BlackBerry Playbook simulator now available for Mac and Windows

By on Oct 25, 2010 at 9:17 AM
General October 25, 2010

If you’re anxious to see just what the new, QNX-based operating system on the BlackBerry Playbook is going to look like, listen up. The company has just released the Playbook OS simulator — along with the Adobe Air SDK — for both Mac OS X and Windows on its developer site. The simulator does not reveal any juicy secrets hiding in the PlayBook’s OS, and, for the most part, is pretty basic. Still, if you’re jazzed about the PB, and want to do a little spelunking around RIM’s new OS, hit the read link and have yourself a download. Enjoy!

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  • JHUK

    am excited about this new device

    Downloading the simulator now to see what I can expect

  • MacMan

    Can’t wait to check this out. This is only tablet I like.

  • RogerRamjet

    OMG! Gots to check it out!

  • Max

    But but but but but but I thought OS 6 was the most awesomest OS ever built and had the most awesomest webkit browser and the awesomest media experience ever? Why wasn’t it put in the ‘playbook’?

    • tomm

      Sarcastic post is sarcastic

    • Len

      Perhaps OS6 is not optomized for tablet devices, and QNX has more potential for the future in both tablets, and mobiles.

      Android isn’t currently optimized for tablets either I don’t think.

      I don’t see what’s your problem with RIM trying to improve their offerings.

  • Obj_me

    Looks like a great piece of hardware, gonna have to give the simulator a try later. It’s probably a good thing that RIM didn’t use BB OS 6 on this thing. I have to ask though, with all of the hardware this thing is packing how much will it cost?!?! I get that the primary demographic will be businesses so the price tag is a little less relevant. I hate to say it but I think jobs was right when he said that RIM needs to delve into uncomfortable territory if they are to be successful. If this thing is too expensive and fails to gain traction theyre gonna have a real hard time with mass adoption by devs…. Just my 2 cents…

  • LJohn

    The playbook has proven itself to be the best tablet for its class, no doubt.

    • Obj_me

      Specs wise on paper maybe but without hands on time with the OS it’s impossible say either way. Until you are able feel the fit and finish of the device and the viewing/touch quality of the display you can’t really tell. I’d love to see some real world test to see how snappy this thing is and what the actual battery life is. Until then it’s pretty, looks great on paper and not yet worthy of being called best in class…

    • Steve

      An unreleased product with no price has “proven” itself?

    • Jarrett

      Legions of people felt the same about a product called Courier. The problem was that there was never a product only a video simulation of what the product could have been.

      “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth” Mike Tyson.

      Translation: “Putting it on paper is great, as long as that scribbling turns itself into an actual shipping product.”

      • Tdot34

        This is funny, because all the Apple lovers on other forums are crying vaporware as well. How much is Apple’s PR firm paying you guys to claim this?

        BB has shown shown its pretty serious about the Playbook. Its not a matter of if it comes out, its a matter of when.

      • Jarrett

        Actually, i haven’t said anything about vaporware, what I said was ship the product.

        Every company tries their best to freeze the market until they can get a competing device out. Just ship me the device already.

        If they were that serious they would have waited to announce it was they had a working product for the demo. WP7 was shown off in what March? and is only now shipping next month correct? Eight months later Microsoft delivered on a two year old announcement. BB just announce the PlayBook last month without a working model to show off. So to assume at the earliest March/April.

        Fact is, when Apple has a product coming out at least they give you a LIVE demo of the product.

        Besides, I have been one of the few BB supporters on this website and have repeatedly said that RIM knows their customer needs and that alone is the reason they keep shipping record numbers of devices. To point though, just because you have a plan doesn’t mean you are going to implement it well.

      • Obj_me

        I second that… Live demo’s are the only demon that I put all that much faith in. You’re probably right that they are trying to lock in a market with this announcement, they’ll probably be successful with diehard BB users and a few others in convincing them to wait. It was almost like a rush to say “Hey we’ve got a tablet too!” Most android and apple devices are generally announced and live-demoed simultaneously, that’s one of the things that irked me about the Lion announcement…

  • Mr Curious

    this has the best spec that i seen so far: camera and processor but the operating system is in question…

    • Brswa

      And the fact that we wont see this product shipped until next year. Specs look good now but tech moves fast.

  • Logicknot

    RIM needs to focus on the faster growing market for smartphones.

    These markets are going to be going for total home integration with gaming concoles computers and TVs

  • Jakson

    I have download it for Windows. First it extracted .iso file. when i mount it with Daemon tools files open. Its not working. Any help?

  • HafikTr

    I have the same problem on my mac!

  • Jarrett

    So reports of the hardware not being ready until late Q1 are supported by reports of the simulator not working?

    Come on people, we need Apple to be pushed to create the next product that you all are going to follow. It has been ten months since Apple showed you the iPad and yet none of you have any sort of competing product on the market. At this pace Apple will have the iPad 2 out and everyone will have to scrap their projects and start over, again.

    Get it together please.

  • http://twitter.com/esposimi Michael

    Will not install on Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, any help?

    “Win64 not supported

    The author of this package you are installing did not include support for this platform”

  • Mike

    It’s a bootable CD ISO. However, I tried booting it 2 different computers but it failed to finish loading on both.

    Anyone else have any luck?

    • http://twitter.com/esposimi Michael

      I was able to extract the ISO from the install EXE using 7-zip and it works fine with VMware Player, curious if it works in VirtualBox

      • http://techtrackr.com joe

        I tried it in VirtualBox and it didn’t work… I don’t know if I did something wrong.

      • DarkVador

        Playbook simulator is not working on VirtualBox because of supported drivers emebeded in the QNX iso…

        I found that SoundBlaster 16 is ok for the sound card.
        There are no network driver working with VirtualBox given network card emulation. Sound strange since Intel card were supported in vanilla QNX….

        Screen is not supported at all…

      • DarkVador

        Found one more : network driver PCnet-PC II is recognize…
        I’m able to telnet the QNX kernel running inside VirtualBox VMs :-)

        Remaining big issu is the screen / display driver…

  • Chris

    youtube video:

  • Brswa

    It’s a really cool product from RIM. Right now. But who knows what we’ll see from other OEM’s over the next six to nine months. It could launch to a far less receptive audience than if it did before Christmas.

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