BlackBerry PlayBook to get Movie Talk and Facebook apps in May (updated)
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• Incoming Call Notifications – users will receive a notification pop-up when a fresh movie call comes in, permitting them to accept the call as either a movie or voice call, or decline the call. For those quiet moments – such as when while watching a movie or playing a game -users will also have the capability to simply set the "Do Not Disturb" option and the BlackBerry PlayBook will automatically disregard all incoming calls.
• Powerful In-Call Functions – by using the picture-in-picture function users can lightly preview their own movie picture prior to placing the call in order to see what will be displayed on the other end. They can also lightly switch cameras from front to rear so their friends can see what they are observing, and for private moments users can mute/unmute audio or make or take calls using voice only.
• Friends List – BlackBerry PlayBook Movie Talk comes accomplish with a Friends List for maintaining your beloved contacts. A picture can lightly be added to a contact to personalize the entry and a Call Log makes it ordinary to keep track of received and missed calls.
• Love seamless photo and movie viewing – Facebook for BlackBerry PlayBook makes it effortless to upload photos from the BlackBerry PlayBook Picture Library, tag friends in photos, view comments, tags and likes. The BlackBerry PlayBook can also be connected to an HD TV to display photos and movies at a entire fresh level in utter 1080p HD.
• Connect with friends using Facebook Talk – On the BlackBerry PlayBook screen, users can love side-by-side viewing of online contacts and active conversations. Notifications of fresh Talk messages are displayed on the Notifications Bar, so users can quickly and lightly read and react to fresh Talk messages while browsing friends’ profiles, viewing their pictures or reading their status updates.
• View and interact with the News Feed – Users will be able to browse highlights such as photo uploads and status updates and seamlessly view links in the BlackBerry PlayBook browser. They will also be able to "Comment" and "Like" to discuss and display appreciation for friends’ content, as well as publish a status update or upload a photo from the status publisher accessible from their Profile or from within the News Feed.