RIM Posts Video Showing BlackBerry PlayBook's Browser is Much Faster Than iPad's

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Posted November 16, 2010 at 10:18am by Shalom Levytam

RIM has posted a video showing the BlackBerry PlayBook easily beating out the iPad in terms of browser speed and HTML5 performance.

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redribbon - November 16, 2010 at 2:52pm

yeah right PLAYBOOK connected to 3mpbs wifi while iPad connected to 768kbps wifi...lolololol :D :D why dont u compared to other tablets?bcoz iPad is the most advanced tablet right now.make somthing better RIM and come back with a better features next time!

can-surmeli - November 16, 2010 at 1:16pm

I wonder what they gonna do when iPad gets iOS 4.2. Surely 4.2 on iPad will take them down heavily. Just wait couple of more days RIM.

Riven1831 - November 16, 2010 at 11:06am

The person doing this demo clearly does not use the iPad frequently enough. While typing the addresses he never uses the single tap .com button! If you had a race with two people the amount of time the .com button saves could help the ipad come in at a closer time. Also, the screen size and resolution might have something to do with it? He never zooms in enough to show the quality of the images rendered, just that they were rendered! i would rather wait a few more seconds for a better image than faster pixelated images

Tony - November 16, 2010 at 10:56am

Competitors will always use the iPad to compare their products. That is a free marketing ad for the iPad :D No matter what devices are being released, the iPad is the number 1 selling device worldwide, even selling more than laptops (you can Google it). And when Apple will release iPad 2, then we will see what competitors will do (of course they will start manufacturing new products and doing videos comparing their new devices with iPad 2 and so on...). And about iPad lacking flash support, that's a good thing for me. I'm a Multimedia developer, I use flash on many projects, and I can tell you that flash is NOT meant to run on mobile devices because it's very heavy. So I appreciate that Apple didn't allow it, that way developers are forced to using HTML5 (which is the web standard) to create their rich content instead of Flash. That is innovation!

Makki - November 16, 2010 at 2:04pm

Cant agree more :)

iNcompatapple - November 16, 2010 at 7:05pm

Being the number one selling device in the world isn't the be all and end all. I love my iPad but lets be honest here, its not always the most useful and easy to use tool in the box. If I want to sit and play with media its brilliant (unless flash is involved of course :-)) but if I want to book my flight, hire car and hotel on line for my next trip I'm afraid I pick up my laptop (especially printing bookings and itineraries). Personally I hope other manufacturers continue to come up with devices that push both Apple the company and Steve Jobs, that way hopefully the iPad will continue to grow.