While the PlayBook does a sweet job of browsing the web there are some sites that are cluttered on the device or meant for huge 22 inch monitors. RIM seems to be joining the crowd with their own take on a Reader View in the BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 Beta. This beta has a new feature once a page loads in the browser that lets you extract the main text and images from the page for easy viewing. It works better in portrait but hopefully RIM will fix it to take the whole screen in landscape mode.
All you need to do to enable the view is hit the new book like icon in BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 when the page loads.
kiddo2050 ( View Profile) - Posts: 813
Posted: October 18, 2011 at 6:12 PM EST
This is a winner for the PB, I’m sooooo happy about this!!!!!!
I’ve been getting along reading websites for my news and this will be a huge plus!!!!!!!!!!!!
This made my day…. oops we don’t have it yet
(still happy though)
kiddo2050 ( View Profile) - Posts: 813
Posted: October 18, 2011 at 6:13 PM EST
RIM pleaseeeeee release this before 2.0.
Pleaseeeeeeee!!!!!
papped ( View Profile) - Posts: 234
Posted: October 18, 2011 at 6:17 PM EST
That is awesome…
ofutur ( View Profile) - Posts: 1136
Posted: October 18, 2011 at 6:51 PM EST
That’s really cool
Now they need to fix the broken things like 3D and HD flash video playback.
kiddo2050 ( View Profile) - Posts: 813
Posted: October 18, 2011 at 7:57 PM EST
Ya I find that annoying, hopefully they will get the message on that before 2.0 is released
Mr,simmons,sr Not Registered
Posted: October 18, 2011 at 6:57 PM EST from my BlackBerry PlayBook | OS 1.0.0
This is col and all but what I want to know is can you finally manage your bookmarks?
ofutur ( View Profile) - Posts: 1136
Posted: October 18, 2011 at 7:20 PM EST
Nope…
simplyred Not Registered
Posted: October 19, 2011 at 5:27 PM EST
actually, yes you can.
Heavens ( View Profile) - Posts: 267
Posted: October 19, 2011 at 1:23 AM EST
Good oh!!! I like!
thecsman Not Registered
Posted: December 9, 2011 at 4:25 PM EST
This is totally convenient. I zoom in in certain sites so the article column fits nicely in the PlayBook screen. It’s really comfortable to read.
ofutur ( View Profile) - Posts: 1136
Posted: December 9, 2011 at 4:47 PM EST
It has been removed from the latest version of the OS though