An0n0m0us

Families who want more than one person to use it say for email or gaming. Not difficult to work out surely?

dpb

apparently reelportal doesnt work on ipad - how do you talk someone not on another ipad .??

An0n0m0us

Skype.

dpb

Ah yes course

hodgy0_2

I think it is fair to say the lack of multi user functionality is not something that will be troubling TDW

An0n0m0us

dpb

Harsh but probably fair

Ant

dpb

Is it true ipad has only a vga front camera.!?

How does that work

JackClark

Fine for Facetime and Skype. Terrible for taking Scenic pictures.

dpb

64gb for same price now, damn

boomer

...but who has any in stock?

mb (still fairly happy with his 16GB)

p.s. I take that back - loads of PC World stores with it in stock around Brum for only £129 - bugga!!

boomer

Heck, at that price i am tempted by buy another one as a spare

mb

Dedrater

Playbooks will also be updated to BB10 when it comes out. I have one reserved and will be picking it up in a bit. This will complement a Tab (mine) and ipad (missus)

£129 for the 64gb is too good a deal.

Dedrater

A forced half gig update isn't a good start to ownership

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

I got one mainly to stop my iPad getting wrecked by my son
64Gb picked up from Northampton PC World, £129 (they also had the 16Gb one for sale to for £129 ). They had plenty as well.
However, not impressed so far. Connected to my home wifi, update failed. Had to search interweb for a solution (which I found as it's a fairly common problem). Just doing a 'forced update' now which it warns me could take up to an hour....
At the end of the day, if it's rubbish then I can just give it to my dad for surfing the web from the comfort of his Stressless

Dedrater

I don't see the logic in that either, they should drop the 16gb (not nearly enough storage these days) to £70 odd so all the kids buy them up, they will soon make the money back via paid apps.

Apart from the forced update on first startup, i think this Playbook is an amazing piece of kit for the money, i got Skype going within 5 minutes along with all my other most used apps.

Ill take some pictures later of the ipad/Playbook together for people who are undecided.

urban

iTrader: (1)

Right - tell me, why would you purchase the Playbook over a Nexus?

Dedrater

Just a quick one which i thought was quite funny, both the Ipad and Playbook are running the latest updates, Ipad gets mauled, it is noticeably quicker to browse on the Playbook, not as quick as the Galaxy, but not far off.

Dedrater

A couple major ones in my case, no HDMI out and extremely limited storage.

dpb

Skype how so, not video , presumably

Neanderthal

iTrader: (6)

Got mine working, seems like a slick piece of kit to be honest and at £129 is a bit of a bargain.

urban

iTrader: (1)

OK fair enough, but being a secondary device in the home(laptop/PC being first say), is 16Gb not enough?

EddScott

I bought a Nexus 7 for the wife on Saturday. She's happy with it.

What put me off the BB stuff is the doubt over the future of RIM and how long the playbooks will be supported.

All Torque

Got one as well, and yes please tell how to get Skype.

dpb

As long as BB10 works it'll work

Dedrater

Not for what i wanted it for, i already have a couple of full size tablets to stream stuff onto around the house, i will be using the Playbook as a mass media player away from home, for instance massive amounts of music, tens of HD movies/TV (plug straight into hotel TVs) As it happens it is a very capable Tab, with most Android apps working on it.

If there were a 64GB Nexus at £200, than i would have paid the £70 difference however.

I might have been a bit premature to say i got Skype working All Torque, getting it installed is easy, getting it to emulate is proving more tricky, i should have tested after install, ill have a play and see what i can do.

An0n0m0us

You won't get Skype video to work until the new update is out, the current OS locks out android apps accessing the camera.

JackClark

Anyone else find the fact that the Playbook can't display that web page properly funny? It's like you're not getting all of the web.

dpb

It works fine other way round, who wants to lug around extra advertising space