Blackberry Playbook better than iPad?

Experts claimed BlackBerry tablet is way better in multitasking than iPad. Neutrino (the powerful QNX operating system) allows the PlayBook to perform multitasking at amazing speed, allowing PlayBook users to keep all applications running simultaneously. Thus the reason the PlayBook has no 'Home' button as the iPad.

"The (PlayBook) operating system kicks ass,'' Roel Vertegaal, a human-computer interaction professor at Canada's Queen's University, told the Globe and Mail.

"If you want to do more than one thing at once and you want to do it very fast - if you want to do work and play together - the PlayBook shines better than the iPad, Mike Abramsky, managing director of software and wireless research at Toronto's RBC Dominion Securities.

The Ottawa-based QNX software company was acquired by RIM (maker of Blackberry) in April 2010 for $200 million.

Among systems being tested with the Playbook is the six-wheeled unmanned Crusher combat vehicle by the US Army, music, media and navigation systems in cars from BMW and Porsche.

Will we see the Playbook become a dominant force and topple iPad? Much of it will depends on the company strategies on ease of applications and other useful gadgets to be developed.

The BlackBerry PlayBook Unveiled!

The prediction from enthusiast that BlackBerry maker Research in Motion will come out with its own tablet is true. However, they've got it wrong on the name.

The new 7-inch, camera-packing tablet is called the BlackBerry PlayBook instead of the BlackPad! What kind of name is BlackPad? (duh!) CEO Mike Lazaridis showcased the long-rumored device during RIM’s BlackBerry developer conference in San Francisco.

RIM says the BlackBerry PlayBook will arrive in the U.S. early 2011, and overseas markets in the second quarter of next year. No pricing details available yet.

More details:
0.9-pound tablet
9.7mm (or 0.4 inch) thick
rumoured to comes with pair of cameras: a 5-megapixel camera in the back, and a 3MP lens in front
capable of recording HD video
resolution of 1024 by 600
capacitive multitouch display - good for multi-finger gestures as punching and zooming.

The PlayBook will run on new tablet OS by QNX Software Systems powered by a 1GHz dual-core processor with a whopping 1GB of onboard RAM (iPad only has 256MB!).
Support multitasking and Flash as well as multimedia-friendly HTML5 Web standards.

The PlayBook will feature Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support, both 3G and 4G versions is in the pipeline. Expect "nonproprietary" microUSB and micro-HDMI ports, with the PlayBook capable of running full-on 1080p video via HDMI.

The PlayBook can be a BlackBerry companion (or "amplified" BlackBerry) in addition to a stand-alone slate.

The new QNX OS will definitely be interesting with all the PlayBook features that comes with it.

Will it be the best tablet ever and shove off the Apple's iPad? This we've got to see!