It kind of surprises me that even though the BlackBerry PlayBook isn't a very popular device, it's always in the news. Most of the time, it's for problems and lies, but occasionally it's for something good. Fortunately, today falls within the latter category.
Although it's been quite a few months in the making, it looks like the native email, contacts, and calendar apps for the PlayBook are almost complete. Above is the email client, looking pretty slick and functional.
Still, even when these are released, it won't change the fact that the PlayBook still hasn't sold very well, making developers go to other platforms instead to make more money and get more exposure.
Does the addition of these three essential apps make you any more inclined to take advantage of any Black Friday sales? Or is the PlayBook still a waste of money at $200 even with the new apps?
The addition of the native email and other apps on the Playbook isn’t that big of deal for the function of it. Most people who have purchased it already have full access to these functions through the Bridge. The most important thing that it shows is an improvement in the BBX OS which will be showing up on the next generation phones next year. This is the improvement developers have been waiting to see. With the numbers of users changing from 1 million to, lets say 25 million, when the early adopters snap up the new phones. Rim has made it easy for the developers to design their apps to both the Playbook and the new phone by keeping resolution the same. In my opinion the Playbook is a steal at $200 for anyone with a BB phone and a good buy for everyone else. Before this price change I would never recommend that anyone without a BB phone to buy the Playbook, but now I would.