Last night, August 25, 2011 Research in Motion (RIM) thru BlackBerry Pilipinas held its Blackberry Pilipinas fans meet BLACKBERRY PLAYBOOK at Marriott Hotel. It was an exciting and funfilled event hosted by Rovilson Fernandez where all of the the attendees secured their Playbook experience. I was able to get a glimse of how genius the tab was and how slick and hip all of its application. (In this Photo: Azrael, Flow, Me and Von with Mr Gerald Ang from RIM in white)
Also present in the event are bloggers, Rich Herrera, Rich Hard and various blackberry lovers. My experience with the Blackberry Playbook is awesome that I hope I could get a new one. Mr Gerald Ang, Senior Manager Engagement and Analytics of digital engagement in Asia Pacific also attended the event.
The event was also filled with raffle and games where everyone get an equal chance of winning authentic leather Blackberry accessories, A Blackberry TORCH and ofcourse someone took home a Brand New Blackberry Playbook! we played hockey through the playbook itself and bridge the game on the flatscreen. 
The Blackberry Playbook, which has an specs of 7″ LCD display, 1024 x 600 screen resolution, also has the following specification:
- -High resolution, WSVGA, capacitive screen with 4-finger multi-touch and gesture support
- -1 GHz dual-core processor
- -BlackBerry® Tablet OS with symmetric multiprocessing
- -1 GB RAM
- -Powerful, user-friendly QNX technology: It’s what the World Wide Web runs on
- -True simultaneous multitasking — apps run simultaneously and in real time
- -Accelerometer, 6-axis motion sensing (gyroscope) and digital compass (magnetometer)
- GPS
- Micro USB port
- Games, media, apps and all the rich content the real Internet has to offer
- Full Adobe® Flash® 10.1 enabled
- Built-in support for HTML 5
- No-compromise rendering of text, graphics and video
- 3 MP 1080p HD forward-facing camera
- 5 MP 1080p HD rear-facing camera
- Stereo speakers and stereo microphones
- Crystal clear video; H.264, MPEG4, WMV HDMI video output
- Micro HDMI port for 1080p playback
- Music Store by 7 Digital, BlackBerry® Podcast app
- Reliable BlackBerry Tablet OS, powered by QNX technology
- Supports POSIX OS, SMP, Open GL, WebKit, Adobe Flash and Adobe Mobile AIR
- 0.9 pounds/425g
- 7.6″/194mm x 5.1″/130mm x 0.4″/10mm
The Operating System is impressive. The BlackBerry Tablet OS (QNX) I think is one of the coolest. I will have another review of the Blackberry Playbook. I hope they will allow me to borrow it for a day? So i can fully utilized and experience the playbook!
It was indeed a very entertaining event. And hope to hear more from BlackBerry Pilipinas of their future event.
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