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so today I'm going to be having a look at the blackberry playbook and the first thing I'm going to do with the playbook is I'm going to click to play I'm on fat pi calm I actually really like fat pi calm and I've got one of his videos playing this is a flash video and it is playing it's already in a lot of ways better than this for my purposes okay so I'm just gonna go ahead and I'm going to own a bus okay go ahead and pause that I don't have a box for this product today so I can't really do an unboxing sorry I can't really I can't really do this from the from this way so I don't really have a box so I can't do an unboxing today but I'm gonna be doing a quick product tour and just an overall quick overview of the BlackBerry PlayBook which so far I am very impressed with so here's my big buck bunny video that I usually play to show HD YouTube playback and it is sorry it's really hard to use this from the single it is phenomenal full screen HD video playback is absolutely flawless completely smooth without any tweaking or playing around with it whatsoever I'm very very impressed if we can skip forward to sort of a more action-packed scene in the in the show that might help a little bit to demonstrate the smoothness internet browsing is very very snappy so far it does feature a dual dual-core 1 gigahertz processor so that's not that unexpected the touch screen here is 7-inch and it is able to use four fingers concurrently for its multi-touch interface and yeah skipping in HD videos on YouTube isn't always super smooth visit come on you can do it YouTube that's it doesn't want to do it for me okay fine forget it the overall interface is very very neat so you have to actually be on the touch sensitive screen you've also got a touch sensitive frame so depending where you dragged in onto the screen from it'll actually give you a variety of different functionalities so I can access my menus so this is where I can do things like connect to Wi-Fi which I am connected to right now I can control my HDMI output yes it has micro HDMI as well as usb on the bottom and then this is for a dedicated charging dock actually let's finish off with the hardware here so it's available in 16 gig 32 gig and 64 gig configurations it has stereo speakers on either side of the screen which is an improvement over other tablets on the market which have their speakers at the bottom for whatever reason and this one seems to only one speaker I haven't actually done too much research on the iPad 2 so forgive me on the top you find a couple of dedicated hardware buttons including power volume and play pause as well as a headphone jack you've got a front-facing a 3 megapixel camera as well as a back facing five megapixel camera which is also capable of capturing HD video let's see what else do I want to say it has Bluetooth tethering with other with other devices so you can actually access internet on here as if you use something else to tether to your 3G connection or whatever the case may be overall smoothness so I'm going to show you guys this just everything is incredibly smooth when you rotate it's not like a Windows tablet where it's like this clunky three-second delay if you bring this stuff you bring this up whatever whatever you happen to be doing everything is very smooth so let's say I want to navigate to my other now it's playing again that's ok oh yeah oh that's interesting ok I don't know how that works but apparently I minimized it so it'll take some getting used to in order to really get the hang of the full functionality of it here I'm at the desktop though so I can see all favorites media games this one doesn't have any games installed on it this is just a demo unit that I have on hand for about 20 minutes here while I try to put together a video but like I said overall just wicked smooth interface very very impressed with that aspect of the BlackBerry PlayBook I'm holding it upside down right now and I realize let's go back to YouTube I just want to show you guys how quick the browsing is on this little guy here so let's go to oh I love the keyboard by the way and cix whoops see I'm not used to a couple of the features yet love the keyboard and part of the reason I love the keyboard so much is just the fact that here we go there's no 21 no 120 Hertz Oh No there's no 120 Hertz now we're gonna go back now we're gonna see something else we go you know banners on the side let's have a look at the NC exhale browsing is very snappy very very impressed with that aspect of it oh yeah here's something neat so let's say I wanted to go to a different web ID let's say I wanted to go to Easter 2011 I can actually unlike iOS I can navigate to some anywhere in my URL I know Android does this as well but personally I find that a boon as an iPhone 4 user that I can edit text without actually going back and retyping the entire sequence there was something I wanted to say give me a sec so let's do a little bit more functionality so here this is the word to go app so I can type hello world I actually really like the keyboard and I did mention this before but I didn't say why because the size of the device is just about right so I can actually type with my thumb's like I would on a touchscreen phone without it being awkward and uncomfortable the way it would on a larger tablet where you basically here I'll show you guys the the iPad 2 for comparison so on a larger tablet like this let's go and try to make a note of some sort it's making you note I like I can't really do this comfortably and it loses a little bit of functionality for someone like me that way let's actually have a look let's do a quick physical comparison so here's the size of the BlackBerry PlayBook compared to the iPad our iPad 2 rather okay here is the thickness okay so it is a touch thicker but it's actually not that much thicker and this is something another thing that I actually quite like its square like the iPhone 4 as opposed to being beveled at the edges like the iPad 2 and like the the older iPhones and that actually allows me to hold on to it better I find my fingers are less likely to slip off it from the back and I personally prefer that let's just show you guys the multitasking really quick so why don't we open up something else so we've got a browser open let's go to all at sea let's open Adobe Reader or something so here's the multitasking functionality we go like this we can switch between our browser we can switch between our word to go where we can type things and the the interfaces is impressively snappy I really really like that aspect of it I already talked about the micro HDMI or you talked about that yeah ok you know what let's go back and give Big Buck Bunny another chance so youtube.com it really is so fast ok and I'll show you guys when we start at the beginning how quickly I'm able to get into playing 1080p HD video fullscreen here there we are so the browsing I was doing before wasn't really properly indicative but you can see there's absolutely no frame skipping whatsoever here love it it comes with 90 days of free tech support I don't know if I mentioned that already but if you're having trouble using it you can call in for free and and get help with it they've also got some pretty neat guides on their website where they walk you through a lot of the different aspects you know how to type properly on it how to get started connecting your Wi-Fi how to use the app store and I think that pretty much covers everything I wanted to say about it why don't we use the camera real quick here and just try it out we'll do a little bit of video capture shall we so I'm using the rear mounted camera so let's up here actually why don't we why don't we catch for me am I am i aiming at myself am i doing it am i doing I can't tell I should go this way this way let's plate down okay well whatever okay I'm basically here I'm talking to myself through the 3d blackberry playbook we're gonna go ahead and stop that and then let's just so this is really intuitive now took me forever how to figure out how to minimize something but now that I'm now that I'm doing it it's like no problem whatsoever so let's go to my videos and we've got the one that I just is this the one I just took must be let's just play it that's really good crazy Russians trying to show me where it appointed fantastic okay well thank you for checking out my quick product tour of the BlackBerry PlayBook don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips from our unboxings reviews and other computer videos actually one more size comparison for you guys before we wrap up here so here it is next to the iPad 2 and I also happen to have in a soos transformer tablet that I can put next to it as well just so that you guys have some good context for the size and thickness of these devices so the playbook if you come down on this angle you see the playbook is actually very similar to the iPad 2 the transformer is a little bit thicker and then I'm just gonna throw my iphone down on the table just for context there as well the iPhone 4 is just a touch and right in between the iPad 2 and the BlackBerry PlayBook okay now I'm actually done don't forget to subscribe guys