The Playbook Will be the First Original Tablet with a Facebook App
Mark Zuckerberg ever said the iPad was not a mobile device and therefore had not created an original application for Facebook. Tablet users can browse the apple that Safariel network via browser or through the limited app for iPhone.
However, today at the BlackBerry World conference held in Florida has been announced that the all successful playbook Research In Motion is the first tablet in having an original application for Facebook. The app is supposed to be available before the end of May.
As the mobile versions, Facebook for Playbook to view and add friends, browse our feed and the walls of our friends, send messages and chat. But also you can view videos without leaving the feed, as we do from a computer, and search from friends in common.
The important thing is that all controls are very similar to what we find when browsing from a computer. And we can hold conversations in the chat in Facebook without having to close the pages you’re visiting. That is, are the advantages of using a screen much larger than a mobile.
An Overview of the Facebook Application of the Playbook
Structure based QNX Neutrino, the OS of the playbook of RIM (accusing a lackluster start in the USA, by the way) offers an interface that can easily be described as polished.
Obviously if we wait to have the tablet to issue a final opinion on the thing, the preview of his official Facebook application available today leaves us all hope for the best case. To realize it for yourself, go in after the jump!
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Mail Client, Calendar and Contacts for Playbook
The “downside” of the playbook is that when it was released, she will not have a native mail client or even a calendar or contact manager, this will require going through a BlackBerry device and synchronize two devices together. However, RIM seems to be working on that and should propose soon after its release (April 19) an update that would fill this gap if we are to believe our colleagues from Crackberry. Stay tuned.
To recall, the BlackBerry offers a playbook multitouch capacitive touchscreen 7 “(1024 x 600 WSVGA), a dual-core processor 1GHz (Cortex-A9), 1GB of RAM, two HD cameras (3 MP Crane, 5 PM back), a capacity of 16GB, 32GB or 64GB, USB, 1080p HDMI output, Bluetooth 2.1, WiFi n, a GPS, a 5300mAh battery, support for WebKit / HTML 5, Adobe Flash Player Adobe AIR Mobile, Adobe Reader, POSIX, OpenGL, Java and compatibility H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV (video up to 1080p), MP3, AAC, WMA, all under the new BlackBerry Tablet OS (made in QNX) with multitasking AppStore SDK for developers …! Its dimensions are 130 x 194 x 10mm for 425g. It will be available in the U.S. and Canada April 19 in the next versions of 16GB, 32GB and 64GB for a price that starts at $ 499 without a subscription!