BlackBerry Playbook as an Alarm Clock

cinderfella

Well the BlackBerry playbook proved to be a white elephant. The promised new operating system never materialized.
The tablet is still well made and mine has 64 gb internal storage. It's useless for TV but I watch videos via YouTube.
Last month my Archos Home Connect device notched up two years use and stopped working. The internal battery had swollen up and could no longer hold a charge. This is the norm for this device. The battery is no longer made!
The device was a week past it's two year guarantee period and the german firm that I bought it from did not want to know.
Enter my old redundant PlayBook.
The Bed Buzz app turns the PlayBook into an Alarm Clock which needs the dock charger. Internet radio does not need an app. Tune into Classicfm (through the browser) and put in a post code (even when abroad) and you will have a player with many UK stations including the BBC.
If you can bear with it, the PlayBook is not after all what I always regarded as a no hoper:T
Enjoy.

tafelmoneysaver

Mine makes an excellent digital photo frame.

cinderfella

Well, I was going to buy a Kindle but after playing with the Playbook I see no point. I had forgotten about the Kindle app which I had side loaded quite a while back. Hey Presto, downloaded a mass of books into the app from the Amazon Cloud - who needs a Kindle Fire with battery life being about the same.
Amazing how the French managed to put an app together 'French Radio' which has a mass of stations including Radio Classique.
The HD on YouTube makes watching the ballet clips sheer pleasure.
The Kobo Touch which I was using for Kindle books has turned out to be a disappointment. Could be the format which I have converted the Amazon books to.
Hmmm............ The Playbook is not the White Elephant that I once thought it was. Very Classy.:beer:

jaydeeuk1

Shame the playbook never took off, was better than the ipad in many ways, but had a crap app store and bb rushed it to market. If it had sold for £199 to begin with then blackberry would still have been a big player. Got mine for £120ish from pc world and it was a great little tablet, installed that media player and played all my hd mkv's no problem. Only app i really missed was sky go and perhaps skype support. The built in email client was really good in its time and the sound it was capable of still better than most in the market now. Was going to give it to my daughter but then the usb port broke and I blew up the magnetic charger when it touched something metal so just chucked it in the end.

On the forums there was work on hacking the bootloader with the aim of installing android, but if the NSA can't hack it, I doubt some bloke on a forum can.