not ics support. support for ics apps. there is a lot of difference between the two. they need to update their apis or whatever to add support for the newer functionalities provided by ICS/Honeycomb for large screen devices. very important considering playbook itself is a tablet and not a smartphone.
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From a technical perspective - for support to ICS apps, you need to have the ICS libraries etc , which in a way is kind of support ICS. And that might be there for their future tablets I feel (BB10 - based) , at this point, this is ok-ish I feel. Though it would be nice if they can do for the current playbook as well. I agree 100% that OS1 was not that good. But with current OS2 and for the price it is in the market "now" - It is a decent tablet.
Was able install ADW & ICS Launcher as well, the moment you click on an "Android" app, it asks whether to open with QNX launcher or one of the other ones. If we choose the other, it opens up Android-style home screen - where I was able to drop 1-2 widgets like clock etc, Also on pressing the menu button, it showed other Android apps installed - in this case Stock-Browser, Gmail, Stock-Email, Contacts, Messages apart from ones I had installed via Blackberry's Appworld Dolphin Browser & a couple others and a few more that I had sideloaded. So basically all Android apps on the device, were available in the Launcher. I was also reading that people were able to setup email accounts & use.After playing around a bit (Things like Map etc crashed) I removed it. Cos, each time I opened an Android app, it kept prompting me which launcher use , and any attempt to look at the Settings within that Launcher resulted in Hanging & having to reinstall the launcher. Overall, would not recommend for the faint-hearted & also would suggest to install it if you want to try & see how it works & then remove it.
Time to start waiting for Blackberry 10 OS for the Playbook then?
:Boy Think:
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Was able install ADW & ICS Launcher as well, the moment you click on an "Android" app, it asks whether to open with QNX launcher or one of the other ones. If we choose the other, it opens up Android-style home screen - where I was able to drop 1-2 widgets like clock etc, Also on pressing the menu button, it showed other Android apps installed - in this case Stock-Browser, Gmail, Stock-Email, Contacts, Messages apart from ones I had installed via Blackberry's Appworld Dolphin Browser & a couple others and a few more that I had sideloaded. So basically all Android apps on the device, were available in the Launcher. I was also reading that people were able to setup email accounts & use.
After playing around a bit (Things like Map etc crashed) I removed it. Cos, each time I opened an Android app, it kept prompting me which launcher use , and any attempt to look at the Settings within that Launcher resulted in Hanging & having to reinstall the launcher. Overall, would not recommend for the faint-hearted & also would suggest to install it if you want to try & see how it works & then remove it.
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Tried again, only after you start the ADW/ICS Launcher once, that it keeps prompting you for which launcher to use. Otherwise after a boot, it only goes to the QNX Launcher. Side-loaded a few more apps. Android Stock-Email (Gmail configured), Yahoo Mail work fine. So do Yahoo Messenger (Chat only) & Windows Live Messenger. Though I use imo.im app only.. The others were a test run. Twitter app causes a few problems - will likely remove it soon...
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@moin - What happened to your playbook - Is it still in US?
:Boy Think:
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Was able install ADW & ICS Launcher as well, the moment you click on an "Android" app, it asks whether to open with QNX launcher or one of the other ones. If we choose the other, it opens up Android-style home screen - where I was able to drop 1-2 widgets like clock etc, Also on pressing the menu button, it showed other Android apps installed - in this case Stock-Browser, Gmail, Stock-Email, Contacts, Messages apart from ones I had installed via Blackberry's Appworld Dolphin Browser & a couple others and a few more that I had sideloaded. So basically all Android apps on the device, were available in the Launcher. I was also reading that people were able to setup email accounts & use.
After playing around a bit (Things like Map etc crashed) I removed it. Cos, each time I opened an Android app, it kept prompting me which launcher use , and any attempt to look at the Settings within that Launcher resulted in Hanging & having to reinstall the launcher. Overall, would not recommend for the faint-hearted & also would suggest to install it if you want to try & see how it works & then remove it.
Update:
Tried again, only after you start the ADW/ICS Launcher once, that it keeps prompting you for which launcher to use. Otherwise after a boot, it only goes to the QNX Launcher. Side-loaded a few more apps. Android Stock-Email (Gmail configured), Yahoo Mail work fine. So do Yahoo Messenger (Chat only) & Windows Live Messenger. Though I use imo.im app only.. The others were a test run. Twitter app causes a few problems - will likely remove it soon...
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@moin - What happened to your playbook - Is it still in US?
Well we have had a few people @ RIM mentioning it here & there. But here is an official confirmation
RIM confirms BB10 is coming to BlackBerry Playbook | News | TechRadar
But going by their previous history. Need to wait & watch
RIM confirms BB10 is coming to BlackBerry Playbook | News | TechRadar
But going by their previous history. Need to wait & watch
