It’s essential.  We were introduced to Universal Search for BlackBerry when OS 6.0 launched, so the feature cannot be stripped away from us at this point.  In the beginning of my PlayBook usage, I didn’t feel any need for it.  Here I am three months into using it, and my applications list has built up.  It would nice to hit a search button and type in what you need and BOOM – it’s there.  But Universal Search has more to it.  For supported applications, you can search through them and find music, pictures, etc.  So I’m hoping OS 1.0.7 gets Universal Search but that sounds like something we’ll see in 2.0 if anything.

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