RIM is on track with its schedule to optimize the BlackBerry PlayBook’s battery life and looks forward to providing customers with a professional grade tablet that offers superior performance with comparable battery life.
Dear lord, are the CEOs of RIM writing press releases as well? "Professional grade"? "Comparable", without bothering to mention compared to what?
RIM looks forward to providing on track superiority while maintaining similar too!
I expect to see Chrome tablets that are exactly what you describe.
If they are cheap enough, I'd buy several. One for the couch, one for the bedside table, and one for the throne. Another to keep in the car.
If they were a couple of hundred dollars each, such a device would be perfect for many uses. There is no need to drive a dumptruck like the iPad when a motorcycle will get you there much more efficiently.
iPad users will be scrolling through page after page of icons, looking for the app that gives them access to the publisher's stuff, while Chrome users will be already accessing their content. Hmmmm.....where did I put that WiReD app again? Page 5? No, wait, maybe I put it in a folder. Damn, all these folders look alike. Which one? Content apps? Magazine apps? Did I put it in with the eBook reader apps?
The iPad is a dumptruck compared to what a tablet could be.
Guess you're retarded to not know tablets run on Andriod not Chrome. and guess you'll probably buy 3 for each of your family members just like DaHarder. 1 for them to use on the couch, 1 for the bedside table, and 1 to keep in the car
One swipe to the search screen in the iPad, type 'wi' and there is your App, took all of 1 swipe, 2 typed letters one App selected. Next time try to at least understand the product before you spout off rubbish!
And what exactly do you do with your Chrome tablet when you have no internet access? Use it as a door stop?
He's a serial troll, deluded as ever. Soon no new users will be able to register because of all the username aliases he's taking up.
?Any testing or observation of battery life to date by anyone outside of RIM would have been performed using pre-beta units that were built without power management implemented," the statement read. "RIM is on track with its schedule to optimize the BlackBerry PlayBook?s battery life and looks forward to providing customers with a professional grade tablet that offers superior performance with comparable battery life.?
I believe that RIM does have severe battery problems.
RIM and Adobe are probably scrambling right now to squeeze 4 hours or so out of the darn thing.
Did they confirm anything about a Q1 release? Oh well...
Time will tell.
This is where RIM is probably starting to get that sinking feeling... That maybe believing wholesale whatever nonsense Adobe shoved up their ports was not such a good idea.
I expect to see Chrome tablets that are exactly what you describe.
iPad users will be scrolling through page after page of icons, looking for the app that gives them access to the publisher's stuff, while Chrome users will be already accessing their content. Hmmmm.....where did I put that WiReD app again? Page 5? No, wait, maybe I put it in a folder. Damn, all these folders look alike. Which one? Content apps? Magazine apps? Did I put it in with the eBook reader apps?
The iPad is a dumptruck compared to what a tablet could be.
I don't see Chrome as more refined in this regard, the content is still an icon/text string/tab away. You're also presuming i won't use Pulse/Flipboard/SAFARI to access the same content you're using Chrome to access.
What is different though is my choice of a truly "optimal" consumption method. What am I missing? What does Chrome offer me over a native app or using Safari?
I expect to see Chrome tablets that are exactly what you describe.
If they are cheap enough, I'd buy several. One for the couch, one for the bedside table, and one for the throne. Another to keep in the car.
If they were a couple of hundred dollars each, such a device would be perfect for many uses. There is no need to drive a dumptruck like the iPad when a motorcycle will get you there much more efficiently.
iPad users will be scrolling through page after page of icons, looking for the app that gives them access to the publisher's stuff, while Chrome users will be already accessing their content. Hmmmm.....where did I put that WiReD app again? Page 5? No, wait, maybe I put it in a folder. Damn, all these folders look alike. Which one? Content apps? Magazine apps? Did I put it in with the eBook reader apps?
The iPad is a dumptruck compared to what a tablet could be.
I'm sorry but this is just silly. There's this thing called Sptlight on iOS that let's you search for apps on your device, instead of the cumbersome process you described there. The iPad's browser can also run webapps pretty well, so I don't know why you're trumpeting Chrome tablets like it'll be exclusive to them.
I expect to see Chrome tablets that are exactly what you describe.
If they are cheap enough, I'd buy several. One for the couch, one for the bedside table, and one for the throne. Another to keep in the car.
If they were a couple of hundred dollars each, such a device would be perfect for many uses. There is no need to drive a dumptruck like the iPad when a motorcycle will get you there much more efficiently.
iPad users will be scrolling through page after page of icons, looking for the app that gives them access to the publisher's stuff, while Chrome users will be already accessing their content. Hmmmm.....where did I put that WiReD app again? Page 5? No, wait, maybe I put it in a folder. Damn, all these folders look alike. Which one? Content apps? Magazine apps? Did I put it in with the eBook reader apps?
The iPad is a dumptruck compared to what a tablet could be.
Pull up the keyboard and type in the first letters of the app then select it. Quicker than paging though my 7 pages of folders and sub folders.
Didn't know I could do that until my 10 y.o. son showed me.
Considering most apps access the web and there a lot more than a WebKit browser app on the PlayBook, he?s either not getting it or playing a very weak trick.
RIM is just trying to spin a weakness into a strength. There won't be many apps available for the Playbook so why not just tell the user they don't need apps? Its actually kind of Apple-esque. I'm sure you recall the original iPhone, which had no user installable apps. Apple's answer at the time was "just use the web" which lasted until the App Store. Now its all about apps!
Of course now we all know the power of a good app store so when we hear RIM try the same trick on us its not quite as persuasive.
I expect to see Chrome tablets that are exactly what you describe.
If they are cheap enough, I'd buy several. One for the couch, one for the bedside table, and one for the throne. Another to keep in the car.
If they were a couple of hundred dollars each, such a device would be perfect for many uses. There is no need to drive a dumptruck like the iPad when a motorcycle will get you there much more efficiently.
iPad users will be scrolling through page after page of icons, looking for the app that gives them access to the publisher's stuff, while Chrome users will be already accessing their content. Hmmmm.....where did I put that WiReD app again? Page 5? No, wait, maybe I put it in a folder. Damn, all these folders look alike. Which one? Content apps? Magazine apps? Did I put it in with the eBook reader apps?
The iPad is a dumptruck compared to what a tablet could be.
They will not be as cheap as you are implying. If they could hit that price point they would already be out. It is not that hard to make a web only device. I doubt a web-only device that you would actually want could be built with significantly less RAM, processor, battery, and lower quality display to be much cheaper then an iPad. When you are selling 100+ million iOS devices a year, the cost of a more advanced operating system isn't significant. The only thing that can be stripped is flash memory. Maybe they could hit a $400 price point. I'd rather spend the $100 on a device that can also handle offline media and apps. Android/RIM devices are having a hard time matching Apple's price for a 10" device with a much smaller 7" display. There will be no "cheap" solution any time soon. When there is a solution, you get what you pay for.
Why would you have a wifi only device in your car anyway? Or do you want to spend $25 a month on a data plan for each of those "cheap" devices? My iPad happens to be portable with an all day run time and can take the "same" device to all of those places.
The iPad is only a dumptruck in respect to it sending other tablets to the landfill before they are sold.
The old Cold War journalists used to say; "Never believe a story out of the Soviet Union until it is officially denied"
RIM has just done that. They are lying to cover their inability to produce a good product. They should have shut their mouth up until they have a pre-delivery product before announcing it to the whole world.
In case you didn't notice, they paid off their bailout loans. People will still point to this as proof of how much of a far left socialist communist marxist muslim terrorist Obama is though...
This feels like a repeat of Palm and WebOS. They don't have time for a real solution, so they throw together some web based stuff that they put on a generic operating system and call it a product. Unless they come up with something real before they tank, they will probably be acquired for QNX and their mobile division will just get dropped.
This feels like a repeat of Palm and WebOS. They don't have time for a real solution, so they throw together some web based stuff that they put on a generic operating system and call it a product. Unless they come up with something real before they tank, they will probably be acquired for QNX and their mobile division will just get dropped.
Wait a second, WebOS was a good OS though. Palm's failure came in the form of a lack of proper advertisement. They really mucked things up with that creepy redhead with the bee stings.
What you had with Palm was a last ditch effort with all resources directed to a new OS, and they succeeded here, but were left with not enough resources to sell it. HP has those resources though.
Pull up the keyboard and type in the first letters of the app then select it. Quicker than paging though my 7 pages of folders and sub folders.
Didn't know I could do that until my 10 y.o. son showed me.
This is a great feature. I have at least a couple hunded apps on my phone and can open the most infrequently used one in a couple of seconds. It is also how I open most apps on my MAC, so maybe I was already used to it.
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RIM is on track with its schedule to optimize the BlackBerry PlayBook’s battery life and looks forward to providing customers with a professional grade tablet that offers superior performance with comparable battery life.
Dear lord, are the CEOs of RIM writing press releases as well? "Professional grade"? "Comparable", without bothering to mention compared to what?
RIM looks forward to providing on track superiority while maintaining similar too!
I know a car company not too far away from Waterloo, Ontario whose slogan used to be: "We're professional grade."
It's now called Government Motors...
I expect to see Chrome tablets that are exactly what you describe.
If they are cheap enough, I'd buy several. One for the couch, one for the bedside table, and one for the throne. Another to keep in the car.
If they were a couple of hundred dollars each, such a device would be perfect for many uses. There is no need to drive a dumptruck like the iPad when a motorcycle will get you there much more efficiently.
iPad users will be scrolling through page after page of icons, looking for the app that gives them access to the publisher's stuff, while Chrome users will be already accessing their content. Hmmmm.....where did I put that WiReD app again? Page 5? No, wait, maybe I put it in a folder. Damn, all these folders look alike. Which one? Content apps? Magazine apps? Did I put it in with the eBook reader apps?
The iPad is a dumptruck compared to what a tablet could be.
Guess you're retarded to not know tablets run on Andriod not Chrome. and guess you'll probably buy 3 for each of your family members just like DaHarder. 1 for them to use on the couch, 1 for the bedside table, and 1 to keep in the car
Strange, on my iPad there is a great Browser right there in front of my eyes that I can use any time I want as well as lots of apps.
Strange indeed
I wonder how they define "comparable battery life"?
Hope they are not digging their own grave!
They are dead, they just don't know it yet...
One swipe to the search screen in the iPad, type 'wi' and there is your App, took all of 1 swipe, 2 typed letters one App selected. Next time try to at least understand the product before you spout off rubbish!
And what exactly do you do with your Chrome tablet when you have no internet access? Use it as a door stop?
He's a serial troll, deluded as ever. Soon no new users will be able to register because of all the username aliases he's taking up.
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?Any testing or observation of battery life to date by anyone outside of RIM would have been performed using pre-beta units that were built without power management implemented," the statement read. "RIM is on track with its schedule to optimize the BlackBerry PlayBook?s battery life and looks forward to providing customers with a professional grade tablet that offers superior performance with comparable battery life.?
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I believe that RIM does have severe battery problems.
RIM and Adobe are probably scrambling right now to squeeze 4 hours or so out of the darn thing.
Did they confirm anything about a Q1 release? Oh well...
Time will tell.
I believe that RIM does have severe battery problems.
RIM and Adobe are probably scrambling right now to squeeze 4 hours or so out of the darn thing.
Did they confirm anything about a Q1 release? Oh well...
Time will tell.
This is where RIM is probably starting to get that sinking feeling... That maybe believing wholesale whatever nonsense Adobe shoved up their ports was not such a good idea.
I expect to see Chrome tablets that are exactly what you describe.
iPad users will be scrolling through page after page of icons, looking for the app that gives them access to the publisher's stuff, while Chrome users will be already accessing their content. Hmmmm.....where did I put that WiReD app again? Page 5? No, wait, maybe I put it in a folder. Damn, all these folders look alike. Which one? Content apps? Magazine apps? Did I put it in with the eBook reader apps?
The iPad is a dumptruck compared to what a tablet could be.
I don't see Chrome as more refined in this regard, the content is still an icon/text string/tab away. You're also presuming i won't use Pulse/Flipboard/SAFARI to access the same content you're using Chrome to access.
What is different though is my choice of a truly "optimal" consumption method. What am I missing? What does Chrome offer me over a native app or using Safari?
I expect to see Chrome tablets that are exactly what you describe.
If they are cheap enough, I'd buy several. One for the couch, one for the bedside table, and one for the throne. Another to keep in the car.
If they were a couple of hundred dollars each, such a device would be perfect for many uses. There is no need to drive a dumptruck like the iPad when a motorcycle will get you there much more efficiently.
iPad users will be scrolling through page after page of icons, looking for the app that gives them access to the publisher's stuff, while Chrome users will be already accessing their content. Hmmmm.....where did I put that WiReD app again? Page 5? No, wait, maybe I put it in a folder. Damn, all these folders look alike. Which one? Content apps? Magazine apps? Did I put it in with the eBook reader apps?
The iPad is a dumptruck compared to what a tablet could be.
I'm sorry but this is just silly. There's this thing called Sptlight on iOS that let's you search for apps on your device, instead of the cumbersome process you described there. The iPad's browser can also run webapps pretty well, so I don't know why you're trumpeting Chrome tablets like it'll be exclusive to them.
I expect to see Chrome tablets that are exactly what you describe.
If they are cheap enough, I'd buy several. One for the couch, one for the bedside table, and one for the throne. Another to keep in the car.
If they were a couple of hundred dollars each, such a device would be perfect for many uses. There is no need to drive a dumptruck like the iPad when a motorcycle will get you there much more efficiently.
iPad users will be scrolling through page after page of icons, looking for the app that gives them access to the publisher's stuff, while Chrome users will be already accessing their content. Hmmmm.....where did I put that WiReD app again? Page 5? No, wait, maybe I put it in a folder. Damn, all these folders look alike. Which one? Content apps? Magazine apps? Did I put it in with the eBook reader apps?
The iPad is a dumptruck compared to what a tablet could be.
Pull up the keyboard and type in the first letters of the app then select it. Quicker than paging though my 7 pages of folders and sub folders.
Didn't know I could do that until my 10 y.o. son showed me.
Considering most apps access the web and there a lot more than a WebKit browser app on the PlayBook, he?s either not getting it or playing a very weak trick.
RIM is just trying to spin a weakness into a strength. There won't be many apps available for the Playbook so why not just tell the user they don't need apps? Its actually kind of Apple-esque. I'm sure you recall the original iPhone, which had no user installable apps. Apple's answer at the time was "just use the web" which lasted until the App Store. Now its all about apps!
Of course now we all know the power of a good app store so when we hear RIM try the same trick on us its not quite as persuasive.
Oh RIM...
I expect to see Chrome tablets that are exactly what you describe.
If they are cheap enough, I'd buy several. One for the couch, one for the bedside table, and one for the throne. Another to keep in the car.
If they were a couple of hundred dollars each, such a device would be perfect for many uses. There is no need to drive a dumptruck like the iPad when a motorcycle will get you there much more efficiently.
iPad users will be scrolling through page after page of icons, looking for the app that gives them access to the publisher's stuff, while Chrome users will be already accessing their content. Hmmmm.....where did I put that WiReD app again? Page 5? No, wait, maybe I put it in a folder. Damn, all these folders look alike. Which one? Content apps? Magazine apps? Did I put it in with the eBook reader apps?
The iPad is a dumptruck compared to what a tablet could be.
They will not be as cheap as you are implying. If they could hit that price point they would already be out. It is not that hard to make a web only device. I doubt a web-only device that you would actually want could be built with significantly less RAM, processor, battery, and lower quality display to be much cheaper then an iPad. When you are selling 100+ million iOS devices a year, the cost of a more advanced operating system isn't significant. The only thing that can be stripped is flash memory. Maybe they could hit a $400 price point. I'd rather spend the $100 on a device that can also handle offline media and apps. Android/RIM devices are having a hard time matching Apple's price for a 10" device with a much smaller 7" display. There will be no "cheap" solution any time soon. When there is a solution, you get what you pay for.
Why would you have a wifi only device in your car anyway? Or do you want to spend $25 a month on a data plan for each of those "cheap" devices? My iPad happens to be portable with an all day run time and can take the "same" device to all of those places.
The iPad is only a dumptruck in respect to it sending other tablets to the landfill before they are sold.
RIM has just done that. They are lying to cover their inability to produce a good product. They should have shut their mouth up until they have a pre-delivery product before announcing it to the whole world.
Pride goes before the fall.....
It's now called Government Motors...
In case you didn't notice, they paid off their bailout loans. People will still point to this as proof of how much of a far left socialist communist marxist muslim terrorist Obama is though...
I couldn't care less about what the CEO at rim has to say about battery life in their upcoming tablet. Release the damn thing, then we'll discuss it.
This is nothing more than a "hey don't forget, we have some shit coming out soon also!" attempt.
Is RIM becoming the Venezuela of the mobile technology industry ...?
^^ Deserves some sort of award.
This feels like a repeat of Palm and WebOS. They don't have time for a real solution, so they throw together some web based stuff that they put on a generic operating system and call it a product. Unless they come up with something real before they tank, they will probably be acquired for QNX and their mobile division will just get dropped.
Wait a second, WebOS was a good OS though. Palm's failure came in the form of a lack of proper advertisement. They really mucked things up with that creepy redhead with the bee stings.
What you had with Palm was a last ditch effort with all resources directed to a new OS, and they succeeded here, but were left with not enough resources to sell it. HP has those resources though.
Pull up the keyboard and type in the first letters of the app then select it. Quicker than paging though my 7 pages of folders and sub folders.
Didn't know I could do that until my 10 y.o. son showed me.
This is a great feature. I have at least a couple hunded apps on my phone and can open the most infrequently used one in a couple of seconds. It is also how I open most apps on my MAC, so maybe I was already used to it.