A brief look at the BlackBerry PlayBook boot screen

on 3 Apr 2011 09:46 PM

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If you've been following all the BlackBerry PlayBook action in the forums then you'd know that in Ontario some Research In Motion reps have been hanging out at some of the Best Buy and Future Shop locations demoing the BlackBerry PlayBook for anyone interested. Some of our forums members have decided to swing by those locations and scoop up some hands-on time with the device and gather up some info.

Courtesy of Doug1010, the above video is of the bootup sequence from the PlayBook -- something we meant to capture in previous hands-on but slipped our minds. Either way, as we get closer and close to launch date it's fun to read through some of the details everyone is finding out about the PlayBook and I'm personally sticking to my thoughts that the BlackBerry PlayBook has a lot of features we've not seen nor likely will see until its release.

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Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: BlackBerry Playbook

35 Comments

Posted by jsn204 Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

50 seconds.. not bad
could be better :D

Posted by Kiddo2050 Monday, Apr 04, 2011 324 days ago

For all the usual haters who will no doubt post below, recall that the first thing Mike L said when describing the playbook is "always on" so you are complaining about 50 seconds of your life.

Honestly your knee-jerk senseless complaints about BB and RIM are really sickening. If RIM products give you so much hate make yourself happy and don't come here.

Posted by Big Dawg 23 Tuesday, Apr 05, 2011 323 days ago

There is nothing wrong with <1 Minute. I have an iPad and it is about the same. This is a vast improvement over OS5 phones or even 4. Reboot on BB is one thing I can't stand. However, since watching my wifes Torch vs Bold 9700 is night an day. I would take anything under a minute.

Posted by drjay868 Monday, Apr 04, 2011 324 days ago

I'm fine with 50 seconds, but I want to know if you still have to wait 2-3 minutes after boot up before the lag goes away and you can actually use it.

Posted by mvm549 Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

Still shit. Wayyy too long

Posted by Bla1ze Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

Compared to.....? My iPad 2 takes 42 secs. Also had a friend test a XOOM 51.4 seconds

Posted by dsquared2 Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

1 minute is too long? Sure.......

Posted by jetstreamblue Monday, Apr 04, 2011 324 days ago

My iPad 1 took 30 seconds (just timed it, reboot on 4.2.1). But really, who cares? I think I can count on one hand the number of times I've had to restart the thing since I owned it. I'm looking forward to my PlayBook, and the startup time isn't even a consideration for me.

Posted by somebodysomeone Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

I have to agree. It's almost a full minute... it's still better than blackberry OS on my 8520. But my ipod manages to load iOS 4.2 in 10 seconds. That being said... I don't think it will matter much if applications install without a reboot, and if the OS doesn't constantly crash.

Posted by bahandi Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

I'm reading "ipod". Did you mean ipad? Blaze just wrote that his ipad takes 42 seconds. Does the extra 18 seconds not constitute "almost a minute"?

Posted by somebodysomeone Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

I mean iPod. I have the 4th generation iPod touch, but I did mistype the amount of time. I meant 20 seconds, sorry. I just restarted my device to confirm

Posted by blazed12 Monday, Apr 04, 2011 325 days ago

Eh, my iPod Touch 4G takes at least 40 seconds with iOS 4.3.1 so if I were you I'll update that thing and run it again and see how really fast that thing boots up.

Posted by somebodysomeone Monday, Apr 04, 2011 324 days ago

How many applications do you have?

Posted by blazed12 Tuesday, Apr 05, 2011 324 days ago

I have 19 applications.

Posted by bforbaker Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

You guys have to remember this is a BETA UNIT.

Posted by npunk42 Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

Looks a bit honeycombish to me. Must be the fashion these days.

Posted by Sirhil Monday, Apr 04, 2011 325 days ago

How the hell is that boot screen honeycombish. If you look at that boot screen and the xoom the look nothing alike. The PB boot screen comes from the love what you do marketing ads that came out with the BBM ads. "Honeycombish"

Posted by miketko Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

wow i though I didn't have patience.. geez

Posted by coldconfession13 Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

yawn os6 has a better boot up than the playbook

Posted by dsquared2 Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

well i'm sure they arent spending weeks pouring over designs for a reboot screen to be seen for one minute. it's not yawn, it's very sleek

Posted by ciscobear Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

geez I take an hour to get out of bed.....ppl complaining over seconds now LOL....

Posted by doug1010 Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

lol Yes this is a beta unit. It did not even have cameras :D hehe

The rep said she will have an updated version next week.

Posted by jwsnj3rd Sunday, Apr 03, 2011 325 days ago

it would have been nicer if they showed as it was rebooted i mean how long before they started recording did it start. but thats cool just release it already lol

Posted by bforbaker Monday, Apr 04, 2011 325 days ago

*BETA UNIT*

but he said in his post that started 10 seconds after boot up.

Posted by belfastdispatcher Monday, Apr 04, 2011 325 days ago

Hmmm, it's a tablet computer not a phone and this is a boot, I'm sure you very rarely you'd have to do it, there will be a on/off option I'm sure.

Posted by zensen Monday, Apr 04, 2011 325 days ago

1 minute is not bad. It's not a bloody tv! haha

I assume that's not the first time its started up?

Would be nice to see a bar indicator there - sometimes seeing a visual cue like that makes things seem quicker.

Posted by edyts Monday, Apr 04, 2011 325 days ago

Its not a phone, or a tablet running an os originally designed for a phone, or an mp3 player*cough*, it runs an os designed specifically for PlayBook. Seeing what it can do once its loaded i dont think 1min is a terrible time to wait, dont forget it does software updates without a reboot, "supposedly", so to me this is not a bad load time. I dont know about how others will use it, but if they are like me i dont let my devices die, and with an 8-10 hour battery life that'll be easy to do. Assuming the battery life numbers are true, i dont have one yet so im just going by whats been reported. just my two cents. Feel free to correct my knowledge of the device, but DO NOT pull grammar police on me, so what if punctuation, spelling, grammar is off, the message is there and comprehend-able.

Posted by AJErvin12 Monday, Apr 04, 2011 324 days ago

What kind of boot was it? I'm sure many of these posted comparisons could be way off. My iPad2 takes 22 seconds when I turn it off and back on, but when I do a hard reset (holding the sleep button and home button until It reboots) it takes 46 seconds. 50+ seconds isn't bad at all.

Posted by billbo45 Monday, Apr 04, 2011 324 days ago

cover for my new playbook $54
charger 29$
actually holding playbook priceless!