NBA center Dwight Howard of the Orlando Magic took a break from practicing for his team’s
first playoff game last night to chill with Research in Motion co-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis at the company’s BlackBerry PlayBook launch party. But despite his endorsement, many are wondering if he
really uses a Playbook.
As he left the event, Howard
tweeted: “Takin off. Had a blast RIM and blackberry y’all did an excellent Job the playbook is great. I love it. Now I need a busload of them for my teammates lol so we can all be connected. Hook a brother up lol.hint hint NYC I love y’all but I gotta get home. Yuuuuuuuaaaaaa.”
Problem is, he tweeted from
Twittelator, an iPhone app. Unlike the Apple iPad and Motorola Xoom, the BlackBerry PlayBook lacks native email; you need to connect a BlackBerry phone and download Blackberry Bridge to access your emails or calendar on the PlayBook.
“A lot of people who want [a Playbook] will pair it freely and securely off their BlackBerries [by tethering, which is free]. Because it’s a full web [environment], you don’t need a specific mail client for all your Webmail, and most people do you use Webmail, but when you get a web type environment…and third, we will have if you want, a standalone, non-Web, non-paired email client on it within I believe the next 60 days.”
“I’m not sure it’ll be that common but it’ll be something you can fill and it’s over-the-air. I don’t think it’s worth dwelling on particularly,” he concluded.
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