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Did you get a PlayBook today?  My 32GB arrived from Staples around lunchtime today (my girlfriend will be getting the one that RIM gave me).  While the App World did transfer all of my downloads to the new PlayBook, I as hoping that it would install them on it’s own. But this article isn’t about [...]

For those of you who don’t follow me on twitter, RIM gave everybody who went to their New York launch party on Thursday got a free PlayBook.  I’ve now been playing with it for a few days now, I’m ready to share my impressions.  There have been a whole lot of reviews that came out [...]

With the PlayBook release only hours away, I thought now would be a good time to list the apps that I really want to come out for it.  Since most of these are from bigger companies, I would not be surprised to see them all wait until the native SDK is out.  It’s worth noting [...]

On today’s quarterly earnings conference call, which ended minutes ago, you can bet that the topic of Android support on the PlayBook came up more than once.  RIM co-CEO Jim Balsillie shed some light on the decision, calling the PlayBook the “no compromise platform” which basically means that if you want Android apps, you have [...]

I can still remember the first two words I added to my AutoText list on my first BlackBerry, and why I did it.  I remember continually typing the same two words fairly often, whether I was composing an email or text message.  The two words were “the” and “for”.  These three-letter words were not difficult to type, but there [...]

A few nights ago I was online at the user web site my.blackberry.com where I was desperately trying to explain to a user (I’ll call him “John”) that his stolen BlackBerry would not be located by the police, or his local phone company, or RIM.  He insisted that one of these groups “should” locate it via the [...]

No trumpets sounded on February 14, 2011, when RIM announced that 27 more countries now have access to BlackBerry App World, but this is a big deal.  As someone who spends quite a lot of time responding to BlackbBerry user-inquiries regarding App World on  the “My BlackBerry” website, users around the world who did not yet have [...]

Let me begin by saying I hope, I really hope, that AT&T releases their version of OS 6 for the Bold 9700. Ever since I got my Torch 9800 I couldn’t wait to get OS 6 on my Bold 9700. Since the 9700 has such a small screen in comparison to the Torch, the new browser [...]

This has very little to do with BlackBerry, but I wanted to point this out because I think it is really cool, and it’s possible for BlackBerry to do this in the future.  Yesterday, when HP announced their new round of WebOS-powered phones and tablets, they also introduced a cool new feature using their Touchstone [...]

On the right side of the site, I’ve put up a countdown until the expected launch of the PlayBook (it’s counting down to March 31 because that’s the end of Q1).  As you can see, we are now less than 2 months away from when RIM said we can expect the PlayBook to launch, even [...]