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- The BlackBerry PlayBook shipped without a native e-mail client or calendar feature. To access those apps, you first must tether the tablet to a BlackBerry smartphone. RIM says that this promotes data security -- should someone steal your PlayBook, they can't access your data because it's not stored on the device.
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Jun 21, 2011 · A source claims native email is absent from the RIM BlackBerry PlayBook because the server won't support multiple devices.
You can also connect to your smartphone's address book, e-mail client and other features by tethering the two devices together. The BlackBerry PlayBook shipped without a native e-mail client or calendar feature.
Mar 29, 2011 · YES, the PlayBook needs to have native email and PIM. You can justify its lack of being there by saying you have an awesome web browser you can go through, but at this point it's an expectation so RIM has to have it, period. And yes, it would have been better if RIM had it ready to go at launch.
- Kevin Michaluk
Mar 29, 2011 · The BlackBerry PlayBook will launch without a native email application - arguably the key feature to BlackBerry's success.
Feb 22, 2012 · With the PlayBook 2.0 - and future BlackBerry 10 handsets - you won't have to run a wizard on the device and connect to the BlackBerry service to set up your email any more....
At first, a decision by BlackBerry to ship the PlayBook without native applications for e-mail and calendar became a source of criticism and derision by reviewers and users. The only way to access email was through the web browser, BlackBerry Bridge, or third-party applications from App World, which BlackBerry chose for security reasons.
Apr 28, 2011 · While it is a nice feature to be able to access a phone's email system on the tablet, it is no excuse for not having a true email client on the tablet, especially with email and...
