RIM Will Finally Fix the PlayBook’s E-mail

The tablet computer makes users jump through an odd, unexpected hurdle to access email.
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You would think that Research In Motion’s tablet, the PlayBook, would accommodate email as nicely as the BlackBerrys handle it. Not so, and BlackBerry had to go back to the drawing board to fix the problem. Next month it will issue an update that corrects the situation.In early PlayBooks, you couldn’t connect to your email automatically. You had to go through another service called the BlackBerry Bridge, which also allowed you to access to BBM, calendar, and address book.

With this God-sent email fix also comes the suspicions that BlackBerry may also distribute an update that will let BlackBerry users to access Android apps. Giving in and just using Android technology really deflates hopes — mostly sparked by its new BlackBerry Music service — that Research In Motion would move toward customization.

Read more at TechCrunch.

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  • http://www.flurrycreations.com/theblog John Bergquist

    Next some much needed cross-platform apps would also be good (like Pandora, Kindle, Dropbox, etc…).  I check in with Playbook to see if it is a useful device every other week.  Using and navigating basic sites like Hootsuite, Google Plus and others is a clumsy experience with the current system.  So far I stop a few minutes in and head back to other tablets.  It continues to be a device I want to like.