is published under an open source license. From what I understand, they're just porting the vm.
Interesting. I did no realize that was the case. Do we think Sony is doing the same thing for NGP to accomplish cross-platform support for Playstation Suite titles?
Interesting. I did no realize that was the case. Do we think Sony is doing the same thing for NGP to accomplish cross-platform support for Playstation Suite titles?
Good question. I don't think there'd be any other way to have the apps run on both platforms. Could be wrong though.
Nice. Looks slick.
It brings up a question for me. I wonder how it sounds? I know quite a few phones sound pretty weak compared to an ipod, so I hope that wasn't something they overlooked.
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