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Blackberry playbook 7
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alan1302
06-11-2012
Originally Posted by LostFool:
“News about a 3G version of the Playbook coming to the UK

http://www.zdnet.com/uk/long-overdue...uk-7000006896/

To make any impact this really should have been on sale 6 months ago and much cheaper. Who is going to pay that much for a 3G Playbook when the Wifi-only ones are being sold at giveaway prices?”

Scary price

No chance of that ond doing much especially with the non-3G one being so much cheaper
slick1two
06-11-2012
Originally Posted by alan1302:
“Scary price

No chance of that ond doing much especially with the non-3G one being so much cheaper”

I gotta admit, that is a strange one. Price nakes no sense, Should have been just a smaller markup on the wifi only models. These won't really sell over the cheaper ones. Strange decision there.
Rodney McKay
06-11-2012
Blackberry and marketing sense parted ways long ago
Schadenfreud
07-11-2012
Have just sold the wife's iPAD 1 for £150 and am off to buy her a playbook tomorrow.

Freeeeedom!!!!
Glawster2002
07-11-2012
Originally Posted by alan1302:
“You can still sideload even with the latest 2.1 update on the OS so there are quite a few Android apps that you can use and god site to get them from is here:

http://goodereader.com/apps/playbook...-apps/?did=185

For what I want a tablet for it does everything I want and it's a quick and easy device to use.”

I have had my Playbook for well over a year now and for what I want a tablet for it is perfect. I'm not interested in millions of apps, I just want a quick convenient way to getting e-mail, surfing the web, etc, without the need to fire up my laptop, and the Playbook does that very, very, well.
mancghirl
10-11-2012
Originally Posted by Rodney McKay:
“Blackberry and marketing sense parted ways long ago”

True. They've got problems.

Tried the Playbook for a few weeks when I was waiting for the iPad Mini to launch. Nice little device, good size, felt quality in the hand. 64GB of storage for £130 was a decent price.

RIM are claiming that their new (overdue) operating system will run on the Playbook, and it is due out in the next quarter so maybe worth picking up a PB at these prices and waiting to see.

Sad to see a once great company falling off the pace like this, it seems to be going the way of the formerly mighty Nokia.
Schadenfreud
10-11-2012
After a few days of getting to grips with the UI after her iPAD, the wife loves her BB PB. Being able to transfer files to it wirelessly wherever she leaves it is a big bonus.
The only niggle with it is the inability to play all film formats, as she loves her Vampire/Supernatural/Grimm/Haven programs. The 64Gb definitely comes in handy.
Rodney McKay
10-11-2012
Originally Posted by Schadenfreud:
“After a few days of getting to grips with the UI after her iPAD, the wife loves her BB PB. Being able to transfer files to it wirelessly wherever she leaves it is a big bonus.
The only niggle with it is the inability to play all film formats, as she loves her Vampire/Supernatural/Grimm/Haven programs. The 64Gb definitely comes in handy.”

Try installing Freemake video converter on your PC. This has a default file convesion for Blackberry and the Playbook. I've used it to convert a couple of video files that although they played on the Playbook had a habit of freezing. Once converted they ran fine.

http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/
clonmult
10-11-2012
Originally Posted by Schadenfreud:
“After a few days of getting to grips with the UI after her iPAD, the wife loves her BB PB. Being able to transfer files to it wirelessly wherever she leaves it is a big bonus.
The only niggle with it is the inability to play all film formats, as she loves her Vampire/Supernatural/Grimm/Haven programs. The 64Gb definitely comes in handy.”

MP4 video is fine, either in an AVI or .MP4 wrapper .... the main catch is audio, it only supports MP3 - it doesn't support AAC.

Found a lot of videos where I'd get picture, but no sound. In those cases, just had to recode the audio (avidemux to the rescue). The additional benefit of just recoding the audio (and copying the video stream) is that its a *lot* faster than having to recode the whole file.
Schadenfreud
12-11-2012
Originally Posted by Rodney McKay:
“Try installing Freemake video converter on your PC. This has a default file convesion for Blackberry and the Playbook. I've used it to convert a couple of video files that although they played on the Playbook had a habit of freezing. Once converted they ran fine.

http://www.freemake.com/free_video_converter/”

Thanks for the input, I could use a converter but frankly I just cba with it all.
MX player plays pretty much everything I've thrown at it on my Nexus 7 and I just would have liked something similar for the PB.
Having said that, for the last two days everything she's downloaded has run without any problems, so I'll hold off for a while before I drag my weary carcass to the convertion process.

Thanks anyway both of you.
slick1two
12-11-2012
Originally Posted by Schadenfreud:
“Thanks for the input, I could use a converter but frankly I just cba with it all.
MX player plays pretty much everything I've thrown at it on my Nexus 7 and I just would have liked something similar for the PB.
Having said that, for the last two days everything she's downloaded has run without any problems, so I'll hold off for a while before I drag my weary carcass to the convertion process.

Thanks anyway both of you. ”

Seems to support a lot of formats, video and Audio according to this.

http://docs.blackberry.com/en/smartp..._(English).pdf

To be honest I've not had any videos fail on me yet, that I've uploaded to the PB.
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