This week, I got my hands on a blackberry playbook, the new 7 inch tablet made by blackberry. My first views were on how small it was, compared to my 10 inch Advent Vega, and also how surprisingly good looking it was. It runs the Blackberry OS system, similar to that of the Torch, and is fairly easy and quite smooth to use. But blackberry have gone for a completely different approach to it, with very much encouraging multitasking in the device, as each app is always open, and there's no actual way of quitting them. Using the bezel at the top, u scroll down to go to the settings, scroll down the bezel at the bottom for the keypad, and u scroll upwards again for the homepage. This idea is both good and bad, i like the idea of the bezel coming into play, allowing quick access to apps, but the idea of my apps constantly being on in the background actually scares me a bit :L I kept thinking how much memory and battery its draining, and having need for speed moving on the homepage, made me feel a tad uncomfortable. The internet is good, and runs flash, (if you've seen the advert for it, u wuld've seen how much blackberry make this point known) but it actually is a fast and generally pleasant experience. The app store is in the early stages, so has what all big app stores once went through. Unknown crap apps with only one review, which is either good or bad. Although, bb have recently announced that the android market will soon be coming to the playbook aswell, and this means that u can ignore the rubbish of the app world and focus on the goodness of the market instead :)
Overall, first impressions are good, and that the concept is there, but it needs work. Like most blackberrys, it leaves u somewhat bemused and disgusted. Although, unlike recent blackberry's, the playbook is a lot more bemused with love then disgusted.
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