 Hi, I'm Jacob Shulman from The Verge and we're here with Jeff Gadway, the Senior Product Marketing Manager for Blackberry Playbook and we're going to show you a quick tour of Playbook OS 2.0. We've made the performance of Bridge a lot faster. So whether it's accessing BBM or say you're outside of Wi-Fi and you still want to get access to your email calendar contacts, you can use Bridge to get that wirelessly even if you're outside of Wi-Fi and that's a lot faster. So then how is it different from tethering? So tethering gives you kind of unfettered data on your Playbook in every which way, right? So if it's powering applications or downloading music, tethering is just using your Blackberry essentially as a modem to the web, right? Whereas Bridge, it's essentially giving you like a big screen window into your Blackberry application. So say I get an email from Diane and let's pretend it has a web link in here, right? And I go, you know what? I want to like enjoy this website on my Playbook. I can hit menu and I can say open link on Gadway, right? And what it's going to do is open the appropriate application on the Playbook and then I do a long press. Remote control. So that gives me the ability to use the touch screen to fully remote control the device. So do you need a device with a touch screen? No, it works with devices with track pads as well. So you've got the ability to control the device like that. There's also a presenter mode here so you can use it as like a PowerPoint clicker for slides, right? And then the last piece here, like you said, if I go in here and say I've got this plugged into my TV across the room and I want to change the website, I can use the keyboard to enter text. Really cool. So the other thing too, I mean this is more of a cosmetic thing but we've kind of changed the way that OS2 lays out a little bit. So you've got a dock that you can populate with stuff and it's just as simple as, you know, dragging and dropping things into this dock, so say you wanted app roll up here, you can just drop it up here. And with that we've changed the way that you can organize content on the home screen too. So say I wanted to group all my Angry Birds together, I can just, you know, Angry, I can create folders on the home screen too. Okay, so without any further ado we can jump into the messages application. So this is a unified messages application for both email and social networking. And what's really neat about that is that say I wanted to send a direct Twitter message to somebody that I'm following, I can do that right from within the inbox. I don't have to launch the Twitter app to send a Twitter message, right? It's a truly unified and consolidated messaging experience that you get with this. Can you make a tweet from the message? You can't make a tweet like an at mention. This is like pretty much just for messaging, but any new direct messages that you receive will come in here and you can reply to them within the app as well. And the last thing I'll show you in the inbox or in the messaging application is the way that we've incorporated multitasking. And this is something that's pretty unique to Playbook. So instead of having a very siloed messaging experience, so say on other platforms where you're in the inbox, you touch on an application or on a message and you wanted to go back, you have to press the home key and it takes you right back out. You're actually able to go in and say I want to compose a new message. I can go in, I can start composing, you know, hello, rich text. So that was the other thing I was going to show you. I can go back to that message I was just looking at and reference it. One of the things that's really neat about contacts, I'm going to start here with the accounts setting. I can go in and I can add a bunch of accounts to the Playbook, right? So here I've got LinkedIn and Twitter set up and it's as easy as going in and selecting from a list, right, and entering your credentials. And once you've done that, it's going to pull in not only your email accounts into the messages but all of your contacts into the contacts application and all of your calendar info into the calendar application. So Greg is another guy who works at RIM and you'll see that his contact card is comprised of three different sources of information. So the Playbook has intelligently gathered his information from LinkedIn, from his RIM corporate contact card as well as Twitter to populate one consolidated contact card for Greg. And the last piece is the calendar, right? So in addition to all of your standard kind of calendaring features, right, you've got your agenda view, your day view, the ability to, here's our meeting here with The Verge, I can take this, I can drag it to another time and then it will allow me to send updates to other participants on that meeting. So it's really like a full desktop calendaring solution, right? And you can even layer your calendars. You've got a whole new virtual keyboard, right, with contextual predictive. So hello everyone. I think the best way to the next few, like you don't even need to type, right? It's really really strong. And for the Blackberry users out there, we've incorporated all those Blackberry keyboard shortcuts. So like double tapping a space bar to insert a period and a capital and then all the contractions. So if I said can't, C-A-N-T, and hit space bar, it's going to automatically know that that's a contraction, right? So just little kind of special things in there.
 Hi, I'm Jacob Shulman from The Verge and we're here with Jeff Gadway, the Senior Product
 Marketing Manager for Blackberry Playbook and we're going to show you a quick tour of
 Playbook OS 2.0.
 We've made the performance of Bridge a lot faster.
 So whether it's accessing BBM or say you're outside of Wi-Fi and you still want to get
 access to your email calendar contacts, you can use Bridge to get that wirelessly even
 if you're outside of Wi-Fi and that's a lot faster.
 So then how is it different from tethering?
 So tethering gives you kind of unfettered data on your Playbook in every which way,
 right?
 So if it's powering applications or downloading music, tethering is just using your Blackberry
 essentially as a modem to the web, right?
 Whereas Bridge, it's essentially giving you like a big screen window into your Blackberry
 application.
 So say I get an email from Diane and let's pretend it has a web link in here, right?
 And I go, you know what?
 I want to like enjoy this website on my Playbook.
 I can hit menu and I can say open link on Gadway, right?
 And what it's going to do is open the appropriate application on the Playbook and then I do
 a long press.
 Remote control.
 So that gives me the ability to use the touch screen to fully remote control the device.
 So do you need a device with a touch screen?
 No, it works with devices with track pads as well.
 So you've got the ability to control the device like that.
 There's also a presenter mode here so you can use it as like a PowerPoint clicker for
 slides, right?
 And then the last piece here, like you said, if I go in here and say I've got this plugged
 into my TV across the room and I want to change the website, I can use the keyboard
 to enter text.
 Really cool.
 So the other thing too, I mean this is more of a cosmetic thing but we've kind of changed
 the way that OS2 lays out a little bit.
 So you've got a dock that you can populate with stuff and it's just as simple as, you
 know, dragging and dropping things into this dock, so say you wanted app roll up here,
 you can just drop it up here.
 And with that we've changed the way that you can organize content on the home screen
 too.
 So say I wanted to group all my Angry Birds together, I can just, you know, Angry, I can
 create folders on the home screen too.
 Okay, so without any further ado we can jump into the messages application.
 So this is a unified messages application for both email and social networking.
 And what's really neat about that is that say I wanted to send a direct Twitter message
 to somebody that I'm following, I can do that right from within the inbox.
 I don't have to launch the Twitter app to send a Twitter message, right?
 It's a truly unified and consolidated messaging experience that you get with this.
 Can you make a tweet from the message?
 You can't make a tweet like an at mention.
 This is like pretty much just for messaging, but any new direct messages that you receive
 will come in here and you can reply to them within the app as well.
 And the last thing I'll show you in the inbox or in the messaging application is the way
 that we've incorporated multitasking.
 And this is something that's pretty unique to Playbook.
 So instead of having a very siloed messaging experience, so say on other platforms where
 you're in the inbox, you touch on an application or on a message and you wanted to go back,
 you have to press the home key and it takes you right back out.
 You're actually able to go in and say I want to compose a new message.
 I can go in, I can start composing, you know, hello, rich text.
 So that was the other thing I was going to show you.
 I can go back to that message I was just looking at and reference it.
 One of the things that's really neat about contacts, I'm going to start here with the
 accounts setting.
 I can go in and I can add a bunch of accounts to the Playbook, right?
 So here I've got LinkedIn and Twitter set up and it's as easy as going in and selecting
 from a list, right, and entering your credentials.
 And once you've done that, it's going to pull in not only your email accounts into
 the messages but all of your contacts into the contacts application and all of your calendar
 info into the calendar application.
 So Greg is another guy who works at RIM and you'll see that his contact card is comprised
 of three different sources of information.
 So the Playbook has intelligently gathered his information from LinkedIn, from his RIM
 corporate contact card as well as Twitter to populate one consolidated contact card
 for Greg.
 And the last piece is the calendar, right?
 So in addition to all of your standard kind of calendaring features, right, you've got
 your agenda view, your day view, the ability to, here's our meeting here with The Verge,
 I can take this, I can drag it to another time and then it will allow me to send updates
 to other participants on that meeting.
 So it's really like a full desktop calendaring solution, right?
 And you can even layer your calendars.
 You've got a whole new virtual keyboard, right, with contextual predictive.
 So hello everyone.
 I think the best way to the next few, like you don't even need to type, right?
 It's really really strong.
 And for the Blackberry users out there, we've incorporated all those Blackberry keyboard
 shortcuts.
 So like double tapping a space bar to insert a period and a capital and then all the contractions.
 So if I said can't, C-A-N-T, and hit space bar, it's going to automatically know that
 that's a contraction, right?
 So just little kind of special things in there.