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Androids apps on PlayBook eyes-on (video)

We knew it was coming , but today at BlackBerry World 2011 we were treated to a demo of Android apps running natively at the PlayBook. The result isn’t too far far from what we saw with Myriad’s Alien Dalvik at Mobile World Congress. Android’s menu and residential buttons are emulated using the normal PlayBook gestures, and the back button is replaced with an on-screen softkey. After all, you’ll should visit App World to download Android apps for the PlayBook when the Android Player (because it’s called) finally becomes available. And speaking of Android apps, the wildly popular Angry Birds is coming to the PlayBook as a local game – no cross-platform trickery involved.

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