Research In Motion (RIM) announced the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 to the public last year. This is surely an upgrade version of the previous operating system included in the original PlayBook tablet computer. The company stated that this current version will be able to provide a great number of impressive functionalities and much more reliable performances. The following are the list of additional features of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 version.
Basically, there are several major improvements included in the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 version i.e. in terms of connectivity, messaging, social media integration, mobile productivity and also the addition of new advanced features and interesting contents.
By upgrading to this BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 version, the owners will be given a number of additional features. For example, there will be the remote control functionality called BlackBerry Bridge by using the touch-screen BlackBerry model to navigate around the PlayBook tablet interface. Just for the record, this feature has not been included in the previous OS version.
Surely when applying this helpful feature, users can now tap, swipe, and also type in the messages on the handset which is connected to the tablet. This feature is using the Bluetooth connectivity to perform the remote and wireless control between the two devices. So make sure that the Bluetooth connection of both devices works properly before you decide to work with this feature.
In terms of messaging, the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 version will come with the integration of inbox with the several different accounts including your personal and office accounts, and also the social network accounts like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Moreover, there will be the other impressoive features like the inbox management tools, e-mails multi-tasking (opening multiple e-mail tabs at once) and also the simple text message editing.
Users are now able to add the meeting schedules to the calendar which will be integrated automatically to their social network accounts. Furthermore, the address book will be also integrated with the social media so that users can see any of their contacts along with its status updates, chats history and so forth.
To improve the mobile productivity, this OS will deliver the Document To Go office application and also the Print To G features. The last mentioned feature will be capable of printing any documents from the tablet by using the WiFi connectivity. There will be also the collection of built-in games such as Cut the Rope and the popular Angry Birds. For the movie freak, the catalogue of many films and TV shows is available for the reference. The refinement has been also performed to the web browsing capability.
The additional interesting feature of the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 will be the access to the Google’s online application store which is commonly known as the Android Market. This could be the great complement for the company’s online application store namely the BlackBerry App World. Unfortunately, there are some notable features that have not been included in this OS namely the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) application and also the BES corporate email support. [IS]
