The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet’s Good Bones
Why the BlackBerry Tablet OS makes the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet the smart choice for the enterprise The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet’s Good Bones
What the BlackBerry Tablet OS reveals about the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet By Scott Plamondon
hen you are house hunting dinarily well suited to our high- and pinch are quick, responsive, Wexperts in real estate say to performance, professional-grade and exceptionally natural. buy a place with good bones. The BlackBerry PlayBook. In fact, BlackBerry Innovation same can be said for a tablet com- QNX Neutrino has been under puter. After all, a tablet’s bones— continuous improvement for more Webcast series! the underlying operating system than 14 years. BlackBerry PlayBook Security upon which it runs—determine It also powers mission-critical Work Flow in the Enterprise what you can do, how well you can systems such as on the interna- BlackBerry PlayBook Deep Dive do it, and whether you can keep tional space station, government And more others from trying to break in. defense systems, and millions of By all accounts, the BlackBerry® in-car systems. Because we be- Sign up today! PlayBook™ tablet has terrific bones lieve that everyone’s work is mis- in its exclusive BlackBerry® Tablet sion critical, QNX Neutrino is the That great performance is a OS built from the advanced QNX® smart choice for the BlackBerry result of how the BlackBerry Neutrino® real-time operating Tablet OS. PlayBook takes full advantage of system (RTOS). Let’s have a look at its 1-GHz dual-core processor. why BlackBerry Tablet OS makes Less waiting, more doing Yes, other tablets have multicore this BlackBerry tablet so special. The first thing you may notice processors, but the BlackBerry when using the BlackBerry PlayBook is designed to throttle Everyone’s work is mission critical PlayBook tablet is the speedy and up all engines. Why was the QNX Neutrino RTOS smooth user experience. Apps As proof consider the tablet OS’s chosen? Because it is extraor- snap open and gestures like swipe true multitasking capabilities. Un-
1 BlackBerry Tablet OS like with some other tablets, this is BlackBerry PlayBook apps like secure like a stone castle com- true multitasking in which all run- IBM® Lotus® Connections, SAP plete with a deep moat. In fact, ning apps continue to run simulta- BusinessObjects Dashboard, and security was a priority from the neously—even when minimized. Adobe Connect for BlackBerry beginning of development and in- PlayBook and you will notice the cludes built-in features like code An example: difference. signing and a minimized attack Multitasking in a virtual meeting surface. To see what this means for you, Self healing Which BlackBerry picture yourself joining an impor- BlackBerry Tablet OS has an ad- PlayBook tablet will tant virtual meeting with Adobe® vanced microkernel architecture in you choose? Connect™ Mobile. During the which only central core components meeting you check prices using can access the entire system. Every- 16GB Wi-Fi your company’s custom inventory thing else, drivers and applications 32GB Wi-Fi app. No problem, the meeting con- included, runs safely outside the 64GB Wi-Fi tinues to run uninterrupted. kernel. This makes for an incredibly Then you send a supplier an email resilient and self-healing device. Get yours now! inquiry while you also start down- How so? Picture an app that runs loading new HD video podcasts. into trouble. In many operating sys- Many government agencies Again no problem, the meeting, tems, that situation would lock up agree, as BlackBerry PlayBook along with all of the other applica- the entire device. But lockup is un- is becoming the secure tablet of tions, continues to run. BlackBerry likely with the BlackBerry Tablet OS. choice. In fact it is the first and Tablet OS’s advanced multiproces- It detects and kills failing processes only tablet certified for deploy- sor capabilities are the reason. while the rest of the BlackBerry ment within US federal govern- PlayBook marches onward. Then it ment agencies.1 BlackBerry Tablet OS loves apps goes even farther by restarting the We optimized BlackBerry Tablet killed process. The future looks smart OS for HTML 5, Adobe® Flash®, These features and more should and Adobe® AIR® with maximum Protected like a castle put the BlackBerry PlayBook at hardware acceleration and mini- The QNX operating system that the top of your organization’s pri- mum software overhead. Try a few underpins BlackBerry Tablet OS is ority list. BlackBerry Tablet OS is just the beginning for this exciting transition for BlackBerry. BlackBerry Tablet OS’s Good Bones
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