iPad 2 or Blackberry Playbook

[freddy mercury]

Looking at getting one of these. Playbook price is pretty good price. If anyone has one or has info on them are the apps any good? Is it worth getting?

iPad is real good love it apps are sick but the price is a bit over the top. iPad 1's are cheap but I want a camera as well.

Hope this all made sense.

 

[prankmonkey]

from my understanding the blackberry tablet needs to be paired with a phone device for it to be fully functional.

if you want a cheaper option, there are a few good android tablets with cameras: toshiba thrive, asus transformer, acer iconia, motorola xoom

 

[Caesar]

The Playbook is decent enough but you have to really want a business machine, because most of the advantage is in stuff like security, the spreadsheet/word processing viewer, multitasking capability, etc. It doesn't have many apps and unless you bridge it with a BlackBerry smartphone, you can't email at all.

If you're looking for more of a lifestyle option but don't want an iPad, then I'd go for a quality Android tablet like Xoom or Galaxy.

 

[groga]

Any one use the Motorola xoom and can tell me if its any good?

 

[Doctor Feel]

Asus Transformer <3

 

[King Elvis]

The IPad is dominant for a reason; there would need to be a pretty good reason (ie, not just to be anti-cool/hipster w***er-ish) to grab something else.

 

[Caesar]

The iPad isn't dominant for any particularly good reason.

The PlayBook is a fairly specialist product, but there are a number of Android tablets that are as good as (or, in some areas, better than) the iPad. Most of them cost less too.

 

[red+black]

Probably unfair of me to dismiss the Playbook because I'm not familiar with it. but personally I wouldn't go near it. I don't know where Microsoft is with Windows tablets, so that leaves the iPad and Android, which I consider to be the only two real choices currently. The Kindle Fire might be worth a look (not sure if available here, or if Amazon will ship overseas).

 

[year of the roo]

Looking at getting one of these. Playbook price is pretty good price. If anyone has one or has info on them are the apps any good? Is it worth getting?

iPad is real good love it apps are sick but the price is a bit over the top. iPad 1's are cheap but I want a camera as well.

Hope this all made sense.

Neither.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showthread.php?t=875656

Hope this makes sense.

 

[King Elvis]

The iPad isn't dominant for any particularly good reason.

Disagree completely.

 

[Caesar]

It was first. It has Apple familiarity to the layperson, it has brand image, and it attracts people who want an integrated suite of Apple products. That's about it.

When the iPad came out it, was a long way ahead of other tablets in terms of functionality and useability. These days, it's not (and in some ways it's markedly inferior). The price differential and market dominance really isn't merited.