Had the chance to play with the PB before heading home last night at Best Buy in Union Square. I have to admit, I was pretty impressed with the device.
For starters, the cameras on the Blackberry were MUCH better than my iPad 2. I have to give credit where credit is due and usually this is the other way around with Blackberry and iPad for cameras. The 2mp front camera on my iPad seems seems to be very fuzzy and when compared to the 3mp front camera on the Playbook I was actually pretty disappointed on Apple's. Honestly, I use my iPad all the time to Skype so the front camera is very important to me.
In regards to the size and the screen, I didn't think it was that bad at all. Overall, I think the hardware is there, but the software could use improvements along the way, which BB is able to do with updates.
For starters, the cameras on the Blackberry were MUCH better than my iPad 2. I have to give credit where credit is due and usually this is the other way around with Blackberry and iPad for cameras. The 2mp front camera on my iPad seems seems to be very fuzzy and when compared to the 3mp front camera on the Playbook I was actually pretty disappointed on Apple's. Honestly, I use my iPad all the time to Skype so the front camera is very important to me.
In regards to the size and the screen, I didn't think it was that bad at all. Overall, I think the hardware is there, but the software could use improvements along the way, which BB is able to do with updates.