As far as I have seen RIM has been pretty quiet about the portrait orientation on the BlackBerry PlayBook. In case you don’t know portrait orientation is when you hold the PlayBook sideways like a traditional book or a Kindle. RIM has been saying that portrait mode will be available on the PlayBook and switch quickly but it has been disabled in all of the video demos I have seen to date. I am not sure if this portrait mode has been shown by RIM before but this is the first I have seen of it. Let me know if I am wrong!
A friend pointed out to me that at some point in time RIM has updated the BlackBerry PlayBook landing page with two new renders that show the PlayBook in portrait mode. I think the week view of the calendar looks hot and definitely is reminiscent of BlackBerry OS 6.0. The second of Kobo does not really show much new since it is a 3rd party app. Still its nice to get an idea of how it will look. Hopefully it transitions between the modes seamlessly with its dual core processor.
Check out the BlackBerry PlayBook landing page for some new screen renders of the device!
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