Seeing that tablet computers are the latest thing and that many people are hooked to it, RIM's chief executive officer Mike Lazaridis finally revealed Blackberry's answer to the iPad - the Playbook.

They proved themselves unbeatable ever since they launched the Blackberry line of smart phones. A lot of people, from famous celebrities and well-known politicians to the common average people, are now sporting Blackberry phones. Many actually considered the Blackberry as one of the best and functional smart phones ever created. Now comes the Playbook. This Blackberry tablet makes use of the same operating system developed by QNX technology.

The Playbook performs a lot of platforms and technologies, some of which include the following AIR, Java, Abode Flash, Blackberry 6, Webkit/HTML5, POSIX OS, SMP, and Open GL. It is also equipped with RIM's newest Blackberry WebWorks platform. With that, the Playbook gained the title of being the 'fastest tablet ever' created by RIM.

Aside from its strong operating system and multiple platforms, it has fairly good storage space at 1GB RAM, 5 megapixel rear lens perfect for those who want to do video conferencing, 3 megapixel front-facing camera. It has 'horsepower' for multi-tasking with its Cortex A9 dual-core 1GHz processor. You can open several programs all at the same time and it will not affect the performance. It will not hang or lag. The Playbook is capable of video recording as well as transferring of files through the Bluetooth or WiFi.

For those who are fond of watching videos, movies, and listening to songs, you will never worry about if the files will be compatible or not. The Blackberry Playbook can play videos at full speed and whatever format - MPEG, DivX, HD, or WMV. File extensions for audio playback is also easy. You can listen to WMA, MP3, and AAC songs wherever and whenever you want.

One of the advantages of the Playbook over the iPad is that it is much smaller and compact .Weighing exactly at 0.9 pounds or 400g, it is definitely lighter than the iPad but bigger and heavier than the Samsung Galaxy Tab. It measures only 7-inches, about half the size of iPad. This will enable you to easily tote your table computer everywhere and you will never worry about it fitting in your bag. The developers are actually dropping hints that they are developing 3G and 4G models of Playbook in the future. For avid readers, you will be more than happy to know that the Playbook will feature a Kindle App that will enable you to read all the books that you want.

Another edge of it is that for sites with Flash that do not usually run on the iPad tablet will be viewable in the Playbook. RIM promises to open Playbook's Adobe AIR to provide users with uncompromised web experience. This means that you will get to enjoy all the websites that you want to visit without thinking of whether you will be able to access the sites. The Playbook is definitely more lenient when it comes to the programs that are allowed compared to the iPad.