BlackBerry PlayBook’s Poor First Impression

Clayton Morris, from the Grizzly Bear Egg Cafe podcast, and FoxNews, reviews the BlackBerry Playbook…

Over the last week or so, several reviews have surfaced on the Playbook, and most of them seem to be negative…

What frustrates me the most is that the user experience doesn’t match the hardware. The PlayBook boasts a nice rubberized design, a beautiful screen, dual high-quality speakers on the front for stereo sound, and two nice cameras (one on the front one on the back). It’s fast, powerful, and sturdy, but the experience is half-baked.

The operating system feels like a cross between Palm’s Web OS and Apple’s iOS, thanks to a sprinkling of features here and there like pinch-to-zoom, card stack, and the ability to hold your finger down on an icon to remove or rearrange an application.

My viewpoint is that, overall the Playbook might have been a good first attempt before the introduction of the first generation iPad…  But, certainly after the 2nd generation iPad’s launch, RIM will have to work extremely hard at making the Playbook a viable competitor.