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.

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