{"id":247,"date":"2012-01-02T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-02T09:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/marcos_test\/?p=247"},"modified":"2025-08-28T20:07:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:07:50","slug":"blackberry-playbook-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marcoscarpio.com\/wordpress\/2012\/01\/02\/blackberry-playbook-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Notes on the Blackberry Playbook"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"zemanta-getty-img\">\n<div class=\"getty embed image\" style=\"background-color: #fff; display: inline-block; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; color: #a7a7a7; font-size: 11px; width: 100%; max-width: 594px;\">\n<div style=\"padding: 0; margin: 0; text-align: left;\"><a style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/450611375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; position: relative; height: 0; padding: 59.427609% 0 0 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"display: inline-block; position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin: 0;\" src=\"\/\/embed.gettyimages.com\/embed\/450611375?et=X9bDj5o9THpqEALbXPWSPw&amp;sig=M5oyvLYKN4jwoMxuH5CeVBFzQBnNQFCAmx5BPYd1dAA=\" width=\"594\" height=\"353\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\">\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>What separates the\u00a0<a title=\"BlackBerry PlayBook\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BlackBerry_PlayBook\" rel=\"ctag:means wikipedia\">Blackberry PlayBook<\/a>\u00a0from Apple&#8217;s iPad and other Android-based tablets?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em;\">The answer lies in the operating system.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The PlayBook runs on QNX which is a true micro kernel operating system.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s iPad runs on\u00a0<a title=\"IOS (Apple)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ios\" rel=\"ctag:means homepage\">iOS<\/a>\u00a0which was derived from its core Mac OS X.\u00a0 OS X\u00a0was basically\u00a0Darwin &#8211; an open-source, POSIX-compliant OS which was derived from the Steve Job&#8217;s founded NEXTStep OS (which Apple bought in 1997), BSD and other free software projects.\u00a0 These are\u00a0mostly\u00a0<a title=\"Unix\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unix.org\/\" rel=\"ctag:means homepage\">UNIX-based<\/a>\u00a0derivatives.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Android\" href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/android\/\" rel=\"ctag:means homepage\">Google&#8217;s Android<\/a>\u00a0is basically\u00a0Linux &#8211; another UNIX variant &#8211; plus a lot of free-Java implemented codes.\u00a0 Google basically patched-up the Android OS\u00a0which they bought in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to note that UNIX, as well as most of Microsoft&#8217;s OSes like Windows, NT as well as the OS\/2,\u00a0have huge core OS codes.\u00a0 And this is what slows them down.<\/p>\n<p>Hardware makers tried to compensate for these monolithic OSes by using faster processors.<\/p>\n<p>However, faster processors had been a bane on the battery life of these portable devices.<\/p>\n<p>Remember the battery issue with\u00a0Apple&#8217;s iPhone 4GS?\u00a0 Apple issued a software patch.<\/p>\n<p>The QNX OS on\u00a0Blackberry PlayBook is what makes the device run so fast compared to the iPad and any other Android-based tablet.<\/p>\n<p>QNX is a true micro kernel implementation of an operating system.\u00a0 It&#8217;s so ideal for embedded platforms.<\/p>\n<p>QNX is not new either.\u00a0 It has been around since the early 80s.\u00a0 The last gadget I\u00a0had messed with that runs on\u00a0QNX was the very ambitious Netpliance device released in 1999. \u00a0See post on my old version of my web site <a href=\"http:\/\/kupitero.servebeer.com\/kupit2012\/gadgetry5.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Given that all hardware components inside the guts\u00a0most tablets are sourced\u00a0from the same suppliers. And, given that some designs may be better than others, it&#8217;s always the OS that run the hardware that makes the most magic.<\/p>\n<p>And so, I thought my 16GB\u00a0Blackberry PlayBook &#8211; which I\u00a0had scored for $199 during their November 2011 sale &#8211;\u00a0will\u00a0be relegated to the junk bin in my closet\u00a0after only a few weeks of use.<\/p>\n<p>I was wrong.<\/p>\n<p>No, no, no.\u00a0 Hands down, it&#8217;s\u00a0way much better than\u00a0Apple&#8217;s iPad or any other Android-based tablet out there in the market today.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I intend to get a second one &#8211; the 32GB this time while it&#8217;s still on sale.<\/p>\n<p>And, I&#8217;ll say it again.<\/p>\n<p>Some companies, no matter how good their products are, don&#8217;t always serve\u00a0the best interest of their customers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embed from Getty Images What separates the\u00a0Blackberry PlayBook\u00a0from Apple&#8217;s iPad and other Android-based tablets? 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