We’ve seen an awful lot of RIM’s first tablet, the BlackBerry PlayBook this week at CES. Now that they’re finally letting us actually touch the thing, most of the initial impressions have been positive, but one really big problem has come up: you can’t fetch e-mail or access other personal information management data (address book, BBM, memos, calendar, and tasks, for example) in their native apps without pairing it to a BlackBerry smartphone in a process they’re calling Bridge. Bridge doesn’t so much as sync data on both devices as it simply explodes information stored on the handset onto the bigger screen. As soon as they’re unpaired, the PIM data on the PlayBook disappears. This means if you have anything but a BlackBerry, the Wi-Fi PlayBook might not end up being an optimal standalone product, unless you hold browser-based apps and everything but PIM in high esteem.
Read more at: The BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet's One Glaring Flaw: Bridge
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