Review on the Blackberry Playbook

Research In Motion is going through a major transition right now. While much improvement has come to BlackBerry Smartphones over the years and the upcoming BlackBerry 6.1 OS looks to push things even farther, the traditional BlackBerry OS on phones is hitting
a point of maturity where RIM’s only option is to start with something new.

For companies like Motorola, HTC, Samsung and LG, Google’s Android operating system has been the life-saving fresh start that has allowed them to compete against Apple’s iOS.

Not wanting to lose control of their destiny and be regulated to an Android hardware manufacturer trying to differentiate itself from other Android hardware manufacturers, RIM made the decision to play the game on their own terms.

From a user experience standpoint, I’m less sold on the BlackBerry Tablet OS than I’d like to be. Part of this is due more to the size of the PlayBook’s display than anything else – at 600 pixels tall when held in landscape you just don’t have a lot of pixels
to work within the web browser, or in apps where the keyboard is displayed which takes up half the screen.

It doesn’t kill the experience, but it certainly makes the experience less enjoyable than it would be if you had a larger display. And while it took a little getting used to, I personally enjoy the gesture-based navigation.

One of the reasons Apple’s iOS products are so successful is that people of all ages, literally from 2 to 92, can figure them out quickly with little frustration. Gadgets are cool and can sell.

I still have the feeling that RIM has too many people working on the product with too many vivid ideas to add to one tablet, which makes it a little to complicated for my liking.

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Posted by Kashif Khan on Nov 27 2011. Filed under Sci-Tech. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry