http://hothardware.com - When RIM Revealed the BlackBerry PlayBook in September 2010 the tablet was met with great excitement and hype particularly from the professional die-hard BlackBerry crowd. Today's most popular tablets (the Apple iPad Motorola Xoom Asus Transformer etc) all use a large 9+ inch displays. The BlackBerry PlayBook takes an approach that's more similar to Samsung's Galaxy Tab in that it features a 7-inch high resolution display that supports a resolution of 1024x600.

In terms of power under the hood the BlackBerry PlayBook employs a dual-core 1GHz processor 1GB of RAM a new BlackBerry Tablet OS (which offers "true simultaneous multitasking").