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The Teardown - BlackBerry PlayBook

BlackBerry PlayBook [1]The Playbook is novel not only because it's RIM's first tablet, but also because it abandons the company's decades-old Blackberry operating system and uses a new QNX-based platform.

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The Playbook is novel not only because it's RIM's first tablet, but also because it abandons the company's decades-old Blackberry operating system and uses a new QNX-based platform.

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