RIM is continuing on its quest to build up hype for their Blackberry Playbook, a device that looks slick but has many unanswered questions about battery life, notifications, etc. What they are doing, however, is showing us a video of how the Playbook interacts with a Blackberry. RIM seems fairly invested in making this interaction work well, seeing as their brand doesn't carry much weight beyond the Blackberry diehards who are addicted to BBM, fast messaging, and super-secure network connections. The video is short, showing how the email is synced between devices and how you can quickly move to other applications to find data.
The one thing that jumps out to me is a sheer size comparison between the Playbook and the Blackberry Torch next to it. The 7" form factor is very unproven and this seems to only draw into greater question why you would want a device this size. The screen seems cramped with the phone and hands there for size comparison. Since they decided to spend the bulk of the time showing off the email app, it's worth asking one question: if it were you and you had those two devices in front of you, which would you find easier to manage and type your emails on? The iPad-style email rip-off looks like a nightmare to use on a screen that small, to say nothing of the keyboard that the person in the video typed on using one finger. I guess that's one way to make the aging Blackberry phones look good.