After delays of roughly a year, an upgraded working network is to Blackberry Playbook inscription has been released.
Playbook 2.0, a giveaway upgrade, adds a built-in email function to the device that was initial launched in April 2011.
Canada-based Research in Motion (RIM) had betrothed the ascent inside of 60 days of the device's release.
Last month the company's co-chief management team stepped down among unsatisfactory sales figures.
Mike Lazaridis and Jim Balsillie were transposed at the helm of RIM by the company's arch working executive Thorsten Heins.
This ascent is to Playbook - RIM's initial incursion in to the inscription marketplace - moreover sees built-in monthly calendar and contacts functions added, together with tighter formation with amicable networks such as Twitter and LinkedIn.
David Smith, RIM's comparison vice-president of mobile computing, said: "Building on the Blackberry Playbook tablet's proven web browsing, multimedia and multitasking strengths, the new Blackberry Playbook OS 2.0 introduces a operation of new communications and capability enhancements together with stretched app and calm support."
Another new feature, Blackberry Bridge, allows users to manage the inscription remotely using a Blackberry smartphone.
However, the renouned instant-messaging service Blackberry Messenger - well known colloquially as BBM - is absent from the upgrade.
The Playbook has seen its cost marked down extremely given entering the inscription market. By December, the gadgets had forsaken to $200 (127), from $500 (317) at launch.
In the final quarter, RIM mentioned 150,000 Playbooks had been sold. In comparison, Apple's market-leading iPad sole 15.4 million units in the same period.
However, the Blackberry brand still boasts 75 million active subscribers interjection often to its smartphone range.
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