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TELUS holding BlackBerry event for PlayBook details

by Bla1ze on 8 Mar 2011 02:26 PM
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TELUS holding BlackBerry event for Playbook details

If you've been left wondering where TELUS stands on having the BlackBerry PlayBook on their network then wonder no more. Come March 22 they'll be hosting an event for their SMB customers headlining the BlackBerry PlayBook and various other forthcoming devices from Research In Motion. While we could certainly take a good guess at what the other devices are; there is not much doubt left that an announcement from Telus regarding the BlackBerry PlayBook is upon us. That is -- if there was any doubt to begin with. Hopefully, we'll end up with some further details beyond the PlayBook after the event.

Source: MobileSyrup

Filed Under: News & Rumors; Tags: BlackBerry Playbook, Telus
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Posted by Xecutioner88 Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

Now that is good news! i think Playbook is coming sooner than the April 10th rumour/fact!

 
 
Posted by sober2ndthought Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

Maybe or the April 10th date is for the United States and Canada will get it earlier. So perhaps for once Canada will get something first.

 
 
Posted by stuffing Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

I Just want one now!!! i will have to look at an ipad 2 tho. even though i hate apple and how it takes over your pc

 
 
Posted by luqman24 Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

How does Apple take over your PC?

 
 
Posted by captainbdsc Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

A small example: After installing iTunes and or QuickTime no matter how many times you disable on windows start up the qtask.exe, or whatever it is, it always comes back. Again, it is a small example. We will make sure you don't "break it" whether you like it or not.

 
 
Posted by luqman24 Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

It worked for me and it never starts up after a reboot but only if I manually open it or if I coonect an apple product to my PC. Don't remember how I did but it worked. I think I did it through the msconfig screen.

 
 
Posted by captainbdsc Wednesday, Mar 09, 2011 445 days ago

you are probably correct about it not coming back until you start up iTunes or QuickTime or connect an iPod/iPhone... It is just frustrating that once you do start an Apple program etc. it then resets it to start with boot up once again. At least that has been my experience. Maybe I need some aggressive boot utility to strips everything back to the basics each boot hahaha... I don't know...

 
 
Posted by Marc_Paradise Wednesday, Mar 09, 2011 445 days ago

It installs a system service (mdns/bonjour). Note that iTunes works perfectly well to manage your music if you disable this service. I think there's a second service as well, but I can't recall the specifics offhand.

It also installs either one or two run-on-login processes. Again if you disable them, iTunes continues to work perfectly fine for managing music. ( One of these checks for updates on a schedule - something that could be done with windows task scheduler, *without* requiring yet another always running process. )

Most offensively, it automatically associates all music and video content to the quicktime plugin, which it requires you to install.

Every time you update it, if you have changed/disabled any of the above, it reverts it so that you have to go through it all again.

 
 
Posted by Marc_Paradise Wednesday, Mar 09, 2011 445 days ago

Really dude? You can't wait a week, or even a month? You're just going to expire if you don't get a tablet Right Now?

 
 
Posted by Jenks5150 Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

They said Q1.

 
 
Posted by greatness10 Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

yesssss! i'm a telus customer, i shall be holding my playbook before the end of march:)

 
 
Posted by makaveli28 Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

I still got no love from Rogers.

 
 
Posted by the_thunderbird Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

What is the usual lag time between these events at Telus and a new device?

 
 
Posted by soulwolf Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

I'm really getting sick an tired of these "events" just give us the hard facts. like idk a real release date. Just get on with the darn thing, teasing never gets me excited (as far as releasing products not the other thing). It's gotten so bad i spent the cash i saved up on a new TV doesn't help my 8yr old one died finally. either way they need to nut up and say some concrete.

 
 
Posted by captainbdsc Tuesday, Mar 08, 2011 445 days ago

Well I guess that means it will have a 9 or 10 day window to be released from the event to make the Q1 deadline. Here is to hoping.

I keep thinking any day/hour now I will go onto CrackBerry and see the big news. That is date available and price. :)

 
 
Posted by luqman24 Wednesday, Mar 09, 2011 445 days ago

I know this is completely off topic but I can't seem to access the forums through my Torch. I keep getting an error message saying "There isn't enough network coverage to process your request. Please try again later" for the whole day. My wifi and 3G coverage are fine and to confirm that I tried different websites including CB and they all worked fine. Is this a known issue? If not then this is why I'm addressing this here. Sorry for going off topic here, just couldn't find any other place appropriate enough to put this.

 
 
Posted by Leviathan123 Wednesday, Mar 09, 2011 445 days ago

Lol. Oddly enough my Torch was doing this last night. I had full coverage and was definitely getting 3G and Wifi. I just did a battery pull and it kicked everything back to normal. Tried that yet?

 
 
Posted by luqman24 Wednesday, Mar 09, 2011 445 days ago

Yess!! Thanks! :)