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Playbook OS 2.0 Released

Posted by Unknown on from the all-playbook-makes-jack-unproductive dept.

Alt-kun writes "On February 21st, The Blackberry Playbook finally received its long-promised overhaul. Called Playbook OS 2.0, this major upgrade provides native email and calendaring apps, limited support for Android applications (the developer has to repackage the app for the Playbook), and a bunch of other features. There are some fairly positive initial reviews, although one can no doubt expect a lot of too-little-too-late naysaying from various quarters as well. The Globe and Mail article also contains this somewhat interesting note: '...until RIM began deep discounting ... the device languished way behind rivals such as the iPad in terms of market share. One recent report by Toronto-based Solutions Research Group, however, pegs RIM's share of the tablet market at around 15 per cent, a big jump after discounting over the holiday buying season.'" ZDNet has some screenshots of the new features, and El Reg has a piece on an interesting bit of the new software.

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  1. Take note by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    10 and a half months after release, the Blackberry Playbook finally doesn't suck.

    Much.

  2. Thats it! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I must alert all playbook owners......owner.....I wonder if Jim even still has it.....

  3. Playboy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I would like to point out that I only stopped to read this cuz I've misread "Playboy OS 2.0"

  4. Re:I hate subjects by WrongSizeGlass · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, that was the power button. They wanted to remove it because turning the device might expose users to a security risk.

    Turning it on would also expose RIM to ridicule.

  5. In your face! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    BOOM! Native Email Application! YOUR MOVE APPLE!

    1. Re:In your face! by steelfood · · Score: 3, Funny

      Apple's response:

      Cut and paste.

      --
      "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
  6. Re:I don't believe this for a second by haus · · Score: 4, Funny

    That would be 15% of the tablets owned by members of RIM's executive team.