Tablets forum: Does the BB Playbook has any life left in it even with the O

Which tablet with Android is going to be the equivalent?
They say that the next version update of the OS will have the ability to dual boot android.

I would tend to agree with you on the vapour, but apparently, the beta is already out and they have run the dual boot.
I guess as far as a tablet goes, I am not one to think that the Ipad is the best out there because of all the apps. In my opinion, the majority of the apps are time-fillers and entertainments based. I am not interested in an app that makes noises to irritate a cat or one that makes it look like you are drinking a beer. For me, those apps are left to the commuters and those with idle time on their hands.
I don't play games, I want something to maybe watch a movies/videos, surf the web, have a calendar, a scheduler, an alarm, word processing, some app programming in the future and the like.
From some of the cheaper android tablets I have seen, they are woefully sluggish and do not have the power necessary for multi-tasking that I might find myself needing.

I suppose I am. I don't want a device that is single purposed. Just
like phones are single purpose - they are used as a gps, phone, text,
email, data etc.

Without sounding flippant, here is what I said "I want something to maybe watch a movies/videos, surf the web, have a
calendar, a scheduler, an alarm, word processing, some app programming
in the future and the like."
I don't see Word Processing highlighted or singled out anywhere, but it seems you have focused on that. There is both "consuming" and "viewing" in my listing of things I would like to do with the said device.

Yes in the past, single-use is what phones were for, but today, they are not. Did I once have a land-line with rotary dial? Absolutely. It went click-click-click when you dialed and you sometimes caught your finger when you were little - and yes it smarted. Today I don't own a curly-cord phone or even one with pulse dialing, that was the past. In my opinion, thinking about phones as a single-use device is antiquated thinking. It would be like thinking that a PC is an over-sized calculator.

A keyboard for a tablet can come in the form of a docking station, bluetooth or typing on the actual glass.

Listen Bob, I am not interested in getting in a war of words, although you might detect the irony of my posting this rebuttal. You have your feelings on this and I have mine. I am sure you have expertise in your field of choice and I applaud you for that, but the rhetoric and circular logic is not what I came here for.

I am looking for a comparable Android tablet to the BlackBerry Playbook - in both scope, memory and power. I need to make a decision to return this device if I can find something that will do the same job, and that will definitely be around next year (I am looking at you, HP Touchpad). Maybe this is naive thinking or too much to ask, but that is why I came to this forum.

That's cool. I tried to make it light, but maybe I was a bit too harsh as well. My apologies as well.

Does this mean I can get an answer to the question about the tablet that is pretty close in specs to the Blackberry?

http://crackberry.com/blackberry-playbook-review-official

That's a ton of hardware to have and the closest machine I know of is the Samsung tablets. Sorry they have too many for me to pick out which one but shortlist the ones with the dual core cpu and the dual cameras.

There are more coming down the pipe but I've seen the Samsung 7 inch units on Woot.com and other places for a great price.

Then again, if you find the playbook for your price, you are ready to decide.
Bob