From Crackberry, looks like the Playbook has bluetooth mouse and keyboard support.
Combine that with HDMI out and you could hookup the Playbook to your HDMI big screen TV for movies, browsing, typing, slide shows or anything really and have mouse and keyboard support (a cursor pointer pops up, and some of the swipe gestures are handled by mouse actions, such as the right mouse button)
Seen the negative and then the fairly positive reviews, and clearly some are using old builds, even the one quoted above says that the memory issues were solved. The fact that it will run Andriod apps will be useful, the Blackberry Bridge will be useful. I am sure there will be third party email aps soon enough, until RIM decides what they want to do with the security issues. If you have a Blackberry, won't be as big an issue.
Form factor is interesting though...played with the Xoom and its too big, and even the Ipad gets a little cumbersome for extended periods of time. This will seem small compared to the Ipad, but possible more comfortable for longer periods of usage.
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