Research in Motion ( RIM ) unveil an “ enterprise - ready ” 7 - inch touchscreen BlackBerry Playbook tablet on Monday that features front and rearward gamey - definition photographic camera , a dual - Congress of Racial Equality 1 gigacycle processor and a new BlackBerry Tablet OS .
The PlayBook , due out ahead of time next year in the U.S. , is less than half an in blockheaded and weighs less than a Sudanese pound . It run a new operating system train by QNX Software that support symmetric multiprocessing with exercise of the QNX Neutrino microkernel computer architecture . QNX builds software that powers computing for core Internet routers and even vehicles , include those from GM , Nissan and Land Rover , official said .
flange functionary at the BlackBerry DevCon 2010 in San Francisco unveiled the gimmick for developers on manus for the event . The announcement was also Webcast live .
Some reports before the annunciation had think over that the machine would be foretell BlackPad andprovide competition for the 9.7 - in touchscreen iPadreleased byApplein April . More likely , it will vie with the Cisco Cius equipment , which is focused on enterprises .
RIM Co - CEO Mike Lazarides said the PlayBook is “ enterprise ready ” because it is compatible with 250,000 BlackBerry Enterprise Servers deploy mainly in large corporations to provide IT shops with more dominance and security measures . It will be available in the U.S. with a software development kit for third - party developer that is expected to be release in the next few week . developer can register atwww.blackberry.com/developers/tabletos .
The Bluetooth feature might proffer another enterprise - ready capability , since it will allow a user to geminate a BlackBerry smartphone with the PlayBook , using the larger tablet video display to firmly consider any e - mail or papers put in on the smartphone . When connect over Bluetooth , the smartphone depicted object is viewable on the tablet , but the information stay on the phone and is only temporarily hive up on the lozenge , subject to what an IT store decides .
multimedia system reinforcement is rich , including a 1024 - by-600 - pixel touchscreen and high - definition TV playback in 1080p . Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and hypertext markup language 5 are both supported for Web browse .
