Video Chat And Facebook Apps Coming to RIM Playbook Tomorrow

Posted on 02 May 2011 by


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I’ve had a BlackBerry Playbook for a couple of weeks now. I really like the device but have to concur with the many reports that it is, sadly, unfinished. The hardware is great. The OS is smooth. The cameras take FANTASTIC pictures and video. And I can actually use it to write a blog more easily than ON ANY OTHER MOBILE DEVICE I HAVE TRIED. But the device is unfinished. Yes, RIM, the company that built its reputation on email, shipped a device that didn’t natively do email (more on that later this week) and they released something with so few apps that it has not yet shown its practical side; at least to me. Thankfully some key apps and functionality are finally coming out.

Word from TechCrunch is that video chat will be arriving tomorrow morning as an OTA update. The app will make use of the front and back cameras AND support VOIP and video calls. RIM has yet to totally get it together since, as the post reports, “The app features “powerful in-call functions” like – and I’m not making thus up – “mute/unmute.”” Oh RIM…

A Facebook app has also been announced but a quick check on my Playbook shows no sign of it… Yet.

 

Via MobileCrunch

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Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”) Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him. +Dan Cohen

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