BlackBerry derides iPad in promotional video

Even before it launches its PlayBook early next year, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday formally joined the high-stakes battle with Apple for the new tablet market.

Even before it launches its PlayBook early next year, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) on Tuesday formally joined the high-stakes battle with Apple for the new tablet market.

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In an online video, the Canadian wireless giant further raised its war of words with Apple by showing how its PlayBook dwarfs the iPad for just about every application.

The PlayBook, which was unveiled in September, will hit the US market in the first quarter of next year and other markets later.

The 3-minute, 16-second video shows the PlayBook browser beating the iPad in speed by opening the same page much faster.

It shows the PlayBook browser not only loading pages much faster but also getting “richer content because of our support for (Adobe's) Flash.”

The video demonstrates how the content downloaded by the PlayBook looked more ‘animated’ and ‘much richer’ compared to the ‘mundane, boring-looking’ content on the iPad.

According to it, the PlayBook browser also provides better and ‘pixel-perfect’ and ‘high-fidelity’ rendering of web sites.

In the final part, the online video shows how animation on the PlayBook is ‘very smooth, fluid, and doesn't have any jumpiness’ compared to the iPad where it looks ‘choppy.’