BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 screenshot shows Android app player

RIM's ease employed hard to attain their PlayBook paper confident of streaming Android apps, and it looks aforementioned they're effort near to having something primed for primetime. Some pictures from the Sun Yat-sen University BlackBerry work in Kwangchow China hit shown a BlackBerry PlayBook streaming OS 2.0.0.2992, and likewise the long-awaited stand-alone applications for calendar, contacts, and messages, there's also an Android Player picture that makes an appearance. In the settings menu, there's also a newborn Accounts tab, where you crapper index in to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and accepted e-mail accounts.

Updates to the PlayBook operative grouping are of portion welfare because yet that QNX code will be uncovering its artefact onto RIM's smartphones, which will also probable separate Android apps. It's worth reiterating that it's not aforementioned BlackBerry is change indiscriminate to the Android OS, and you won't hit admittance the Android Market, but developers will be healthy to accede their creations to App World, and you'll probable be healthy to sideload apps with a taste of ginglymus grease. Being healthy to admittance e-mail and another set fecundity apps without having to Bridge over Bluetooth to a BlackBerry smartphone is a daylong instance coming, that's for sure. I vexation that those overturned soured from the PlayBook because of this freakish invoke haw hit already pulled the causing on a assorted tablet, but for those that haven't maybe PlayBook 2.0 will hit every the correct gaps filled.

The exclusive x-factor at this saucer is the calibre of the Android emulator. The primeval beta we've seen didn't separate specially smoothly, but the on-stage demonstrate seemed to do substantially enough. The PlayBook has plentitude of H.P. to vantage soured this category of thing, but it feels aforementioned it's attractive forever to alter those capabilities to bear. The autochthonous utilization outfit is employed its artefact conceive to developers today too, so hopefully we'll wager a clump of flush 3D games around the aforementioned instance as this OS 2.0 code gets out.

[weibo via CB]

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