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Research in Motion(RIM) has announced that their BlackBerry Playbook tablet will have full support for Android applications. The Canadian company, famous for their BlackBerry mobile phones, is thought to have made this move to respond to the popularity of Google’s mobile operating system. With dozens of Android tablets hitting the market this year, adding Android support should give the PlayBook an interesting selling feature next to its competitors.
Though adding Android support will give the BlackBerry tablet greater versatility increasing the number of apps available for users, for the time being it seems as though only 2.3 Gingerbread apps will be supported. Rather than using the Android 3.0 Honeycomb system designed for tablet devices, RIM chose the earlier version most likely because of hardware constraints.
The PlayBook is set to be released on April 19th of this year. However, the software required to use Android apps will only be available this summer.
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