All the Blackberry nerds in the world are drooling over Research In Motion’s BIG announcement yesterday….get the full story after the jump

In order to compete with Apple’s iPad, Blackberry unveiled their tablet computer, the  ”Playbook”. It’s smaller than the iPad and no release date has been set yet. Here are some of the specs you can look forward to:

* 7″ LCD, 1024 x 600, WSVGA, capacitive touch screen with full multi-touch and gesture support

* 1 GB RAM

* Dual HD cameras (3 MP front facing, 5 MP rear facing), supports 1080p HD video recording

* Video playback: 1080p HD Video, H.264, MPEG, DivX, WMV

* Audio playback: MP3, AAC, WMA

* HDMI video output

* WiFi – 802.11 a/b/g/n

* Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR

* RIM intends to also offer 3G and 4G models in the future.

Here’s the promo video that RIM released yesterday: