Using my playbook overseas

Just a quick question here. My daughter took my blackberry playbook with her on her trip to the UK since it's so much less bulky than her laptop. She has an adapter for the power plugs there, was having huge issues with it charging, and finally after much hassle managed to get it to charge. Now however, it's crapped out completely, not because the battery is dead but it just quit working entirely. Is this because it's being charged using a power converter for UK to North America power?

No.
The Playbook has a built-in power converter so all that doesn't matter.
What crapped out?
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can i use my playbook as a GPS without wifi niether bridge connection?
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@vanawful, the GPS capability comes from the TI WiLink 7 chip (WL-1283) that provides all the wireless capabilities for the WiFi-only PlayBook.
Although the jury's still out on whether different units may behave differently, so far it appears likely every unit *can* work, under the right conditions, but problems in the software (OS level) or possibly in the chip itself (nobody's saying yet) mean that it's quite unreliable.
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If you pick a clear day (i.e. no big rain clouds off to the south, etc), are out in the open without buildings or other things blocking the view of the sky, make certain you are not covering up the lower-right corner of the PlayBook where it appears the GPS antenna is, run the Compass app, and let it sit for 5-10 minutes (if this is your first time using it) so it can find and download ephemeris data from each satellite, you should see it start reporting lat/long positions after that.
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