Better late than never! DevCon Asia is now well behind us, but when I was there I did capture some of the key keynote presentations on video (I tried to upload while in Indonesia but the internet there hated uploading to youtube). Though DevCon is about BlackBerry development and these presentations were geared toward the developers in attendance, even consumers will find some interesting tidbits in these videos.
First up (above), we have Mike Kirkup of RIM giving a quick demo of the BlackBerry PlayBook. Note how how quick he is on the PlayBook's keyboard! After that (below), we have Julian Dolce of the QNX team giving some further insight into the PlayBook's gestures and Adobe Air SDK for the PlayBook (he shows off some apps too!). Last, we have George Staikos (Torch Mobile founder) walking through the new WebKit browser and what it's capable of. It's looking great on the PlayBook. That's it. Lots of videos to watch, so get started.
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