OS 2.0 for Playbook

OS 2.0 for Playbook

OS 2.0 for Playbook

After the wave of 2011, RIM has launched mobile long demanded a software upgrade to its list of BlackBerry. During a meeting at CES, the company shows a device running OS 2.0 guidelines, which finally adds the original email, contacts and calendar application. Interestingly, two former serves as a center not only for messages and contacts Playbook, but also their social network accounts like Twitter, LinkedIn and others.

E-mail application also offers a variety of text formatting options, allowing you to bold, italic, create bullet points, and change the font type, color or size. He says that the calendar application fairly standard, but have heard good things about the integration between applications. BGR reports, for example, that the contact is linked to a meeting entry in the calendar for a quick and easy. Calendar also sync with Google's popular services, AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail and Microsoft Exchange.

Last revision renews the Home screen, allowing you to group applications in a folder or a place of popular applications on the dock. You can also expect a "reading view" mode in the browser, most of the features associated with Apple's desktop and mobile Safari browser, as well as an enhanced version of BlackBerry Bridge, which has a control function Remote allows you to write, navigate and perform gestures on the use Playbook BlackBerry smartphones.

Unfortunately, you have to wait a month for this feature as a revised operating system is not expected to be released until February, some 10 months after hitting shelves tablet guidelines. Some analysts believe that this update is "too little, too late" and will do little to boost sales of RIM guidance or assistance on the reputation of faltering in the segment of mobile consumers. Still, the owner of the existing guidelines will appreciate the extra functionality.