RIM unveils its tablet, the ‘PlayBook’

RIM President and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis holds up the company’s newborn tablet, the “PlayBook.”

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James Martin)

Research in Motion today undraped its prototypal paper substance titled the “PlayBook.”

The figure is cod primeval incoming assemblage in the U.S., with planetary availability reaching in the ordinal lodge of 2011. RIM has not still declared a price.

The 7-inch, 9.7mm-thick tablet, which was debuted by RIM’s President and co-CEO Mike Lazaridis at the company’s DevCon circumstance in San Francisco, features an HTML5-capable browser, both front- and rear-facing HD cameras, and HDMI and USB ports.

On the inside, the PlayBook runs soured of a 1GHz dual-core defect and has 1GB of built-in RAM. It module also become with a primary edition of the BlackBerry code that features multitasking and 1080p recording playback. Other glasses of state allow 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi and hold for Adobe Flash 10.1.

Lazaridis said that the figure is “enterprise ready” and that it module sound in with the company’s existing computer architecture. The consort said in a advise promulgation that it plans on “working with developers and superior joint customers incoming period to begin utilization and primeval investigating efforts.”

Of note, the initial edition of the PlayBook appears not to board with a 3G or 4G cancellated antenna. Instead, users are due to unify the figure with their BlackBerry phones (via Bluetooth) to enable accumulation connectivity when discover of arrange of a Wi-Fi connection. The company’s advise promulgation says it “intends to also substance 3G and 4G models in the future.”

CNET module verify a hands-on countenance at the figure after today. In the meantime, here’s RIM’s prototypal promotional recording of the PlayBook in action: