BlackBerry just announced Playbook OS 2, which finally makes the Playbook useful instead of the silly joke it was! The new OS, which really should have launched with the Playbook, adds email, calendar and contacts. Finally! From the company that brought email to your pocket, there’s email on their tablet.
The email app looks a lot like other landscape tablet email apps with a universal inbox and notification options. RIM is adding a better keyboard (with text prediction) and easier text formatting in the OS update, as well. The contacts app is a social hub with people’s information from Twitter and LinkedIn (haha, business!) being displayed in their contact card. The update is supposed to release in February 2012. [Blackberry]
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Tristan
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 8:06 AMCan this be added to a BES by itself? Can I get my corporate emails on this without being tethered to a Blackberry? Or is the client for POP/IMAP emails only?
JM
Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 9:19 AMFrom previous announcements, no it wont have BES support initially. You will need to use Blackberry Bridge for BES emails. Then I assume the built in email app will be for hotmail, gmail and exchange style email connectivity
David
Friday, February 24, 2012 at 11:04 PMAnd for only a measly 212% price difference between the US and the Australian price. Well done guys!