New BlackBerry PlayBook owner. Please advise !

[maltloaf]

Rooted and marketed a friend's Playbook yesterday as he was tearing his hair out about it. It was as I thought, none of the tuts quite have every step in them, got there in the end though

[wildbilly]

Malt Loaf how long did it take you to root? Also do you dual boo or do you chose android from the playbook menu?

[sparkymf]

Malt Loaf how long did it take you to root? Also do you dual boo or do you chose android from the playbook menu?

Hey mate no dual boot at the moment, by rooting the playbook the only advantage at the min is usb support and android market, but expect this to get exploited over the next few months, as for how to root, there are a few links posted in this thread to get it done, and it doesnt take long mate, happy rooting!!!

[sparkymf]

Just a heads up guys, apparently there is gonna be a new feature revealed at CES2012 for the playbook, a lot of guys at RIM are very excited about it fingers xssed that its worthwhile....

[Conkers]

CES 2012 attendees who visit the BlackBerry booth at CES (South Hall 3 Booth # 30326) will get a sneak peek of upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 functionality including:

Advanced Messaging Experience:

-- New unified inbox - a powerful unified inbox within the built-in messaging app allows users to quickly manage their personal email and work email accounts as well as the messaging capabilities of popular social networking sites like Twitter(R), LinkedIn(R) and others - all in one place.

-- Multi-tasking within email - by extending the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet's multitasking capabilities to 'tabbed email', users are able to reference one email while they compose another.

-- Rich-text email composing and editing - new features within the Messages app enable users to benefit from full support of fonts, formatting and editing of email threads, offering a robust email experience similar to that of a PC or laptop.

-- Inbox management tools - allows for powerful inbox search across multiple email accounts, as well as the ability to set out-of-office messages and email signatures directly from their tablet.

Deep Integration of Social Relationships:

-- Innovative people-centric calendar - in addition to standard calendar features that help users plan and organize their day, the powerful built-in Calendar app provides the unique ability for users to view their calendar by who they are meeting with that day and review valuable information about that contact. Information is consolidated automatically from social networking sites about that contact and/or their company.

-- Relationship-centric contacts app - more than just an address book, the new built-in Contacts app serves as a social hub - merging and consolidating information from multiple sources (including email and social channels) into one contact file for each person in their address book. Each contact file includes information such as recent status updates, conversations, related news articles and mutual contacts that are kept up-to-date automatically.

Making Your BlackBerry Smartphone and Tablet a Powerful Pair:

-- Remote control for the BlackBerry PlayBook - new BlackBerry(R) Bridge(TM) features allow a user's BlackBerry(R) smartphone to act as a keyboard and mouse for their BlackBerry PlayBook - effectively providing a wireless remote control for their tablet. Perfect for pausing a movie when a BlackBerry PlayBook is plugged in to a TV with an HDMI connection, or for using the tactile QWERTY keyboard on a BlackBerry smartphone to compose a message or document on the BlackBerry PlayBook.

-- Opening content on the BlackBerry PlayBook - BlackBerry Bridge allows you to take documents, emails, multimedia files and web pages found on your smartphone and open them quickly and directly on the BlackBerry PlayBook so you can use the larger high resolution display for an optimized viewing and editing experience.

Improved Mobile Productivity:

-- Updated document editing capabilities - updated Documents To Go(R) functionality makes it easier for users to create and edit documents while on the go. Improvements include: enhanced support for the virtual keyboard, the ability to view and update embedded charts and chart sheets within spreadsheets, a new formula wizard with over 100 functions as well as the ability to edit presentations including text, bullets and formatting.

-- Print To Go application - this app allows users to wirelessly "print" from their laptop or PC directly to their BlackBerry PlayBook over Wi- Fi(R). A digital printout is created on the BlackBerry PlayBook so that users can view, sort and manage their digital printouts as though they were physical sheets of paper. The Print To Go app is the perfect way to consolidate info from various related sources like a hotel web confirmation, an airline boarding pass email, the show event schedule or even a map of the destination city and make them available for quick access on the go.

-- Increased control and manageability of corporate data - the combination of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 with BlackBerry Mobile Fusion and BlackBerry Balance will help to overcome many barriers to widespread tablet deployment, including device manageability and the ability to secure, manage and control confidential corporate information on the device. Plus BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 supports dedicated shelf space inside the BlackBerry(R) App World(TM) storefront to allow IT departments to control distribution of enterprise applications and to make those approved enterprise applications easily available to the organization's end users.

New Apps and Content:

-- Your favorite apps plus thousands more - many exciting new applications built for the BlackBerry PlayBook will be made available on BlackBerry App World with the availability of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0. From gaming and lifestyle to business and productivity, RIM is showcasing some of the latest apps available for the BlackBerry PlayBook at CES 2012 including Angry Birds, Cut the Rope, Groupon, Thomson Reuters, Zinio and many more.

-- Video store - a catalog of thousands of movies and TV shows will be available through the integrated BlackBerry Video Storefront(i) with new releases to be made available for purchase or rent the same day they come out on DVD. Users will be able to begin watching media as soon as they start to download the file, so users won't have to wait for the entire file to transfer before they can enjoy great entertainment on the tablet's high resolution display, or on an HDTV via the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet's HDMI output.

-- Enhanced web browsing - the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 browser also includes a new reading view, which is designed to make web sites even easier to enjoy by eliminating page clutter at the touch of a button. What's left is a cleaner format that is great for reading online news articles, blog posts, or websites that contain heavy amounts of text. Availability

The BlackBerry(R) PlayBook OS 2.0 software update will be available as a free download for all BlackBerry PlayBook users and is expected to be available in February 2012.

Source: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/rim...012-01-09-8520

[maltloaf]

hmm, nothing groundbreaking there and no mention at all of the Android runtime ?

[sparkymf]

Must agree nothing ground breaking but put that on a tablet costing 169 quid and wow it becomes pretty imppressive, but i will wait to see what development comes from the android integration.
Without sounding like a huge Rim fan i can only see this getting better with more and more devs getting on board now.

[wildbilly]

ive tried to down grade mybplaybook without much luck.I have version 7blackberry desktop. The problem seems to be it dosnt down load the firmware into the loader cache. It says it downloading but nothing happens.Ive left it for hours and nothing downloads. Anyone got any suggestions? Thanks

[Zoots]

a huge Rim fan

snigger

[sparkymf]

snigger

LOL i can see where this is going

[plug1]

I'll vouch for sparky on that one , he loves the rim ....
call me mate. To let me know when you can sort my rim out for me ..lol
plug.

[pumpman]

http://www.prweb.com/releases/Splash...web9095919.htm

nice looking app for the price

[maltloaf]

splashtop is great i use it on android to control my macbook

[maltloaf]

bought splash top, it works great, even for video and audio. quick tip, to access the keyboard, swipe towards the centre from bottom left. Took me a while to discover that !

not quite sure how $5 equates to £5.60 but still worth the cash imho

[spraky]

not quite sure how $5 equates to £5.60

Strange, it's €4.50 in our valuable currency !

[pumpman]

I was wondering the same thing unless its something to do with paying through paypal will be interesting to take it away from the house and try it from another location

[maltloaf]

Actually, the final screen on app world said £5.60 but it seems I've only been charged £5. I paid via paypal too.

oh well no big deal. Seems fine. If I get a chance tonight I'll try it from work over 3g

[emu]

Actually, the final screen on app world said £5.60 but it seems I've only been charged £5. I paid via paypal too.

oh well no big deal. Seems fine. If I get a chance tonight I'll try it from work over 3g

did you manage to try it with 3g yet?

[wildbilly]

Dingleberry 3 is now out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wildbilly]

ive used dingleberry 3, It says it was successful. Now what? Dosnt seem any different, I thought it would have at least somthing different on it