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Image gallery: Inside RIM's Playbook tablet
4/21/2011 6:15 PM EDT
Earlier this week, UBM TechInsights performed a teardown analysis of Research in Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry Playbook media tablet, revealing that in addition to the Omap 4430 applications processor the product also features a four-in-one combo connectivity chip and power management and converter chips from Texas Instruments Inc.
What follows is a step-by-step image gallery produced during the teardown analysis, showing the innards of the Playbook at every step of the way. UBM TechInsights is a division of United Business media, the publisher of EE Times.
Click on image to enlarge.
Next: PlayBook unpackaged
What follows is a step-by-step image gallery produced during the teardown analysis, showing the innards of the Playbook at every step of the way. UBM TechInsights is a division of United Business media, the publisher of EE Times.
Click on image to enlarge.
A look at everything that comes in the Playbook package. According to UBM TechInsights, RIM has gone for a simple packaging construct similar to Apple Inc.'s iPad.
Next: PlayBook unpackaged
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t.alex
4/21/2011 11:47 PM EDT
Any idea about the OS used by this tablet and the available applications?
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kinnar
4/22/2011 2:40 PM EDT
It is a Blackberry proprietary Tablet OS, one can get more details for here, http://us.blackberry.com/developers/tablet/
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Harsha79
4/23/2011 8:56 AM EDT
QNX OS customized to meet tablet requirements
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Frank Eory
4/22/2011 1:16 PM EDT
The Bill of Materials is interesting -- zero overlap between the BOMs of the iPad2 and the Playbook. With all the new tablets coming out, perhaps there is room for every semi vendor to get a piece of the action :)
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kinnar
4/22/2011 2:43 PM EDT
The Blackberry Playbook disassembly pics are very nicely pictured, and give very good insight of the device. But the representation is very poor it reloads the entire page taking too much time.
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hm
4/22/2011 7:08 PM EDT
RIM (and TI) has done wonderful work. I had a chance to use it and I loved it. Kudos to them. Get more applications and lower the price to make Apple uncomfortable.
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elctrnx_lyf
4/24/2011 9:43 AM EDT
It would be good to see all pictures on one page instead of many pages. This should definitely provide a good start for blackberry tablets. They should concentrate more on application development to actually beat the apple ipad2 and Samsung galaxy tablets.
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DTalbot
4/26/2011 6:47 AM EDT
I use the print view to see all pictures on one page.
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elctrnx_lyf
4/24/2011 9:44 AM EDT
I think TI also can provide a performance scalable hardware for RIM to produce higher performance tablets in future.
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wilber_xbox
4/25/2011 1:01 PM EDT
playbook is quite an interesting name. It reminds me of the toddler's sketchbook :-)
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wilber_xbox
4/25/2011 1:04 PM EDT
What is the price of playbook? how does it fare with the other tablets such as iPad, galaxy?
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dylan.mcgrath
4/25/2011 2:23 PM EDT
Price- you can buy one from shopblackberry.com. 16Gb=$499, 32GB=$599, 64GB=$699. It's pretty similar to--or I guess slightly less--than pricing for iPad2. There are some less expensive tablets out there (and a few more expensive ones), but it seems clear that RIM is aiming directly at the Ipad's target market. You can get a Samsung Galaxy Tab for less if you sign up for a two-year service contract.
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Charles.Desassure
4/25/2011 8:43 PM EDT
Very interesting. Now, from a business point of view. Why would I need this again?
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dylan.mcgrath
4/25/2011 9:24 PM EDT
That's the million dollar question, isn't it? When the iPad first came out, many immediately dismissed for the enterprise and said it would only work as a CE gadget. I think there are a lot of people that still believe that. However, there are those that say that tablets will be big in the enterprise space, and obviously RIM is banking that this is true. I don't own a tablet. But I could see where it would offer certain advantages over a laptop in my line of work. The weight would make it easier the lug around, and the always on, always connected experience would save time. I could see this product coming in handy at work, but not as a replacement for my laptop. So I think it will be a while before we see tablets issued as standard equipment in most industries.
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ww250
5/1/2011 11:31 AM EDT
The implied value for the BB tablet OS is around 150 dollars, is this reasonable?
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