We’ve seen a lot of reviews of BlackBerry 10 and the Z10 since its launch at the beginning of February, and, for the most part, reviews have been pretty favorable of BlackBerry’s next generation OS.
The big question for BlackBerry, however, is whether or not businesses and consumers will actually go out and buy BlackBerry 10 devices.
There is no question that a huge point of focus for Research in Motion at CES 2011 will be the BlackBerry PlayBook. Even though the show officially doesn’t start until today, RIM has already let bloggers to play around with the device and a Sprint 4G BlackBerry PlayBook has been officially announced and is supposed to come out this summer. This has kind of got me to wondering, is the BlackBerry PlayBook actually the next generation BlackBerry?
One of the things that I really like about the BlackBerry PlayBook is that it is small enough to fit into the breast pocket of a man’s sport coat. This is, in my opinion, just one of the huge advantages over the current iPad (a glorious device by the way). There are places that I just don’t take my iPad because I have to actively carry it, but the PlayBook can fit into my jacket pocket.
Now that we know that Sprint is sticking 4G into the PlayBook there is no reason to believe that you couldn’t make a phone call from it. We don’t know if Sprint or RIM will actually make voice a priority for the 4G PlayBook, however, the ability clearly would be there if the carrier allows it. A 7-inch tablet is still a bit too big to be a primary phone, but, how hard would it be for RIM to shrink the PlayBook down to, say, 4.7 inches? Maybe 4.3 inches? Something tells me that RIM probably already has…
Gang, I think that the BlackBerry PlayBook may actually be the next BlackBerry smartphone…
There is a really good editorial over on Engadget by tech editor Joanna Stern. I recently damaged my BlackBerry Storm and found myself in almost exactly the same situation. I wanted to buy a new BlackBerry, however, no BlackBerry exists that does all the things that, going by today’s standards, smartphones should do.
Check out “RIM seems to be as lost as my BlackBerry”… It truly is a good read.