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Just had a go on one am wow what a nice bit of kit. Does anyone on here have one? If so how does it cope with magazine PDFs ie ST mag?
Don't buy one without being damn sure it already does what you want as development may completely halt at any time.
That said, if they are still going as cheap as they were when I bought one they are a bargain. There is a .pdf reader (acrobat) installed as standard which is fine for looking at the full pictures 'n all version of STW mag for example though requires a bit of moving and zooming to read which is a bit of faff. I paid £1 for a reader app so I can read the other formats. That is great for reading text but those formats only tend to include a few pictures.
I bought mine for entertainment so use it for films, music, reading, web browsing (via wifi, mifi or phone). I don't think I could have got better VFM. I'd have preferred a decent spec Android tablet but that would have cost two to three times as much and I'd have gained, in reality, very little.
Question is, what do you want it to do?
Sorted
It is mainly going to be used for couch surfing, movies, video chat when I am away and showing photos. It feels like a solid sorted bit of kit and I was impressed by it more than any Android device. The only thing the iPad has over it for me is screen size, hence the PDF rendering question.
How is it with emails?
I thought it could only get those if you have a BB phone already?
The new os update has got rid of this and it now can do mail and social networking int he same client.
Got mine for £169 and it is fine for what I need. Have not tried to read a mag yet but fine on the kobo book reader.
Daughter thinks I should have got an iPad but I was not going to pay £500 for something to use on sofa or train.
Takes a long time to fire up and slower than my laptop - which is no surprise.
I have to be honest £300+ for part time use is also what puts me off iPad. Plus I use Linux so iTunes is a pain.
Ms orena45 has one and it's not too bad but...[url= http://www.techradar.com/news/mobile-computing/tablets/rim-dropping-android-app-support-on-blackberry-playbook-1075388 ]looks like it might be losing Android app support soon[/url] if that means anything to you
Works fine for me
As luck would have it, my mate was selling his hardly used 16GB one. I've leant it off him and I am very impressed. For £90 its amazing!!!