strictlye
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Blackberry charged my credit card today, which means they're are finally sending it out to me...........2 weeks after I bought it.
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RIM Playbook. Limited sale... $200
- Thread starter SunnY S
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So the wife let me muck around with her Playbook this morning, after forcing me to watch all the tutorials first so as to lessen the chances of me initiating a self-destruct sequence or some other catastrophic failure. After a few minutes of playing with it, I realised what she had told me was true - I could actually leave my laptop at home and hit the road with nothing more than my Bold smartphone and a Playbook.
I now officially have penned in a new Playbook at the top of my Xmas wish list.
I now officially have penned in a new Playbook at the top of my Xmas wish list.
I have to agree with you.
I've been using it non stop since we got it. Very handy to have kicking around and quite convenient.
Taken it on the road a few times and love the portability, light weight, screen size is perfect, and the bb bridge is mighty convenient. When I need a bigger screen, I just use the macbook.
My wife took to it quite quickly as well. Now the desktop sits in the den unused. I hated the virtual keypad on my ipod Touch, and I still hate the virtual keypad on my PB. Thats my biggest, but minor gripe with it.
Battery life seems good. Build quality seems very good as well. Doesnt seem to be cheaply made.
I totally see how RIM missed the boat with this device. Why limit yourself and not offer native email and 3g connection?
As much as I like it, this thing is not worth $500 IMHO.
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I've been using it non stop since we got it. Very handy to have kicking around and quite convenient.
Taken it on the road a few times and love the portability, light weight, screen size is perfect, and the bb bridge is mighty convenient. When I need a bigger screen, I just use the macbook.
My wife took to it quite quickly as well. Now the desktop sits in the den unused. I hated the virtual keypad on my ipod Touch, and I still hate the virtual keypad on my PB. Thats my biggest, but minor gripe with it.
Battery life seems good. Build quality seems very good as well. Doesnt seem to be cheaply made.
I totally see how RIM missed the boat with this device. Why limit yourself and not offer native email and 3g connection?
As much as I like it, this thing is not worth $500 IMHO.
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I don't think I understand what you mean... if the Playbook can be tethered to the phone to check your email, why is it an issue? Also, if you don't want or can't tether it, what is wrong with using Webmail?
My wife and I were the exact same way with our iPads, we haven't put them down since getting them.
As far as the virtual keyboard goes, I know it's not the same as the playbook but someone might make it eventually for you.
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/740785012/touchfire-the-screen-top-keyboard-for-ipad/
The problem is that it's a good device (for 200$ anyway), but it's really only good for people with BB's already.
I'm not exactly an Alpha Geek, but I found the tutorials easy to follow and understand and the Playbook itself easy to operate. I doubt your wife, who like all women by default is way smarter than I, will have very many problems.
Because then you need WiFi.
The device is crippled without a native mail client, that's all there is to it. You can't check your email without an active connection, so it means you can't even go through your existing emails without a connection. That's stoopid, in common RIM fashion. I want my mobile device to have my email on it at all times, not to be bound by an internet connection.
GayManLoveIsOK
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"Whatever RIMs strategy is.... who cares? The PB at $199 does far more than what most people will ever do with a tablet, and it sure beats paying $500+ for an iToy."
the problem with this statement is that RIM can't really afford to do this, it's rather they have to if they want the device to survive, they can't have it fail, they can't afford it to fail, that's the only thing that is worse then selling them at 60% loss...
as for native email support, like my rant a few pages earlier...if you don't have a phone to tether the device to, then you need to have wifi for webmail...but if you have no connection, all you have is a fancy video player...
the problem with this statement is that RIM can't really afford to do this, it's rather they have to if they want the device to survive, they can't have it fail, they can't afford it to fail, that's the only thing that is worse then selling them at 60% loss...
as for native email support, like my rant a few pages earlier...if you don't have a phone to tether the device to, then you need to have wifi for webmail...but if you have no connection, all you have is a fancy video player...
It's called Windows Live Mail. Free!
they want to sell you outlook
oddly enough Mac OSX (and iOS) does come with a native mail client.
So you can't read your old emails without a connection?
If that's true then MS is as retarded as RIM.
they may be more retarded. however there is a free third party client called thunderbird for windows. dunno if there are free email clients for playbook
Brilliant! RIM, instead of selling them at a loss, can now put in a claim for their full value through their insurance. Almost like it was premeditated. But I'm sure it wasn't
Brilliant! RIM, instead of selling them at a loss, can now put in a claim for their full value through their insurance. Almost like it was premeditated. But I'm sure it wasn't
It'll be interesting to see how it all plays out, but I'm not ready to call it an inside job just yet. I know that truck stop well, but the thieves usually just go around and open trailers at random until they find one they like and then offload as much as they can by hand. To have an entire trailer stolen is rare but not unheard of. If the driver had unhooked from it to go get the truck washed, I could see it happening, but protocol with a high value load like that is to stay pinned to the trailer until delivery. Which raises the question as to why he had unhooked from the trailer in the first place.
EDIT: Whoops, got the wrong info on the theft - the entire truck and trailer were stolen while the driver was inside the building taking a shower. Police believe up to five suspects may be involved and they have a set of fingerprints from one of them.
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Yes. I have mine set up so it can tether to either my personal or my business Blackberry. Set-up took a little bit of time, but it really was just a little time and fairly simple to do.
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