After doing some digging online about the Playbook I found that the BlackBerry Playbook would come with its own PIN and VendorID. This is both good and bad news. I’ll explain more after the break.
We already know that the PlayBook will be able to do BBM over the “Bridge” connection to a BlackBerry smartphone but by having its own PIN maybe future PlayBooks will have their own BBM. It also makes me wonder if RIM will continue having developers license their apps through PIN numbers.
The other annoyance is that it looks like RIM is including VendorID’s on the PlayBook. That might make some sense for the 4G/3G PlayBooks scheduled to come out but it could be annoying to the developers and users in other countries.
On the other hand the PlayBook seems to have a few other ID’s I have not seen available through the API on BlackBerrys before. They will have a BSN (Board Serial Number), Hardware ID (My guess is the model of PlayBook), OS (Maybe we will have multiple OS versions?), and even an SCMBundle accessible through the API.
Tell us what you think about possibly being able to have BlackBerry Messenger on your Playbook.
[Source: BerryReview]