Comments on: BlackBerry PlayBook now free (with a small catch)

By: Paul Costelloe

Paul Costelloe — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 16:32:00 +0000

absolute crap things smartphones arent even functional as a computer geek i laughed at my roommates blackberry n its terrible processor n bandwidth all harkening back to the era of windows 98 when you got bufferring bufferring n no video the fools who fall for all this deserve it ——-its all a scam by the phone companies …………..who dont give you all the tools you need T-mobile should be arrested for fraudulent services or should we all pay 200 a month for a smartphone ==what a joke

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:53:00 +0000

Or simply used a bad example to point out Apple doesn’t like supporting Flash on their products. While Jailbreaking is not using the iPad as it was intended!

Like it or not pretty much all of these tablets have some sort of limitations and the iPad is no exception. Unlike the others though, you can’t simply choose a different model and are stuck with how Apple designs the iPad and thus why its limitations are often emphasized. Though 3rd party accessory makers do make a very wide range of accessories for Apple products that can often make up for the limitations and is a support ecosystem that many of the others lack.

The Playbook though does have a very capable web browser and handles Flash better than most Android devices I’ve tried.

There is little not to like about the Playbook besides the lack of apps and no memory expansion option. The former problem is something RIM is working on with their latest native SDK release, while the later can’t be fixed. Though the Blackberry bridge also let’s you share the phone’s microSD card with the Playbook as well but otherwise the Playbook has pretty good hardware for a ARM tablet.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 02:40:00 +0000

He’s probably so blind that he didn’t even do any research on how to operate one if he didn’t hate the iPad so much and actually took the time to see how it operates he wouldn’t make such stupid comments

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:24:00 +0000

As a bonus their north American var link is dead.. an omen no doubt..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:22:00 +0000

Fail, most of these resellers still show a price of $499… I thought this was marked down to 299 weeks ago… Pcmall was $353.

Too bad android can’t be ported straight to them… $199 each ain’t bad and its not gimped like the amazon fire..

By: Roger Robie

Roger Robie — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:55:00 +0000

RIMM, fire your marketing team

By: Roger Robie

Roger Robie — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:54:00 +0000

OMGzorz, wait I can’t watch flash porn on my ipad? Oh thats right, I never wanted to..

By: Roger Robie

Roger Robie — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:53:00 +0000

So sad, can’t give this paperweight away can they?

By: mjoecups

mjoecups — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:09:00 +0000

Wow! What a testimonial! Apparently Playbook users are illiterate Porn fans, who know nothing about computers!

By: Ggggf

Ggggf — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:07:00 +0000

Everything you mentioned can be done with an iPad. You just don’t know how

By: Valleymann

Valleymann — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:02:00 +0000

buy 1 get 2 free and i’m in

By: John Jones

John Jones — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:54:00 +0000

I have the Blackberry Playbook IT s amazing can t wait till android apps come in FEB. I can view all of the internet with the blackberry Playbook. THe IFad can t do that.. Dont believe me? Try watching porn on an ipad.. YOU CAN T.. I download my torrents and convert them and load them into my Blackberry Playbook.. YOU can t do that with an ipad.. YOU CANT do THAT with AN IPAD.. the new slogan.. PAss it on.. YOU can t do that with an ipad.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:33:00 +0000

That made me laugh lol and I got in trouble at work, thanks a lot.. lol

By: Chris Burns

Chris Burns — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 19:22:00 +0000

ohhh burn

By: Nate Fisher

Nate Fisher — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:38:00 +0000

the playbook itself is the catch