The Tablet Race: Playbook and iPad
As you all know, RIM and Apple have been constantly duking it out with their phone line, the Blackberry and the iPhone. Now with Tablets becoming immensely popular and its applications almost limitless, the iPad was released for consumers in April.
The iPad had done extremely well for itself, selling 3 million copies in the first 80 days of its release. People loved the iPad because of its innumerable amount of capabilities. The iPad is giving markets such as the e-reader, portable gaming device, and ultra-portable laptops a run for its money. Although the iPad is one heck-of-a-gadget, it leaves the consumers wanting more; something with Adobe Flash capabilities, a camera for video conferences, and HD video output. The Blackberry Playbook looks to change all that.
As we can see here, compared to the iPad, the Blackberry Playbook offers a front facing 3MP camera and a 5MP camera in the rear, support for Adobe Flash, Higher tech specs (2 1GHz cores instead of 1, 4 times the RAM of iPad) and to top it all off, weighs significantly less; almost half of that of the iPad.
Apple fan-boys should beware, the Playbook looks like a serious contender to kill the iPad as we know it.