The Facebook app for BlackBerry’s PlayBook has been given a once over, bringing along Facebook Places for checking in and grabbing freebies, Events, plus the ability to change your privacy settings. Meanwhile, the BlackBerry phone app has been upgraded with Chat functionality. [BerryReporter via UberGizmo]
While Obama and colleagues have admitted to owning iPads, it’s the BlackBerry PlayBook which the US government has chosen to be the first certified for governmental use, under the FIPS 140-2 certification.
To answer our previous question (“Is there a 10-inch BlackBerry) PlayBook?”), um, no.
The Playbook’s 7-inch stature didn’t bother our reviewer Matt so much, but people are whispering that RIM is preparing a larger 10-inch size, to go head-to-head with the iPad/Motorola Xoom.
This is how Android apps are going to look on the BlackBerry Playbook. The apps run via the Playbook’s Android App Player and from the looks of it, isn’t a bad experience at all. Regardless of how you feel about BlackBerry relying on another platform for apps, offering this feature gives Playbook users more options. Is it a legitimately good option? We’ll have to see for ourselves when Android App Player releases. [Phandroid]
Promising that “we will have an over-the-air email client to announce very, very soon,” RIM Co-CEO Jim Balsillie also spoke of the reaction to the PlayBook tablet in the first wave of reviews. Labelling that it wasn’t “fair” reviewers suggested they rushed the tablet out too fast, he also failed to convince the watcher why they should buy the PlayBook.
