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The front facing stereo speakers were brilliant. I don't think anyone else did that at the time and few do today. Forward firing speakers sound so much better than back or bottom firing (Switch Lite, PSP1K). I've got the fancy official leather envelope case on mine and it's not disintegrating yet. Everything BlackBerry made felt premium.
I got one for Christmas once and loved it. Blackberry has a great idea with the UX here, ahead of it’s time with gestures but no app support or it would be huge!
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I remember seeing this for the first time in a store as a teen. The gesture control was mind-blowing to me. Also loved the form factor, and the stereo speakers. It had amazing features such as extended display mode for the HDMI and true multitasking. (eg: starting a video recording and changing to an other app didn't stop the recording)
Yeah I got this back in 2011 and I remember this thing wash 10 years ahead of its time and the gestures were later taken by iPhones late 2017 iPhone X !!!!
After so long rubber de-vulcanizes which isn't something most tech users experience. The old school ThinkPads which have Mobile CPUs are either devulcanizing or will be very soon. My T420s is currently doing that.
I had one for a bit before I resold it - the interface was pretty fluid for its time, it was compact and the web browser was one of the few that still supported Macromedia Flash at that time. The PIN field in the Contacts is for the BlackBerry Messenger PIN (user ID) numbers.
i'm a crackberry (i'm still using a KeyOne and a Q10 today) and i remember there was a very short period of time when, for some reason, only the wealthiest (and hippest) people i know owned a playbook it was 2011, so it was the tail-end of blackberry's prestige years, and owning a 9700 (which i've had) or a 9900 still meant more than having an iphone i think a big part of this mystique was the fact that the playbook is less of a stand-alone tablet, and more like a big extra screen for your blackberry; you NEEDED to pair it with your blackberry to be able to access your email and calendar. which means people who bought this either didn't know what they were getting, or they were blackberry loyalists who already have disposable cash. another thing that this did which was revolutionary at the time was that this runs on a primitive version of the BB10 os (this was the first ever blackberry device running QNX), and it was one of the few tablet devices (or any mobile devices for that matter) that runs a FULL desktop internet. that was a huge deal at the time.
One of the worst issues (for me, at least) was that you could not let the battery go completely dead because it needed a bit charge to recharge. I let the battery completely die before knowing about this and had to send in to Blackberry to get "fixed". I have no idea why a table (or any electronic device) could be sold with a major flaw like this.
The PlayBook was a classic example of something great that should have appeared on the market while BB was dominant. Considering it came out in 2011, the fact it has an HD screen, rear and forward facing cameras 1080p, a dual core processor, hdmi (1080p output), dock, predictive keyboard, dual speakers a great connectivity platform with your BB and other AV equipment is impressive. Added wins also include drag and drop files in a wide range of accepted formats and all in 2011, it’s hats off, but the rot for BlackBerry was already irreversible.
Actually - I did know. It was obvious at the time it would be dead in the water as RIM were avoiding Android at the time - which was a huge mistake and a major reason for their eventual demise.
QNX based gestures, stereo speakers, great mics, ability to sideload. The Playbook was my companion through college and was a trusty piece of kit back then.
I loved my Playbook. Got it clearance priced. Set it up to run Android apps. Even developed a few apps for it myself, and sold them on the store. Used it for years after it had effectively ended any practical use case scenarios as a portable Sega Genesis (thanks to an emulator and Bluetooth controller) and e-reader (thanks to the Aldiko app). It was my best little travel companion, and got used to pass much time on flights when I traveled semi-regularly for work. EDIT: I just remembered, I also used it with VNC to connect to my computer at home. Bluetooth keyboard and mouse combo, and a TV with an HDMI port, and bam, I was in business.
LOL the PIN number field was nothing to do with credit cards... each device had its own individual personal identification number. BlackBerry devices supported direct PIN-to-PIN messaging. If you knew the PIN of your recipient's BlackBerry, you could compose an email message using the PIN instead of the email address. Kind of like a friend code.
Blackberry was ahead of its time with its software and functionality. Blackberry 10 brought in gesture-based OS. Apple and Android were still utilizing buttons to do everything. Now they utilize gestures in their operating systems and everybody acts like they started it. I remember people back in the day when using blackberry 10 complained of having to use gestures in order to navigate the operating system. And now it is commonplace and people couldn't fathom going back to buttons. Also, the pinned in the contacts was for your blackberry pin. Which was used for blackberry Messenger.
I used to have it. A nice tablet for a time, but with the BlackBerry OS it had no chances to survive the competition with REAL tablets of that era. Even then it was considered.... not so good. When was that? I guess 2012, time flies..
I find it hard to believe that such a big Blackberry fan didn't know about the Playbook. Still got mine that was paired with BB Torch. Like BB10 it was well ahead of it's time. I loved mine back in the day. Should charge it and have a play with it again.
I had it when it came out. It had really good frontal speakers, two of them. At the time, I didn't care about the bezels. We weren't as picky. I actually miss it. The battery was pretty good as well. I used to play Asphalt on it and it looked and sounded amazing. It almost vibrated due to the loudness. Fkn loved the thing.
luckily, i put some apps on mine when their store completely shut down a few years ago. it can stll be useful for the cam, audio and gaming. i wll never get rid of mine.
Black Berry went out of business because of 2 CEO's. had nothing to do with their product but had everything to do with the fact that they didn't think that they needed an App Store.
I would love it if we could get some of that old tech working in the current day. It'd be easier to hold due to the bigger bezels and have all the ports that we need to connect it to anything, plus the front facing speakers. I'm betting that case wasn't official since it was disintegrating pleather, an all too common thing these days.
I still have this. Wifi is too slow, front camera not working, screen cracked, blackberry world stopped working, rubber texture is totally gone due to rough use. But it still turns on😂. Is there any way I can restore my playbook?
I have a BlackBerry Playbook, but because it was reset, I cannot sign into it, so I cannot use it. It looks almost identical to the Kindle Fire HD from 2012. The iPad also has gesture controls on iOS 5.
Honestly why wasn't the blackberry movie released in any cinemas or streaming services here?? Like why was it only released in the us and the company's home country of Canada??
Would’ve been nice if blackberry had gotten their crap together and became a big player again in the market because I liked the playbook. It sucks being stuck with google, Apple and Samsung.
Writing this on my friend’s iPad 6 (he went on a trip and let me borrow it) and it’s thin af, Apple nailed the aesthetics here and even on the first eye UHM iPad Mini
I bought a blackberry tablet. I could never use it. I always have a problem with the internet and connecting to the network and sites, and worse, not having any correct program... But my daughter bought an iPad at the same time as me and she always made fun of me.
It had good audio and for the time a pretty good screen. Trouble was it was slow and blackberry dropped support for it when it failed to sell. In my opinion, it was this that caused consumers to lose faith in BlackBerry. Real shame.
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The front facing stereo speakers were brilliant. I don't think anyone else did that at the time and few do today. Forward firing speakers sound so much better than back or bottom firing (Switch Lite, PSP1K). I've got the fancy official leather envelope case on mine and it's not disintegrating yet. Everything BlackBerry made felt premium.
I got one for Christmas once and loved it. Blackberry has a great idea with the UX here, ahead of it’s time with gestures but no app support or it would be huge!
I remember seeing this for the first time in a store as a teen. The gesture control was mind-blowing to me. Also loved the form factor, and the stereo speakers.
It had amazing features such as extended display mode for the HDMI and true multitasking. (eg: starting a video recording and changing to an other app didn't stop the recording)
Yeah I got this back in 2011 and I remember this thing wash 10 years ahead of its time and the gestures were later taken by iPhones late 2017 iPhone X !!!!
The cameras are shockingly good
After so long rubber de-vulcanizes which isn't something most tech users experience. The old school ThinkPads which have Mobile CPUs are either devulcanizing or will be very soon. My T420s is currently doing that.
De-vulcanised… pretty much summed up Leonard Nimoy’s passing 😞
I had one for a bit before I resold it - the interface was pretty fluid for its time, it was compact and the web browser was one of the few that still supported Macromedia Flash at that time. The PIN field in the Contacts is for the BlackBerry Messenger PIN (user ID) numbers.
Love how the massive bezels here put a modern smartphone-sized screen in an iPad Mini-sized shell
"Check out the bezels on that one"😂😂
😂😂 should have kept his youth in a NordLocker. 😂😂
"Who ever knew that blackberry made a tablet? You didnt, I didn't and that's way they ran out of business😂😂"
The Blackberry tablet was fantastic for its day.
i'm a crackberry (i'm still using a KeyOne and a Q10 today) and i remember there was a very short period of time when, for some reason, only the wealthiest (and hippest) people i know owned a playbook
it was 2011, so it was the tail-end of blackberry's prestige years, and owning a 9700 (which i've had) or a 9900 still meant more than having an iphone
i think a big part of this mystique was the fact that the playbook is less of a stand-alone tablet, and more like a big extra screen for your blackberry; you NEEDED to pair it with your blackberry to be able to access your email and calendar. which means people who bought this either didn't know what they were getting, or they were blackberry loyalists who already have disposable cash.
another thing that this did which was revolutionary at the time was that this runs on a primitive version of the BB10 os (this was the first ever blackberry device running QNX), and it was one of the few tablet devices (or any mobile devices for that matter) that runs a FULL desktop internet.
that was a huge deal at the time.
So do you think with the arrival of ivy and given how old qnx actually is, do you think bb could phase out qnx in the next couple of years??
@@aussiefurbymogwaifan6621 i guess so yes, because the new softwares are much more optimised for cars.
One of the worst issues (for me, at least) was that you could not let the battery go completely dead because it needed a bit charge to recharge. I let the battery completely die before knowing about this and had to send in to Blackberry to get "fixed". I have no idea why a table (or any electronic device) could be sold with a major flaw like this.
Oh yeah, that dreaded "feature" that kinda forced people to get their "rapid" wall charger.
I had one back in the day and loved it. Sad that BB didn't stick with their Android/BB10 devices.
The PlayBook was a classic example of something great that should have appeared on the market while BB was dominant. Considering it came out in 2011, the fact it has an HD screen, rear and forward facing cameras 1080p, a dual core processor, hdmi (1080p output), dock, predictive keyboard, dual speakers a great connectivity platform with your BB and other AV equipment is impressive. Added wins also include drag and drop files in a wide range of accepted formats and all in 2011, it’s hats off, but the rot for BlackBerry was already irreversible.
Actually - I did know. It was obvious at the time it would be dead in the water as RIM were avoiding Android at the time - which was a huge mistake and a major reason for their eventual demise.
QNX based gestures, stereo speakers, great mics, ability to sideload. The Playbook was my companion through college and was a trusty piece of kit back then.
You didn't knew I didn't knew thats why they are out of business .....my man that was deep
I loved my Playbook. Got it clearance priced. Set it up to run Android apps. Even developed a few apps for it myself, and sold them on the store. Used it for years after it had effectively ended any practical use case scenarios as a portable Sega Genesis (thanks to an emulator and Bluetooth controller) and e-reader (thanks to the Aldiko app). It was my best little travel companion, and got used to pass much time on flights when I traveled semi-regularly for work.
EDIT: I just remembered, I also used it with VNC to connect to my computer at home. Bluetooth keyboard and mouse combo, and a TV with an HDMI port, and bam, I was in business.
Samtime is really by far the best reviewer of obsolete tech!
I love sarcasm and he does it very well. He's the only tech RUclipsr I know who wears a suit in his videos.
I agree! This video, including the other one on the BlackBerry Torch, is rather funny too 😂
Tablet without home button it was perhaps the only one at this time.
Reminds me of the Amazon fire i use to play my old music...clunky bezels and all.
These had phenomenal build quality. I still have mine. They had Adobe Flash support back in the day.
It was ahead of its time
Saw this tablet at a pawnshop over ten years ago but it looked too unusable for me.
LOL the PIN number field was nothing to do with credit cards... each device had its own individual personal identification number. BlackBerry devices supported direct PIN-to-PIN messaging. If you knew the PIN of your recipient's BlackBerry, you could compose an email message using the PIN instead of the email address. Kind of like a friend code.
It's like a recovering addict bumping into his old dealer.
Blackberry was ahead of its time with its software and functionality. Blackberry 10 brought in gesture-based OS. Apple and Android were still utilizing buttons to do everything. Now they utilize gestures in their operating systems and everybody acts like they started it. I remember people back in the day when using blackberry 10 complained of having to use gestures in order to navigate the operating system. And now it is commonplace and people couldn't fathom going back to buttons. Also, the pinned in the contacts was for your blackberry pin. Which was used for blackberry Messenger.
I miss Blackberry HTC and LG
The tech reviews we didn't know we needed. 😂😂 By the influencer we need in this world😊
My friend has one LMAO, it bricked itself trying to connect to a wpa3 wifi XD, its unbricked but that was fun
I used to have it. A nice tablet for a time, but with the BlackBerry OS it had no chances to survive the competition with REAL tablets of that era. Even then it was considered.... not so good. When was that? I guess 2012, time flies..
I find it hard to believe that such a big Blackberry fan didn't know about the Playbook. Still got mine that was paired with BB Torch. Like BB10 it was well ahead of it's time. I loved mine back in the day. Should charge it and have a play with it again.
I still have mine... in the original case. Internet browser no longer works, but it's perfect for presentations...
I had one of these back then and LOVED it. It was amazing.
Haha, I had one. Shame what happened to BB. I miss them. And Nextel.
The display is surprisingly decent
I had it when it came out. It had really good frontal speakers, two of them. At the time, I didn't care about the bezels. We weren't as picky. I actually miss it. The battery was pretty good as well. I used to play Asphalt on it and it looked and sounded amazing. It almost vibrated due to the loudness. Fkn loved the thing.
This should be in the museum
luckily, i put some apps on mine when their store completely shut down a few years ago. it can stll be useful for the cam, audio and gaming. i wll never get rid of mine.
Black Berry went out of business because of 2 CEO's. had nothing to do with their product but had everything to do with the fact that they didn't think that they needed an App Store.
I would love it if we could get some of that old tech working in the current day. It'd be easier to hold due to the bigger bezels and have all the ports that we need to connect it to anything, plus the front facing speakers. I'm betting that case wasn't official since it was disintegrating pleather, an all too common thing these days.
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Had one and they worked fine.
Android 13 lets you run virtual machines for ARM operating systems. Which means that, in theory, you could run this on a Pixel Fold.
the calculator bit got me......
😂 i had one of those along with a blackberry Z10 Nostalgia 😢
I still have mine I got as a present from parents back in senior high, played a lot of asphalt on it
I love these nostalgic Blackberry videos. WHAT?? They are recent? Ohhh .... It actually looks kind of cool.
Thank you for this hilarious video! I immediately dug out my very own blackberry playbook and got nostalgic while crying haha
"You can get crabs with Blackberry" cracked me up! XD
5:20 "It's actually playing the video😂😂😂😂"
I still have this. Wifi is too slow, front camera not working, screen cracked, blackberry world stopped working, rubber texture is totally gone due to rough use. But it still turns on😂. Is there any way I can restore my playbook?
I'm guessing the pin feature in the contacts, was for a BBM pin.
Only Sam can make ads enjoyable to watch 😂😂
black berry used QNX and yeah im glad u liking that old canadian technology.
Wonder what is Sam’s connection to Romania, he oftenly uses it in his videos
He lives there right now
He married a Romanian lady and moved there. now you know
@@Qwami i thought he still lived in Australia??
I have owned two of these... first one I bought about 13 years ago
Damn that was a long time ago. Good old times when i owned blackberry bold 9700 and 9900
I have a BlackBerry Playbook, but because it was reset, I cannot sign into it, so I cannot use it. It looks almost identical to the Kindle Fire HD from 2012. The iPad also has gesture controls on iOS 5.
I knew about it from a black eyed peas music video
I had one loved the notification light :) great cam :) also has the Hp tablet it was he best :(
Honestly why wasn't the blackberry movie released in any cinemas or streaming services here?? Like why was it only released in the us and the company's home country of Canada??
Lolz time to go apk hunting 😉 Still a lot that can be done with that tablet 😀 Just a suggestion, but vMAC is fun on those 😉
“Try again earlier”. Lol
Would’ve been nice if blackberry had gotten their crap together and became a big player again in the market because I liked the playbook. It sucks being stuck with google, Apple and Samsung.
Writing this on my friend’s iPad 6 (he went on a trip and let me borrow it) and it’s thin af, Apple nailed the aesthetics here and even on the first eye UHM iPad Mini
Hey people like us for the keyboards in our phones, let's release a tablet!
In its time this was actually a pretty decent little tablet, especially after the fire sales once BB realized it flopped.
Very important video, very important
I bought a blackberry tablet. I could never use it. I always have a problem with the internet and connecting to the network and sites, and worse, not having any correct program... But my daughter bought an iPad at the same time as me and she always made fun of me.
I had one of these. They were really nice but had next to zero functionality.
I did, I had one 🤷🏻♂️😂
Please review the blackberry movie, Sam
Hey Sam what phone do u use?
It had good audio and for the time a pretty good screen. Trouble was it was slow and blackberry dropped support for it when it failed to sell. In my opinion, it was this that caused consumers to lose faith in BlackBerry. Real shame.
'try again 10 years earlier"
The video with the crabs is loved by my 6 year old boy :) lol
I grew up with this.
Why is that camera so good.
7:08 both look adorable
I am trying to pass some pictures to a windows 11 laptop but the playbook doesn't show as a drive , any sugestions?
Somehow the camera is not shit
Lol... lol what I found in my house. I forgot I had one
Only this man can make ads watchable …
I had this for a while before and I was able to install android apps on it. It was awesome, however, I hated the humongous bezels on it.
This came out when i was in high. I feel so old
5:43 Linus Tech Tips mode activated
:) Lovely gadget!
Nice tablet, I would get one too if I wanted to stay productive!
Sabrás dónde podría comprar una la quiero de colección parte importante de mi vida me ayudas 😊
That smootch at the end got me
How did You get pass the blackberry login screen since servers no longer working ?
I had it it was amazing
Hey SAM! Did you know that a movie titled "BlackBerry" was released this year?! THIS IS NOT A JOKE.
Yeah, they're not playing in a cinema near me :(
@@SAMTIME stream??🤷🏾♂️
@@SAMTIME like why haven't they released it in any cinemas or streaming services in Australia?
Like an old person who melts 😂
i have one and i used it as a back up harddrive now i cant access it because its discontinued...any help will be much appreciated
Why did you decide to move to Romania instead of bringing her back to Australia?
She is afraid of spiders
uhhhhhh no he didn't
@@Connie_TinuityError so he didn't move to Romania and stayed in Australia?
@@aussiefurbymogwaifan6621 yeah
Bro is getting a lot from his wife 😂😂😂😂😂😂lol