Choosing The Right Tablet For You - Forbes.com.
Hoeveel wil jij betalen voor een tablet? Nu de tabletoorlog een versnelling hoger schakelt met de komst van waardige iPad-alternatieven, kan je als consument echt kritisch naar het aanbod beginnen kijken. Verschillende factoren zullen daarbij een rol spelen. Je hebt de technische aspecten, zoals opslagcapaciteit, besturingssysteem, aanbod van apps, maar ook een veel crucialer gegeven: prijs. Toen duidelijk werd dat de Motorola Xoom, momenteel beschouwd als de voornaamste concurrent voor de iPad, 800 dollar zal kosten (een prijs in euro is er vooralsnog niet), werd hier en daar al gefluisterd dat die prijs te hoog ligt. Mensen vergelijken dan met het instapmodel van de iPad, die 499 dollar kost. Correcter zou zijn om een iPad te nemen die ook 3G en een vergelijkbare opslagcapaciteit heeft, waarmee je aan 729 dollar zou zitten.
De collega's van gigaom.com zijn zich echter gaan afvragen wat de gemiddelde tabletconsument als een aanvaardbare prijs beschouwt. En die ligt ergens tussen 351 en 524 dollar (250 en 374 euro).
Android. Tablet dossiers & searches. Xoom. Ipad. The Invisible OLED Laptop to End All Laptops. Color Coming to E-Ink Devices in 2011. Chinese company Hanvon Technology is set to unveil the first full-color tablet using e-ink technology, at the FPD International 2010 trade show in Tokyo Tuesday. The e-ink tablet has a 9.68-inch color touchscreen with built-in Wi-Fi and 3G connectivity. It will be available for $440 in China this March — about $150 less than the cost of a 16GB, Wi-Fi-only iPad in China. With a 78% share of the market, Hanvon is the most popular maker of e-readers in China.
Black-and-white e-ink is currently used in the displays of 90% of e-readers, such as Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Nobles's Nook, according to The New York Times. After the success of Apple's iPad as an e-reading device and Barnes & Nobles's recent announcement that the second-generation Nook would use a color LCD screen (rather than black-and-white e-ink), it seemed the days of colorless e-ink devices might be numbered. Neither Amazon nor Sony have confirmed that e-readers with color e-ink are in the works. Dazzling Dual-Core Phones and Tablets. Steady improvements in performance are a given in the computing industry, but sometimes there’s a big leap forward.
One occurred in the world of mobile computing last week, when the first smart phones and tablet computers with dual-core processors were unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The show-stealing Xoom tablet from Motorola, and also phones and tablets from Acer, HTC, and LG, all debuted with a new dual-core processor made by chip maker Nvidia. Competing microprocessor companies Marvell and Freescale Semiconductor also make dual-core chips for such devices. A processor’s core is the crucial component that receives and executes instructions. A single-core processor can execute only one instruction at a time, while a chip with multiple cores can process more instructions at once.
A multicore chip offers advantages over a single-core chip running at a faster speed (measured as frequency). Related to Google. RIM expected to ship 1 million BlackBerry Playbook?s in first quarter. 14 January '11, 10:19am Follow Digitimes, the Chinese trade publication capable of drawing comments from every industry source close to the worlds largest smartphone manufacturers, is at it again suggesting that RIM will ship more than one million of its BlackBerry Playbook tablets in the first quarter of 2011. It suggests that shipments could mirror those of Motorola, when it launches its Xoom tablet. Reports suggest that the company has already placed 800,000 orders for its Android 3.0-powered device.
RIM’s BlackBerry Playbook will debut in March, initially launching with a Wi-Fi-only model before it starts shipping a 3G-enabled tablet in the second quarter. The BlackBerry Playbook was unveiled at the company’s DevCon Conference back in September and was quickly lauded for its ability to support open frameworks and numerous web technologies. Kindle Wireless Reading Device, Wi-Fi, Graphite, 6" Display with New E Ink Pearl Technology: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store. I already have the original Kindle with the keyboard and have been extremely pleased with it. As soon as I saw this smaller, lighter version of the Kindle I thought I would get it to carry around with me when I go to work and in my handbag. It has the same functionality that is available on the original Kindle, it just doesn't have a physical keyboard.
If like me you didn't use the keyboard much then it is worth losing it to gain a smaller reading device. There is an on-screen keyboard available for inputting data which is controlled by the four way selector button. This Kindle is significantly smaller in size and lighter in weight than the older version. The front of the Kindle has the four way controller button which is used for much of the functionality and making selections.
On the right and left hand side of the Kindle you have the forward and backward buttons that allow you to change pages. The battery life is also lower than the original Kindle.
CES: Next Year's Touchscreens Will Go Right to the Edge (Almost) For all their fashionable desirability, the sleek new tablets and countless other touchscreen devices unveiled at CES last week could still be easier on the eye. Cutting down the blocky black bezels that surround their strokable panels is one obvious strategy, but it’s one that designers have not been totally free to pursue. That’s about to change, though, says materials firm 3M, which predicts that next year’s tablets will have screens that run much closer to their edges. A touchscreen has a transparent conducting mesh beneath its surface that detects changes in capacitance when your finger nears. At the screen’s edges that mesh links to circuits that collect those signals for processing, and the space those circuits need is one of the limits on bezel size. 3M now says it has found a way to shrink them, by using silver rather than Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) to trace out both the honeycomb mesh behind the screen, and the electrodes at the panel’s edge.
NOOKcolor - The Ultimate Reading Experience - Barnes & Noble. Nook Color eBook Reader | Tech Reviews. Dressed for the kill, it’s the Barnes and Noble’s new eBook reader, known as Nook Color. A few weeks back, I did submit a preview of this product, and I have to say that I didn’t have any high expectations back then. However, I was wrong in believing so because this eBook reader is definitely worth your 2 dimes.
First of all, Barnes and Noble had to try hard in the eBook reader market. There was Amazon with its Kindle series already out there and it was doing pretty good. Customers, on the other hand, usually have a herd mentality. If someone goes for a product and bellows out positive feedback concerning it, everyone seems to follow the trend. The device was good, but people already had access to the Amazon Kindle lineup, so no one bothered to give two hoots about it. Top it off with a VividView Technology, which is something that Barnes and Noble recently came up with. There are tons of other features in this electronic book reader.
More WebOS Rumors: What We Know So Far - PCWorld. The leaked details on HP and Palm's WebOS tablet keep on coming, though HP has said we haven't seen everything yet. Engadget has received a couple more tips since its initial report, which included product renderings and a possible September launch window for the WebOS tablet. Now, Engadget says that the first tablet could launch in March, and has received a consumer survey that hints at more features. You know what this means. It's time to take inventory of everything we know (or think we know) about the WebOS tablet in handy list form! And then, when HP holds its WebOS event on February 9, we can revisit this list and see how many rumors were right, how many were on the right track, and how many were completely off the mark. Here goes: · We know for sure that HP is releasing a tablet, and the company has confirmed that it will have more details on February 9. · HP may be planning two tablets.
. · Conflicting rumors: One of these tablets, probably the larger Topaz, could ship in March.