Future big PlayBook?
Hi,
Not sure whether this is the correct forum to ask this, but...
Does anyone know if there are rumour of a 10 inches playbook in near future?
I want to buy a tablet and i'm not sure about the playbook screen size.
Thanks
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"SMPTE Calculator" timecode APP developer for BB10
This goes back to the statement someone mentioned earlier, as to how one uses the PB. 10" screens have been around for a while. I have a 10" piece of equipment and also a laptop, what I have found is that I use the PB much more easily when traveling or dynamic business meetings without carrying a laptop shoulder bag or saying "I will check when I get back to the office".
Are there still times that I need to use the laptop? Yes, but few and far between for my business. The size is just right because when i pull it out people don't believe that I can provide a quality answer or presentation from something i just pulled out of my suit jacket pocket. The 10" is nice, but i cannot remember an instance where the PB screen did not satisfy presentation needs. I think it comes down to what works for the individual...(now if RIM would just integrate the phone and give me an ear piece that hides in the ear to take and recieve calls)
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Future Things We Want Rim To Fix On The Playbook (Organized)
Well I cannot believe I just did this. I just went through the entire thread “Future Things we Want Rim to Fix On The Blackberry Playbook” (Found Here) yes all 16 pages. I made a list of all the features everyone requested in particular the more important ones / commonly requested and organized it in hopes RIM and PB developers and the like will come across this, and be able to quickly sift through what its users want. I will attempt to keep this updated as updates are released to solve these issues. Any suggestions feel free and I will edit the post. Please don’t spam this thread, let’s try to keep this thread organized. Remember this is for FEATURES. APPLICATION requests belong in the application request thread (Found Here).
These are not listed in any sort of importance, it’s just the list I compiled as I was sifting through the forum.
BlackBerry App World
Sort Applications by New, Popular, Most download, Highest Rated etc.
Sort Downloaded applications by Size, Name, Personal rating etc.
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Adobe Acrobat Reader enhancement/bring up to par (PDF Search, Highlighting, bookmarks, click links)
Open PDF in browser or support to auto-open PDF once downloaded (Should be an option to turn on/off)
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Ability to create custom folders for applications / home-screen icons
Better Bluetooth support (headsets, cars)
Recognition of an Email Address or Phone Number or Street Address in an Email/Browser/Application, if BB Phone is bridged then option to place call or launch email or maps should be available
Search Text in Doc to Go (Ctrl + F like feature)
Wireless Printing
Ability to delete stock applications
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Advanced Multi-Task options – Have two applications open side by side using gestures
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Since we all purchased this item for the Flash on the Go experience let make sure we have the following in the next OS update please
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We need a FILE MANAGER ASAP!
this to me is crucial cause i cant manage anything in terms of files right now on my playbook and i have 64GB of data i could store but there is no point of filling it all up if i cant even manage any files as of right now. its to the point that i rather store stuff in my BB smartphone than in my PB! which makes no sense!
Also,
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-Social feed app! that ill be amazing! or bridging the one i have on my BB smartphone!
-BB protect for PB is going to be necessary and mandatory over time! very important!
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Future Possibilities? Cool or Big Brother?
Hello. I help to manage and maintain a number of machines at my school through ARD. I was just wondering about future developments. Would ARD Admin users be able to see the output of the built in iSight cameras or have the audio piped out to the ARD Admin's machine?
I could see all of these possible developments as useful, however, how much is too much? I wonder what concerns individuals have about the present state of ARD privacy and future versions of ARD if such developments were to occur.Could you explain to me in a bit more detail the client side logs that can be used?
They're not very detailed but they allow you to at least track that something happened. I just connected to a machine at work via ARD and then I checked its system.log file. You can do this as a machine administrator by opening the Console application from /Applications/Utilities. In the upper left corner, click "Logs" and you'll see the system.log in the list on the left. I then used the Filter in the upper right corner to search for entries pertaining to "ARD".
This is what I have recorded (IP address and name are altered for security):
Mar 11 12:37:37 P85732 /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent: 'wsmith' (192.168.xxx.xxx) started ARD administration
Mar 11 12:37:39 P85732 /System/Library/CoreServices/RemoteManagement/ARDAgent.app/Contents/MacOS/ARDAg ent: 'wsmith' (192.168.xxx.xxx) started ARD administration
The contents of the two strings above are:
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What happened = started ARD administration (observe or control)
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Hope this helps! bill
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Tethering via USB between the Z10 and a laptop or PC & and few Comments About the Playbook Tethering
Tethering via USB between the Z10 and a laptop or PC can be a bit tricky.
On the Z10 do the following:
On the Z10 go to the Settings.
Go to Network Connections.
Go to Internet Tethering.
Select USB.
Turn on Tethering.
On the computer run the Blackberry Link software for the Z10:
Once the software starts, connect the Z10 via the USB cable to the PC.
Open the browser.
You should now be able to cruise the net, and do emails.
With the Playbook, the Bluetooth tethering does not yet work. This may be an OS or communications issue.
The best way to tether the Playbook for full speed and functions is using the WiFi option. Simply turn on the WiFi hot spot option and follow the instructions. The Playbook WiFi must also be properly set up. The Z10 USB and Bluetooth tethering mode must be turned off when using the WiFi mode. You can leave the base Bluetooth active on the Z10. There is a lot of available information about using the WiFi hot spot from the Z10. The process is very similar to the past models of Blackberry phones.
If you use the Bridge mode to tether, the Playbook email client software does not work very well. The browser will work fairly well, but slower with the Bridge mode. With WiFi the Playbook can brows at very high speed. With Bluetooth it is restricted to about 1.5 to 2.5 mb/sec. Take care that the WiFi mode burns through battery time very fast on both the Playbook and the Z10. Using the Bridge mode uses less power consumption than WiFi.
To use the Bridge mode, make sure the Playbook and the Z10 are first Bluetooth mated. Also the Bridge mode has to be set up between the devices. You will have to first install the Bridge software in to the phone for this to work.
I did extensive testing between the Z10 and the Playbook. They function well together as far as Internet and email are concerned, in consideration of using either tether or Bridge, depending on what you want to do.
From what I understand the Bridge mode uses some compression. It will not be as fast as using WiFi or Bluetooth tethering. The data cost using the Bridge mode is probably a bit lower because of the compression.
As far as the Bridge phone options are concerned, these features are not yet available. From what I read in a number of articles there are going to soon be some updates coming out to fix this. The Bridge options are a big part of the tablet application with the Blackberry phone. This was the big original application point of this tablet, otherwise any generic tablet would do the job.
Jerry G.From the look of this thread it appears that no one outside of Canada uses an OS 10 BB yet. 247 views and no comments or help ? I'm sure I'm not the only BB user that uses Tether. If BB doesn't care to help then this will just be another nail in the corporate coffin that has been projected.
Maybe we need different forums for US users as the Canadians don't seem to have the same issues or cares.
The whole idea of the app Tether is not to have to pay the outrageous tethering fees that US carriers charge and it has worked well for years. But it can't work and won't work in the future without help from BB and the BB community. -
I am probably just being paranoid, but (a) I have a BB Pearl Flip 8220 which I am happy with, and (b) I am interested in buying a PlayBook. I know that my 8220 is geting old and a bit obsolete (for example some newer BB apps won't run on it) so I just want to be sure that I can connect the PlayBook to my 8220 and be able to use them "tethered" . Does anybody know the definitive answer to that? I can't afford to buy both a PlayBook and a new BB smartphone, so if the answer is negative then I won't be getting a PlayBook in the near future.
Well due to the lack of response I guess theres your answer. i have the same question, but my interest in keeping the 8220 is becasue i just REALLY like the flip phone's high visibility screen and half querty. Newer blackberrys have keypads that are too small for my big fingers.
I want to add a playbook as well... but the lack of web available information on the compatibility between these 2 devices has me in limbo.. Did you find an answer from other sources? -
When a 10" PlayBook tethered with a BB running BBX on LTE
When will a 10" PlayBook be available that can be tethered with a BB running BBX on LTE? * a 7" display is woefully inadequate. * if a 10" is being considered, will it have it's own email? * how soon will it be before we see PlayBook and a BB phone running BBX on an LTE network? Any thoughts, as the competition is blowing BB's shorts off and RIM seems to be standing still - like a deer in the headlights. Should we wait any longer or switch to Android or OSX? PS - when are true innovations from RIM going to materialize - RIM stock has been hammered - and it is endless delays while the completion moves to 2nd and 3rd generations and RIM stands still. RF.
Don't expect a 10" PlayBook in the next year.
Expect all the other things some time in the first half of next year.
RIM's not standing still, they're just working diligently away on the improvements and being rather quiet about it until it's ready.
Feel free to move to Android or iOS (not OSX), but I'm sticking with RIM for a while longer. Judging the PlayBook's future based on what you've seen so far is really just judging RIM's ability to execute, which has been very poor lately. That doesn't mean they can't fix things, or won't, it just means you need to have more patience before you'll see the end results.
Stock? The price of a stock isn't exactly a measure of the company's future success... Apple stock was extremely low many years ago, and most people had written them off. It's 100x as valuable now, and look what they've accomplished.
Also, the "generations" you're talking about are merely incremental steps with an existing product line. There's nothing about iPad2 that deserves the term "second generation", compared to the first. It won't be many years before people will be complaining that the iPad is a legacy product that should be replaced by the next big thing.
RIM, on the other hand, is already moving along to the next generation, with BBX. They're not done; it's a transition and it will continue for a while. Once they are done, however, they'll be back ahead of many of their competitors for a while. That's how these things work usually...
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I purchased the Playbook last November online through Future Shop. Everything was fine including the OS2 update, and I have been very pleased with it. As of yesterday I cannot get it to work. It was like it froze overnight. I can turn it off and on, and all my icons come up, but I am unable to get into anything. I could scroll up and down though and I was able to get into the tools icon, but could not do anything there. Now I cannot even do that. I contacted Future Shop, and the Playbook is still under warranty, and I was advised to take it to the nearest Future Shop. There lies the problem, the nearest shop is about 6 hours drive (one way) from where I live. I hesitate to send it back too, because I did have some sensitive stuff on it. It has never been dropped or banged around or used heavily. Just wondering if there is any hope for this, or if I will have to count it as a loss. Any suggestions or help would be really appreciated.
Thanks for your reply.
I have no trouble turning the Playbook on, or off.
The Bridge was and is working fine, I get notification when a message arrives but but I cannot get in to read them.
My trouble is that tapping does not work to get me in anywhere. Swiping sideways on the desktop works, and that is all.
Tapping no longer works to open anything.
If I had a store I could get to that would be a big help, but I don't. I will try phoning RIM on Monday. -
Official PlayBook OS v2.0.1.668 Announcement and Breathing Life back into a Dead Battery
Where is it?!
Well, you can go to the software update page and discover that the only thing RIM indicates the update does is provide a security update for the Adobe Flash player,
http://ca.blackberry.com/support/tablets/playbook/software-updates.html
The details can be found here.
http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/viewdocument.do?externalId=KB31675&sliceId=1&cmd=displayKC&d...
That said, it would appear speculation related to wifi and browser improvements (among other things) is very subjective and likely as varied as individual user experience. Here’s a quote from a Crackberry News & Rumours Post
http://crackberry.com/whats-new-playbook-os-201668
Frankly, this sort of commentary drives me crazy. What company would make the kind of improvements identified above without documenting them for their existing and future customers, if they were real. Is it that we're all so desperate for good news from RIM that we have to make it up? If anyone can find anything official behind the article's claims, feel free to post a link in response.
A couple things do still confuse me though. Some users are claiming that the new OS v2.0.1.668 version has been pulled. My Playbook upgraded to this update without any issue on the first try. Didn't take hours and the whole process seemed quite normal. Smooth as molasses.
Didn't notice anything weird at all until last evening, a few days after the upgrade. I pulled off the charger cable and looked at the battery and it was 0%, dead as a door nail. Perhaps the magnetic head of the fast charger wasn't seated properly. I turned off the Playbook and then attached the fast charger. Left it alone and went back about an hour later and it was still at 0%! It was acting like it was still losing charge and getting weaker. This is not typically the case, so I shut down wifi, turned off backlighting, put it into airplane mode and tried again. No change when I checked back later. At some points, I couldn't even get it to boot to the main screen, just battery empty symbol, at best.
I read on this and other forums how others were having problems after teh update. Erasing their Playbook and reloading OS. I couldn't even do that, because the Playbook has to have enough power to update the software through the Desktop. While I could connect and see the device via Desktop, there wasn't enough juice to do anything at 0%. It seemed that there were folks holding the battery button for 10-20 seconds claiming that worked, but it didn't do anything for me.
To say the least, I was getting pretty ticked off after reading the forum and discovering that the battery issue I was dealing with might be related to a pulled OS upgrade that had screwed my Playbook. Proper QA and testing should preventthis sort of blunder. Even more ticked, if the update has been pulled and RIM has not made any official statement that I can find to that effect! If they have pulled it (which I still haven't been able to personally confirm), this information should be publically available and explained. The one thing they need to do is look after any loyal customers they still have left. Personally, I have loved my playbook, although RIM has definitely botched a great piece of hardware with inadequate software enhancements to the OS, that continues to this day. The fact that we still can't categorize browser favorites in folders at this point is inexcusable. Anyway, I digress.
Back to the battery. Here's what I did after about two hours of snarling and becoming increasingly frustrated with my dead playbook and not being able to find any way to breathe life back into it. I remembered what happens to my rechargeable batteries for my xbox controllers when they drain dead. They simply won't charge. They become un-rechargeable. I eventually figured out via an obscure internet posting, what no retail clerk or xbox support person seemed to know. I returned more than my share of brand new unrechargeable batteries, because they wouldn't charge when drained. This is what I discovered. You take the dead controller with battery and connect it to the charging cable. It lights red... but after 13 seconds it goes green. If you leave it connected it simply will not charge. Originally, I concluded I had a faulty battery that would not recharge. Not so. You must pull the cable off. Light goes out, connect it again. Light goes red, 13 seconds turns green. Pull the cable off. Light goes out, connect it again. Light goes red, 13 seconds turns green. Pull the cable off. Light goes out, connect it again. Light goes red, 13 seconds turns green. Pull the cable off. Repeat until you figure there is no point to this exercise, and then do it one more time. Pull the cable off. Light goes out, connect it again. Light goes red, 13 seconds later it stays red and doesn't go green, it stays red. Might be the 5th try, 20th try, 30th try, who knows, but eventually the xbox controller light will actually stay red and not switch to green and will then recharge. It's almost like each previous failed connection provides a bit more juice to the battery, until it has enough to finally be rechargeable again. Come back in a couple hours and what appeared to be an unrechargeable battery is fully charged.
So I took my Playbook, Turned it off. Connected cable. Light turned red, then turned green. Disconnected cable. Held power button to shut playbook off. Connected cable. Light turned red, then turned green. Disconnected cable. Held power button to shut playbook off. Connected cable. Light turned red, then turned green. Disconnected cable. Held power button to shut playbook off. Connected cable. Light turned red, then turned green. Disconnected cable. Held power button to shut playbook off. Not sure how many times I went through this painful exercise. Maybe 15-20. Maybe I only needed to do it 5 or 10times. Maybe I didn't need to do it at all.
Frankly, in the course of doing it, it seemed like I was almost draining the battery more. I think there was a point where it almost was dead and wouldn't even light up. That had me spooked. By pressing and holding the on button and connecting the cable, I somehow got the red light to come on, then switch to green and it began pulsating. At this point, I didn't want to push my luck. Left it alone and went to bed. Got up this morning and it was alive and 100% charged. It went into an automatic reboot. The wifi password had to be re-entered and saved in order to get connected back to the internet, but everything else seemed to be fine.
I’ve used it solid for one hour and the battery dropped to 80%. This felt like a much faster drop than in the past. It's been in standby mode for an additional two and a half hours since and it is now at 60%. I never shut my PlayBook off. I keep mine in standby all day, with the screen on lowest brightness and wifi typically on. Do I think that the latest update has had an impact on battery life? Well, my Playbook originally died and ran out of charge, when I had it attached to the fast charger! Can't explain that right now. I suppose I could have improperly connected via the magnet and this was my own user error. Could be just coincidental that this happened to me after the update and at the same time others are complaining about battery issues. Personally, it does “feel” like my Playbook is draining faster in standby mode than it has in the past. I have my eye on this and if it goes dead again, I'll repost. Obviously, my recharging "technique" worked for me, so if it helps breathe life back into your battery dead playbook, I'd be interested to know.
If RIM has actually pulled the update and not updated their own web site to reflect a battery issue and not officially disclosed a known problem to their customers it would be at best totally unprofessional and at worst inexcusable. I'm still not sure what to make of everyone's comments and issues, when RIM still lists the v2.0.1.668 update on their corporate page.
gRIMace
Solved!
Go to Solution.RIM exec Michael Clewley confirm that 668 was pulled because it has upgrading issues with Playbook with OS 1.0.7 --- and that is the ONLY reason why it was pulled.
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I was migrating from a 3gs to the 4s. Big mistake. Have lost contacts and access to music and apps.
I was migrating from a 3gs to the 4s. Having never upgraded the IOS before, I thought that I should do that before handed the phone down to my daughter to replace her broken 3g. Big mistake. Even using Google sync for my contacts, following instruction from the Google webpage (ambiguous: cancel or not when error message is displayed?) the contacts did not sync to gmail. iTunes says it will sync contacts, but doesn't from the phone, only from the few that were in my old Gmail account. The iCloud set up asks for email and a new password- not specifying that you should use your old email and password for your old iTunes account or your phone will be instantly locked out of those apps and tunes stored there. The web info says you can't merge accounts or passwords, so, I bet I have to cancel the new set up and start over with the old password if it will even let me. I've spent 8 hrs reading, syncing, et c., on this! It will be a long time before I casually buy a new phone from them! I wonder how much time it will take to switch from the 3GS to the 4S? I now have a 3GS without contacts, no way to get the data from those files back, and can't get the apps to it or the 4S until Apple support helps fix the double identity problem.
Considering that I had verbal instructions from the Apple store prior to the IOS upgrade, reviewed all the details on line, I think this process is woefully lacking in clarity and transparency. The local ATT branch offered nothing except backing up to avoid loss of contacts if both phones were taken to the store, but not any help with the IOS or iTunes content. Cable internet for the 3GS backup and IOS 5 upgrade seemed to take about 2 hours. At least calender, notes, etc. were done correctly and 2500 picture and videos were not removed.After the last post,I went to the local ATT for some feedback. The manager there, Stephen, was helpful and spent a long time, even after i had gotten the abbreviated list of contacts I had constructed from the 3GS to the 4S by an iTunes sync with the correct options selected. This however, would not sync notes. I took screen pix of my many stock symbols for future reference, and got them to transfer with Bump (as photos, in case I want to refresh my memory on some of the symbols added previously). I emailed myself copies of 28 notes i did not want to lose, because the iCloud back up would not initially work. After what seemed like years, I finally was able to get it working, following repeated refusal to Merge because of "not enough space available" @5GB even though everything was turned off except contacts and calendar.
My old phone is finally backed up to the cloud after I turned off location service on new phone, and a bunch of apps and photo data showed up for the first time, as icons to be turned off on the old phone in the Manage Storage window. It said it was going to back up 8 GB of photos when the photo backup had been turned off on the prior screen. (The screws are loose, and the worm has turned on this software at Apple.)
Backup for notes, a few contacts, and calendar, over high speed wifi, took 25 minutes to complete without photos.
I have never seen anything this troublesome in the Apple OS!
You will need to set your own Apple ID and a .me email ID if you want to use the cloud. My recommendation and that of the store manager for the first time is don't back up any photos, let it erase the photo stream if it wants to. The camera roll should be ok.
Backing up to the iCloud removed all my stocks from the old phone! It wasn't supposed to. Be sure to select leave data on phone at every opportunity- even so, there they went. It did not remove contacts or calendar when backing up, though the IOS 5 upgrade had lost my years of contacts since I had not specified that they should be saved when I hit the simple sync in iTunes the first time and since Googlesync failed to connect properly for me over wifi as noted above.
All in all it appears nothing is going to clone your phone or preserve all the data through a IOS 4.x to 5 migration, though I did not do it right the first time with iTunes, and complicated matters by starting with a new ID instead of my old iTunes account and password, living in a small town, away from any Apple store, though if you can't be there at an Apple store with both phones in hand, they probably can't help much unless they walk you through each option in iTunes and you are very attentive. The store genius I saw did not do this, though I had yet to order the phone at that point.
Good Luck!
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I am going to buy myself a MacBook Pro in the near future and was wondering if the new Retina Display model would be worth the extra cash. I will mostly be doing photo/video/music editing.
if you're not in a big rush - why not hold off until Adobe and Microsoft releases an update to support the Retina Screen.
Don't get me wrong - the Macbook Retina is a good and videos look great - but when it comes to Photoshop, it's a little blurry and the fonts in Excel and Word is pretty blurry too.....I own one....
In any event, if it's something you can live with - then by all means - go for it.....
Otherwise - get the non Retina Macbook Pro - it's cheaper, and it's user upgradeable in both RAM and Hard Drive.
Good luck.
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