By using BlackBerry Bridge feature, you can synchronize Playbook with a BlackBerry smartphone you own and use some of its features such as Messages, Contacts, Bridge Browser, Calendar, MemoPad, Tasks and Bridge Files.
To easy you, this time we try to divide setting steps and the activation of this feature.
1. Install the BlackBerry Bridge on the phone.
Unlike in the Playbook, BlackBerry Bridge application is not available by default on the BlackBerry smartphone. For that you must install it yourself on the BlackBerry you want synchronized with the Playbook. This application is available for free on AppWorld.
To easy search, enter the keyword "Bridge" in the search feature's App World. AppWorld will present the list of search results. Specify the name of your Playbook (will be displayed on the screen BlackBerry phones), click Next. you will be prompted to install the BlackBerry Bridge on the phone and you can skip this step because it did previously, click continue.
From here there are 2 methods that can be used, automatic or manual. To use automatic way click continue on the BlackBerry mobile phone and point the camera at the barcode is displayed on the screen Playbook. If successful, the Playbook and Blackberry phones will be directly connected and synchronized, click done on Playbook. The phone will ask you to enter a passkey in the form of a combination of numbers that you can choose yourself, then enter the same passkey on Playbook. Furthermore, the Playbook will display the alpha-numeric combinations to be entered on the phone, enter the code on the phone.
2. Connect Playbook, with BlackBerry phones
To do this, go to the BlackBerry Bridge on BlackBerry phones. Change BlackBerry Bridge option to "On ". Select Add New Tablet. Run BlackBerry Bridge setting on Playbook. This menu can be accessed on the options (represented by the gear icon in the upper-right corner of the screen or can be accessed by sweeping the screen from the frame, the top toward the bottom when they are on the homescreen). Select BlackBerry Bridge> Setup.
If automatic way does not work, use the manual way. Click Manual Pairing in Playbook, and then click Manual Pairing on the phone too. The phone will do the search, select Playbook appropriate name specified.
Your BlackBerry smartphone will be directly connected with Playbook, click Done and some features of the BlackBerry mobile phones can be used in the Playbook.
Unfortunately, though it was connected, not all phone features BlacBerry you can use on the BlackBerry. For example BBM the whiz features mobile BlackBerry, until this writing can not be used in the Playbook. But do not worry because RIM reportedly will soon provide an update to fix this.
Download the Blackberry app again to your Blackberry handset. Then Reinstall it to overwrite the earlier version. You might even see some pop up telling you the version is not match, overwrite it & repairing your playbook with the handset by Bluetooth & enable bridge Fixed.