Well, we hope you weren't expecting to have PlayBook 2.0 up and running on your
BlackBerry
tablet any time soon, cause it's been officially delayed till at least
February. Word has come straight from the mouth (well, keyboard) of
David Smith, senior vice president for the PlayBook project. In
a blog post Smith
announced
that RIM would be holding back on the release to ensure many of the new
features, including native email and enterprise app deployment, work as
advertised. The OS update will be getting a decently long
beta test,
with it rolling out to some in the Early Adopter Program "shortly."
Sadly, it seems that some features have fallen by the wayside with the
focus on polish - namely, BBM. Since the messaging service relies on a
one-device per-PIN model, getting it on the tablet has proved
troublesome. For now users will have to rely on BlackBerry Bridge and
their RIM handsets to get their BBM fix. Considering the company's track
record, we wouldn't be shocked if the OS update slips even further into
the future - remember an email client was promised within 60 days of
launch... that was back in April.
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