BlackBerry PlayBook

Here you pair your PlayBook up with a phone running BlackBerry OS 5 or 6, which must itself be running the Bridge app. Here you pair your PlayBook up with a phone running BlackBerry OS 5 or 6, which must itself be running the Bridge app. Right now, the BlackBerry PlayBook is a tablet that will come close to satisfying those users who gravitate toward the first word in its name: BlackBerry. Like the Motorola Xoom 10-inch tablet, the Playbook does not have physical buttons on the front, the user interface is entirely digital and accessible from the capacitive touch-screen. The Playbook’s screen is my favorite tablet display, along with the iPad 2. The overall look of the Playbook OS is really elegant.  The OS is QNX and the hardware is, of course, the BlackBerry PlayBook. The OS is QNX and the hardware is, of course, the BlackBerry PlayBook. Install that and the PlayBook shows up as a network drive.There is no native email, calendar and contacts apps in the Playbook. It is hard to understand why RIM does not offer Exchange support in the Playbook for non-BlackBerry users. Once you buy an HDMI cable, it is easy to connect the PlayBook to your TV screen and watch HD video stored in the device or YouTube video streamed over WiFi. The same video plays perfectly fine on the Playbook when the HDMI cable is unplugged. Unlike Android devices, the Playbook does not support USB mass storage, which turns any devices into a USB drive. To mount the Playbook as a regular disk drive on your computer, you need to install the BlackBerry Desktop Software first (Playbook driver included).