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.