14 DAY TRIAL // Announced at the end of the last month during the BlackBerry DEVCON 2010 conference in San Francisco, the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet PC was brought to the Adobe MAX conference too, where RIM President and Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis showcased some of the main features of the device.
Co-CEO Mike Lazaridis demoed the solution with Kevin Lynch, CTO of Adobe, and their presentation was caught on video, in a clip embedded at the bottom of this article.
Some of the main capabilities of the new BlackBerry PlayBook, showcased by Mike and Kevin during the keynote, include the device's multimedia capabilities, as well as its multitasking features, or the eUnity healthcare application.
In the multimedia area, the new tablet PC from Research In Motion comes with the possibility to play video and audio files, while also supporting playback of web based videos using Adobe Flash.
According to a recent article on the BlackBerry Blog, the applications that were demonstrated on the Tablet PC during the Adobe MAX conference were built using the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR.
These applications were: SAP Crystal Solutions Dashboard and CIO Cockpit by SAP, and Chatter, an enterprise IM application by salesforce.com.
The said Software Development Kit was made available for download for all application developers on Monday, the same day when Adobe announced officially the release of Adobe AIR 2.5 with enhanced support for mobile devices.
The new BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR is meant to offer devs the possibility to easily come up with applications for the new BlackBerry PlayBook device, and to have these solutions distributed via RIM's App World.
At the same time, RIM announced that it plans on adding support for content and applications using Adobe Flash 10.1 and HTML5 into the mix.
Have a look at the video below to make an idea on how the first apps built on the BlackBerry Tablet OS SDK for Adobe AIR look like, and head over here to download the solution.