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That Time Blackberry Made a Tablet
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- Not many people seem to know about the Blackberry Playbook released in 2011, and as someone who used to get a lot of usage out of one, I felt like sharing my thoughts on the device.
What's annoying is the Playbook is actually a fantastic device.
I wish Blackberry would unlock the software so we could put a more useful OS on it.
No point if you can already install android apps since blackberry 10 is a linux distort like android or debian
Sadnehs ok. I never owned a blackberry product so I wouldn't of known that.
That os lacks a lot in applications. It was just a really good portable movie player.
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a) BlackBerry 10 is based on QNX, not Linux, and hence only runs Android apps through an emulation layer.
b) A BlackBerry 10 based version of PlayBook OS was never officially released for the PlayBook.
@@surya_0x0 I bought two 64gb models of these around 5 years ago for dirt cheap to use as in car media players for the kids. This inbuilt speakers where fantastic compared to all the other tablets around at the time. Sadly the lack of RUclips, netflix and Amazon Music and the arival of cheap Amazon fire devices with decent (ish) speakers killed these off about a year ago.
Great hardware let down by poor software support.
I bought a zune, and when it died I went to eBay to buy a Zune HD.
I'll be damned to accept change
Zune players were great. I don't have it anymore but I still have the Zune software on my PC.
I use Sony Walkman mp3 players. My current one is a NWZ-A25.
Honestly I thought (and still think) the Zune was great. It's what got me really interested in technology in the first place. I had the original Zune in brown (which I still think was the best color) and then I got the next version Zune that was thinner and had the touch sensitive squirkle. Might try to find one on eBay just to relive the good old days.
I still have a portable cassette tape player and CD player, if you really want to go back in time. They do the job of playing music and with a good pair of headphones, are no different than anything else I have for that purpose. I find that using the older tech makes me appreciate the music more.
I'd have tried one but there was no way to load one except Windows.
”It's hard to mess up a music player”
Xiaomi: puts ads on a music player
Chinese companies are as shit as you can imagine lol
Only on MIUI tho. I have a MI A3 running Android One and it's nearly close to Stock Android
@GTA and Apple channel just checked.. can't seem to find any.
@GTA and Apple channel oh well, go fuck yourself.
@@Joeee20 there's ads in the weather app and in the stupid game launcher
You kinda left out the ability to sideload Android apps to it. Honestly that was my #1 reason to get it once upon a time. With those apps onboard and the polish Blackberry gave it to start, it was once of the best around for some time.
Matthew how hard is it to sideload?
+rogueone67, Easy peasy, there are loads of vids on youtube re how to do it
iOS 11 on iPhone X concept is here
William Putra Johansyah no-one cares
Blueless Night
What do you meant
Still better than Toshiba Handibook.
Tomáš Holec haha that reminds me of South Park 😂
Tomáš Holec your mom keeps my phone number in her "handy" book ;)
Same xD.
HOLY SHIT GOT HIM FUCKING THERE
iOS 11 on iPhone X concept is here
3:58 - You're right. It is difficult to mess up the music player software; yet somehow, Apple and Microsoft have been notorious for doing just that. Finding a good media player is more difficult than it sounds.
use VLC on IOS or android even windows has VLC
I use google play on my andriod to listen to offline music. But I do agree with groove music on windows 10, sluggish as hell.
Even Google play music likes to crash on my phone.
Jack Evans vlc on windows is shit, its much better on linux
WMP is the best
Since many of your videos focus on large marketing flops done by famous corporations, have you considered doing a video on the story of windows phones?
That will be a series. Not an episode :P... Starting from WM, PPC.... WP.... Window 10 based mobile...
This is true, but it still hurts.... RIP WIndows Phone 8.1....
The way you structured that made me lol :D
It flop because of lack of apps that's it. It was innovative in every way but because not much support of apps it failed.
@@MrCreepjo Rip. Still way prefer the 8.1 to the current android
I used a Playbook throughout most of my graduate work at the university I went to, picked up a 32 GB model in 2012 for 199 dollars at the Best Buy I worked at. Paired with the leather(?) keyboard case, it was a comfortable, portable way to take notes in class in DocsToGo, surf the Internet, and watch videos.
I love my iPad now, but I do still miss some aspects of the Playbook OS, especially the smooth gestures the interface supported.
I also tried to get an HP TouchPad when they went on fire sale for 99 dollars, but by the time I came in for my shift that day...my store was all sold out of them. Ah failed tech paths, always an interesting study.
Great video!
I had a Blackberry tablet. December of 2015, I NEEDED a tablet that was Flash compatible, & it was the only option. The browser crashed frequently, the app store was a sad joke, the wifi reception was like surfing the net in 1998, & it was heavy enough that it could break your toe if you dropped it on your foot. Thankfully I got it for $150. Then a year & a half latter, they stopped releasing security updates for it & it's just used to store recipes in the kitchen.
Lieutenant BaconWaffles ...wasn't Flash for Android available by 2012 though?
Very few browsers could use it. And by the time it came out, HTML5 was becoming a bigger standard and Flash was dying. So, even fewer apps aspired to support it.
Chrome didn't, Firefox didn't, the built-in browser didn't do it well... it was a mess.
like there is any android tablet outside acer in 2012...
Even then, every non-Apple tablet was basically considered an iPad clone anyways.
Yeah, took a while to get that stigma off.
junilog Weren't Samsung making tablets by then?
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3:30 for impatient meme children
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Why do they call HTML hyper text?
Too much Java
tomrow ha ha ha..... Very funny
I remember I had one of these. The rear camera was freakin amazing quality. It still even looks good from today's standards.
I had two of those tablets: those were fantastic!
The OS was so intuitive!
I actually had this tablet when it came out and it was amazing, especially the camera, it was phenomenal for the time
I think RUclips is starting to change, I'm actually getting things I actually like to watch, and those people don't have millions of subscribers. :D
Fuck me, I WANT ONE. Perfect basic programming no distraction device, since you can't do much else with it.
Blackberry is still around.. with the keyONE (
i didn't even know this thing was running an OS of its own instead of Android up until i watched this video...
Using a KeyONE to type this up, it's awesome, but yeah, they should remake and improve PlayBook
It runs a version of QNX
If they could make the Android interface look like and feel like BlackBerry OS, that would be awesome! I've never even used a BBOS or BB10 device, but I can already see it was a better interface than Android.
I totally want a KeyONE or a Priv. Hardware keyboards are so great!
I remember seeing a RUclips tech reviewer reviewing the playbook when it came out... I was very impressed with it to the point where I actually considered buying one. Android tablets were still in the "cheap iPad ripoff" phase that came before Google updates the OS to be properly tablet friendly, and the iPad was just too expensive.
As a device, it's incredibly well put together with great software. In another universe, BlackBerry (or RIM as they were known then) would have supported android earlier and be rivalling Samsung today, because many of their devices were user friendly and innovative
I still love my Playbook. The fact that I spent the time to side load several android apps makes it still more than useful for me. The solid build, the 7" size and HD screen were the draw for me when I got mine in 2012.
That "off bezel swipe" for multitasking, IMHO is MUCH more intuitive than Apple's attempt to shoehorn 3D-touch into the switcher.
My dad got one of these back in the day. Best tablet we ever had. The ui was definitely ahead of its time.
Where is his 3.5 million subs?!
He needs it!
why so specific
Faris Abdellatif ok more fine.
I loved the playbook!!! I was so mad that the lack of apps lead to the failure of it.
Hey the zune was actually a fantastic music player. It was never gonna over throw the ipod but god damn was it good
DS and DS Lite for lyfe tho
motomd19 funny how phones did that.
PlayBook was very underrated.
- Gesture based interface was ahead of its time.
- Build quality and durability was amazing.
- USB mass storage made it easy to add and transfer files.
- Played all kinds of video files.
- Hdmi out and micro usb port turns this into a computer
- sound quality
- battery life
To name a few.
I really enjoy you videos, and I hope you eventually reach the high levels of recognition that you deserve. Keep doing what you're doing!
I had my first "real job" after college and I bought two of these for my parents for Christmas. They really loved the Playbook.
haved one of this !!! Excellent device , it has android partial emulation , but.... the included appstore was like.... the ouya appstore...
It still disappoints me when the promised for a BB10 update and even better Android app support (like directly install apks), but they cancelled it, and today, the BBWorld is crippled of all the good ones.
its been over 8 years since this device was released and no one has jailbroken it. I bought mine at a garage sale for 20 dollars, 11 months after this video came out, and it's awesome. just wish it was more usable.
Yeah I dug mine out recently out to and took a trip down memory lane. All the apps still work the camera is great and there's some nice blackberry only 3-D games on there, but the browser is painfully slow, and you can't use any Communications apps like Voxer or TextNow which makes the unit kind of worthless. My main tablet today is an iPad air 2 and looking at the BlackBerry compared to my iPad it's painfully apparent why the BlackBerry flopped as badly as it did. But still a nice trip down memory lane and funder for the occasional 3-D blackberry only games
That gesture control was ahead of its time...
I still have the playbook at home ! It still can watch RUclips tho !
OP Paladin !
OP Paladin I have a playbook too, but mine is almost dead
OP Paladin No, you can't (properly). See 4:02
OP Paladin at 280p
Paul W the playbook actually has an amazing screen resolution, it had an astounding demo video
From what I remember, one of the problems with the blackberry playbook was that it actually didn't have email or calendar apps when it shipped. Like the only way to check emails was if you had a blackberry phone and connected it to the playbook, the playbook could load them up over Bluetooth or something. It was absurd.
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nice Vinesauce reference there bud
The biggest problem with the Playbook is it didn’t support Blackberry’s secure email platform. Think about that, BlackBerry’s single most important feature for businesses wasn’t available natively on their own tablet device. You needed to bridge it to your blackberry phone and manually transfer email. Further, the bridge app was a huge power drain so you couldn’t just leave it running so that your Playbook could mimic ‘live’ email. I’m still stunned at the swiftness of their fall. They went from dominant to gone in less than three years. They almost took Verizon with them.
A mobile/tablet with coding? I think apple and Android should add this to their phones/tablets.
I got two of these right at the end of the fire sales for ~$99 each. Was handy since we were about to move cross country and it let us leave one with family and still use video chat. Excellent build quality and audio!
So it had the WiiU problem: Nobody buys it, because there are no apps for it. And nobody programs apps, because nobody owns the device.
i mean, they always had their own games so it wasn't as bad
The Playbook was one of my favorite tablets ever. The browser as good as a desktop browser. Gestures were amazing. Gaming was good. The only problem was lack of apps.
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He/she/they/other are really underrated. Their channel deserves more subs,
Salam probably due to the name that has nothing to do with pretty much everything on the channel. I originally watched one or two of his videos and liked them but didn't subscribe because "oh, it's just another science facts channel". It took me about a year to realize (mostly due to luck and boredom) that this channel was awesome.
Fucking normies
Waalaikum assalam
I got a PlayBook back in 2012 as my first tablet because I really wanted a tablet and couldn't afford anything better. I got rid of it a year later but to this day still appreciate the build quality, aside from the micro USB port with its high failure rate as mine broke, and the hard to press power button. The gesture system was excellent and integrating it in the bezels was a great idea at the time when bezels were still a given on any tablet. I still think the multitasking is the best I've ever experienced and offered the closest thing you can get to true multitasking running in real-time in separate windows.
The iPAD is actually hilarious in hindsight.
I remember when my sister got this in 2011, i still go on it occasionally to see old videos
these videos are so funny and i dont know why
I had Samsung Galaxy S2 then I think, but always fascinated for a tablet, in early 2012 I had bought the 32g playbook wifi. It was my first tablet. The best part about it was how premium and solid it felt along with detailed sound reproduction. The downside was the app support. Even the Android app support didn't extend its life. Wish they would have just unlocked the bootloader and gave us the kernel source so we could run aosp on it. Man with a heavy heart solved the playbook few years later
Both me and my dad had the BB Playbook. Mine works fine, but the USB is broken so I have to use the charge port. My dads ended up getting run over by multiple cars (long story). Still works with the BB Bridge remote connection and connected to the TV via HDMI. Only the screen doesn't work and the flash memory is a little damaged (some files are inaccessible).
Wow didn't know about those cool features. I remember WALMART had their own shelf display with it. Nice slick unit.
iOS 11 on iPhone X concept is here
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Yea, I had one of these, though I really liked the interface, it's lack of apps and lag made it an unrealistic buy for those who required a bulletproof solution for work. The addition for limited Android support made it all that more frustrating.
I however wish Android had copied a lot of its UI elements as it was really ahead of its time.
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PlayBook's RIM ahead of its time. It was sandboxed, had bezel swipes, required no jailbreaking or rooting, had zero bugs, had excellent native apps, and had front-facing speakers. The fast charger and HDMI cable were must-haves. I'm bitter that PlayBook is in the past.
less than 1k sub squad.
Dean Unbrose same
Less then 750 sub squad
fuck yea
yea
noahkma You meant 10,000?
I now want a Playbook, I mean, it's so rare and beautiful, and it has a lot of features that for it's age are awesome, I'll see if I can get one so cheap and in a good condition for preserve it
Bing "But it's not Google"
Was that bliss as the background
Am I the only one who uses Bing
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Nicxtreme Yes.
Nicxtreme no
No
Awww man, what a trip down nostalgia street
I had one of these. I punched it out of frustration and it broke the screen long ago. Fuck that thing, don't miss it one bit.
Jesus fucking christ, I did the same thing
Hahahaha this made my cry hahaha
The fuckin wifi reciever on these things was HORRIBLE. You could be right beside your fucking router and have 1 bar. Meanwhile, i'd grab some shitty fucking $20 flip phone and get wifi full bars from like a block away.
Ah man, shit still makes me mad like 5 years later.
The app support for playbook was even more depressing, it makes its horrible wifi reception look good
It was a decent tablet at the time but their app store was limited. I still have mine but haven't used it since the RUclips app stopped working.
lol i have one 😂
We had 3 Playbooks in our household back in the day. They were actually pretty good, apart from being a bit heavy. Very robust and solid. All the apps paired with your main Blackberry phone. My son still has his and occasionally watches movies on it. The OS is still very quick and fluid to this day.
The Zune was, and still is, a far superior product to the piece of shit that is an iPod. I miss my beautiful black brick. :(
I have one of those things from 2012 and it still works as, thats incredible considering that was in a closet during almost 3 years, I actually dont use it but is incredible that still works perfectly, an ipad from 2012 would probably stopped working three years ago
I still have my Blackberry Playbook 64GB wifi model. Was hoping a 3G model was going to be released soon after this wifi only model. I used it back then paired up with my Blackberry Bold 9900 (Broke over 3 years ago, screen damage). The Playbook still going strong. Using it as a media player for my movies and music.
I hope Blackberry saw this... It would be really wonderful if they can see how much their product had made the world for somebody.
All it needed in the end was for Blackberry to open the boot loader so Android could be installed proper. The built in Android emulator worked for many applications, but was only v2.1 and didn't have access to the hardware like GPS if I remember rightly. I still have mine knocking around somewhere (probably failed battery now) and I loved it for work use and media (good stereo speakers) especially when it only cost me something like £80 by the time I bought it.
This was a pretty good tech back in the day. My friend had one we used to watch movies and music videos on it. It lacks in applications like a lot, it was good as a portable movie player especially back then.
When he said "DocsToGo" I thought he said "DogsToGo" LOL
A small note on development; the Developer Program did the best it could to enlist and attract developers, but their biggest mistake (maybe), was that while they were going to provide the Cascades Framework for PlayBook apps, they instead pulled that pretty early, and reserved it only for BlackBerry 10 apps.
So, you essentially had to write your own windowing system and widgets for your PlayBook apps, or use Adobe's ActionScript, which, while easy to use, still had a performance hit.
Cascades was a very delightful Framework in which to develop apps with, but only targetting BlackBerry 10 was the PlayBooks downfall, in my opinion.
"Being a smug Blackberry owner"
Omg, I spilled my tea and burst out laughing!
I had a Playbook when I was 8 and I loved it
This channel's gonna explode in popularity, it happened to DaveLee. Keep up the good work!
The blackberry tablet was AWSOME. I still have mine hooked up on its dock and I use it. 32GB is plenty as well.
I remember when my sister got this in 2011, i still go on it occasionally to see old videos
in 2014 or 2015 got a iPad air 2
I actually still use mines in the bathroom for music lol I loved the idea of the OS.
It is still useful in 2017, 2018 and forward as the tablet will not suffer from becoming slow, the OS will be responsive on that tablet, while it does not have that great app library, you can get the latest blackberry app store and the amazon app store (has steam), and you can use the tablet to watch sd card videos, your audio files, and view pictures on the tablet. It can edit documents and the browser is actually very good. I am currently using the blackberry passport phone as my phone, but I don't know about if the tablet get blackberry 10.3 OS or above or not.
i´m a proud owner of a Blackberry Playbook ( still using it daily ) .... but i would recommend everyone to use a Bluetooth Aftermarket Keyboard .... because i´ve never been a Touchscreen Fan.
@ ITALY ( i´m sorry my english is not so good )
Finally something good about Blackberry, even though I never owned one, I was always nostalgic about it, since others had it.
I love my old Playbook and still use it. Unfortunately, I can't do as much with it as I use to.
That brings a lot of memories back😊😊😄
I had this tablet years ago! I was amazed at the dual mics and flash in the browser. the charging port broke on it.
Then I bought a Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, so slow today, and now i bought a 64GB iPad mini 4!
All gesture based , two cameras , Bluetooth , GPS , front facing speakers , multi touch display , HDMI out , True multitasking , dual Wifi bands and some of the best sound I've ever heard from a tablet. Not only did it have a boat load of features , but you could link it with your Blackberry phone and use them in tandem. Blackberry Playbook was also one of the few places you could play Starfront Collision , a very impressive StarCraft type game. Sad that none of the amazing games it had can no longer be bought, like Dead Space , NFL Football , Need for Speed , ShadowGun ,
Amiga Games , Gameloft Games , Activision , Marmalade Play and so many more. Just like the Blackberry phones had exclusive games like The Simpsons Arcade game so did the Playbook , at the time it had several of them , but I will leave that little tid bit for you to figure out. One last thing about the Playbook is every single game can be played offline unlike today's games where you need internet all the time. Well there is my two cents, lol
Audio quality of these was surprisingly good too. Very good media players, hooked up to a decent amp and speakers and decent headphones. :)
The PlayBook was a very good device. The Blackberry 10 operating system was rock solid, intuitive, and uncrashable.
I loved the Blackberry PlayBook. I still have mine and even got the rapid charger for it. The speakers on the PlayBook are very loud compared to other portable devices, which was great for video playback. I had the HDMI cable to hook up to my TV and even watched HBO on my TV using the PlayBook. So sad that it was a failure though, but even now, I could still recommend it to someone that wants a web browsing device for cheap. Even if its just for a media player, you can't go wrong with a 64GB tablet for about $50
True...!
Even though the Playbook is considered dead, it does have some awesome factors which make it an ideal choice to buy. For instance, the overall build quality of the device is simple, sleek and robust (It's how a tablet should really look and feel).
It holds a professional integrity while including great screen quality, speakers, and a not too shabby camera which if used in a good lit environment, would produce great recorded videos. also, the best feature on this device is in fact the microphone.. or microphones. Yep, this has stereo microphone recording and the quality is crystal clear. If you produce content and want a very high quality voice-over, use the playbook voice recorder, it won't let you down.
Now yes, the apps are severely limited, and with the Blackberry world no longer continuing paid applications for the playbook (Like anyone would care, their prices were abysmal anyway), it was on a roll of being buried into its grave. But there are still some gems on there that did surprise me. Apps like DosBox and ScummVM are still on there and they work relatively well and if you look hard enough, you may find more apps than you think.
With built in dual band WiFi, Bluetooth, native support for SMB protocol (Windows File Share) and even data encryption, this also justified my purchase of additional playbooks since they are cheap and really useful.
However, the true drawback of this device was transfer speed. Holy Sh*t was it slow! We're talking between 1 to 5 Megabytes per second on USB, and transferring over a WiFi network was not much different. The playbook also requires proprietary software known as Blackberry Desktop, and with USB that mounts the device as a network drive which was clunky to set up.
Another disadvantage was the start-up times. Let's just say you're gonna be waiting for about 3 to 5 minutes for it to be turned on from cold boot. Yeah...
Even though the device does come with encryption, enabling it will actually reduce performance causing apps like the camera's video recording to stutter and possibly a slowdown in overall transfer performace. Best keep encryption disabled unless you have some REAL secretive shit (lol).
On a final note: here is some very important advice: If you are going to consider resetting your playbook then keep this in mind: Resetting will REMOVE updates and cause your playbook to go into a state where it will require activation from RIM servers. One day they will discontinue these servers meaning the playbook will literally turn into a paperweight as it will be stuck on the setup screen. At the moment, it is online but once you have activated and set it up, BACK UP with Blackberry Desktop, then you can restore it that way in future.
But these are my points, I have to say that it is still worth it considering that CeX in the UK sell the 64GB models for as low as £20. Not bad.
Awesome video btw.
The Playbooks OS gesture control wa sage as if it’s time which is exaggerated by the iPhone X’s gesture control which is a pull up and hold to get to multitask
And although it’s been phased out the 3D Touch from the left over which is like there swipe to side, but the iPad has gestures too which I don’t even remember because I haven’t played in so long
I just bought the Keyone and I must say, BB plus Android is a match made in heaven. They really did an amazing job in regards to function and making it possibly the best communication phone out there.
Hope they can get back on track.
If they keep making Android devices with the BB Keyboard I'm sold.
Ah, I remember seeing these when I was shopping for a tablet back in late 2011. The price had been slashed loads but I went for a Motorola XOOM instead - I guess I made the right choice because Android tablets seemed to explode in popularity over the next year.
Though I had an iPod, I don't think buying a Zune was a "bad decision" if you liked the device.
It wasn't a commercial success, but it still functioned well as an MP3 player for those that bought it.
I have one and despite the lack of apps, I still use mine to watch movies and series at home or at a plane, or when I'm presenting slides at the office, the HDMI out is very useful and even after all this time the battery life is amazing compared to modern tablets. my problem with it is the external button layout, where the power button is harder to press than the media buttons. but with just a few firmware hacks, you can remap those buttons
You forgot to mention how excellent the stereo speakers are! To this day, I still haven't found a tablet that can beat the PlayBook speaker quality.
iPad Pro with m1
I remember betting someone that this shit would FLOP! This was back where every entertainer & even the president had a BlackBerry. Riding the NYC subway trains & observing everyone on their phones/tablets either playing games, listening to music, sending messages, or reading a book on a kindle, not ONCE did I spot a Blackberry Playbook, EVER!
I wanted one of these. :) Blackberry OS was the bomb back in the day.
I still have a 64 gig in working condition! Can watch 2-3 movies back to back! Can’t complain
Ahhhh, BlackBerry, those good ol' days
Man did I love this back in middle school when I had this .
Best feature was when I converted music from RUclips to save it in playbook and saved anime movies .
I do remember that there was a way you could sign and package .apk apps to port them over to the playbook, since its OS had partial native support for android apps.
I got the playbook for Christmas when it was a thing and then sold it later on. That following Christmas I got an iPad
I had a playbook at one point. Great video.
I myself have that muted gray lazy ink stuff and pretty happy with it