Is the rumor ture that BB is discontinuing the Playbook?

Can anyone from BB marketing confirm to the loyal users of the Playbook that this is nothing more than a load of bunk?
I love the Playbook and want to upgrade to the 4G model, but only if I know that BB is going to stand behind the product and will support it and not fall victim to the iPad/Android panic that these are the only tablet devices.

Well, like most CEO's in the board room they speak of nothing that they know of. While it is true that smart phones will become different devices, with larger screens and more features like those found in tablets and PC's, the smartphone will NEVER replace the tablet, just like the tablet will never replace the PC.
Tablets have their place and continue to get better, with more functionality, greater processor speeds and larger storage. But the more I see people using tablets the more I see them adding a keyboard to it for greater functionality and use. Typing for long periods of time using the onscreen keyboard of any tablet grows tiresome, but add a regular keyboard and you're right back to a laptop type device.
Smart phones are great and serve a purpose, but for conducting business all the time, they are not suited for it. Even the new z10 or q10 devices. I got to try them out on Thursday at a special BB Release Party on the devices. I can't wait to trade my old Curve 9350 and get a new z10, will need to change carriers to Verizon if I want it as Sprint is only going to support the q10. I like the keyboard aspect, but I like the larger screen of the z10. But with large hands the portrait mode keyboard is way too small just like the iPhone.
So ultimtely there is no single device that you can use for business that will give you everything that you need.
I just hope that BB does not fall to the masses and throw their hands up against the Apple iPad. BB was the 1st tablet made with true multitasking capabilities and the small 7" form factor. Apple made their first tablet device as a 10" device, only to now come out with the iPad Mini. The iPhone is still the small size it was when it came out years ago. The next itterarion of the iPhone will be made larger to match the true industry innovators. Samsung has a great smart phone with a large screen, just as the z10 does, but where is Apple? Still using the same little screen.

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Backing Up and Restoring the PlayBook

Ok, I've been playing around with Backing Up, Wiping, then Restoring the PlayBook and things don't seem to be functioning as smoothly as I would assume they should. My primary concern is that the data from the Contacts and Calendar programs are not getting restored and the setup information for any Email Accounts is also lost. The data from two third party Apps: Groovy Notes and The Vault is being restored no problem.
ADDED NOTE: The Stock Wallpapers and HD Video Demo have also gone missing.
THE PARTICULARS:
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- 64 GB Wifi PlayBook running OS 2.0.1.668
- Options set to FULL BACKUP (nothing else)
- using a USB cable and connection
Other behavior that might, or might not be related:
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- the BB Desktop 7.1 software can't seem to accommodate more then one PlayBook at a time, meaning that if I Sync or backup one tablet, then attaching the other tablet via the USB cable will cause the device listing of the previous tablet to disappear. It's like it won't allow me to have more then one tablet as a listed device.
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"nothing changed" as in it didn't restore the deleted entries?
What I'm thinking is that the desktop software is designed more for BB phones and that there is such a difference in the Contacts and Calendar apps from the phone to the PlayBook (the PlayBooks apps being much more complex and interconnected) that the Desktop isn't equipped to properly backup the PlayBook, so it doesn't. If this is the case, then they should:
1) let people know, because many may think they have a nice safe backup of what could potentially be a very large and valuable chunk of data, when they actually don't.
2) Get working on an update of their Desktop software that properly handles the PlayBook - which they probably are, I would hope.
But all of this is just conjecture on my part, since nobody has responded to my query yet, other then you that is.
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How to Delete file i.e. videos directly from the Playbook

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To delete a a video open the videos app and swipe down. Click on the pencil for "Edit". Select the videos you want to delete and then click on the delete icon. Pictures works the same way.

RIM needs to look at the Playbook registration process and followon support

First, this post is NOT about the pros/cons of the Playbook.
Second, it is NOT about the quality of support I received, which was very good.
It's about the Playbook registration and the need for support during or right after that initial registration, as I experienced yesterday. It's a it of a story, but necessary to understand what I went through.
I have a PB-32 I setup last December, and did not need help during the registration. That PB was to goto my wife as I also have an HP Touchpad. Then the 64gb PB went on sale and it was too good to pass up. The 64 was going to my wife and I would get the 32 after setup and transfer of her stuff, some of that process is the subject of other posts.
During the IPL of the 64 where it asked for Country, I ran into communications problems and RIM's page would not load. Others had the same problem, so I believe the site went down for a short while, as it came back an hour later. When that cleared, it asked for the usual info, specifically my Email address. So, since I wanted to put her 64 on her account, and later CHANGE the 32's email to mine, I re-registered her as a new account.
Couldn't do it. Duplicate account exists. So I called general customer support too find out how to change the email registration for the 32 from the wife's to me, so I could register the 64 to her. The automated help line wanted the serial # before anything else. But the s/n on the 64 beside the USB/HDMI ports is unreadable small, and it wasn't up to see it on screen. So, in desperation, I keyed in the 32 s/n. That worked.
Now she could help, but not!
News Flash. YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR INITIAL REGISTRATION INFORMATION. Anytime ever, for any reason.
The only way to re-register the PB is to first do a security wipe and start over. Yeah, right. The thing is, the old registration remains in the system, and will not allow you to register another PB as a new registration using the same Email account.
The second dumbest thing I ever heard. If you sell your PB after a wipe, you will not be able to register a new PB with your same email account. If you change ISP and get a new email account, you can't change your PB registration to it either. I ended up registering the 64 to me, and leaving the 32 registered to the wife, not quite right, but acceptable.
IPL of the 64 took over 2 hours!!!!
Next, the 64 kept dropping the WIFI every minute or so for 2 - 3 minutes. The 32 and Touchpad sitting beside it kept motoring on. The WIFI signal strength on the 64 was low, about -87 to -93db, the 32 was about 5 to 10db better, so maybe there's a hardware problem. So I called support again, but this time the 90 day support line. This time I had the 64's s/n so I entered it in prior to getting a human contact. First thing asked for.... the serial number. So why key it in in the first place? Then my name. OK, but he could not find my registration info.
Well maybe it takes over an hour for RIM to post the data, but no, the INITIAL REGISTRATION DOES NOT TRANSFER TO THE 90 DAY SUPPORT DATABASE. Ya gotta register for it separately. Third dumbest thing.
Sensing a bit of desperation in my voice, he offered to register me over the phone, otherwise I got to do it online.
So we continued... next question "What city do you live in?" Toronto, Ontario.
"What country is that in?" Keep in mind RIM is a Canadian company in Kitchener Ontario, about a 2 hour drive from Toronto. My question to him was "What country are you in?" The reply.... "Central America." Yes he had a bit of accent but that's not unusual in this country. You would think that part of the RIM support staff orientation training would include a bit of Canadian and world geography.
Finally the registration is done, but not quite. The system will send me a confirmation email, to which I need to respond before we can continue. Five minutes later, the email is there, and I respond. First thing the confirmation page asks for.... My email address. OK back to the support guy.
Can't find my registration. We waited about 10 minutes and finally, he asked, "what is the problem?" No, my reg did not come up on his screen. I explain the dropout problem, but at that time it was up and running. The fix was to delete all my WIFI profiles (just the 1 here) and reset the PB. Then connect and save the WIFI profile. That did seem to help, as the 64 stayed connected for over an hour before it dropped out for a minute. I'm going to get a new and better WIFI router. I was on the phone for an hour and 10 minutes this time, of which, only 15 minutes was problem definition and solution.
I'm not going to pontificate what RIM needs to do to, but it needs to do something about a user changing his registration data after the fact and needing only the initial registration data to qualify for the 90 days support. And it needs to transfer that registration to the support line real fast, as the IPL and immediate setup are potentially the most problematic.
Oh, and make the serial number large enough to be seen by a 67 yo with glasses.
Done
jgb

Agree it is a pain in the but I know that you can use the same bbid on 2 playbooks.
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How to do things Wrong, or the Playbook. A Catharsis.

Dear Blackberry, I want to talk about your little beautiful tablet: The Playbook.
This is a Catharsis, so don't take this personal, it isn't.
I have one, I found it's hardware to be incredible. The OS (2.0) it's also fast and responsive. There are several thing really well done in it: multitasking, gestures, the way to close programs, how to reset, suspend and shutdown, and many, many others.
But it have a problem, you hate your users. You hate them badly, because you don't know them, or ignore them on purpose (not sure yet).
Let's talk about what can go wrong with such a good product, because there are a few levels of wrong.
First wrong: the basic software
Let's jump to OS 2.0 directly, because thinking on a tablet without a native contacts and mail client gives me the chills.
Twitter. Amazing service eh? Even you have several accounts, in different languages and all. But you don't offer a free native twitter client. You have one, for ALL your phones, and it's good. Amazingly, you didn't port it to QNX, so we are all stuck with buying one, or use the web interface. Look at your great tablet, now grab the crappiest droid tablet with at least V2.3 of the OS. In one of those two tablets you have twitter out of the box. Hint: not in yours.
Blackberry Messenger (BBM). Again, amazing service. I think that's the single feature of your products that make you sell about 1M phones in a 40M inhabitants country, mine. Really amazing. So, if you get a Blackberry, you have it, right? No, wrong. Not with the Playbook. And you know what? That makes the Playbook a LOT less appeal to LOTS of people. Apple copied you, and released a messaging application with iOS 5, for idevices only. At the same time them where releasing a tablet with a feature that copied from you (because it's a feature that sells products), you where dumping that feature. I'm wondering if you didn't want to sell tablets, but just show off the fact that you can make one if you want.
Second wrong: connecting to PCs
As far as I've used mildly advanced devices (phones, tablets, even a Palm!) they all connected to my computer as a Massive Storage Device. At least, all of them have the option easily available (with the Palm I had to install a tiny, free, third party program). But not the Playbook. Oh no. It must do it in the most obnoxious way an intelligent (and evil) engineer can create. A virtual USB network adapter? Browse through a virtual shared folder? It's hard to imagine the creative session in which such a devilish idea was devised: “Can you do it more difficult and obscure?” “I can make it connect as a virtual USB network device, but that's too far!” “Do it! mwahahahahaha!”
So, I end up asking myself, Do you hate your users? I see that you are under heavy fire from US tech media, that clearly want you and other players (like Nokia) cold dead. I've read several reviews of your tablet and phones that didn't do justice to neither of them, but you seem to like to offer soft flanks to attacks.
Some times it looks like as YOU don't believe in YOUR OWN platform as to migrate the most basic software, How do you expect third parties to do it? Make all your software (or the most used or otherwise important) available for the Playbook and other developers will follow, no the other way around.
Reading forums and blogs I see some people believe that some of your most bizarre decisions, like the connecting to a PC monstrosity, are based in what CTOs or the like told you for security reasons. Aren't CTOs the ones happily jumping into the BYOD bandwagon because it's cheaper? Those are good clients to please while making all the others curse your ancestors, really a top notch strategic decision.
You know, this era is becoming, in certain aspects, most bottom-up than top-down. Consumer decisions are every year more based in peers than in marketing (with the admirably exception of Apple, which we can discuss other day if you want). And companies aren't in the mood to argue with their userbase, especially if that is more expensive than to let them do what they want (ie. BOYD).
Your users are the ones that uses your devices, not the ones that buys them. That leaves the CTOs and the like as an small subset of users, not the most important. If enough people in the company complains about crappy software and say that they want to use their drois or idevices for free, your CTO it's not going to argue much. And not having a native, preinstalled Twitter client, or having to go through a pain to simply connect the tablet to a PC are the kind of things about which users complain loudly.
Times are changing, so should your bussiness model. Be smart and be quick. Don't be Nokia (Who, by the way now had all their flagship phones gone obsolete in a single press conference by Microsoft. Now MS just needs to delay WP8 a few months to bring Nokia to its knees. A smart move by Nokia, huh?).
Be intelligent Blackberry, sharp your teeth and look what people will want to do with your tablet and phones and make the tablet and phones do that for them. After that, see how you can secure it to CTOs taste, but with user experience fixed in a high standard.
It's a shame to see a giant and innovative company like you struggle against your own incompetence, or the incompetence of a highly positioned moron, not sure about that. It's the same with Nokia, they can't stop shooting their feet.
Do yourself a favor, ask users what they want to do with their tablets, and make your tablets do so.
My apologizes for all the moronic errors with my English, it's not my mother tongue and my proficiency left a lot to be desired.
Greets,
Anibal

First, this forum is a peer to peer support community. While RIM people do look in now and then they don't offer official support here. It's possible some may read your post, though.
I'm going to see if I can address your main concerns:
Twitter: There are several apps available in AppWorld. Personally, I just use the web app supplied and it works just fine. Additionally, you can download Android apps to your Playbook quite easily. My favorite place to get them is from here:
http://goodereader.com/apps/playbook/playbook-android-apps/
BBM: This service requires a BB data plan via a BlackBerry. I bridge my PlayBook to my BlackBerry and can use BBM quite easily (though Groups are not yet supported.)
Connecting to PC: Please download the Desktop Software from www.blackberry.com/desktop
Hopefully, this helps you some. I much prefer my PlayBook over my iPad any day. I have taken the time to research on the Internet and figure out how to convert my own Android apps over to PlayBook and it has given me some extra utilization. It's not hard to do once you get everything set up.
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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.

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I have been trying to setup the mobile hotspot on my phone and haven't been able to find any instructions on how to do this. If anyone can tell me how it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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How can I input Chinese in the Playbook? such as in browers and contact

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The Playbook great hardware and os made useless by RIM

This is me ranting as I spent £400 on a blackberry playbook great hardware and os is impressive but you cannot do much on it becasue:
To this day the Native SDK is not available.
RIM them seleves have mentioned that they need more apps for the playbook and when IM+ requested approval of their app they are still waiting now close to 3 months.
EA Games are laughing at you, they have developed many games for apple and only three for playbook.
You guys at RIM should be sacked and get people that can do their jobs.
And why are you not clear if the Playbook has GPS, yes or no simple answer.
I used to be a huge Blackberry fan, but I think that they are going down. I cannot recommend this product to anyone which makes me feel like a fool for buying it myselve.
Regards
Tahid (personal content removed)
RIM please sack people in your company for there incompentancies.

grissom, are you saying that RIM is still supporting the Playbook? I had no idea!
Well, I missed out on Betamax. No one in my family ever owned a Tucker. But I'll be able to tell my grandchildren that I once owned a Playbook...

Is it worth porting new apps you launch on BB10 to the Playbook

I've been wondering, and maybe a developer would like to share success or failures, if it is worth publishing any new apps to support the Playbook. When I'm about to push a new app to BB10, I come to the delema of whether it is worth my time to do the lttle extra formating work and working on the listing to publish the app for Playbooks. I'm not sure if anyone on that platform is still downloading or purchasing new apps at this point. Maybe one of the community members can share their experience.
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