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hey I'm Donald L here at CES 2012 I'm here with Michael cluley from rim showing off the new playbook 2 point 0 operating system for the PlayBook tablet tell me Michael what is going on with the new playbook software it's great to be here Donald and we're really excited about playbook OS 20 what playbook OS to doto is essentially bringing is the built-in email calendar contacts application as kind of the big headliners for this release so within the email application you get your unified inbox which all our BlackBerry users are used to already it's a great way to get all of your information coming in to write once not only do you get your email accounts in there but you also get your social accounts like LinkedIn and Twitter you get access to all information the email claims is also bringing features like rich text compose which allow you to you know change the font sizes bold italicize all of that within the email client itself including a great improved virtual keyboard that has autocorrect auto suggestion and contextual word prediction really make the email and messaging experience you know to the next level I see nail the email makes sense especially for a blackberry device you really want a powerful email client what I'll see you have great so within the contacts application we're moving again with that social centric experience so a user would add their LinkedIn or their Twitter accounts to the device we go off and we pulled down the friends you follow the contacts that you have in common and we merge that and integrate that all into one contact card for the user so contacts email calendar is the the third application the built-in application that we're adding and it also brings in that social integration into the so your meetings aren't just about where they are and when they are but it's about the people you're meeting with so you know who you're meeting with you have all that great information about them you know if they've changed roles because i get linkedin updates you know when the last time you met with them because i can look at past meetings so you have all that information before you can get to that meeting and you're well prepared in advance we also have what we call growing numbers in the month view the bigger the number is busy you are so it really gives users that way to triage their calendar quickly look at it so you know what I'm really too busy on this date let's try and book a meeting that day and then dive into the further details like that alright I'm exciting place when I blackberry playbook user is going to be able to access this on the OS coming in February of this year and and it's going to bring those three things that I mentioned plus many things else like the video store also powered by Rho V or we're bringing in support for android applications including some of the thousands of great titles that we have already all right Michael thanks for joining us today thanks for showing me BlackBerry PlayBook the list 2 point 0 and I'm excited to see it when it comes out in February cnet com I'm Donald Bell