is that a guy?

Transgender, if you MUST know.

Mike does the playbook multitask?

I always forget what Ina/Ian is now...a girl or a guy. And I guess he/she moved up to the NYT from CNet.
And he/she is an arse for saying a BB doesn't do all that other smartphones can do? What can't it do? copy/paste? multi-task? play games? email? Web? photos and videos?
Where the heck was he/she when iOS lacked basic OS functions?

I think the Playbook looks great but would like to see mike talk more about other things than multitasking.

That dude needs a haircut in the worst way....Wow

The reporter looks like he's doing a school project, but it's actually a very interesting convo.

he did say multicore devices are comming and a coupl of them are smartphones yessssssssssssssssssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
the million dollar question is what are the other devices?????????????????

Mike the Dodger... Thats my new nickname for him.

I've never seen so many incoherent answers in my life! but its ok, i still want the PlayBook :D

...mobile viewing link? Por favor!

Nice convo, is that kid still in school?

yeah theres a part in there where they change camera angles and you can hear all the background noice and Mike is like Blah blah blah, multi-taskin, bla blah, blah, Global Market. i compltetely lost him for like 5 seconds. LOL

Anybody know what file formats you can play on this for, well, anything? Video, Audio, etc? I know it obviously can handle word docs and pdf files (the two mentioned here) but how about MP4, MP3, WMV, etc...

Woah, I'm utterly disgusted with the comments here. I'm an 18 year old male who just graduated high school, and I would assume you all are adults. How dare you make obscene and totally un-needed comments about someone being trans-gender. WHO CARES. You all bitch and complain about not having a sneak-peak at seeing the PlayBook tablet, and when a video get's posted 80% of you complain about the interviewer being trans-gender and or whatever they look like.
Yes, it's different seeing someone such as the interviewer, but really? What's up with all the rude comments. Grow up and act like adults. I'm 18, and I would hope you guys have more common sense and decency than I.
Really...Kevin and Blaze you guys should probably just disable comments for this particular video, seeing as the comments are hurtful and totally un-needed. Let's all keep CrackBerry a family oriented site.

I would like to know if the PlayBook can browse the web if connected to a BlackBerry device. I also would like to know if BBM is one of the apps that can be used on the PlayBook when connected to a BlackBerry.

We should be looking and talking about the playbook rather than get off topic with these sick side issues. What's happening to CB man

Are we talking about the playbook or a transgender reporter? Grow up everyone.

NOW, BACK TO THE SUBJECT...

I agree with one of the above posts where they said they were going to call Mike by his new nickname, "dodger". This guy couldn't be more vague when it comes to questions regarding the future of BB and QNX. He should have been a politician.

The biggest thing that has always bothered me about BB is being "leap frogged" in the technological aspect. EVERYONE else is running 1Ghz with AMOLED and SAMOLED screens and are near the capabilities of BB's "push". Obviously QNX and multicore CPU's are the wave of the future and Mike said BB will comply. My concern is the pace RIM competes at. It seems like RIM is always playing catch-up to everyone else. It seems this is the same with the playbook. Look at all the tablets that are now coming out running android and the mulitcore tablets are due out sometime next month and into the FY 2011. WHERE ARE YOU RIM?? I'm betting by the time the playbook is released it will be on par with some of the tablets on the market, however, STILL LAGGING BEHIND THE GAME.

By the time RIM comes out with a smartphone running a multicore CPU running QNX with 4G it will be 2014! Oh, but that will be ok because the rest of the world will be just turning on their 4G by then. BAH! Screw them! It's about what's going on HERE, RIGHT NOW!

is this post for the questions lingering about the interviewer or playbook?? come on lets get our priorities straight.

Lazaridis is an honest guy, but he can't admit that publicly, so he ends up saying things like "What the PlayBook allows us to do is jump into the next stage of mobile," and "we focused on our strategy for the next decade. It's a multi-core strategy."

So let me translate Lazaridis's speech into English:

"The PlayBook is awesome, and we're really jazzed about it. But we've positioned the QNX platform to be our OS for the next decade, just like the existing BlackBerry OS has lasted us about 10 years. The hardware to get the new OS into smartphones with the battery life we want just isn't there yet. It'll probably come next year as everyone goes dual-core.

So until then we're going to sell OS 6, which is great for messaging, great with slow networks, and has really low power consumption. In fact, even after we start transitioning to QNX.

There. He didn't say that in so many words, but I'm pretty sure that's what he really wanted to get across.

Here's the difference, though. Microsoft is rolling in dough by rolling out WP7 and replacing it's old OS, so the company could afford a year's worth of essentially zero sales while they made the transition. RIM can't. RIM has to keep selling BlackBerries. And to keep selling BlackBerries, Lazaridis has to keep pretending OS 6 is awesome(indeed it is) and forward-looking. Thus the incoherence.

I think Mike wants to punch the interviewer at times - because of his questions and saying "people are becoming increasing less happy with the current generation of blackberry's" and "blackberry's just dont do the things people want smartphones to do" lol
I don't think the interviewer is a BB fan at all.

I knew I should have done this interview.

I'd like to believe that Mike is avoiding certain questions so that information is gradually leaked closer to ship date. Regardless, this is a classy piece of equipment that could make all the other tablets look a little childish. It just says "business". I sit thru more and more presentations where middle aged men are using ipads and I keep expecting them to start spontaneously playing Angry Birds in the middle of them.

I love the look of the PlayBook, but I have to admit, Lazaridis comes across as shady sometimes. He does a poorer job of selling his new flagship product than the British guy from the Roger's event did. He seems evasive, he seems like he wants to punch interviewers who ask tough questions, and he does what is a fabulous product a disservice by not answering questions straight up and coherently. It ends up leaving people with the feeling like he's hiding something.

The new game in all these recent slew of interviews seems to be say something insulting about Torch or RIM or BB6 in the form of a question and watch Mike not even address the question and bring up multi-tasking and next generation of mobile device...

Thankfully the product seems to sell itself - despite Mike best efforts :) - so I still want one!

I'm Sure MR lazaridis is'nt given anwsers about any dates concerning multi-core phones due to strategical-tactical concerns, trust me they have been and are working hard at making, new up to date phones.

Me being a Torch onwer i dont like to say this but i think the Torch is just a stopgap solution, to bridge the time to QNX-smartphones. Don't get me wrong the torch is'nt that bad it runs on a Armv7 Cortex-A8 compliant CPU wich is fairly up to date but it lacks a dedicated GPU and doesn't run on 1Ghz as most competitors do.

What carrier is going to get the Playbook first, when and how much?

I assumed that it wasn't going to a carrier since one isn't needed. I would hope that it would be sold at retailers like Best Buy.

In regard to BBOS I'm still struggling to find things my torch doesn't do thing that android or iphone do. yeah android and iphone can be snappier but my torch still does everything those do.

Also, can just one interviewer just flat out ask Mike L how the pairing between the playbook and a BB is going to work and stick with the question until you get an answer. Do we need a separate app or is it going to tether or what. This is my single biggest wonder about this whole thing.

And just cause:
Hey Lil Blackkk you better go buy a helmet cause life is going to be a bumpy ride if you get that upset over some comments about how someone looks. And she did look like Pat from those old SNL skits. Some should of told her to update her look from 1994

Can we get a phone that most people would say doesnt suck for someone outisde of corp america. And I am in corp america ...lmao.

Camera work - Horrendous (learn how to expose properly and turn off the auto-iris. While you're at it, learn how to FOCUS and shoot the subject who's actually talking).
Editing - Bush league (I could cut a video of a turd falling out of my ass that would be better than this video any day).
Interviewer - Don't quit your day job (this has nothing to do with the transgender issue and everything to do with a boring interview).

Sorry to get righteous, but unless you can make an interview clip even remotely close to something bearable, than I can't bring myself to pay attention to the subject without stopping myself from involuntary vomiting all over my own cockhole.

Although your comments do offer a wealth of graphic imagery, (vomit, turds), they really don't bring much to the table regarding the playbook.

lol @ Mike trying to avoid the Android comment

A little bit more power than the IPAD, as he looks down like a child who has just been asked who broke the vase lol

I like this guy/girl(s) non bias variety of questions

:)

His evasiveness in this interview is rather disappointing. He needs to step and start answering the big questions. This makes me not want to continue supporting BlackBerry. Idk i have a sour taste in my mouth because there aren't any BlackBerrys out there worth upgrading from my 9000. So sad... I was a loyalist! Even a 9000 with a trackpad would satisfy me now. Dont' expect too much from RIM, they end up shattering all your dreams. ahahha

/emo

Get some other marketer who can talk more than about how great University of Waterloo is. Only reason your number 1 in Canada now is because Nortel Imploded. Marketing of products is atrocious and this and the other CEO's double talk is the reason.

I don't know if u all have been paying attention, but all of these PlayBooks have been early models. I would Luv to see one of these bad boys with the newly required TAT also running on there......

Does no one remember the executive from Palm last year who made wild statements about how the Palm Pre was going to sell ten million devices and how everyone would throw away their iPhone? Those weren't harmless bragging statements as Palm had to scramble to issue press releases clarifying that they weren't actual expectations of Palm.

There's more at stake here than just your childish needs to have answers. Companies have to follow rules, especially when they're in a quiet period before earnings.

Bring on the Storm 3 with dual-core processor and QNX OS! (or am I just wishfull thinking?)
Maybe a Torch 2 with dual-core and QNX? end of 2011?

What a poor poor interview, they couldn't even take ML somewhere quiet for god sake, lighting terrible, very off the point questions. With blackberry there will always be people that want Rim to bring something new and even more people that like it the way it is. Mike's 2G point is very good, in UK for example there's very little 3G, only in cities, anywhere else you're back to gprs or edge. 3G is getting busy now thanks to android and iphones hogging bandwidth. I've been getting failed calls and congestion messages on my bold quite often lately when I try to make a call and when that happens I switch back to 2G. Tell you what, if blackberrys would use just as much data as them there would probably be no bandwidth left.

Sorry I'm very happy with my Blackberry but in my opinion Mike Lazaridis shouldn't give interviews anymore. Every time I see him answer some very interesting questions about the future he lets RIM seem like they don't know actually in which direction they should go. And who's going to invest into a company that doesn't know where to go...
Also his Playbook arguments are just: Multitasking and Flash. They need someone who really presents the Playbook and shows that it really fits into business and entertainment.

Too much teasing, just give me a pre-order and the date I'll be receiving it.

I don't think mike like that tranny Ina that much lol

Sounds like Mike made it pretty clear that the Playbook will be more expensive than the ipad because he didn't correct the interviewer. Oh well, i would still love to get one of these.

By virtue of Mike's avoidance/redirection of the question posed multiple times on when we should expect to see QNX on BB smartphones, I wouldn't hold my breath on it. Maybe 2012??

I think a majority of people commenting here really need to take a step back, re-evaluate their lives, and move on.

Has it occurred to anyone that, perhaps, RIM isn't trying to build hype like their competitors do? Perhaps RIM is only making promises that they'll be able to keep? Maybe, just maybe, they're being realistic in what they can offer with their products.

Unless you've invested in RIM's stock, then there really isn't a point in getting yourselves all worked up about all of this. Time and again, those of you who "can't wait for RIM for release a good product", just go. You guys make it so difficult to come on this forum and enjoy the potential RIM has, regardless of when they come out.

Sheesh. I'm scared to think of what would happen if the technological age suddenly died and we all had to revert to paper and pencils.

What the Hell...this stopped being about the BB playbook and more about transgenders and stupid concepts like god....
I didn't even notice the interviewer till I saw the posts about his gender and then to top it all off we have a religious discourse about what is acceptable....
Jokes about indeterminate gender aside, what was more offensive was the stupid assertion of God existing and Hell being real.....one step away from f***kin Osama....
Forget god..he is upto his own stupid devices...I just want to know when Mike and Co. are bringing the playbook out...enough waiting already....

Ummm Mike, Blackberry didn't "flawlessly" multitask/switch apps from day 1. As I remember my blackberry froze by switching apps and had to reboot caused by the low memory and poor processor. LOL. I don't even have to mention the quality of apps. Face Palm.

I think RIM has it backwards. I can afford to have a notebook, a tablet, and a smartphone, but what a ridiculous redundancy, in function and cost; and frankly it is too much to carry around. Do I really need internet connectivity via 3 or 4G on two or three devices? I wonder if RIM isn't missing the boat--the next iteration: a tablet that is also a phone. The Dell Streak is sort of one, but it runs Android and the size really is too big for a phone and too small for a tablet. What if a Playbook could make calls via bluetooth and trhe playbook had a robust bluetooth headset and bluetooth keyboard option? Maybe there is a small market for that, I don't know; maybe a big one. But when I heard RIM's chief talking about third world countries and WiFi, it struck me that RIM may be positioning itself for third world adoption, but its bread and butter is the first world and it needs to be looking ahead. Kevin M is always talking about how RIM's older devices are perfect smartphone intros for first and third world, and he is right. But this is a new product. Whether you buy my huge bluetooth headset idea or not, it should have cellular capability from the get go. Otherwise it is really going to be a non-starter. The quality time I spent in WiFi environments is with a computer.

The only counterpoint is what RIM has settled on: use your phone to get the Playbook online when you are away from WiFi. That's a great idea, assuming your phone is capable of becoming a hotspot and has a huge battery. I suspect that RIM plans to sell a bunch of new phones with that capability. However, unless cellular providers get on board and end their stupid tethering surcharges and data tiers, I don't see alot of people doing that. It is too complicated. It requires manipulation of the phone, making and maintaining the connection, etc., and the afore-mentioned tethering plan. Seems like alot of trouble, especially for the quickie online experience you'd expect to have with a tablet (given the limitations of its operating system, input methods, and screen size).

So, who is this for? Someone who spends alot of time in WiFi environments--travelers, businesspersons, students--who doesn't need the power of a notebook computer, but need to check their email and read a magazine, but their phones aren't good enough of large enough. Are these people walking around large business campuses? Schools? in buses and trains? Really, checking your email (not from your phone), looking at pictures, playing games, and watching movies do not strike me as core business pursuits, and the price of the Playbook is rumored to be about the same as a decent notebook computer.

I just don't get it.

I think RIM has it backwards. I can afford to have a notebook, a tablet, and a smartphone, but what a ridiculous redundancy, in function and cost; and frankly it is too much to carry around. Do I really need internet connectivity via 3 or 4G on two or three devices? I wonder if RIM isn't missing the boat--the next iteration: a tablet that is also a phone. The Dell Streak is sort of one, but it runs Android and the size really is too big for a phone and too small for a tablet. What if a Playbook could make calls via bluetooth and trhe playbook had a robust bluetooth headset and bluetooth keyboard option? Maybe there is a small market for that, I don't know; maybe a big one. But when I heard RIM's chief talking about third world countries and WiFi, it struck me that RIM may be positioning itself for third world adoption, but its bread and butter is the first world and it needs to be looking ahead. Kevin M is always talking about how RIM's older devices are perfect smartphone intros for first and third world, and he is right. But this is a new product. Whether you buy my huge bluetooth headset idea or not, it should have cellular capability from the get go. Otherwise it is really going to be a non-starter. The quality time I spent in WiFi environments is with a computer.

The only counterpoint is what RIM has settled on: use your phone to get the Playbook online when you are away from WiFi. That's a great idea, assuming your phone is capable of becoming a hotspot and has a huge battery. I suspect that RIM plans to sell a bunch of new phones with that capability. However, unless cellular providers get on board and end their stupid tethering surcharges and data tiers, I don't see alot of people doing that. It is too complicated. It requires manipulation of the phone, making and maintaining the connection, etc., and the afore-mentioned tethering plan. Seems like alot of trouble, especially for the quickie online experience you'd expect to have with a tablet (given the limitations of its operating system, input methods, and screen size).

So, who is this for? Someone who spends alot of time in WiFi environments--travelers, businesspersons, students--who doesn't need the power of a notebook computer, but need to check their email and read a magazine, but their phones aren't good enough of large enough. Are these people walking around large business campuses? Schools? in buses and trains? Really, checking your email (not from your phone), looking at pictures, playing games, and watching movies do not strike me as core business pursuits, and the price of the Playbook is rumored to be about the same as a decent notebook computer.

I just don't get it.

seriously, enough is enough about the playbook.,...........that all anyone talk about today.......jesus give it a rest aleady

Well, at least he was truthful when he said BlackBerries were perfect for much of the World that is still on 2G networks! He may well have just said "yeah, we're behind in the rest of the World!" So, Mike, when do those of us in more advanced lands get to see advanced BlackBerrys?

Does anyone else think RIM needs to send someone else out to do interviews and such?

Yea this guy sucks, he was just going around the questions

RIM blows chunks...

I'd like Mick or Keith to explain why I should buy a PB, these people mean nothing to me! Just sayin!!