“BlackBerry PlayBook only gets “a few hours” battery life says analyst” |
| BlackBerry PlayBook only gets “a few hours” battery life says analyst Posted: 29 Dec 2010 09:25 AM PST
Research in Motion has outwardly seemed pretty confident that they have an iPad killer in the new BlackBerry PlayBook, but a new rumor suggests that the tablet is not ready for primetime, thanks to its abysmal battery life. Long battery life is obviously important in a tablet, but according to Kaufman Bros. analyst Shaw Wu, the BlackBerry PlayBook currently boasts a battery life that lasts "only a few hours." That's a far cry from the six hour battery life of the seven-inch Galaxy Tab and the ten hours battery life boasted by Apple's iPad. The culprit? The new operating system used by the PlayBook, called QNX. Although it seems better suited to the task of touch control than BlackBerry OS, QNX was designed for systems that were always plugging into a larger power source, like an automobile in-dash interface or network equipment. QNX was never built from the ground up to support mobile devices, and that's a big problem. It is postulated that the battery life considerations are why RIM has delayed the PlayBook until May, 2011… where it'll be competing directly with the iPad 2. Either way, unless RIM can massively reduce power consumption, the PlayBook is guaranteed to be dead on arrival. Read more at All Things D This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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