David Emery OnlineRIM introduces PlayBook - the BlackBerry tablet
28 September 2010
The new slate -- which Lazaridis described as "the first professional tablet" -- will sport a 7-inch, 1024 x 600, capacitive multitouch display, a Cortex A9-based, dual-core 1GHz CPU (the company calls it the "fastest tablet ever"), 1GB of RAM, and a 3 megapixel front-facing camera along with a 5 megapixel rear lens (and yes, there will be video conferencing).
Looks fairly impressive, but I don’t understand why all the iPad competitors are using 7” screens – 10” is just about big enough to do “normal” things like web browsing without feeling cramped, whereas 7” is a weird in-between size between mobile and laptop.
Also, don’t forget that this isn’t shipping until “Early 2011” – this thing is an iPad v2 competitor, not the one on the shelves at the moment.
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