Comments on: BlackBerry Tablet: Timely or Folly?

By: Chucksnetwerx

Chucksnetwerx — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 01:23:52 +0000

I just came back from Cedia show in the big Atl. I saw ipads controlling everything. These pads are about HMI. Human touch interface to a system. Is that HTMI? Playbook, or whatever, is the ultimate product for this sector. Bring on the Apps!

By: Randall Garrett

Randall Garrett — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:38:57 +0000

PlayBook
7″ screen
Flash 10.x
HDMI 1080p
Front/Rear camera…

By: jimmie geddes

jimmie geddes — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 07:12:52 +0000

I beta tested the Foleo for Palm and RIM’s tablet could easily turn into their Foleo. I posted an article and pictures of my Foleo and why this might not be a success for RIM.

http://blog.gadgetsonthego.net/2010/09/first-hand-view-of-why-rims-tablet.html

By: Montevale

Montevale — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:52:15 +0000

What are the other options for the blackberry there?
Unless the technology brings folding screens – this is it!
Can’t make the phones bigger then they are already, bold/storm/torch are about the perfect form for a device. Unless the technology advances bring us folding screens, the PADS is where the growth will happen.
We do need more of these devices and from every platform and we WILL see them – this is a full blown war. The same wars we saw with the PC’s where windows became the king, PDA’s became Palm Pilots and the iPod became the iPod of choice.
Those wars are over and we have new ones raging on.

This new iPads, BlackPads, XPads will become the extension of your phone. These portable operating systems will mature and the silicon development will catch up to the needs of running multitasking without running out of juice in one hour and there will be few killer apps that will blow the lid wide open.
Seriously, I would love to get an extension device for my aging Bold 9000 that would allow me to have something with a bigger screen to work on attachments, look at the dbase when I need to, hand sign some pdf(s) and email them back without getting printer/fax/scanner involved in the mix. This would be the out of the office tool of choice, I have an x61T for two years now and it is a great device, that fulfill this extension but the time goes on and I know that in another year will it will be time for replacement and I can tell you that it is not going to be another convertible. If I would have to replace my system today I would be seriously looking at the iPhone + iPad combo.
Common RIM bring it on let us see what you can do.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:59:43 +0000

Success will depend on how well RIM deals with the various efforts to break encrypted email – the key to its success.

If this can work like the BlackBerry Enterprise then it may make it (provided it is not too lame) if not it will die faster than Microsoft’s last cell phone.

By: DP

DP — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 10:29:40 +0000

Folks, while I don’t disagree that RIM faces an uphill battle against Apple and Android, before pronouncing this new product as an abject failure, perhaps we should wait for an actual announcement with actual product details? While they may well have fallen behind the times, the people who founded and run RIM aren’t stupid. Don’t they actually deserve the benefit of least getting to announce and describe their product before everyone starts tsk-tsking?

By: Azathoth

Azathoth — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:49:33 +0000

Hmm, I wonder if that is the road the iPod Shuffle might be headed down.

By: seamonkey420

seamonkey420 — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 18:05:25 +0000

yea, i call FAIL on this one. just like the Blackberry Storm, they are not giving the users what they want. for example, RIM should have made the Storm a horizontal slider w/touchscreen and not just a touchscreen phone; the mobile/business users wanted it but never got it and i still believe it would have sold very well at the time.

for companion devices, i still would love a nice looking watch that doubled as a speaker phone, caller id, media playback, and a watch (communications between watch and phone via bt). there are a few out there but why hasn’t the watch industry picked up on this sect?

By: Moritz_

Moritz_ — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:35:33 +0000

We really don’t need another ‘companion device’. I think what potential users of a tablet are really looking for is a real computer with full functionality (including expandable storage and USB ports)and OS. Oh, and at a price that is reflective of the new computer reality.

It’s called laptop.
An iPad is not a laptop. It doesn’t try to be a laptop and it will over time not become a laptop.
If you believe the iPad is only driven by a hype you make a serious error. But so does RIM.

The iPad even more than the iPhone will be defined by apps. Some of the core apps are pre installed or freely available (video, books, internet) and entertainment like Angry Birds is important, but to really stay in the market place for a long time it needs more than that. I think the OmniGroup apps, Pages or the rumoured port of AutoCAD for iPad give a good idea of the direction.

The iPad has the advantage of having a good development platform which has proven it’s merits on touch devices (iPhone) and on large screens (Mac) before. That would be the thing they need to copy and none of the companies besides Google has much experience with a publicly available programming environment.

jm2c

By: sbrand

sbrand — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 16:35:04 +0000

This reminds me of how Reagan won the cold war against the Soviet Union. Outspend an opponent who feels compelled to match each initiative, until the opponent, in this case RIM, gets stretched too thin and breaks into pieces. Classic battle strategy – did in Hitler and Nazi Germany too when they were spread thin in Russia over winter. Perhaps RIM should focus its resources on catching up in its core market…