I love that two out of the four media quotes on RIM's website are from CrackBerry.com (alongside BoyGeniusReport and Oliver Bussman)... seriously? Can you imagine if when Apple released the iPad, their website showed half their endorsements from AppleInsider...???
Take out a hard drive with moving parts and put in a flash drive --- of course there is a lot of "once in a lifetime" battery life improvement.
Unless RIM either starts making its own ICs or some hot new ultra low power parts come out of the gate before they start mass production (and assuming they have time for another round of integration testing), it seems fair to say the power requirements from a hardware standpoint are probably pretty fixed. It's going to come down to their software implementation of power managment, which is not trivial (as anyone that has worked on a pm-enabled kernel can verify). I'm pretty sure the folks working on the Linux OMAP3 pm kernel branch have been at it for quite awhile, and last I checked it is still caveated as not stable for production use.
The hardware is reasonably young for these tablets, and I think the fact that Apple caught everyone off guard with the iPad is forcing a lot of hands without allowing much time for optimization. There is a fine line between being too late to market to warrant consideration and rushing an "unfinished" product out the door.
I hope RIM does it right because I like the style so far, but I won't be too upset if they don't because it makes the decision to buy the iPad 2 that much easier.
Your MBP would face the same battery life problem if you go to a website with heavy HTML5 animations and WebM videos without hardware accel. There is no way out.
Not true on the HTML5 at least for me. YouTube running strictly on HTML5 and with Click to Flash enabled (in case of ads) my MBP i7 runs a hell of a lot longer than YouTube with Flash allowed to run. The drop off in battery life is simply precipitous with Flash enabled and running.
The next ipad will come with increased features that will eat up battery life. You can't increase battery life much because it is the slowest moving technology in the whole computer industry. It's a losing battle against feature creep.
Not really. Apples entire mobile history has been about more power and longer lifetime. The battery life of Apple products has gone forward only, so your losing the battle against feature creep seems to only apply to where the battle is fought poorly outside 1 Infinite Loop.
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Why can't the Playbook be realistic to have 8 hours of battery life --- when the much more unpolished Android tablets have 6 hours. Beating android's battery performance is not that unrealistic goal.
Not an unrealistic goal, but you have to actually execute to do that. The tradeoffs compared to Galaxy are a more power hungry CPU and a higher resolution screen, essentially the same form factor and internal volume. But no mention of any "new" battery technology to put more mwh into that same form factor. Without a better battery, the goal cannot be met if the other components are more power hungry. Geez, a first year engineering student can figure that out in ECE101.
I know that we are not going to see 20-30% battery life improvements in a given year --- on battery chemistry.
I know this is a BS statement with no supporting fact. The are a combination of ways to achieve better battery life. Slightly bigger battery, improved battery chemistry, and more efficient HW is one way to do so.
So now it's delayed until Summer, and it's going to work only on Sprint? How well did the Palm Pre do on that tiny network.
This has the makings of yet another has-been contestant. It's not going to be pretty.
Yeah, last word was release in the "May Quarter", now talk of Summer. There is a theoretical ~7 day overlap if they mix seasonal Summer with a financial May Quarter, but if they are referring to a financial Summer Quarter they just pushed back release again, potentially by another three months without having to state that up front.
Yeah, last word was release in the "May Quarter", now talk of Summer. There is a theoretical ~7 day overlap if they mix seasonal Summer with a financial May Quarter, but if they are referring to a financial Summer Quarter they just pushed back release again, potentially by another three months without having to state that up front.
Well, it could mean wifi in q1, 3g in q2 and 4g in q3.
Well, it could mean wifi in q1, 3g in q2 and 4g in q3.
Exactly, maybe, possibly. It's nice to never have a clear release schedule to be held to.
But unless RIM puts out explicit phased release information, you can only go with the latest word. If you have that info on a RIM press release let us see it. If not, your shiite outta luck on trying to play it for something else.
Take out a hard drive with moving parts and put in a flash drive --- of course there is a lot of "once in a lifetime" battery life improvement.
Nice try, but the first two generations of flash drives didn't exhibit the power savings the form factor promises over the long run due to inefficient controllers. So we are really yet to see the big SSD power savings unless you are comparing to a power hungry 7200rpm laptop drive. Being that those aren't the drives used to make power comparisons, the 4200rpm drives with aggressive spool-down behavior are, you are left without a point.
As for all the other components being once in a lifetime power savings, by definition every component upgrade is exactly that, yet we continue to get better power profiles because every couple years we get another once in a lifetime upgrade to the same component.
Yeah, you're catching on now. Once in a lifetime is a pure bullshit rhetorical attempt to twist language to your bidding. But reality doesn't conform to your flights of fantasy. I'm starting to doubt, with good evidence, that you paid attention in ECE101.
Oh really? Corporate IT buys whatever product they think is most cost effective. But only if their CTO thinks the company and product will be around for years to come. Sounds like RIM is either giving them away free or bribing the CTOs to use PlayBook. And then promising to support PlayBook for a minimum number of years. Also for free.
I don't think staying power will be a challenge for RIM. As long as this tablet matches what the Android can do, large corporations will buy it just because it's RIM. That said Apple has made pretty good strides in the enterprise with the iPad, so those who switched to it are likely to remain with apple. Those who haven't though would be more likely to go with RIM, now that it is available.
I want to stress that this is true ONLY if PlayBook can match android devices. If it can't, then gen 1 will flop and there will likely not be a gen 2, and possible not even RIM soon after.
Corporations are going to buy tens of thousands of devices which only run on Wi-Max?
That'll come in handy
Expressed an interest is not the same as actually putting down money. Show me the money. Especially for companies that did or were going to iPad but switched to the much better Playbook
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Originally Posted by Aizmov
Summer 2011? Wont the iPad 2 launch before that?
Very possibly. But remember that the iPad is a consumer device that some businesses have found useful, not a device made for them like RIM is touting. They believe that focus is going to win folks over. Keep in mind that for many businesses they will be using these in house where there will be wifi and the road warriors can tether to the blackberries they already have.
This summer release will be a Book that has built in cell data, rather than needing to tether. And in a weird way, going with Sprint does make sense. Businesses don't want the problems of competing with thousands of iPhones etc for sketchy network connections. Sprint is unlikely to get the iPhone or any of the major phones, so they are less likely to suffer massive network bog down. And if you can still tether with your blackberry, you are covered if you travel to a spot without Sprint.
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Originally Posted by samab
The next ipad will come with increased features that will eat up battery life.
The only way anyone can say that is if they have confirmed data about the iPad 2. Which I doubt you have.
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Originally Posted by SockRolid
PlayBook is still vaporware. There are a few demo units at CES, but RIM won't release actual shipping units until this summer. So nothing about PlayBook is realistic. Not battery life, not anything.
They have sent out review devices but apparently without all the features ready. Not a smart move as it gave folks a reason to bash, especially over battery. Yes they tried to explain but it just comes off like desperate spin. Again not good.
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Originally Posted by jca666us
Btw, all this talk about the iPad getting ten hours is bs.
I routinely get 12 - 14 hrs. of battery life.
It is NOT bs. Apple rated it at 'up to' ten hours. If you get, more awesome. But it doesn't make that they guarantee less a lie. Just caution. If they had said 'up to 14 hours' and folks weren't ever getting that, the talk on the boards/reviews would not be pretty.
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Originally Posted by tundraBuggy
Have you been living in a cave? Adobe demonstrated the new Flash player that only uses .8% of CPU
But what spec of CPU and GPU is required. I am thinking both are well above the specs of any tablet.
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Like t or not. Apple demonstrated their flexibility when they loosened their license and allowed Flash developed apps on the App store. Exciting stuff!
and what apps use such a method, how well are they being reviewed. After all if every app using that freedom is being shot down as battery sucking, crash prone tripe, then they are proving Apple's point.
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Originally Posted by TalkingNewMedia
As Microsoft and HP have learned, it's one thing to announce a product, another to launch it.
Yep, and again this year we got a lot of talk about 'later this year'. These folks are trying to bet the current iPad specs and their guess for improvements. But they have shown their specs to Apple now, who can at least pick and chose their marketing to downplay any lacking.
Or laugh when it turns out that no one cares an the iPad 2 goes like mad
In fact I don't think we are going to see tons of huge changes in the iPad 2. Most of it will be feature improvement like more ram, more storage, perhaps a slightly faster processor. Maybe a new screen glass that isn't quite so glossy and easy to smudge.
The 'new' features, I think, will be a front facing camera for face time and replacing the unlocked GSM with a dual setup of unlocked GSM and CDMA (which will entice both main companies to lower their prices for data on such devices)
And I will wager that they actually keep the current 16gb wifi as is for schools, in house business and giving to the kiddies for playing games. With a $50-100 price drop
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Originally Posted by Rabbit_Coach
As a Flash developer I feel a little twisted, since Flash is really nice to develop Websites with rich content rather easily and with minimal scripting.
And zero accessibility. Having a blind boy in the family that is a major deal for me.
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Flash would have to be completely rewritten for mobile devices.
Adobe still hasn't done that rewrite for Mac OS and says it won't. That 'Tude is part of why Jobs resists them.
But in the end will it matter. More and more folks are stepping up with apps and non flash mobile pages. Even that 'evil' porn is going html5
I know that we are not going to see 20-30% battery life improvements in a given year --- on battery chemistry.
Are the jumps from 3-4 hours battery life (industry standard two years ago) on average to 7-8 hours (last year's Apple average battery life) to over 10 hours not significant enough for you? Over 200% performance improvement? Those are more than incremental jumps on any scale. The only limit here is chemical interaction and surface area. The battery industry was content to keep selling the same-old battery technology to consumers with tiny little improvements to keep the market flush with repeat battery purchases. Even the physical structure was a hold-over from the ancient carbon cell unit.
I am amazed that other companies didn't get fed up and do what Apple did - invest in the research and development to drive a significant battery improvement that woke up the battery industry. Only now are they trotting out longer-life battery systems, which they have claimed to have had on the shelf for several years. Can't have Apple making them look like a buncha pikers now can they?
No, the problem for many of the tablet makers is that they haven't made the investment in doing their own battery technology and they rely on whatever the industry gives them. That means that they are at the mercy of the app system useage and cpu demand for logetivity on the battery front.
Are the jumps from 3-4 hours battery life (industry standard two years ago) on average to 7-8 hours (last year's Apple average battery life) to over 10 hours not significant enough for you? Over 200% performance improvement? Those are more than incremental jumps on any scale. The only limit here is chemical interaction and surface area. The battery industry was content to keep selling the same-old battery technology to consumers with tiny little improvements to keep the market flush with repeat battery purchases. Even the physical structure was a hold-over from the ancient carbon cell unit.
Even iphone's officially rated battery life only went from 7 hours 3G to 9 hours 3GS to 10 hours 4G.
I don't think staying power will be a challenge for RIM. As long as this tablet matches what the Android can do, large corporations will buy it just because it's RIM. That said Apple has made pretty good strides in the enterprise with the iPad, so those who switched to it are likely to remain with apple. Those who haven't though would be more likely to go with RIM, now that it is available.
I want to stress that this is true ONLY if PlayBook can match android devices. If it can't, then gen 1 will flop and there will likely not be a gen 2, and possible not even RIM soon after.
Is by offering seamless integration with existing BES infrastructure, and a solid dev kit for the corporate coders. Otherwise they are going to have a higher cost-factor and they haven't even been released yet against the iPad which is already entrenching in most of the Fortune 50 companies and seeing significant interest from gov down to small business. Unless RIM can somehow forestall iPad/iPhone development already in place, they are going to only have a small selection of targets to sell to with any volume. The key question is "Why buy a Playbook?" What is it going to add to the productivity of the enterprise, and what are the cost savings going to be?
The iPad, since it has iOS-based direct Exchange connectivity - doesn't require a BES to translate and control, which means they can retire the BES hardware (and support contract) and RIM network support charges at a significant cost savings. RIM invested huge amount of development effort to shore up their DC's after several major outages and left handset and OS/app development languish while Android and iOS started nibbling their lunch. For now they will retain the BB loyalists, but they are not well-positioned to stem the erosion of their market.
Even iphone's officially rated battery life only went from 7 hours 3G to 9 hours 3GS to 10 hours 4G.
But the amount of data useage supported under those rates jumped significantly - or are you choosing to selectively ignore that fact? And we are not talking about small-format handhelds here are we? We are talking about tablets which arguably have the space to have larger battery systems, and hence longer battery life. My example was from the laptop battery space and reflects the technology developed for portable devices by Apple. RIM is stuck with using whatever off-the-shelf battery system they can order to stuff into the tablet, hopefully with a supplier who is taking battery life seriously (Sanyo).
But we won't know until the bloody Playbook is a real product and not just some showpiece at CES. Admit that your battery example hit the bloody brickwall of successful Apple research and dev and move on.
That's why Apple designed their own custom batteries for all their portable devices. Because they wanted to get ahead of the industry.
very true. apple might be the only company who is still doing innovation while most of others just grab reference design and put the case onto it and sell them. by innovation, it is not just hardware, but also software, UI experiences, and exploring future.
Even iphone's officially rated battery life only went from 7 hours 3G to 9 hours 3GS to 10 hours 4G.
You can do the math. There are plenty of gains in usage that far exceed what you claim can’t possibly happen.
iPhone
3.7 V 1400 mA·h
audio: 24 hours
video: 7 hours
Talk over 2G: 8 hours
Browsing over WiFi: 6 hours
Standby: 250\t hours
(Note the drop in battery capacity yet they still maintain or exceed their levels by a large margin)
iPhone 3G
3.7 V 1150 mA·h
audio: 24 hours
video: 7 hours
Talk over 3G: 5 hours
Browsing over Wi-Fi: 9 hours
Standby: 300 hours
(Note the slight increase battery capacity yet they still maintain or exceed their levels by a large margin, especially on video. Also note the increase in clockspeed for the 3GS.)
iPhone 3GS
3.7 V 1219 mA·h
audio: 30 hours
video: 10 hours
Talk over 3G: 5 hours
Browsing over 3G: 5 hours
Browsing over Wi-Fi: 9 hours
Standby: 300 hours
(Probably the smallest jump in power efficiency we’ve seen in the iPhone yet they still managed to add 40% more 3G talk time with only a 14% increase in battery capacity)
iPhone 4
3.7 V 1420 mA·h
audio: 40 hours
video: 10 hours
Talk over 3G: 7 hours
Browsing over 3G: 6 hours
Browsing over Wi-Fi: 10 hours
Standby: 300 hours
Looks like everything you stated has been proven a lie once again.
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Summer 2011? Wont the iPad 2 launch before that?
Yep and no doubt PlayBook 3 running on 5G will be announced shortly there after ...
I love that two out of the four media quotes on RIM's website are from CrackBerry.com (alongside BoyGeniusReport and Oliver Bussman)... seriously? Can you imagine if when Apple released the iPad, their website showed half their endorsements from AppleInsider...???
Well I'd be OK with that if I could vet quotes
Take out a hard drive with moving parts and put in a flash drive --- of course there is a lot of "once in a lifetime" battery life improvement.
Unless RIM either starts making its own ICs or some hot new ultra low power parts come out of the gate before they start mass production (and assuming they have time for another round of integration testing), it seems fair to say the power requirements from a hardware standpoint are probably pretty fixed. It's going to come down to their software implementation of power managment, which is not trivial (as anyone that has worked on a pm-enabled kernel can verify). I'm pretty sure the folks working on the Linux OMAP3 pm kernel branch have been at it for quite awhile, and last I checked it is still caveated as not stable for production use.
The hardware is reasonably young for these tablets, and I think the fact that Apple caught everyone off guard with the iPad is forcing a lot of hands without allowing much time for optimization. There is a fine line between being too late to market to warrant consideration and rushing an "unfinished" product out the door.
I hope RIM does it right because I like the style so far, but I won't be too upset if they don't because it makes the decision to buy the iPad 2 that much easier.
Your MBP would face the same battery life problem if you go to a website with heavy HTML5 animations and WebM videos without hardware accel. There is no way out.
Not true on the HTML5 at least for me. YouTube running strictly on HTML5 and with Click to Flash enabled (in case of ads) my MBP i7 runs a hell of a lot longer than YouTube with Flash allowed to run. The drop off in battery life is simply precipitous with Flash enabled and running.
The next ipad will come with increased features that will eat up battery life. You can't increase battery life much because it is the slowest moving technology in the whole computer industry. It's a losing battle against feature creep.
Not really. Apples entire mobile history has been about more power and longer lifetime. The battery life of Apple products has gone forward only, so your losing the battle against feature creep seems to only apply to where the battle is fought poorly outside 1 Infinite Loop.
Why can't the Playbook be realistic to have 8 hours of battery life --- when the much more unpolished Android tablets have 6 hours. Beating android's battery performance is not that unrealistic goal.
Not an unrealistic goal, but you have to actually execute to do that. The tradeoffs compared to Galaxy are a more power hungry CPU and a higher resolution screen, essentially the same form factor and internal volume. But no mention of any "new" battery technology to put more mwh into that same form factor. Without a better battery, the goal cannot be met if the other components are more power hungry. Geez, a first year engineering student can figure that out in ECE101.
I know that we are not going to see 20-30% battery life improvements in a given year --- on battery chemistry.
I know this is a BS statement with no supporting fact. The are a combination of ways to achieve better battery life. Slightly bigger battery, improved battery chemistry, and more efficient HW is one way to do so.
RIM has stated that their goal is 8 hours.
And their goal was for it to be shipping already too...
So now it's delayed until Summer, and it's going to work only on Sprint? How well did the Palm Pre do on that tiny network.
This has the makings of yet another has-been contestant. It's not going to be pretty.
Yeah, last word was release in the "May Quarter", now talk of Summer. There is a theoretical ~7 day overlap if they mix seasonal Summer with a financial May Quarter, but if they are referring to a financial Summer Quarter they just pushed back release again, potentially by another three months without having to state that up front.
Yeah, last word was release in the "May Quarter", now talk of Summer. There is a theoretical ~7 day overlap if they mix seasonal Summer with a financial May Quarter, but if they are referring to a financial Summer Quarter they just pushed back release again, potentially by another three months without having to state that up front.
Well, it could mean wifi in q1, 3g in q2 and 4g in q3.
Don't understand your need to tell everybody you're putting me on ignore. I'm not jumping for your bait nor will I in future.
Misinterpretation. nht put samab on ignore, not you.
Well, it could mean wifi in q1, 3g in q2 and 4g in q3.
Exactly, maybe, possibly. It's nice to never have a clear release schedule to be held to.
But unless RIM puts out explicit phased release information, you can only go with the latest word. If you have that info on a RIM press release let us see it. If not, your shiite outta luck on trying to play it for something else.
Take out a hard drive with moving parts and put in a flash drive --- of course there is a lot of "once in a lifetime" battery life improvement.
Nice try, but the first two generations of flash drives didn't exhibit the power savings the form factor promises over the long run due to inefficient controllers. So we are really yet to see the big SSD power savings unless you are comparing to a power hungry 7200rpm laptop drive. Being that those aren't the drives used to make power comparisons, the 4200rpm drives with aggressive spool-down behavior are, you are left without a point.
As for all the other components being once in a lifetime power savings, by definition every component upgrade is exactly that, yet we continue to get better power profiles because every couple years we get another once in a lifetime upgrade to the same component.
Yeah, you're catching on now. Once in a lifetime is a pure bullshit rhetorical attempt to twist language to your bidding. But reality doesn't conform to your flights of fantasy. I'm starting to doubt, with good evidence, that you paid attention in ECE101.
Oh really? Corporate IT buys whatever product they think is most cost effective. But only if their CTO thinks the company and product will be around for years to come. Sounds like RIM is either giving them away free or bribing the CTOs to use PlayBook. And then promising to support PlayBook for a minimum number of years. Also for free.
I don't think staying power will be a challenge for RIM. As long as this tablet matches what the Android can do, large corporations will buy it just because it's RIM. That said Apple has made pretty good strides in the enterprise with the iPad, so those who switched to it are likely to remain with apple. Those who haven't though would be more likely to go with RIM, now that it is available.
I want to stress that this is true ONLY if PlayBook can match android devices. If it can't, then gen 1 will flop and there will likely not be a gen 2, and possible not even RIM soon after.
Corporations are going to buy tens of thousands of devices which only run on Wi-Max?
That'll come in handy
Expressed an interest is not the same as actually putting down money. Show me the money. Especially for companies that did or were going to iPad but switched to the much better Playbook
Summer 2011? Wont the iPad 2 launch before that?
Very possibly. But remember that the iPad is a consumer device that some businesses have found useful, not a device made for them like RIM is touting. They believe that focus is going to win folks over. Keep in mind that for many businesses they will be using these in house where there will be wifi and the road warriors can tether to the blackberries they already have.
This summer release will be a Book that has built in cell data, rather than needing to tether. And in a weird way, going with Sprint does make sense. Businesses don't want the problems of competing with thousands of iPhones etc for sketchy network connections. Sprint is unlikely to get the iPhone or any of the major phones, so they are less likely to suffer massive network bog down. And if you can still tether with your blackberry, you are covered if you travel to a spot without Sprint.
The next ipad will come with increased features that will eat up battery life.
The only way anyone can say that is if they have confirmed data about the iPad 2. Which I doubt you have.
PlayBook is still vaporware. There are a few demo units at CES, but RIM won't release actual shipping units until this summer. So nothing about PlayBook is realistic. Not battery life, not anything.
They have sent out review devices but apparently without all the features ready. Not a smart move as it gave folks a reason to bash, especially over battery. Yes they tried to explain but it just comes off like desperate spin. Again not good.
Btw, all this talk about the iPad getting ten hours is bs.
I routinely get 12 - 14 hrs. of battery life.
It is NOT bs. Apple rated it at 'up to' ten hours. If you get, more awesome. But it doesn't make that they guarantee less a lie. Just caution. If they had said 'up to 14 hours' and folks weren't ever getting that, the talk on the boards/reviews would not be pretty.
Have you been living in a cave? Adobe demonstrated the new Flash player that only uses .8% of CPU
But what spec of CPU and GPU is required. I am thinking both are well above the specs of any tablet.
Like t or not. Apple demonstrated their flexibility when they loosened their license and allowed Flash developed apps on the App store. Exciting stuff!
and what apps use such a method, how well are they being reviewed. After all if every app using that freedom is being shot down as battery sucking, crash prone tripe, then they are proving Apple's point.
As Microsoft and HP have learned, it's one thing to announce a product, another to launch it.
Yep, and again this year we got a lot of talk about 'later this year'. These folks are trying to bet the current iPad specs and their guess for improvements. But they have shown their specs to Apple now, who can at least pick and chose their marketing to downplay any lacking.
Or laugh when it turns out that no one cares an the iPad 2 goes like mad
In fact I don't think we are going to see tons of huge changes in the iPad 2. Most of it will be feature improvement like more ram, more storage, perhaps a slightly faster processor. Maybe a new screen glass that isn't quite so glossy and easy to smudge.
The 'new' features, I think, will be a front facing camera for face time and replacing the unlocked GSM with a dual setup of unlocked GSM and CDMA (which will entice both main companies to lower their prices for data on such devices)
And I will wager that they actually keep the current 16gb wifi as is for schools, in house business and giving to the kiddies for playing games. With a $50-100 price drop
As a Flash developer I feel a little twisted, since Flash is really nice to develop Websites with rich content rather easily and with minimal scripting.
And zero accessibility. Having a blind boy in the family that is a major deal for me.
Flash would have to be completely rewritten for mobile devices.
Adobe still hasn't done that rewrite for Mac OS and says it won't. That 'Tude is part of why Jobs resists them.
But in the end will it matter. More and more folks are stepping up with apps and non flash mobile pages. Even that 'evil' porn is going html5
I know that we are not going to see 20-30% battery life improvements in a given year --- on battery chemistry.
Are the jumps from 3-4 hours battery life (industry standard two years ago) on average to 7-8 hours (last year's Apple average battery life) to over 10 hours not significant enough for you? Over 200% performance improvement? Those are more than incremental jumps on any scale. The only limit here is chemical interaction and surface area. The battery industry was content to keep selling the same-old battery technology to consumers with tiny little improvements to keep the market flush with repeat battery purchases. Even the physical structure was a hold-over from the ancient carbon cell unit.
I am amazed that other companies didn't get fed up and do what Apple did - invest in the research and development to drive a significant battery improvement that woke up the battery industry. Only now are they trotting out longer-life battery systems, which they have claimed to have had on the shelf for several years. Can't have Apple making them look like a buncha pikers now can they?
No, the problem for many of the tablet makers is that they haven't made the investment in doing their own battery technology and they rely on whatever the industry gives them. That means that they are at the mercy of the app system useage and cpu demand for logetivity on the battery front.
Are the jumps from 3-4 hours battery life (industry standard two years ago) on average to 7-8 hours (last year's Apple average battery life) to over 10 hours not significant enough for you? Over 200% performance improvement? Those are more than incremental jumps on any scale. The only limit here is chemical interaction and surface area. The battery industry was content to keep selling the same-old battery technology to consumers with tiny little improvements to keep the market flush with repeat battery purchases. Even the physical structure was a hold-over from the ancient carbon cell unit.
Even iphone's officially rated battery life only went from 7 hours 3G to 9 hours 3GS to 10 hours 4G.
I don't think staying power will be a challenge for RIM. As long as this tablet matches what the Android can do, large corporations will buy it just because it's RIM. That said Apple has made pretty good strides in the enterprise with the iPad, so those who switched to it are likely to remain with apple. Those who haven't though would be more likely to go with RIM, now that it is available.
I want to stress that this is true ONLY if PlayBook can match android devices. If it can't, then gen 1 will flop and there will likely not be a gen 2, and possible not even RIM soon after.
Is by offering seamless integration with existing BES infrastructure, and a solid dev kit for the corporate coders. Otherwise they are going to have a higher cost-factor and they haven't even been released yet against the iPad which is already entrenching in most of the Fortune 50 companies and seeing significant interest from gov down to small business. Unless RIM can somehow forestall iPad/iPhone development already in place, they are going to only have a small selection of targets to sell to with any volume. The key question is "Why buy a Playbook?" What is it going to add to the productivity of the enterprise, and what are the cost savings going to be?
The iPad, since it has iOS-based direct Exchange connectivity - doesn't require a BES to translate and control, which means they can retire the BES hardware (and support contract) and RIM network support charges at a significant cost savings. RIM invested huge amount of development effort to shore up their DC's after several major outages and left handset and OS/app development languish while Android and iOS started nibbling their lunch. For now they will retain the BB loyalists, but they are not well-positioned to stem the erosion of their market.
Even iphone's officially rated battery life only went from 7 hours 3G to 9 hours 3GS to 10 hours 4G.
But the amount of data useage supported under those rates jumped significantly - or are you choosing to selectively ignore that fact? And we are not talking about small-format handhelds here are we? We are talking about tablets which arguably have the space to have larger battery systems, and hence longer battery life. My example was from the laptop battery space and reflects the technology developed for portable devices by Apple. RIM is stuck with using whatever off-the-shelf battery system they can order to stuff into the tablet, hopefully with a supplier who is taking battery life seriously (Sanyo).
But we won't know until the bloody Playbook is a real product and not just some showpiece at CES. Admit that your battery example hit the bloody brickwall of successful Apple research and dev and move on.
That's why Apple designed their own custom batteries for all their portable devices. Because they wanted to get ahead of the industry.
very true. apple might be the only company who is still doing innovation while most of others just grab reference design and put the case onto it and sell them. by innovation, it is not just hardware, but also software, UI experiences, and exploring future.
Even iphone's officially rated battery life only went from 7 hours 3G to 9 hours 3GS to 10 hours 4G.
You can do the math. There are plenty of gains in usage that far exceed what you claim can’t possibly happen.
iPhone
3.7 V 1400 mA·h
audio: 24 hours
video: 7 hours
Talk over 2G: 8 hours
Browsing over WiFi: 6 hours
Standby: 250\t hours
(Note the drop in battery capacity yet they still maintain or exceed their levels by a large margin)
iPhone 3G
3.7 V 1150 mA·h
audio: 24 hours
video: 7 hours
Talk over 3G: 5 hours
Browsing over Wi-Fi: 9 hours
Standby: 300 hours
(Note the slight increase battery capacity yet they still maintain or exceed their levels by a large margin, especially on video. Also note the increase in clockspeed for the 3GS.)
iPhone 3GS
3.7 V 1219 mA·h
audio: 30 hours
video: 10 hours
Talk over 3G: 5 hours
Browsing over 3G: 5 hours
Browsing over Wi-Fi: 9 hours
Standby: 300 hours
(Probably the smallest jump in power efficiency we’ve seen in the iPhone yet they still managed to add 40% more 3G talk time with only a 14% increase in battery capacity)
iPhone 4
3.7 V 1420 mA·h
audio: 40 hours
video: 10 hours
Talk over 3G: 7 hours
Browsing over 3G: 6 hours
Browsing over Wi-Fi: 10 hours
Standby: 300 hours
Looks like everything you stated has been proven a lie once again.