Wake Up! Ballmer Is Driving Microsoft off the Cliff! Top Marks For Microsoft's Surface Tablet, So Far. Amazon's Ad-Supported Tablet: What Took So Long? Here’s why tablets (yes, tablets!) will replace the smartphone — Mobile Technology News. How Microsoft Surface Stacks Up Against Its Tablet Competition. Surface will change your expectations of what you can do with your tablet.
First and foremost, you are no longer buying into a dedicated mobile OS and its corresponding app ecosystem. Instead, you’ll be able to buy one app and use it on both a tablet and a Windows 8 laptop or desktop PC. Opinion: Why Apple can’t sustain tablet dominance. Amazon Planning 5 or 6 New Tablets [REPORT] The 7-Inch iPad's Biggest Critic: Steve Jobs - Ina Fried - Mobile. With Apple said to be close to ramping up production of a 7-inch iPad, it’s worth recalling one of the biggest critics of such tablets.
Steve Jobs, the late Apple CEO, famously ranted against the opportunity for such products during an October 2010 earnings conference call. During that call, Jobs talked about how such tablets offered just a fraction of the screen size as a 10-inch tablet, while not offering a significant boost over the smartphone that most tablet buyers were already carrying. Apple could easily argue that advanced screen technology now allows the amount of pixels in the iPad to show up in a smaller-screen device.
But Jobs also foresaw that advancement, and indicated that an increase in pixel density alone wouldn’t justify a smaller tablet. Nexus 7 vs. Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet: $200 tablet showdown. Opinion: Google, Microsoft, Apple suit up for tablet World War III. The iPad is the current gold standard in tablets, but it is flawed.
All products are, which is why we go back and buy newer versions. Survey: iPad of most interest to tablet buyers, while Kindle Fire fades. India’s $35 Aakash tablet to get hardware upgrade as well as Android 4.0. India’s much-touted Aakash device is getting an upgrade – Ice Cream Sandwhich is coming to the $35 Android tablet along with some hardware improvements.
UK-based Datawind is the company responsible for the cheap tablets. The Indian government quickly took to the possibilities of providing cheap computing devices to many students across the country and agreed to subsidize the tablet from its full price of $45 to $35. The original Aakash device came with Android 2.2, a 7-inch touchscreen and a arm-based 366MHz processor. Datawind CEO, Suneet Singh Tuli told IDG News that product deliveries for the next-generation Aakash tablet will commence in a couple of weeks. The Aakash 2 will be shipped with Gingerbread; however, in about 6 to 8 weeks the tablet will be Android 4.0 upgradeable. Student Vote Could Give Apple the Edge in Classroom Computing Race - John Paczkowski.
In the battle for the education market, who will be the victor — Apple’s iPad or Google’s Chromebook?
An interesting question, and while it’s far too early for a definitive answer, there are some early indications of which way things are headed. Research outfit Piper Jaffray recently surveyed a small group of public-school IT managers (18) about their mobile device deployments and found 78 percent to be testing iPads and/or Chromebooks (6 percent said they were testing Android tablets). Tablets Are a Dream Come True for Retailers. Since tablets have burst into the ecommerce space in the last few years, they've drastically altered the online shopping experience.
That's a good thing for retailers. Tablet users prefer to use tablets at home, an environment where they're more likely to buy. This Milo infographic breaks down the trends in tablet use and retail. According to an eMarketer report, tablets will be adopted even more quickly in the U.S. than smartphones. By 2014, more than one-third of U.S. Tablet computers: Difference engine: The empire strikes back. 6 features that make Windows 8 a tablet contender — Mobile Technology News. BlackBerry PlayBook 2.0 feature breakdown: Can RIM save its forsaken tablet? 221285920. Opinion: Will Windows on ARM challenge the iPad where Android has failed? WOA sounds like what you might tell a horse when you want it to stop, but it’s also the working acronym for Windows on ARM, which Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky recently detailed in a revealing blog post.
I’m clearly going to have some fun with the acronym, but the new details of the operating system have some pretty heavy implications, too.There really are some little nuggets in Steven’s Blog post that suggest this could be a game changer on a lot of fronts.It might even make tablets as we know them obsolete.
Review: Transformer Prime; best Android tablet yet — Mobile Technology News. Amazon ad pokes fun at cost of Apple’s iPad. Kindle Fire edges Galaxy Tab as most used Android tablet. The Kindle Fire in just a couple months has barely edged passed the Samsung Galaxy Tab as the most used Android tablet with 35.7 percent of application user sessions, according to analytics firm Flurry.
This is despite the fact that the Kindle Fire only hit the market in mid-November. The numbers, which are pulled from application sessions among all Android tablets, compare usage in November and January. China Releases a Tablet Just For Communists. It's the tech device communists have been waiting for — the 9.7-inch tall Android 3.2 tablet, China's alternative to the Apple iPad, called RedPad Number One.
The device launched recently in China. Why the iPad Works For Productivity. When the iPad first launched two years ago, it was derided by some for its limitations.
The first iteration didn't even have a camera on it, and it may never get a physical keyboard, so the notion of the device being used for content creation was laughable. Instead, the iPad was seen as a tool best used to lean back and consume content. For the most part, that's how things have played out. People use their iPads for reading, watching video, listening to music and gaming.
Why the iPad Works For Productivity. When the iPad first launched two years ago, it was derided by some for its limitations. The first iteration didn't even have a camera on it, and it may never get a physical keyboard, so the notion of the device being used for content creation was laughable. Instead, the iPad was seen as a tool best used to lean back and consume content. For the most part, that's how things have played out.
People use their iPads for reading, watching video, listening to music and gaming. CES 2012: tablet roundup. Couldn't keep up with the 600+ posts we wrote covering CES 2012 in Las Vegas? We're here to help sift the wheat from the chaff, and if you're hoping to see the best of what CES had to offer in the world of tablets, you've come to the right place. As you can imagine, finding the best slate is much easier said than done, since it seemed as though nearly every major company brought a tablet in some shape, form or color. Second-gen Budget Tablet Unveiled in India. India’s government sponsored tablet, the Akash, has sold out less than one week after the device went on sale in the country online. The tablet, priced at just $45, gained considerable international attention when it was unveiled in October, primarily due its low price point which the Indian government hopes will provide a computing experience to more of the country’s population.
Report: Lenovo Prepping A Quad-Core LePad Tablet PC For Early 2012. Lenovo is reportedly working on a quad-core LePad (ThinkPad in other markets) tablet. This comes from a Digitimes report that credits upstream supply chain partners as the source. The news, if it’s true, is somewhat predictable as tablet makers move to dual-core CPU platforms. Lenovo has seen a fair amount of success in the tablet market thanks to its solid ThinkPad Android tablet. The Digitimes reports states that Lenovo has managed to steal a bit of market share from Apple, which is currently around 8.4% in Lenovo’s home market of China.
Here’s a $99 Android tablet you can buy right now, & it’s running Ice Cream Sandwich. Today, two little-known companies are releasing the very first publicly available Android tablet to run Ice Cream Sandwich, the highly anticipated mobile operating system from Google. While larger companies like Asus and Lenovo are still working to get their own “Ice Cream tablet” offerings to market, you can buy this tablet, the Novo7, online right now, and for a shockingly low $99, at that. The tablet, which comes from processor maker MIPS Technologies and CPU shop Ingenic Semiconductor, features a 7″ touchscreen and is powered by a 1GHz processor. It has front- and rear-facing cameras, supports WiFi connectivity, and features ports for USB 2.0, HDMI 1.3 and microSD.
For gamers and mediahounds, you’re looking at 3D graphics with the Vivante GC860 GPU and 1080p video decoding. MIPS swears up and down that it’s eliminated the correlation of low price to poor performance, stating that the battery life and graphics performance are up to snuff. Windows 8 tablets: Too late or is there still time? — Mobile Technology News. Apple's next-gen iPad to use new backlight design for HD screen. 7 November '11, 11:05am Follow. How The Kindle Fire Will Attack The iPad: Newsstand. Pearltrees for iPad is a Must-Have App. Pew: Tablet owners consume a crazy amount of news but they won’t pay for it.
A new Pew Research Center study shows that the behavior of tablet owners is changing significantly when it comes to consuming news, for good and bad. Several studies have already shown that tablets create a higher level of engagement than a desktop or laptop, most likely because of the physical interaction with content and media. Tablets Used 90 Minutes Per Day on Average [STUDY] How the enterprise is adopting tablets (infographic) Amazon Responds to Silk Privacy Concerns, Says Cloud Acceleration is Optional. Study: iPad users spend most time with news apps compared with other types. Mobile media stores: Apple vs. Amazon vs. Samsung — Mobile Technology News. How Amazon Got Fire (Comic) - Nitrozac and Snaggy - Voices. Why I’m high on Amazon’s Fire. It hasn’t been a week since Amazon let forth their torrent of news, dropping a new Kindle, the Kindle touch, and the Fire in one swooping event.
Our own Paul Sawers compared the pre-hype of the occasion to an Apple event. When all was said and done, his statement was proven to be accurate. The technology world was forced to sit back and digest for an entire day: What has Amazon truly built, and since when has a book shipper been relevant? It’s been real, as they say. Amazon’s new line of devices fill two roles. And thus the Kindle takes the market. There is much to discuss, its price, the iPad comparison, what it can do, the Microsoft threat, and more, and we will get to all of that shortly. Chew on that. Price. Motorola Xoom Family Edition pops up at retail sporting kid-friendly software. Now that Motorola's Xoom is ready to rock out on 4G LTE connections, the only thing missing from the original 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet is a nice suite of edutainment software... wait, what? India Builds $35 Tablet Computers. India lags behind many other countries in computer technology.
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