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Why? Do not see anything special about this compared with the Samsung, or any other tablets that are coming out? It will come down to the software, and damn do I hate blackberry OS (not played with 6 yet). I look forward to having everything displayed as lists.

I guess it's a good thing that it doesn't use the blackberry OS, then.

They mentioned that it would pair with your blackberry, and therefore share your data connection.

I'd be willing to bet that it won't pair with non-blackberry's (although maybe they'll surprise me), but if you have a BB (like a large number of people do) this should be a good companion device.

As to price, they didn't mention that or availability; which I suspect is bad news on both fronts. They're really pitching this to enterprises, so I'm guessing affordability isn't their primary bullet point.

Do you not find the Adam Tablet compelling? It's going to have the NVidia Pixel Qi screen that can go greyscale so you can see it in the sun, and runs Android.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Tablet

It should be coming out in a few weeks, so it should be one of the first decent iPad competitors.