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Posted 23 August 2012
BLACKBERRY PlayBook Tablet PC - 64 GB £129 @ Currys
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BlackBerry Tablet OS (QNX)
7" LCD Touchscreen
ARM Cortex A9 processor
HD front & rear cameras
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Just a tip for all you playbook owners the screen protector that comes on the playbook when you open your box the factory fitted one can be used.All you have to do is scratch of the white arrow markings with your nails takes just a few minutes after your done you have a new bubble free screen protector on your playbook and it saves you buying one.Well more tips soon buy for now.
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7" LCD Touchscreen
ARM Cortex A9 processor
HD front & rear cameras
Dont forget your £6.45 Quidco.
- Pspvita
BACK IN STOCK FOR HOME DELIVERY.
- Pspvita
Update Quidco tracking @ £1.51 now
- Pspvita
Crack berry forum best for playbook info.
forums.crackberry.com/bla…42/
- Pspvita
Tips
Just a tip for all you playbook owners the screen protector that comes on the playbook when you open your box the factory fitted one can be used.All you have to do is scratch of the white arrow markings with your nails takes just a few minutes after your done you have a new bubble free screen protector on your playbook and it saves you buying one.Well more tips soon buy for now.
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Thanks for that .... 58 hours, 30 pages and 1800 degrees later - you feel compelled to bestow your far superior knowledge upon us mortals ... Did you look it up on Wikipedia? Next youll be telling us that a Haddock isnt a sex toy .... (then again ...)
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This is better piece of hardware than Nexus 7 in every respect barring the so-called quad-core processor in the nexus. But how many application have been developed so far to squeeze the power of a quad core?
Playbook screen has lower resolution than nexus 7 but has much better colour, brightness and contrast.
Both being 7 inch, Playbook screen doesn't waste screen real estate like Nexus 7 (the stupid soft keys and notification bar of android eats up into the screen space)
Build quality is way better than nexus.
It has the best stereo speakers of any tablets I've seen so far (quite a few I own) and the speaker placement in the front is great
BBOS is much more fluid and intuitive than Android. Every task is performed with just a swipe rather than digging to find options buried in the menu.
It plays majority of the music and video formats
Supports flash and the native browser is very good
Has a good quality back camera (records HV video) and also has HDMI in case you prefer to connect to a HDTV (Nexus 7 lacks both)
Where it suffers (against android) is obviously in the apps front. There are plenty of good gamess available though (Gameloft games cost £1).
7 inch form factor is portable and best for playing games (also good for ebook/comics reading, listening to music or watching movies alone, 10 inch is better for web browsing)
It's a no brainer at the price just for playing media, reading books, web browsing, and storing your films/music/documents (if not for anything else).
[Sent from MY Blackberry Playbook]
Are there really so many sheep on HUKD? It's simple, do you need one......NO (move on). If YES......does it do what I want - NO (move on). If it does tick the boxes - read some reviews.
The PB bombed - yes and was heavily reduced earlier this year (apart from the 64gb model). It's basically a very good 'Media Player' with fast web browsing capabilities. Limited apps yes, but if you know what your doing you can get round this and who actually uses half the 'gimic' apps that people seem to be missing.
I know what my PB is good at and use it for those purposes. As mentioned numerous times it's well built, has a massive amount of storage for a tablet in this price range, has a great screen and is perfect as a travel companion for movies and odd games (fantastic to keep the kids quiet).
If your after a tablet that can do everything, save up and get an iPad - you cant compare the two. If you want something smaller, far cheaper and of good quality (unlike the HTC flyer which fell apart)........as a web browsing tablet first and foremost, the PB could fill your requirements. I've used loads of tablets and currently have a new iPad for all my work and media needs, BUT if Im going away or out for the day I'll just grab the PB. At £129 it's cheaper than the Nexus, which obviously does deserves serious consideration, although at £70 more and with less memory this may be an issue for some.
Best advice - don't panic buy, do some research and go instore to try one out.
What sort of extras? Like when you go for a massage? The girl in Currys wasn't even interested in giving me an extra warranty. I think anything else was definitely out of the question!
I feel sorry for people who post nonsense like this.
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Alternative method (DDPB) here:
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The only ones I really use are ES File Explorer and Kindle. ES File Explorer allows you to "pull" files from your home network devices on to the Playbook rather than "push" from a local PC. It also allows streaming of Music and Video from local PCs/NAS. To be honest with these two apps the Playbook is a pretty complete unit for me. Simple charging (micro USB) and simple HDMI connection (mico HDMI) too (compared to my Samsung tab which is a bit of a kerfuffle in these respects).
Some apps to sideload here (including the two above):
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As stated if you want tons of apps as per Android its not for you, but for normal home web and multimedia use it is a winner.
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I have been thinking about the Nexus 7 as an aid for me use in my work and play, but having done some research the playbook fills all my needs + some other cracking apps make it the one for me. I have read all to date 34 pages on this posting and it has really helped, as others have said it not a Ipad or any other top of the range Tablet, but for the price it is a doosy.
I have been considering not using HUKD any more due to some of the really negative and malicious posts. Due this post i have reconsidered. Thanking most of you.
Give me a like if you think this apple fanboy is beyond annoying now! Thankfully the school holidays end soon!
You sound a nice person, can I be your friend?
You know i think you are just jealous for 'whatever reason it is' about this price. Seems like you have an expensive tablet and you are trying to justify the money you spent by making yourself feel good. Which i think is the reason you are trolling this thread (feeling remorse?). Keep your opinion to yourselves. Or better still make a review of the product voicing your reasons and don't just say don't buy it.
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Not sure which one is the most stupid, you or the PC world chap lol
Despite your eloquent and well argued point I am struggling to be convinced. Especially if you were using an iPad to post your thoughts as it appears to have taken you 2 attempts to get those 4 words out to the world.
"Deluxe Black Leather Case Cover For BlackBerry Playbook" £3.95+postage from Amazon
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For this price this is a bargain, it may not be an Ipad 2 but.......
A great family device, superb value for money, I am over the moon with mine!!!!!!
Stop thinking about it and just buy one, I would be shocked if you are disappointed with this tablet at £129.
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What is your definition of useless? Reading this thread it seems to me if you want an excellent video player and internet browser then this is ideal. Not how I would define useless anyway.
This website is fast becoming a farce
Even though Nexus 7 has 4 QUAD CORE, damn! it is still not as smooth as the playbook and i don't give a toss about apps, 70% of my tablet use is internet browsing, 20% email, remaining 10% is spent on apps. And all the apps i use mostly on android have been converted for the playbook and it works including the youtube app, ebay app, mobo video player, act 1 video player and dailymotion app. There is also a google map app but have not tried.
Internet browsing? playbook pwns Nexus 7 and Xoom 2, it is much more smoother and it is yet to freeze on me
Email? Tie
Gneral use? Playbook for me
I'm not saying android tablets are rubbish but in my opinion they are not better then the playbook with the current update. Playbook with OS1.xxxxxxx is complete rubbish but with OS 2.xxxxx it is very nice. If you are still judging it based on 1.xxxxxx you are missing a lot, trust me.
Wooden building blocks and a teddy bear might be cheaper. Didn't do me a lot of harm in the long term!
sounds a bit fishy !?
1st impression - its awesome. took about 20 mins to get on it as it downloaded new OS & did updates. good enough for me
quality build, terrific sound, great picture which is bright & clear.
Multitasking is stunningly good as its clever & intuitive. Cracker.
I played a 1080p vid which is pre-installed & it looked staggeringly good!! I streamed a 720p vid of YouTube flawlessly & my football streams worked perfect (via flash)
I have a few other plans for it....looks a great bit of kit.
right - gotta sell that raspberry pi (which i CBA with)
Well you are wrong if you think this is the same situation as WebOS. With the Touchpad and WebOS, HP confirmed they were just getting rid of the business because they knew it wasn't going to work, and hence all development for WebOS stopped.
The PB is a different story, as RIM has no intention of going out of the tablet business. I am a PB developer, and RIM is pushing developers hard to create apps for the PB. They even offer a $10,000 profit guarantee for developers (tell me another company that does that!). BB10 has been confirmed for the PB as well which means it will be up to date for at least another generation.
Remember RIM still has a lot of phone users out there, and the App World for phones is much bigger than for the PB. The problem is the phones and the tablet use a different OS, hence developers are reluctant to create apps just for the small minority of tablet users. This will all change when BB10 will be introduced for phones and tablets. Take for example Spotify, available for BB phones but not the PB. Needless to say BB10 is RIM's last shot at the market, if it doesn't succeed then the company will probably collapse.
Give it some time, any new software will feel unfamiliar and worse than the one you are usgin everyday now. BBOS is more fluid than ICS.
If you haven't figured it out yet some swipe gestures are:
Swipe from any bezel to oppostive bezel wakes up Playbook (no need to turn it off, just keep in standby, power consupmtion in standby is low)
Swipe up from bottom bezel minimises the active application to its window, touch the app and swipe up to close it.
Swipe from bottom left corner brings up the keyboard anytime (even inside any application)
When multiple apps running swipe from left or right to move between apps
Inside an app swipe from top bezel down will open the app menu but swipe from top left or right corner will open the playbook menu (no need to get out of the app to change any device setting)
Swipe from bottom to left bezel to go back within an app
There are many such swipe gestures to do everything making the operation very fluid and user friendly
One tip which I dont think has been mentioned.
It is very important that under WIFI setting you change network to "saved networks" as opposed to "available networks"
If you keep it on "available networks" you playbook scans the WIFI networks in standby mode and drops battery life considerably. (lasts a couple of days)
If you have it in "saved networks" instead, it no longer scans and your battery life increases substantially (using about 15% a day).
After seeing mine, the wife also ended up buying one aswell(!). This thing is just so cool.
It's such a nice piece of kit - well built, excellent screen, excellent speakers and so fast and smooth at doing everything. It's an absolute joy to use and I find it perfectly sized too (which I wasn't expecting). This thing definitely wasn't engineered by an accountant - everything about it oozes quality. I'm loving it so far and haven't even scratched the surface really with the apps available for it - there are plenty of apps from what I've seen.
Blackberry haven't marketed this thing anywhere near enough - if they did, it would be selling like mad as it's a superb device. I personally knew absolutely nothing about the Blackberry Playbook until I had read this thread and most people I know would say the same thing - the lack of marketing for such an amazing product is shocking.
After using it and seeing what it can do, I would say it should be selling for at least £250 or more. Blackberry really deserve some kudos for this device - the multitasking side of it is almost unbelievable - how it runs everything simultaneously so smoothly and effortlessly (and even without using much battery power?) is beyond me. It's an extremely well designed product.
It's laughable that something as good as this is having to be heavily discounted and cleared from shelves and that the company is struggling. Whoever is in charge of UK marketing for Blackberry should be sacked. If anyone is still in two minds about getting one, don't wait - it really is a fantastic device.
Your trying to compare something you haven't even used, by your own admission, with something else you haven't used, and have the nerve to criticise one of them by calling it "Absolute piece of ...".
Do Amazon pay you enough to waste your time posting stuff that makes you look silly to thousands of people?
If you plan on watching movies through hdmi to your tv then i wouldnt use this guide as it reencodes to 1024*600 which may not look too good on a 50 inch plasma. If you just want to watch the movie on a train or whatever and want a much smaller filesize it works great.
here is the link to handbrake if anyone wants it.
download.cnet.com/Han…tml
here is a guide using handbrake for the galaxy tab but this has the same screen and pixel size so works the same as the playbook. Its a guide to an old version of handbrake but you can see the same buttons.
knowyourcell.com/sam…tml
The guide is great, one important point i found was to convert the audio to AAC(flac) not mp3. AAC works fine on the playbook and mp3 did some strange things to the frame rate for some reason. And i also check keep constant frame rate box.
Using this guide my mp4's come out at around 1gb (depending on length of movie).
The guide doesnt touch on cropping a movie.
You would only need to crop if you dont want black bars on the top and bottom of a movie which is in 2.35:1 widescreen format. If you dont mind the black bars just use the guide for all movies irrespective of aspect ratio. The downside to cropping is you need to crop the left and right edges off the movie to make it fill the screen. Ive had very good success with cropping these format of movies and feel that due to only having a 7 inch screen, the extra pixels i get through cropping outweigh the loss from cutting the sides off. This is where movie buffs shoot me down for altering the original aspect ratio and losing the feel of the movie, but on a 7 inch screen i say its ok to be done.
Remember the actual aspect ratio of the playbook is 1.7066:1 so calculate what needs to be cropped from each side so the movie is in that aspect ratio and you will have a full 1024 x 600 movie.
hope this helps, if not sorry for the long post
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I love my playbook.
Only feature I miss is Skype.
Show me any device with 64GB at this price, then I'd agree, there's is no comparison with an 8 or 16GB android tablet from China. Even with an SD card, you don't get to that magic 64GB, it was a good deal at £249, at this price it's insane. Prices are only tumbling in the generic android market, and then for the low end devices.
Once Windows 8 tablets are out, we can re-evaluate, but anyone thinking they're going to get a well made, reliable tablet with 64GB for less than this before Christmas, needs to stop smoking whatever they are, and face the real world.
mike