Blackberry Playbook: First Tablet from RIM

Tablet computer lately become a trend since Apple launched its tablet computer called the iPad. iPad is launched by using the maturity owned by the iPhone. It makes iPad is a tablet which first launched and instantly have many applications.

After that, popping up a lot of tablets with different operating systems. Android from Google is one of the operating system of choice for tablet computers. In addition to Android, of course, the giant operating system, Microsoft was first showcased his tablet computer from the Windows XP era until now, Windows 7. However, most tablets that use the Windows operating system has a short life time. This relates to the x86 processors that are still consuming more power than the ARM processor.

Seeing the success of the tablet market, the company that makes smartphones are still loved to date in Indonesia, namely Research In Motion or RIM, also do not want to miss to try his luck. Blackberry manufacturer is also issued its first flagship tablet called Playbook. Playbook itself using the new operating system anyway, which is made by QNX Software Systems QNX company that has also been acquired by RIM.

Blackberry Playbook has an internal storage capacity of 64 GB. In the American market, the Blackberry Playbook with capacity priced at $ 699. Playbook is designed by RIM to use the System On Chip (SoC) from Texas Instruments (TI) OMAP 4430. Same with the NVIDIA Tegra 2, this SoC ARM Cortex A9 processors using dual-headed with a speed of up to 1 GHz. For the graphics, TI OMAP 4430 uses graphics from Imagination Technologies PowerVR SGX 540 which has approximately the same computing performance with Tegra 2. No lag, memory installed has a capacity of 1 GB.

Interestingly, the SoC embedded in this Playbook has a chipset itself is capable of playing video with 1080p resolution. This makes the TI OMAP 4430 SoC is more powerful than the Tegra 2.

Blackberry Playbook has a thickness that is thinner than the iPad, although the fractional variance. Blackberry Playbook has the thickness of 10 mm, while the iPad has a thickness of 13.4 mm. You should try it soon.