Blackberry Pilipinas holds meet up for the launch of Blackberry Playbook

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Flow Galindez

Last August 25, Blackberry Pilipinas (Philippines) organized a meet up among Blackberry users and aficionados in celebration of the release of the Blackberry Playbook in the country. The said event happened at the Marriott Hotel and it was participated by different personalities including Rovilson Fernandez who is the host of the event, Geral Ang who is the Head of Digital Marketing, Asia Pacific at Research In Motion (RIM), Rich Herrera, Rich Hardin, tech columnist in both online and broadsheets, bloggers and avid BB users.

RIM's Gerald Ang joining the Blackberry Pilipinas meet up

I had the chance to play the Blackberry Playbook that is currently out now in the market. This 7.6 inches wide and 5.1 inches tall multimedia tablet of Blackberry only weighs 0.9 lbs or 425 grams and has the thickness of 0.4 inches or 10 mm. It has two cameras; 5mp (rear camera) and 3mp (front camera) and has 1080P HD screen for a crystal clear and high quality images for photos, videos and games. It also has HDMI connection for those who wanted to watch videos or play games on a bigger HDTV screen. It connects to the internet through WI-FI connection and has 1 GHz dual core processor for faster processing. The battery lasted up to 10 hours and connects to your Blackberry Smartphone through Bridge application.

Blackberry Playbook and Blackberry Torch on display

Here’s the complete specs of Blackberry Playbook that is available on 16GB, 32 GB and 64GB.

Dimensions: 194 x 130 x 10 mm or 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches

Weight: 425 g or 0.9 lbs

Display: 600 x 1024 pixels, 7.0 inches touch screen with accelerometer sensor for auto-rotate

Camera: 5mp rear camera, 3pm front camera

Connection: WLAN – Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Bluetooth – Yes, v2.1 with A2DP, EDR, and no 3G/GPRS connection yet

Processor: BlackBerry Tablet OS with 1GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU, PowerVR SGX540 GPU, TI OMAP 4430 chipset. Optional 16/32/64 GB storage, 1 GB RAM with up to 10 hours battery life (Li-Po 5300 mAh).

As everyone is excited in the release of Blackberry Playbook along with the reign of Blackberry Smartphones in the market along with the affordable data plans which I am enjoying right now. Blackberry gives the freedom for social media aficionado like me to enjoy unlimited tweeting, facebook status, instant messaging through BBM and others like Yahoo and Gtalk wherever and whenever we wanted.

For updates about the promos and events visit Blackberry Pilipinas Official Facebook Page and I’m looking forward for more activities like this in the future.