User manual
Table Of Contents
- Getting started
- New features and enhancements
- Getting to know your tablet
- Using the touch screen
- Insert a micro SIM card
- Personalizing your home screen
- View your notifications
- Status bar icons
- Switch to a new tablet
- Setting up your tablet
- About your BlackBerry ID
- About BlackBerry Balance
- Overview of tablet settings
- Supported audio, video, and picture file formats and codecs
- Messages
- Contacts
- Calendar
- Browser
- BlackBerry Bridge
- About BlackBerry Bridge
- New features
- Connect your tablet and smartphone using BlackBerry Bridge
- BlackBerry Bridge basics
- Remote control
- BlackBerry Bridge vs Tethering
- Do data charges apply?
- About synchronizing Wi-Fi and VPN profiles
- About using BlackBerry Bridge in your organization
- Troubleshooting: BlackBerry Bridge
- Connections
- Connect to a mobile network
- Wi-Fi
- Bluetooth technology
- Tether your tablet to a Bluetooth enabled device
- Share files between your computer and tablet using Wi-Fi
- Share files between your computer and tablet using a USB connection
- Turn on airplane mode
- Connect your tablet to an HDMI display
- Troubleshooting: HDMI connections
- Keyboard and typing
- Documents To Go
- Print To Go
- BlackBerry App World
- Camera
- Pictures
- Videos
- Music
- Music Store
- Battery and power
- Applications
- Clock
- Video chat
- Video Store
- Bing Maps
- BlackBerry News
- Security
- Podcasts
- Voice notes
- Legal notice
Remote control
Use your smartphone as a remote control
With BlackBerry Bridge, you can use your smartphone as a wireless mouse and keyboard for your BlackBerry PlayBook
tablet. Watch movies, surf the Internet, or present a slideshow on your tablet’s screen or a connected HDMI display, such
as a TV, projector, or computer monitor.
1. On your smartphone, click the BlackBerry Bridge app.
2. Verify that your tablet is connected. If necessary, connect your tablet and smartphone.
3. Click Use Remote Control.
To disconnect the remote control, press the key a few times and click Disconnect.
Navigating and scrolling
Navigate your BlackBerry PlayBook
tablet
It’s easy to switch apps, minimize apps, show the menu, and show the status bar
on your tablet.
On a BlackBerry smartphone with a physical keyboard, move the cursor to the
edge of your tablet screen. Click the trackpad.
On a touch screen, you can use tablet swiping gestures on your smartphone's
screen to navigate your tablet.
Scroll
Press and hold the key and slide your finger up or down on the trackpad.
On a touch screen, place two fingers on the screen and slide your fingers up or
down.
Browser tip With the remote control, you can open links in a new tab or save images from
web pages.
Press and hold the key while clicking the trackpad. On a touch screen,
using two fingers, tap the screen.
Zoom in and out Open a picture. Double-tap.
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