Whittie
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Are they shit? £129 seems good and a price you could sell on at easy enough judging by ebay.
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/blackberry-playbook-tablet-pc-64-gb-10647930-pdt.html?srcid=369&xtor=AL-1&cmpid=aff~HotUKDeals~#longDesc
Whats general web browsing on it like?
[Edited on 06-09-2012 by Whittie]
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Dom
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Apps is about the only let down, other than that they are decent and the build quality is spot on. Can't argue for £130 and it'll beat any Android tablet in that price range!
Edit - OS10 is also confirmed for the playbook, which could be a big step up.
[Edited on 06-09-2012 by Dom]
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Cavey
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Could you get rid of the Blackberry stuff and put android on it at all?
Seems very cheap for what it is
Saying that, the 16gb and 32gb are both £10 and £20 less respectively and they're only saving £80 or so, so the 64 was obviously very highly priced in the first place
[Edited on 06-09-2012 by Cavey]
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Cavey
Could you get rid of the Blackberry stuff and put android on it at all?
I remember reading about an Android port on XDA but i don't think it actually went anywhere.
To be honest though as a web/reader it's pretty decent, only real downside is the lack of apps compared to Android/iOS (although there are still a few decent things to be had for their app store). Depends what you want from a tablet though.
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Sam
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Whittie just get an iPad FFS
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Sam
Whittie just get an iPad FFS
An extra £270 is a fair old amount though; depends how important 'apps' are too you are i guess, even then there are still a handful of decent 'apps' for the Playbook.
Whittie - Get down to Curry's or similar and have a play with one, it's a bargain for what it is though.
Edit - If you want to view what apps are available, then look on AppWorld - http://appworld.blackberry.com/webstore/?
[Edited on 06-09-2012 by Dom]
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Cavey
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Yeah, the apps would be what I was wanting it for, got a 15 month old who loves playing with my mums iPad, and all the apps on there
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Whittie
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Sam - I bought an iPad. This would purely be for browsing in work, that plus500  , sky go and spotify.
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Whittie
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Anybody got one and think they're shit?
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Dom
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Just go and play with one on your lunch or buy it from PCWorld/Dixons/Curry's etc and take it back if you don't like it - simples.
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Sam
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I thought they will only take it back if it's faulty or unopened?
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Whittie
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quote:
Originally posted by Dom
Just go and play with one on your lunch or buy it from PCWorld/Dixons/Curry's etc and take it back if you don't like it - simples.
Says they have none in stock, so don't know whether I can be arsed trecking over there if they've got none in 
quote:
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I thought they will only take it back if it's faulty or unopened?
Might buy the "Whatever Happens" on it, boom 2 years later doesn't exist and the new one comes out
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
quote:
Originally posted by Dom
Just go and play with one on your lunch or buy it from PCWorld/Dixons/Curry's etc and take it back if you don't like it - simples.
Says they have none in stock, so don't know whether I can be arsed trecking over there if they've got none in
Phones, useful inventions them 
Sam - I thought they all have a 7 day no-quibble return policy. Failing that, see if Argos stock it; they certainly will take it back.
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Whittie
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Bought one. Internet and websites are better on it than Ipad.
App store is shit though
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Dom
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It's the App store that lets it down, as everything else on the device is spot on. RIM are pushing hard for developers for OS10, so i suspect things will improve over the next few months.
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Whittie
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Yeah big time. If it had the likes of Sky Go and Spotify it would be a hell of a lot better. Oh well.
It's a nice size and websites look so good on it / load quicker, which I like.
Not downloaded any apps on it yet.
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AlunJ
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I got one the other week, it's alright piece of kit for browsing, very well built. It hasn't got the apps of the ipad but then I suppose that's not the target market.
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Whittie
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What apps you got for it Al?
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Went out and got one off the back of this thread. It's a nice piece of kit; well built, feels nice, great screen. And it works - the Blackberry operating system is responsive and intuitive and works. It's a ruddy bargain.
Having had three generations of iPad (vintage iPad 1, iPad 2 and the latest one) - I think the web browsing is actually better on the playbook than any other tablet / touchscreen device I've used.
App selection is poo, but if all you need is internets, email, facebook, twitter, linkedin with a bit of media player action thrown in for good measure, you can't really go wrong.
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Doug
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They are crap.
Can they even do email yet?
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Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug
They are crap.
Can they even do email yet?
Yup 
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Whittie
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug
They are crap.
Can they even do email yet?
 I have a new ipad and one of these, and they are not crap.
They're better than the iPad for web browsing as Rob, Dom & I reiterate above.
Great bit of kit in my opinion, decent size too.
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Doug
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I tried to play Doom on it. Didn't like it.
Wasn't interested in it enough to try it more
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Rich H
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How does it handle emails - ie. what do you use as a client? From what I gather it doesn't have the same set up as a BB phone does?
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AlunJ
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quote:
Originally posted by Whittie
What apps you got for it Al?
Havent really got any tbh.The only thing I hate is no proper Twitter app and sometimes inserting the cursor to type is a pain. Supposed to be adding full bbm without using blackberry bridge in the next version update.
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