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BlackBerry PlayBook - Built for Business

Ultra-portable and super powerful, the BlackBerry® PlayBook™ is the first professional-grade tablet designed to meet the needs of the most demanding business users.

Ready for business right out of the box

  • View documents, spreadsheets and presentations
  • Access dynamic business reports and dashboards
  • Browse the web in high-fidelity with support for Adobe Flash
  • Built for multitasking
Multitasking abilities that go beyond just app switching
  • Move between apps quickly and easily as they can continue to run in the background
  • Seamless integration and security
Simple integration with BlackBerry smartphones and BlackBerry Infrastructure

Users running BlackBerry Device Software 5.0 or later on their BlackBerry smartphone, you can connect their BlackBerry PlayBook tablet to their smartphone to access email, calendars, BlackBerry Messenger, files, and other data directly from their tablet. The Playbook also provides enterprises with:
  • IT policies control whether the tablet can access data on BlackBerry smartphones
  • Secure VPN access to information behind your organization's firewall
See and interact with information already on a BlackBerry smartphone1 using BlackBerry Bridge technology:
  • Read and respond to email
  • View and modify attachments
  • Check calendar information or book appointments
  • Look up contacts
  • Create tasks and memos
  • Everything stays stored safely on the BlackBerry smartphone
  • Browse the web using an existing BlackBerry smartphone data plan


Now there's a professional-grade tablet built to offer you the high-performance experience you demand. 
  • Get started easily — simply swipe-to-wake
  • Blazing speed and tremendous power in a tablet format
  • 1 GHz dual-core processor
  • BlackBerry Tablet OS with symmetric multiprocessing
  • 1 GB RAM
  • Powerful, user-friendly QNX technology: It's what the World Wide Web runs on
  • True simultaneous multitasking — apps run simultaneously and in real time Accelerometer, 6-axis motion sensing (gyroscope) and digital compass (magnetometer) GPS
  • Micro USB port

Uncompromised Web
  • With the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, you get access to the full web, not a scaled down mobile version.
  • Games, media, apps and all the rich content the real Internet has to offer
  • Full Adobe Flash 10.1 enabled
  • Built-in support for HTML 5
  • No-compromise rendering of text, graphics and video
 
Connect Anytime, Anywhere

Wirelessly connect to your BlackBerry smartphone1 for real time access to email, calendar, address book and task list, Documents To Go and BBM, using BlackBerry Bridge BlackBerry PlayBook tablets will offer support for high speed wide area networks as follows:

  • BlackBerry PlayBook with Wi-Fi 802.1 a/b/g/n (available today)
  • BlackBerry 4G PlayBook with Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n + WiMax
  • BlackBerry 4G PlayBook with Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n + LTE
  • BlackBerry 4G PlayBook with Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n + HSPA+
  • All BlackBerry PlayBook tablets support Bluetooth 2.1+EDR
 
Video chat Like Never Before 
  • Crystal clear high resolution display
  • Dual video cameras 

Marvel at Your Media 
  • Don't settle for amateur grade multimedia. The BlackBerry PlayBook offers a high fidelity multimedia experience.
  • 3 MP 1080p HD forward-facing camera
  • 5 MP 1080p HD rear-facing camera
  • Stereo speakers and stereo microphones
  • Crystal clear video; H.264, MPEG4, WMV HDMI video output
  • Micro HDMI port for 1080p playback
  • Music Store by 7 Digital, BlackBerry Podcast app
 
Rich Application Ecosystem
  • Rapid development environment
  • Reliable BlackBerry Tablet OS, powered by QNX technology
  • Supports POSIX OS, SMP, Open GL, WebKit, Adobe Flash and Adobe Mobile AIR