We’ve heard some rumblings before that February 21st was the launch date for the official release of BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2. We have now heard more confirmation from our sources that February 21st is the expected release date.
PlayBook OS 2.0 is the anticipated release that will include native email, calendar, and contacts apps. Unfortunately, BBM will be missing from this update, but you’ll still be able to use it normally through Bridge. We can also expect to see Bridge 2.0 release slightly before or on the same day. Bridge 2.0 will bring a few new features, including the remote control feature we saw a demo of at CES 2012.
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hope this info true! i cant waiting tu roll this os into my 32gb playbook! rofl!
its launching tomorrow thats 17 feb
Hmmm…only if it is 17 of next year’s February…
I’m bored. Endlessly uninformed, Playbook people can’t trust RIM for timeliness or even BBM-ness. Object lesson in corporate ineptitude. Soon, or later,a flawed fix: who cares? Not BBM users or RIM stockholders or Playbook-eyers. RIP RIM.
I use my phone for BBM – along with all other messaging. It would be great if they were all sync’d nice and neat, but I can live. The PlayBook works great. It does many things that other tablets can’t do. Last weekend my buddy was trying to order chipotle on his Galaxy Tab. He couldn’t – I had to order it on my Torch 9850. Looks like BB’s browser is worth bragging about.
@drbob – you sound like you need a tissue….
You appear to be uninformed, all right, but I do not think it is RIM’s fault.
yeh looking forward to this 1
After being able to view and test PlayBook 2.0 at CES, let me just say, this product is amazing. People need to give it a chance and see what power you will have in a tablet. No other manufacture is doing what RIM has been able to do within the first year of the PlayBook being released. All users will be very pleased with 2.0. So BBM will not be available off the bat, who cares? Not me, I’m perfectly happy having it bridged for the time being. I haven’t missed a message yet.
AMEN!!! I’m looking forward to the remote feature.
You’re right, NO other company is doing what RIM is doing, and what RIM is doing is unacceptable. RIM put out a tablet that is half done, we’re waiting for an update with NO release date and no official word when it’ll be available. The only people that are riding with RIM are the die hard Blackberry lovers, RIM has lost many blackberry fans including myself. R.I.P. RIM.
I’m still a BB fan, but I hate RIM !
How can a company of any repute allow the release of its core products to be dictated by the rumour mill. Many of us bought the PB on the back of a promise (rumour) that the Android layer would be released last summer.
* Why hasn’t RIM, itself, announced a fixed release date for OS 2?
* Why hasn’t RIM addressed the big questions that dominate the forums, such as the availability or otherwise of Skype on the Playbook? If RIM is working so closely with PB developers, surely it must know whether Skype will be available.
RIM, you are shooting yourselves in the foot big time.
No company will announce any fixed date and feature until the date of release. This is due to legal and liability issues.
Then, why are you here?
I have a Playbook and I’ve always been a Blackberry fan. I am very much looking forward to this realease but I just dont know whats real anymore with RIM because Ive been waiting for this update for a long time. Dont get me wrong I think the Playbook is a great tablet but to think you can launch a tablet with no native email, calendar or contacts (i dont really care about BBM) is appalling and that is the problem people are having with RIM because they will continue to demo how great this new os update is going to be but they sure are taking their time releasing something that should have been part of the original package. QNX … great idea although RIM didn’t think before doing it that their handsets are not QNX and might cause a security risk, im starting to doubt their work ethic and their insight if something like this slips past. All that aside I will be keeping my playbook and I will be happy when this is released and the playbook will be a good tablet but my only problem is that its only happening a year after I purchased mine.
Hi I m new to all this could you please tell me if i will be able to use a memory stick on my play book … Many thanks Yvonne
No.
I got all excited for the 17th. I’m hoping your source is wrong and it will be the 17th.
The 21st seems a little weird tho, why not start the week off right and do it on a Monday or end the week with a high note and do it on a Friday? Tuesday just seems weird. I keep wondering why RIM hasn’t announced a date in which this will be available is it simply to stop people from saying they miss deadlines or what?
the Monday is a provincial holiday in Ontario.
Same thing in Manitoba.
(I’m In canada FuckenEH!)
Way to make Canada and canadians look dumb Anonymous…It’s Presidents Day in the US that day as well. I believe every canadian province and territory has adopted it as a holiday (Family Day in Alberta).
Not a holiday in Quebec.
Not in the Yukon, either…
Monday is a holiday and releases never go out on a Friday (as most people are out of the office on a weekend, should anything go wrong…). Tuesday fits nicely for me
RIM is looking to become more consumer friendly so why no release it on a friday, allow users to play with it on an extended weekend and then bring it to work to show off tuesday?
Did you not read his comment? How is it consumer friendly to release something on a Friday and then not have people in place to fix any problems. They aren’t going to make everyone work the weekend just so Mitch can get his precious update two 3 days earlier.
I’m saying its consumer friendly because then people are off working and they get a chance to use it for purposes other then work or school. Calm down there, don’t need to be a douche
that if Blackberry balked and didn’t iuclnde Android app player with the new OS that they would port Android apps for use on Blackberry anyway. Why people even consider buying iToys’ is beyond me, it just demonstrates consumer ignorance .Better tablets were out before iPads, iPods,have worst sound of all MP3 players but somehow took over, iPhones offered half the abilities HTC offered years earlier too. People just get sucked into Apple gadgets..
This year’s Mardi Gras happens to land on Feb. 21. Apparently RIM just wants to join the celebration.
Monday is “Presidents’ Day” in the USA -
I agree with you 100%. I will not belive till I see. There is no confirmation from blacberry offical web site.
Nice – I think I can survive until then. I am super pumped for this update. Looking forward to the PIM apps and hopefully a bunch of great 3rd party apps to be launched simulaneously. I have been using Zinio through the browser and although it does work, I can’t wait for the app they showed us last month.
Any one have any news on what other apps may be released?? The BB Video store should be cool too.
I can’t wait, frankly. I’m dying for my Playbook to feel complete. RIM needs to stop playing, and roll it out on the 17th! I had mine since day one, an its been a looong journey of falling in an out of love with my PB. Almost a year later, and still no firm date, gosh!
completely and all the way home correct
Im really excited for this. Ive been toying with my playbook, I tethered it to my iphone and when this tablet is updated im going to keep it on me at all times!
Hi, how were you able to tether you iphone to the playbook ? is your Iphone jailbroken ?
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The 21st seems logical as the ShopBlackberry special deal ends Feb 20th.
As the not so proud owner of seven tablets to date, I hereby declare the PlayBook as the best tablet no one is buying. OS 2.0 will make it the best non-iPad tablet available. The browser is simply phenomenal, the touchscreen is flawless, and the display is absolutely gorgeous. Admittedly, apps are more expensive and nowhere near as plentiful as the iOS or Android repetoire, but in terms of essential functions, I couldn’t be more pleased (assuming the 2.0 update is all I expect it will be). I could care less how “popular” the device is… I only care that BlackBerry continues to support and update it as it deserves to be. Long live the PlayBook!
Not as plentiful, yes, but…..as said in the interview, with Alec Saunders, there are about 1200 versions of Solitaire for the iPAD. Who needs it?
take it easy is all set up BB Playbook already won it has a 5300 mAh is over that will last truohgh the day remember Dual core does not mean double battery drain. but larger screen does (ipad)VA:F [1.9.11_1134]please wait…VA:F [1.9.11_1134](from 0 votes)
you know after this is released other news outlets will be out to destroy the update because its missing bbm, just like they did with native emails.
No one will care that BBM is a BIS/BES only service except that they want it natively for no other reason just to say they have it and that we’re missing out when really BBM can easily be sorted through via bridge (like we all know). I could understand the argument for emails since everyone other tablet did okay to include one.
Either way, they’ll still bag it for the fact that it was late and not appreciate that what they’ve got in front of them is actually great software. hopefully I’ve been proven wrong and it gets heaps of praise.
I am anxious to see more android developers port more android content over to RIM’s platform. Does anyone know if the android player will be available in the 2.0 update?
You’ll be pleased to know that they have had a flood of developers register (6,600) and one or two thousand apps to sift through for inclusion in App World before the upgrade. You’ll also be pleased to know that the Android player will be baked into the 2.0 upgrade. It will be seamless – you won’t know it’s there. You open a ported Android app and it will automatically run it in the player.
I like Peanut Butter and Blueberries are Blue !
Not if they’re “green”.
If the peanut butter is green, I wouldn’t recommend you eating it…
I just posted on pocketnow who cited N4BB. The way this article is worded, some people are reading it as if RIM promised to bring BBM to OS2.0…RIM has said since October last year that BBM won’t be coming on OS2.0. It would be better if it clarified that “As RIM already told us back in October, BBM won’t be in this release”…
The stupidity of it all is Rim continue to let user to speculate about the release date.
Why not just announce it already.
Keeps people interested
I picked up a playbook…i found the hardware really amazing…but no software to support the full utilization of the hardware…..
was disgusted when they slashed the price to nearly half of what i had purchased just in about 2 months of me buying it!!!
even more disgust was the shortsightedness of RIM by not providing seemless connectivity across users – haven’t provided any apps for gtalk/yahoo/msn video chat. they expected that video chat happens only from one BBPB to another BBplaybook!!! Internet tethering takes ages for data transfer…. and i find the heaviness or that the BB browser struggling to load pages!!! Whatever said n done…am still a BB Fan and love this technology….despite the myopia of the previous CEO’s. Hope this new CEO gets things right!!!
in fact i am feeling soo bad, this is my tablet and it has noo fetures and program , i am very restrected, anyone want to buy my playbook send me a message
ok how much and what memory size?
I was txt’d by my uncle who works for RIM in the network dep’t that we should be looking closer to the 28th of Feb for version 2.0
It will be sometime in March the update to os2, as RIM as still allowing app submissions till the 2nd March
It never ceases to amaze me that people buy a product expecting “the next upgrade” to be the solution. When you but a car do you wait for the next upgrade cause there are none.. I am tired of people whining like spoiled brats and knowing what they buy yet complaining about what is about to come.. The Playbook is a great tool in it’s owe hardware design yet people will never be happy with it. Don’t like, don’t buy it.. All I can say is I use it constantly in front of customers and don’t need proprietary plugs or have to worry about viruses.. It has fantastic battery life and does what it said it did ON THE BOX..