BlackBerry Tablet Announced as ‘Playbook’

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DevCon is in full swing right now in San Fransisco. RIM has just officially announced the name of the anticipated Tablet that has surfaced up in recent months. No it is not the Blackpad, in fact, the name for the Tablet will be the BlackBerry Playbook. A tablet that is enterprise ready. A positive marketing scheme. Playbook suits the consumer, and ‘enterprise ready’ just lures in business users. Watch the video above for a preview of the playbook Tablet and read on down for specs.

  • Dual cameras
  • 1080p HD video with HDMI output
  • Allow dual screens showing something else on the HDMI output as the screen
  • Compatible with BlackBerry Enterprise
  • Full html browser with Flash 10.1 and hardware acceleration
  • 1GHz processor in dual core setup symmetrical and distributed processing.
  • Ultra Thin 9.7mm size



The BlackBerry PlayBook is understood to be available in retail outlets and other channels in the United States in early 2011 with roll outs in other international markets beginning in Q2