Blackberry's New Tablet: Introducing The Playbook

Watchout Apple. You got iPad competition and its name is Playbook. Today at the Blackberry Developer's Conference in San Francisco, Research In Motion announced the Blackberry Playbook, a 7" multi-touch tablet device.

Blackberry Playbook Features

The feature list is impressive putting Apple's iPad as a second tier device. Dual cameras for teleconferencing and picture taking, true multitasking with QNX Neutrino architecture, a dual core 1GHZ CPU and Adobe Flash support make this a very generous offering.

• 1Ghz dual core CPU
• 1GB Ram
• Weighs just 0.9 pounds
• Measures 5.1" x 7.6 " x 0.4"
• 7" 1024x600 multi touch display
• True multitasking
• QNX Neutrino O/S
• Adobe Flash, Open GL, Java support
• POSIX code portability
• WebKit + HTML 5 support
• Wireless Wifi 802.11 a/b/g/n
• USB connector
• On screen keyboard
• Bluetooth 2.1
• Stereo sound
• Audo playback with MP3, AAC, WMA
• 3 Megapixel camera on front
• 5 megapixel camera on back for video teleconferencing
• 1080p HD video
• HDMI video output

The Playbook is due out in US markets in early 2011. Now this is something to get excited about!

About Kerry Kobashi

Kerry is the founder of KerryOnWorld. He lives in Silicon Valley and has worked as an engineer and project manager. He owns Kobashi Computing a consulting company.