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hey guys and welcome to this week's episode d3 live so today we're going to be talking about a pretty big topic that I think is going to be a lot of people's minds this year which is a big title comparison between the ipad to the motorola xoom and of course the blackberry playbook now last year was definitely the year of the ipad there's no question about it Apple pretty much create a segment that was you know just absolutely tiny and turned it into a phenomenon I mean you really everywhere you look people you know just buying iPads people are using iPads I passage you deal however this year I'm not so sure it's going to be quite so simple as there are a bunch of really really good competitors namely the motorola xoom as well as the blackberry playbook addition to a lot of others however today I'm just going to go ahead and focus on these three tablets so to start out with let's go ahead and talk a little bit about the blackberry playbook now I was letting able to go ahead and get a fairly extensive hands-on of this at CES this year and I came away very impressed the BlackBerry PlayBook is a really solid tablet it's got a really a lot of really cool features so some of the things that kind of stood out to me is it has a 7-inch display I mean this is not particularly revolutionary or anything but when you consider it against the the 9.7 inch display the ipad the 10.1 inch display of the motorola xoom it definitely does make a difference you know so it fair bit smaller however that's not really all that bad of a thing in my opinion can you go ahead but it's a lot easier to move around doesn't quite it's not quite so bulky you can put fit in smaller bags and you know a lot of time I kind of prefer the 7-inch form factor now in addition to that though it still is the full tablet experience it has a dual core processor we don't know exactly what it is but we do know that it's really powerful I'm gonna do you actually see yes I was able to watch or actually I was able to use it opened up a 1080p video and land a fairly graphically intense game at the same time which is pretty awesome just for a compl at top in general much less a tablet some of the other cool things about the PlayBook is that it has a 1080p rear-facing camera and 720p front-facing camera so overall I really really looking forward to the blackberry playbook I know we should be seeing it here in the next few months it will be available on sprint 4G movie scribe see on more carriers as well as a Wi-Fi only all I kind of stuff but you know that at the very least it will be available with the sprint 4G network so the BlackBerry PlayBook is definitely one to keep your eye on this year I'm moving on with us go ahead and talk a little bit about the motorola xoom again this is another one the tablets it was announced at CES or rather it was the only tablet I one of the only major tablets is announced at CES I was also able to get a pretty good hands on of this as well same story with the playbook I really do like the motorola xoom it's got a lot of really cool features one of the biggest ones in my mind is the fact that it does run android 3.0 honeycomb now this unlike me what you might seen in the galaxy tab is a totally reworked version of android is made specifically for tablets and the zoom is going to be the first tablet to go ahead and use this operating system so some of the cool things about android 3.0 is that it just works really well under the nice large screen no i just said this but i really want to emphasize you know if you ever saw the galaxy tab you'll know that it's just the phone operating system just kind of tweaked a little bit we have pulled in you know stretching everything just walk on a tablet what if the zoo is made one hundred percent and of course honeycombs made one hundred percent to work on a tablet this means that there are none of those little kind of compromises and kind of little just weird things that are going on everything should run really nicely and smoothly on the nice 10.1 inch display which is an incidentally at 720p display so delta should be a very nice screen but moving on also does have the nvidia tegra 2 chipset so this is a dual-core one converge processor should be plenty of power to you know go through KP video play a lot of games all kinds of those things that you expect to do on a tablet now the zoom is actually going to be available on verizon 3g here in the next few months again we don't have the exact release dates but should be here you should be out within the next few months or so i'm going to be available with verizon 3g and you can actually upgrade it a little bit later on the year to a verizon 4g potentially go ahead and just update it fairly simply now as far as the price we don't know about this one either some people will said upwards of perhaps eight hundred dollars i think that might be just a little high i'm not home to try i'm going to even believe that so I'm glad news reserve my judgment till they actually but overall i'm also very impressed with the motorola xoom now lastly let's talk a little bit about the apple ipad 2 now this is something that while it's not official like the other two and I've actually never seen one as well nobody's really seeing one but we as well not myself as well as a lot of other people have really been speculating about it doing research area things they look like and give you guys a pretty complete picture of what we should be seeing here around April or so so the ipad choose going to be looking mostly a incremental upgrade it's not going to be some revolutionary redesign where you're not going to be run OS 10 and have a 35 inch display a guy that's gonna be mostly the same just with some important tweets one of the first things is that it likely will have a high resolution display now I'm not going to get into what they're going to call it you know retina display or not Retina display it's mostly just kind of you know talk but what I do believe is it it very well we'll have a much higher resolution display perhaps somewhere in the range of about 2048 x 1536 don't quote me on that exactly but I think that's about the resolution a lot of people are talking about so I wouldn't be surprised if it does have a much higher resolution display should look really really nice although I wouldn't have sent guarantee on that one some of the other cool things that should be just kind of tweaked as far as the design goes so it should be a little bit thinner should be a little bit more tapered on the ends kind of like the change between the 2nd 3rd generation iPod Touch to the 4th generation if you ever seen one of those they just kind of a just flatten the back and kind of taper it off a little bit which I definitely think should be cool I'd also will have an SD card slot now this is something that I'm really looking forward to as I do a lot of picture and video pictures and video so it would be really nice to have an iPad with me so I go film a video I take some pictures we just pull the SD card right into the ipad and be good to go and one other thing is that it should have a dual core processor so most likely the Apple a5 the AAA the a9 what are they decided to call it but a dual-core processor very similar to the other two tablets now this one we know a little bit more about we know a little bit less about so do keep all this stuff you know with a little bit of grain of salt because none of it 100 confirmed but what I will tell you is that we will see a new iPad next couple months it should be a pretty good effort okay so for the second segment III live we will be taking live questions from everyone in the chat so we have a ton of people in here today as always with every episode III lied it's filling the block in front of blog TV so I just take some questions from everybody in the shed um what title has the best display um that's a pretty good question it's kind of it's kind of hard to answer um the PlayBook has a decent display but it's not going to be anything spectacular so I'm going to be a 1024 x 768 I believe but I do know that it's not going to be particularly high resolution now the motorola xoom will have a 720p display which is pretty good however if the rumors are true the ipad is going to have a really really nice display so i would probably bet on the ipad and it ends up just having the same display and probably the zoom well I get any of the tablets I hope so yeah on that hamster sure I've waiting to go ahead and kind of see little bit more about them you know the prices are kind of stuff but yeah I absolutely plan on getting my hands on as many of these tablets as I can do I think that Apple has a huge problem with all the new tablets coming out you know that's actually yeah that's kind of something I was kind of talking a little bit about earlier yeah I do think that they do have a problem now problem is kind of a subjective thing I don't think that all these tablets are going to make it where people are never going to buy it at the ipad or anything like that but bit last year that was pretty much the only tablet I mean yeah the galaxy tab came out get okay but nowhere near you know a big enough rivals to the ipad so last year apple just sold as many ipads they could make pretty much this year um i think there will be more competition now whether that means that you know that it's going to really hurt the ipad with all these new tablets or not unless that's just going to kind of just we'll just have to see about that but i do think that the very least will be a lot more competition for apple this year um what do I think of the multitasking on the PlayBook is it a webos rip off now I actually some oil that's kind of a hard thing to say I mean you can say rip off and all those kind of stuff but the major thing is does it work and doesn't work well and both those council works absolutely phenomenally so the blackberry playbook if you don't know runs the cutest operating system it's kind of custom made for the playbook and from what I've seen is absolutely excellent you know the run and look quite similar to webos oh that's not bad thing because i'm also a big fan of webos in the way it multitasks so somewhat guys they definitely are fairly similar but they both weren't excellently so I wouldn't really know complain too much well the I will Steve Jobs is will Steve Jobs's what am I trying to say the word Steve Jobs not being here going to hurt the ipad 2 uh no I think it's going to say how to help anything but the ipad 2 has been pretty much done first well before is the Steve left you need to keep mind that he's not gone technically he's still CEO and he's still going to be involved in all the major decisions so well he might not be around for the day-to-day stuff you know when they say hey Steve we're gonna launch the ipad 2 tomorrow he's gonna say sure or no you know whatever so um I think that yeah it's going to hurt Apple a little bit in the long run if he doesn't come back but for the short term I don't think it'll make any difference at all i think the ipad 2 is done it's going to be coming out everything's already figured out so i wouldn't worry about that which one lad the best price again because we has pretty much zero pricing information about any of the three it's kind of hard to say I would expect the ipad 2 to probably remain about the same price as the current ipad i actually would think they're going to do it kind of like the iPhone and make the current iPad go down in price a little bit but I think I bet you probably around five hundred dollars in the United States and as far as a playbook in the zoom it's going to kind of depend on the normal price as well as a subsidized so a lot of tablets if you go ahead and buy a contract with the carrier you're going to get a pretty substantial discount so I would pluck guessed the PlayBook would probably probably be the cheapest just because you can get it on sprint and I mentioned it would be a pretty nice subsidy so that will probably the cheapest but again it's kind of hard to say right now blackberry is going to ya blackberry is probably going to be the better price it is seems to be a look at a smaller tablet which isn't a huge deal because let's get a little bit smaller display everything it's nice you know it's going to make a big difference however since it is smaller and since it will have the you know the sprint which I imagine will have a subsidy ya think the PlayBook will be probably the cheapest on how will the multitasking work on motorola xoom mule is actually a good question they have showed off a fair bit of the cashing this far i'm at now the multitasking but as far as a droid 3 point oh honey cone however i hadn't actually seen exactly how it works now i might be totally wrong they might have already shown that but i do believe this is probably somewhat similar to the way the Android works but again I actually did not see the multitasking in action when I have my hands on it so I other they can't say I think the ipad will be thinner yeah I think it will be a bit thinner I don't think it's going to be you know razor thin or anything like that but I do think it will be substantially better maybe you know a fair bet I don't think it's going to be a lot thinner but it should be somewhat there so anyway guys that's it for this episode d3 live like thank you all for watching of course everybody in the cheddars come and you know hang out with me if you're interested in more you actually go ahead and take a look at d3 diving every week feel free subscribe to my channel like I said to do this every week saturday at three o'clock eastern time suits more subscribe you can go ahead come on by actually watch the show live hangout ask questions or of course you can just watch the pre-recorded video on youtube later on so anyway guys thanks for watching