so today i'm going to be having a look at the blackberry playbook and the first
thing i'm going to do with the playbook is i'm going to click to play i'm on
fatpie.com i actually really like fatpie.com
and i've got one of his videos playing this is a flash video and it is playing
it's already in a lot of ways
better than this for my purposes okay so i'm just going to go ahead and
i'm going to oh no that's i'm writing a book and i just need to know okay i'm
gonna go ahead and pause that i don't have a box for this product
today so i can't really do an unboxing sorry i can't really i can't really do
this from the from this way so i don't really have a um
a box so i can't do an unboxing today but i am going to be doing a quick product tour and just a an overall quick
overview of the blackberry playbook which so far i am very impressed with so
here's my big buck bunny video that i usually play to show hd youtube playback
and it is sorry it's really hard to use this from this angle it is phenomenal
full screen hd video playback is absolutely flawless completely smooth
without any tweaking or playing around with it whatsoever i'm very very
impressed if we can skip forward to sort of a more
action-packed scene in the in the show that might help a little bit to
demonstrate the smoothness internet browsing is very very snappy so
far it does feature a dual dual core one gigahertz processor so
that's not that unexpected the touchscreen here is seven inch and it is
able to use four fingers concurrently for its multi-touch interface
and yeah skipping in hd videos on youtube
isn't always super smooth is it come on
you can do it youtube i don't see it doesn't want to do it for
me okay fine forget it um the overall interface is very very neat so
you have actually beyond the touch sensitive screen you've also got a touch
sensitive frame so depending where you drag in onto the screen from it'll
actually give you a variety of different functionalities so here i can access
my menu so this is where i can do things like connect to wi-fi which i am
connected to right now i can control my HDMI output yes it has micro HDMI as
well as usb on the bottom and then this is for a dedicated charging dock
actually let's finish off with the hardware here so it's available in 16 gig 32 gig and 64 gig configurations
it has stereo speakers on either side of the screen which is an improvement over
other tablets on the market which have their speakers at the bottom for
whatever reason and this one seems to have only one speaker i haven't actually
done too much research on the ipad too so forgive me on the top you find a couple of
dedicated hardware buttons including power volume and play pause as well as a
headphone jack you've got a front facing three megapixel camera as well as a back
facing 5 megapixel camera which is also capable
of capturing hd video uh let's see what else do i want to say
it has uh uh bluetooth tethering
with other with other devices uh so you can actually access internet on here but
as if you use something else to tether to your 3g connection or whatever the
case may be overall smoothness so i want to show you
guys this just everything is incredibly smooth
when you rotate it's not like a Windows tablet where it's like this clunky three
second delay if you're bringing this stuff if you're bringing this up
whatever whatever you happen to be doing everything is very smooth so let's say i
want to navigate to my other now it's playing again that's okay um
oh yeah oh that's interesting okay i don't know how that works but apparently
i minimized it so it'll take some getting used to in order to really get
the hang of the full functionality of it here i'm at the desktop though so i can
see all favorites media games this one doesn't have any games installed on it
this is just a demo unit that i have on hand for about 20 minutes here while i
try to put together a video but like i said
overall just wicked smooth interface very very impressed with that aspect of
the blackberry playbook i'm holding it upside down right now and i didn't realize let's go back to youtube and i
just want to show you guys how quick the browsing is on this little guy here
so let's go to uh oh i love the keyboard by the way ncix whoops
see i'm not used to a couple of the features yet love the keyboard and part
of the reason i love the keyboard so much is just the fact that so here we go
there's no 21 no 120 hertz oh no there's
no 120 hertz now we're going to go back now we're going to see something else we
got you know banners on the side let's have a look at the ncaa excel browsing
is very snappy very very impressed with that aspect of it um
oh yeah here's something neat so let's say i wanted to go to a different web id
let's say i wanted to go to easter 2011.
i can actually unlike iOS i can navigate to
some anywhere in my url i know Android does this as well but personally i find
that a boon as an iphone 4 user that i can edit text without actually going
back and retyping the entire sequence um
shoot there was something i wanted to say give me a sec
so let's do a little bit more functionality so here this is the word
to go app so i can type hello world i actually really like the
keyboard and i did mention this before but i didn't say why because the size of
the device is just about right so i can actually type with my thumbs like i
would on a touch screen phone without it being awkward and uncomfortable the way
it would on a larger tablet where you
basically here i'll just show you guys the uh the ipad 2 for comparison so on a
larger tablet like this let's go and try to make a note of some sort let's make a
new note i like i can't really do this
comfortably and uh it loses a little bit of functionality
for someone like me that way let's actually have a let's do a quick
physical comparison so here's the size of the blackberry playbook compared to
the ipad or ipad 2 rather okay here is the
thickness
okay so it is a touch thicker but it's actually not that much thicker and this is something
another thing that i actually quite like it's square like the iphone 4 as opposed
to uh being beveled at the edges like the ipad 2 and like the uh the older
iphones and that actually allows me to hold on to it better i find my fingers
are less likely to slip off it from the back and i personally prefer that let's
just show you guys the multitasking really quick so why don't we open up
something else so we've got a browser open let's go to all let's see let's
open adobe reader or something so here's the multitasking functionality we go
like this we can switch between our browser we can switch between our word
to go where we can type things and the
the interfaces is impressively snappy i really really like that aspect of it i
already talked about the micro HDMI already talked about the okay you know
what let's go back and give big buck bunny another chance so
youtube.com really is so fast
okay and i'll show you guys when we start at the beginning
how quickly i'm able to get into playing 1080p hd video
full screen here there we are
so the browsing i was doing before wasn't really properly indicative but
you can see there's absolutely no frame skipping whatsoever here
love it it comes with 90 days of free tech support i don't know if i mentioned that already but if you're having
trouble using it you can call in for free and and get help with it they've
also got some pretty neat guides on their website uh where they walk you
through a lot of the different aspects you know how to type properly on it how
to get started connecting your wi-fi how to use the app store
and uh i think that pretty much covers
everything i wanted to say about it why don't we use the camera real quick here
and uh just try it out we'll do a little bit of video capture shall we
so i'm using the rear mounted camera so let's uh here actually
why don't we why don't we capture me am i am i aiming at myself
am i doing it am i doing it i can't tell i should go this way this way this way
down okay well whatever okay i'm basically here i'm talking to myself
through the uh through the blackberry playbook we're
gonna go ahead and stop that and then let's just
actually this is really intuitive now it took me forever how to figure out how to
minimize something but now that i'm now that i'm doing it it's like no problem
whatsoever so let's go to my videos and we've got the one that i just is
this the one i just took must be
and let's just play it back so let's uh here actually why don't we why don't we
capture me am i am i aiming at myself that looks really good am i doing it am
i doing it i can't tell i should go this way this way
crazy russian's trying to show me where to point it i'm basically here i'm
talking to myself through fantastic okay well thank you for
checking out my quick product tour of the blackberry playbook don't forget to
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for you guys before we wrap up here so here it is next to the ipad 2 and i also
happen to have an ASUS transformer tablet that i can put next to it as well
just so that you guys have some good context for
the size and thickness of these devices so the playbook if you come down on this
angle you can see the playbook is actually very similar to the ipad 2. the
transformer is a little bit thicker and then i'm just going to throw my iphone
down on the table just for context there as well the iphone 4 is
just a touch and right in between the ipad 2 and the blackberry playbook okay
now i'm actually done don't forget to subscribe guys