BlackBerry® smartphone makers Research In Motion (RIM) have unveiled their brand new tablet device, the BlackBerry® PlayBook, competing with Apple’s (very popular) iPad and the newly released Samsung Galaxy Tab.

With business users in mind, the PlayBook offers the enterprise features as found on their smartphone range. The PlayBook offers users users the full enterprise compatibility they would expect from a BlackBerry device, and a whole lot more. With a large high-resolution multitouch screen, real multitasking capabilities, Adobe® Flash® (which the iPad has been criticised for not sporting), HD video (with a built-in HDMI port) and other multimedia features, all on a brand new touchscreen user interface, it has fantastic potential to take the business world by storm.

Also, with such high-performance specs, we expect that RIM will be investing more into their third-party application market, opening the doors to more apps such as productivity tools, books, magazines and, of course, games. Competitor Apple has reported record profits from their iPhone/iPad App Store, recently celebrating over two billion app downloads, and it appears that RIM may be hoping to take a bite out of the market.

Here at Veecom, we are really excited about this product. While there have been a few newcomers to the tablet market, the PlayBook is the first to show a real focus towards business users, integrating their established enterprise capabilties into the device.

Here are some technical specifications.

Size:
Screen: 7” LCD display, 1024 x 600 screen resolution
Dimensions: 130mm x 194mm x 10mm)
Weight: 400g
Web features:
Full Adobe® Flash® 10.1 enabled
Built-in support for HTML 5
Wi-Fi® 802.11 a/b/g/n
Powerful, user-friendly QNX technology (that the World Wide Web runs on)

Business features:
Out-of-the-box compatibility with BlackBerry® Enterprise Server
Seamless pairing with your BlackBerry® smartphone
3G access via existing BlackBerry smartphone service plan
Corporate data access
Secure and manageable
Push technology
Email, calendar, BBM™, tasks, documents and more
BlackBerry security and data efficiency

High-performance tablet specs:
1 GHz dual-core processor
1GB RAM
Symmetrical dual-core processing
Rapid development environment
Reliable BlackBerry Tablet OS, powered by QNX technology
Supports POSIX OS, SMP, Open GL, BlackBerry® 6, WebKit, Adobe® Flash®, Java® and Adobe Mobile AIR
Multi-touch capacitive screen
Built-in microUSB connector
On-screen keyboard
Multitasking Crystal clear HD display
Rich stereo sound
3MP high definition forward-facing camera
5MP high definition rear-facing camera
Codec support for superior media playback, creation and video calling
1080p HD video; H.264, MPEG4, WMV HDMI video output Micro USB, Micro HDMI, and DLNA media streaming.