The BlackBerry PlayBook is out, the device seems to be a bit better than many pre-release reviews indicated, and, the lack of a native email client doesn’t appear to be as big a deal most thought it would be. The absence of a native email, contacts, and calendar client at launch, however, has to be seen as a pretty big blunder by RIM and one could argue that the reason it doesn’t seem as big a deal that these features are missing is because the folks that it would have been a big deal for didn’t buy BlackBerry PlayBook tablets.
RIM is working on a native BlackBerry client that, 10 days ago, RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie said would be out in 60 days and I am hoping that a few questions that I have about this client, which will be a free download for BlackBerry PlayBook owners, get answered next week at BlackBerry World…
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