RIM developer conference pushes Tablet PC playbook

Rim, the BlackBerry maker, held a conference in San Francisco today, 27th 4 o'clock in the afternoon (http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/17197.html "> Beijing time 28th 4 o'clock in the Morning"). Rim may be releasing a tablet computer blackpad, challenging the ipad, possibly launching a new operating system to support the tablet, possibly announcing an adjustment to the app World store, and possibly announcing some mobile advertising partners, according to industry expectations.

Here are some of the live records:

4:05: We are waiting.

4:12: Music sounded, the press conference is about to begin.

4:15: "Welcome to DevCon", said the announcer. (Name of the BlackBerry Developer Convention). Then Rim CEO Maik Lazaridis Mike Laza on the stage, laughing that it would be a special announcement. A total of 150 million BlackBerry machines have been sold worldwide, with 50 million users. Last quarter sold 12 million BlackBerry machines, in North America, Central America, the United Kingdom and many other regions, the BlackBerry is ranked first. RIM has a total of 300,000 registered developers.

4:19: Another thing worth paying attention to is that BlackBerry has a total of 28 million BBM (BlackBerry Messenger) users, adding 2000 people per hour.

4:21:1.5 million applications are downloaded every day. With the support of carriers, it is easier than ever. BlackBerry Advertising Services, BlackBerry payments, app payments, and local advertising all bring revenue.

4:24: Make the manufacturing application easier--blackberry WebWorks, which allows the program to be completed within a few days. "We all know that we can now use HTML as an application for the BlackBerry mechanism," Lazaridis said. BlackBerry is the first in business, government and law enforcement solutions. When we talked to CIOs, they said they needed professional safety equipment.

4:26: When we come up with a solution, we aim very high. We support multithreading from day one. Recently, CIOs want spreadsheets, videos, good web experiences.

4:26:rim company launched a tablet computer--playbook.

4:32: Can be standby, ultra-thin, 7-inch display, 9.7 mm thick, full web experience-support flash, support 1080p. With HD-enabled cameras. The tablet is for the enterprise, it can match the BlackBerry machine. Now it can support 250,000 services. Playbook with 1G multi-core processors, real multithreading.

4:35:rim specifically revised the operating system for playbook. It draws lessons from major technology companies and focuses on building a BlackBerry tablet operating system. It will support new operations.

4:41: A good experience, it can support the full Web page, the perfect support Adobe 10.1. Then Adboe's CEO appeared on the stage. The CEO of Rim said: "I've heard a saying that it's true that Adobe's tools can't make bad apps." Adboe CEO hurried and gone, really fast!

4:46: Lazaridis did not say how much money, it looks like playbook to wait until 2011 before the oven.

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