Geez. He really wobbles his head around! o.O

awesome!! now i just need to get this on my playbook....

Yeah...it said you could download it within an hour of registering for the beta, but its been over 3 hours for me :(. I wonder if it will let me download before the registration expires after 24 hours.

I wanna download this! Signed up over 30 minutes ago but nothing yet :(

me likes the new UI..

Very nice. I'm debating on if I should download this or just wait for the finished product.

hmm tempted to tried to side load andriod app market on it again

They should've had this guy walk through the what's in the developer OS and the full OS 2.0

Has anyone been able to get the bridge to work? it connects but then no bridge apps will load. It just says error couldn't connect to the server.

2.0 is Pretty Awesome!! The UI is very cool! :) Looking forward to it

that twitter icon is enticing although i'm willing to bet it's another browser launcher....bleh

Any word on when the commercial 2.0 will be available?

I liked the panes :(.....Though I wish you could customize them. When 2.0 comes out maybe there will be an OS1 theme you can install.....

Though I agree that this OS looks like it would work better on a smaller screen

Finally, a proper home screen with icon management. Well done.

Now, let's polish it off and get it to the masses ;)

Kevin, you can't be serious?! Where's the mail, contacts & BBM services?! Nobody cares about folders or extra pages. That contradicts what the CEO's said the original releases functions were for. Every chance they get, RIM tries to confuse the hell out of people. Makes NO sense at all!

This is seriously disappointing. first there is no mention of official release date which given RIMs history with the Playbook means it is ages away. Also i don't see any native email or bbm or did i just miss it. i changed over to an android phone but am hanging onto my Playbook but if this is all the update is i might reconsider.

At first glance I don't like the large windows, I like having 5 instead of 3. It just means more scrolling. I hope they give us the option of sizing the windows.

At first glance I also don't like the dot. It looks unfinished. Please make it more attractive or give us the option to make it some kind of handle. Let's have some fun with it. Dot not hot!

The other things talked-about look interesting.

I'm uneasy with the guy stating thousands of apps are coming. I don't want to wade through a lot of garbage apps from the Android universe. RIM, please be selective. Limit us to cool things like what was demoed so far. Don't give-it-up to just anyone.

Holy Bobble head batman!

Awesome changes. Cant wait!

Downloading Tablet OS2 !!! Cant wait!!! (3%) i know its just a preview but I'm really excited :)

Why do people act like this device should be able to make the coffee?

Seriously, the device does work and it does work well. Ipad is not able to handle native texting (these are apps) and email is kind of redundant as your Blackberry phone should already be doing this rather well.

The Playbook is a solid device! With the enhancements to the developer environment we will more then likely start seeing a large influx of apps=WIN!

I don't care if it does mail, text would be nice but my phone does this rather well. Why complain? If you wanted a device that does all these things you are complaining about, ummmmm, look in your other hand/pocket/pouch and you will find a phone, it does indeed have you covered!

It is a step in the right direction. All they have to do is aim to release it to the masses with a decent app selection atleast a week before the Fire tablet comes out. I personally don't feel that the Fire tablet is a viable competing tablet ,but, it has created some buzz.

The UI updates look pretty good to me so far. Looking forward the the (eventual) production release. Thanks for the closer look Kevin... enjoy the rest of the event!

were the hell is the EMAIL SPELL CHECK BBM SERIOUSLY 60 days past 120 days ago wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what will happen to current apps on PlayBook?

The only thing that worries me is that I have the 16 gig playbook. I'm wondering how much memory will 2.0 hog up? I'm looking forward to it but if I don't have enough room for pics and music the new os will render useless to me.

Amazing and interesting like allways..equaly to my co-worker's sister-in-law makes $79/hour on the laptop. She has been without work for 8 months but last month her check was $7238 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Here's the site: qikr.co/84v2

I detest the UI changes. I really like the existing tab approach. All I've wanted was the ability to create my own tabs and would have been quite happy.

Also not to keen on the wider display of the apps; to be honest, the "squareness" of it looks cheaper to me and less eloquent then what is currently on the Playbook. Yes, I know it's still square, but the smaller width of them looks nicer than the larger width as this video shows.

And I'm sorry, but if I wanted an iOS style OS, I would have gone with an Apple product. I want my OS to be distinctly RIM not a cheap imitation of iOS.

RIM. . . PLEASE do not make the cards/windows larger. Just use webOS on the HP TouchPad to find out just how annoying it is to only see one full window at a time--with part of two others.

The carousel with multiple smaller windows with one-touch access is a unique feature to the PlayBook OS and increases multi-tasking beyond any other mobile OS currently out there. . . please don't mess that up.

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let's think about this for one second, please.

I can swipe left/right to access the next/previous app. What good/benefit do I get when I go to the window/card view in 2.0? NONE! I get to see the app in focus and part of the one on the left & right--I don't gain anything. It just slows me down and gives me a redundant view.

Might as well have the app drawer open fully on the first swipe--at least that way I'm getting something different instead of a redundant selection of open apps that I could have gotten to quicker with a left/right swipe. . . now I'll get to swipe all over the screen to find the app I want to bring to focus. Wonderful waste of time! Obviously the designer hasn't used a TouchPad enough to realize how stupid this is--just check precentral forums for all the hacks to make the cards smaller.

Seriously, does anyone actually use this stuff before they make the changes?

How long should consumers wait to have a fully functioning tablet, its really ridiculous. RIM will be behind the competition for a very long time. Too bad, I love blackberry but I am so tired of hoping for RIM to get it.

Downloading it now using the Desktop Manager ... could probably do wifi but still at work.

The big windows look like app world on the phone, not good. Good for the phone but not the Playbook. Also it makes the UI more crowded/claustrophobic. You need some feeling of space in this device.

I completely agree with the above comment. It's better to see more windows so you can pick it. More scrolling is annoying over the long-run.

And again, it needs the human touch, that dot looks unfinished and minimalist in a plain way.

i'm jazzed about it! just hoping they've added spell check and copy/paste.

Is there any talk about the browser? I want to be able rename and re-order book marks bookmark. I also hope the new Docs-to-Go is improved so it's at least as good as the one on my Phone.

Are there any changes within the bookmarks (customise names, group folders) available in the web browser at the beta 2.0 OS? Thanks

What's the point of having multiple panes you can drag icons around to if you can't name the panes? Hideous new interface.

I have OS 2.0!

Biggest difference I've seen so far is the Keyboard is shorter in landscape, and Docs to Go is all One app now, no longer separate for sheets, word and PowerPoint. The whole UI is also smoother, and apps load much faster now.

Kind of annoying, but my Webworks app no longer displays properly. I'll have to resubmit it.

Blackberry Bridge is not working on OS2 Beta...

Installed Playbook OS 2.0! I love the new homescreen it's cleaner and as from demo above removes the app panes. The multitasking previews are bigger and they don't pop out anymore when you scroll through the several open apps. One thing I LOVE is when in portrait mode you're not stuck with 4 rows of apps staring at you in the face, only the quick launch pane that you can customize to having 3 apps (or more i'm not sure) to none at all! i can now appreciate my wallpapers a little bit more.

Playbook OS 2.0

Where are the native mail and calendar apps?

Please don`t hurt me, but that´s a 1:1 Iphone copy!

You press the a icon until all of them start to shake, then you move them.

:(

and yes...hororifing and Amazing and interesting like allways..equaly to my co-worker's sister-in-law makes $79/hour on the laptop. She has been without work for 8 months but last month her check was $7238 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Here's the site: qikr.co/84v27

has anyone been able to get bridged apps to function? is this even a real option? anyone?

I like it. I hate when i open ALL and i have 100000 million apps. its retard!!!! I ahve a dam playbook how do i have sooo many apps. scrolling down is hell!!!!

So i have a nice plan with the new OS.

5 Folders on 3-5 pains. So i never have to scroll down.

just open folders from the top line ALWAYS.

I am complaining for the sake of complaining! The dock is toi big and too small! Why can't they make it perfect, I mean all the other tablets are perfect.

Who came up with the grand idea of moving from six icons to three icons in the dock..I mean seriously what joy does RIM get in moving a step backward??? What is wrong with you people at RIM....why change something that is good and to something crap...WTH. How does this freakin help...at least for Gods sake give us the ability to have the same setup with six icons...PLEASE.

Looks a little more bland but it is just the dev release. I'll hold final judgement until it comes to us. Things always look nicer when you have your own background. would love to see an option to scale the window size of the apps that are minimized yourself.

Well Bridge is essential feature of PlayBook and it doesn't work. Are you kidding me Laz and Bas? :-)

Advice for shareholders of RIM: Don't be shy and don't worry to say: "Time's up, screw you boys" ;-)

Downloaded, have been using it for a while. There have been some other small changes in the user interface. One thing that bugged me in OS1 was that Flash ads on the side would prevent scrolling - they fixed that. Also they made it so when you select the address bar on the web browser, it doesn't automatically select the entire address - I'm not sure why they did this or if they realize this.

Also it seems like there are a few stability issues. I encountered a bug where my app seemed to shrink, with black margins filling the rest of the screen, but touch input still worked, though the buttons in the app were small and hard to press. It seems that this might allow Playbook apps to be run on BBX phones without the developer having to create a lower-res version.

very nice os,so far

If you're not a developer you might just want to hold off. you get some new stuff but you actually lose video calling.

please allow us more than 3 icons on the dock. please!

ok it is a developer beta release, but then again, keep it between development walls.

This 2.0 release, using it right now would not even be worth waiting a day for.

besides the bridge function with my 9700 not working like it did, i dont like the big carousel windows. the smaller windows looked better with multiple apps open.
the browser feels and behaves like the one in the previous os version.
oh yeah, we have this folder option now, hmmmm... so what.
speed has increased a bit. but i had no speed complaints yet..

so what have we been given. a incomplete beta OS with a android runtime inside so u can test apk files and fill up the app world as fast as aprovetechnical possible.

still beta dev software, no more no less, not impressive at all at this point.

How long until the real deal is released.

Being ready for thousands of apps is great. creation of folders, more panes but really I really thought the tabs were great now we just get an endless array of panes? Looks like webOS / iOS / less original then it should be.

the glowing dots are just a rip off of every other pane in existence but at least there's a visual cue to u know, not have to swipe everywhere. The bigger windows just crowds eveything. Do I really need to see a larger preview of an app im not using? when it was visibly understandable the firs time around. Much prefer seeing more app. overall there's a lot of visible changes but it just seems like there's nothing new in the UI layout even though it is NEW on the playbook.

Love to see a write up on the differences on the UI from playbook 1.0 to 2.0.

I've personally seen some performance improvement with Flash enabled..

Quite a good facelift and i am more concerned with what goes under the hood really. will it randomly close applications for me when it goes low on memory or would it give me some sort of warning because currently I dont have any warning before my apps close on me...

One more thing I would like to see in the future is the ability to run apps in the background? no, not multitasking per se. as in keep certain apps persistently running in the background without having its whole big window on the carousel instead they have a bar with the small icons kinda like the right portion of windows' taskbar. This is useful if we want to see apps like BeBuzz, alarm app and hell Evernote could use that too. It would prevent user from accidentally swiping off to close them and make it faster swiping through the carousel with only 'active' apps in it.

So I'm guessing no one saw my comment earlier today. I could not watch the live general session on the playbook. It told me to go to my desktop. Damm BB failed on that poist

Wow, Kevin you need to hide you displeasure. I see you were underwhelmed like alot of us were. Home screen looks amazing! LMAO

Has any one at DEVCON has said a word about the Java Player or Java SDK?? seems that this has been sent to oblivion, this was announced at the same time than Android Player months ago

i don't know what the big deal is about seeing only 3 open apps in the carousel as opposed to 5... you can barely see the edges of #s 1 & 5 (left to right) as it is. what are you losing?

nice to see that os 2 supports blue tooth stereo headphones

Hey - there's a READER MODE IN BROWSER that makes articles reading much more comfortable. Look for the little book-like icon in the topright corner of your browser.

hi all,

my wife decided to go ahead and register for this update. i then pointed out that it's a dev beta and she really doesnt want it.

but now, her playbook has a pending update to download the beta, and we dont know how to make the pending update go away.

any suggestions on how to remove a pending update, short or doing a full wipe on the playbook?

appreciate any help you might reply with.

Can I downgrade back to the OS1 if i do not like it ?

I am really close to buying a Playbook. I just wish that RIM would actually come to this site and read each and every comment posted here and see what we want. I also wish that it had a usb port. That would be awsome.

hi guys,i am not sure why people are complaining about OS2 not release for all, but RIM already stated that OS2.0 will be release on DEVCon for developers not US.
second, I download and installed OS2, and using it now , here's what i noticed , I haven't use it for my development purpose yet.

- very smooth scrolling
- loading apps are fast
- music player now have delete option beside add to playlist
- Specially browser , its fast and foreign language its fixed.
- Video playing smoother
- Gmail problem is fixed
overall i noticed performance improved so much

Feature requests : keep the NAMED TABS and make the KEYBOARD SIZE user selectable.

1. What was wrong with the home screen? I liked it a lot. I only wished I could put my own labels in lieu of Favorites, Media and Games. The new "dots" aren't quite satisfying! Try taping closely spaced dots rapidely, you probably need to be more careful than when casually taping the names of the categories.
2. What was wrong with the keyboard? Ok, I know. Sometimes it bothered me too, but it certainly made my typing easier most of the time, and I do a lot of typing. Can we please chose (on the fly) wether we want the new size or keep the old one? Typing fast requires space for errors.

Hopefully, full blown bluetooth keyboards are now supported, including the accented characters and front delete.

I get the distinct impression that they've deliberately limited the "obvious" changes here. Even so, the UI looks cleaner and more flexible (folders FTW!!).

Since there's little in the way of new features, and RIM is not claiming full compatibility with current PB apps, I think I'll pass on the beta for now (though perhaps on my emulator...)

This has been a rough few months for RIM, but I'm still hopeful. The content announcements, the TAT demo, and the release of the native environment are all promising signs. Fingers crossed!

So, I may have missed this posted alrady, but are they going to adress the issues with copy and paste between programs, spell check, notification resolution? I am excited about the new things, but getting some of the basics right that are so far off would be nice. Just let me spell check and copy and paste and I will be much happier.

just wondering anyone having issue getting into bbm?

Looks interesting.
Hey Kevin, now that you have the playbook from Devcon, you can send your old one my way!

Watched the demo, okay 6 months since PB release, only demonstrates larger cards, neat folder creation, no tabs, no carousel, all I can think of is 6 month wait for demo of a BETA. No demonstration of Android player, native email, calendar, spell check, or new native apps. Yes six months for a BETA demo and I yawned....

Just noticed that you can now add a custom RSS URL to the revised Podcast app :-)

Why is everyone whining so much, this is a terrific update. First, it runs more smoothly (particularly the browser). Second, it finally has a spell checker. Third, it has proper cut and paste functions. Fourth, if you browse a little more you will notice that the Android apps will soon start rolling but developers need to check functionalitiy, ergo the developer release. Fifth, bridge works great, flawless so far! Why is everyone complaining they have to wait 6 more months - 2.0 its here and it works.

Can't believe the whining on here! People - get it into your heads: This release was NOT meant for US! It is NOTHING like the finished article and only meant for developers to work with! I will not go anywhere near it. My PB works perfectly and nothing is going to make me ruin that. Yes the wait has been long, but I'm a patient guy and think we'll be rewarded handsomely!

Did anyone els check their phone after the notification went off in the video -________-

No doubt! RIM is exactly on schedule with what they promised regarding 2.0 and Devcon...
Where is all the anger and disappointment coming from? Android developers are converting .APKs to .BARs *right now* in preparation to take our cold hard fanboy cash; it's been demonstrated that TAT is alive and well *AND* productive inside RIM, enabling slick UI creation for the development community, and that all things Playbook are gaining momentum!
Non-developers are disappointed with the preview development release? Honestly ;-)

Devcon 2011 - another big outage for RIM. No QNX phones announcements, no release of OS 2.0 for Playbook (only developer version). RIM is really doing stupid steps one after another.

Downgrade procedure not working like it should,

Turn off your device.
Open BlackBerry® Desktop Manager.
Connect your device to your computer via USB.
Enter your device password.
Enter your email address or uncheck “Yes, email me when updates are available”.
Click Install.

This all works... but then in the startup wizzard it starts to download 2.0.0.3778 again and cant seem to bypass or cancel this....??

anyone with the same issues.

im really disappointed with them, they've had so much time to make something magical, what theyre showing us is barely mediocre.

Yesterday updated to 2.0, upgraded my existing Installation.

All / Most of my apps remained but for example bb bridge did not work, it made the bridge connection but could not access BBM for example. Gave me some encryption error.

Did a downgrade, so PB became Factory default 1.0.0.xxx and updated again too 2.0.

So now i have a Fresh V2.0 running, created the Bridge again, guess what...bb bridge now working!!

Give it a try in case of troubles. Of course backup your important stuff first.

Still not support chinese language input support!

Is this all we got from DevCon?... That sucks!

I am not a developer and of course downloaded this OS (as many people did I guess). Some issues: browser cracks down many times, sometimes when I try to open a new window it simply does not work. I use the Kindle Cloud Reader and it does not work. Probably I wll downgrade the OS until the final version be released

I downloaded the 2.0 version, but my blackberry bridge dosent work. How can i uninstall the version??? I want to have the old version.

How long i have to wait until i can install the old version???

Any Help Please???

Should have been a closed beta. It's obvious that too many people don't understand what they are doing.

great to have all this but sadly all this should have launched with the playbook last year. you can't expect a product to gain the momentum needed in the marketplace to compete, especially when you are one of the last ones to enter the market. RIM needs to break this habit of realising what to bring to market a year later. Doesn't help their case. But anyway can't wait for OS2 to be released officially

Watched the Samsung/Goolge event last night, and ICS has the exact same folder creation scheme as Playbook OS 2.0, as well as allowing you to fling apps off the screen to close them (to the sides instead of up top). As a current BB user I felt a little more confidence in the bold statement that the upcoming "super" phones are going to leapfrog the competition.

The one thing I would like is the ability to add widgets to the home-screen, like weather, and different rss feeds (behind the app carousel area).

I'm torn because I like the new features coming with 2.0 but I also like the tabbed layout in the current PB OS. I just wish that 1. we could add/delete/rearrange the tabs and 2. rename them. With the current OS, RIM could also use a right or left bezel swipe to bring out a small tray of quick launch apps. Just my 2 cents.

P.s. The layout of OS 2.0 kinda reminded me of iOS.. which is a little disturbing on some levels.

Does anyone know if Docs to Go be integrated with Google Docs or Dropbox? This is a very handy tool.

not a fan of the bigger panes, i liked 5, if i could reorder my open apps at will, then it wouldn't be a big deal though..

Where can I find wallpaper?

The bbx os 2 is better than the tablet os 1
i hated the homescreen of the playbook os 1

hey does anyone know if i install OS2, will my pictures and files get erased after the update?

Buahahahahaha JUST GET A IPAD 2 with ios5 Game over when will BB LEARN

Wait for Final Release and OS 2 running well :p

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