Tablets of the Mobile World Congress [PICS] Going to the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, we knew that one of the hot topics will be tablets. What we didn't know, however, is that many of those would be unnamed, non-descript machines, running many oh-so-similar, yet different versions of Android, ranging from Android Froyo (2.2) with a couple of modified variants, several flavors of Gingerbread (2.3 - 2.4) and finally Honeycomb or Android 3.0, the only version of Android that's officially designed for use on tablets. Don't get us wrong, many of the Android tablets we've seen are very capable and quite usable, but the differences in software can get annoying after you've tried the first three. Based on visuals alone, we would be hard pressed to choose any of these. Still, the subtle differences in style can make the difference for those who care about looks.
Dossier: Tablets Tablets, zij die er reeds eentje hebben kunnen niet meer zonder, anderen zien er dan weer het nut niet van in. Eén ding staat vast: er zullen er steeds meer bijkomen. Sinds de lancering van de iPad zijn ze aan een enorme opmars bezig, het lijkt erop dat iedere fabrikant met eentje naar buiten komt. Maar waar moet je nu op letten bij aankoop van een tablet? En zijn er al goede tablets op de markt of is het nog te vroeg? Tablets, ook gekend als slates, zijn mini-pc’s die bediend worden via een touch-screen. Voorbeelden van de meest voorkomende SoC’s: Nvidia Tegra 2 CPU: ARM Cortex A9 (dual-core, 1GHz) GPU: Ultra Low Power GeForce Intel Oaktrail CPU: Atom GPU: Intel AMD Fusion CPU: Single –of Dualcore AMD cpu GPU: Mobility Radeon HD6xxx Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8260 CPU: Dual-Core Scorpion GPU: Adreno 220 Apple A4 CPU: ARM Cortex A8 (single-core, 1GHz) GPU: PowerVR SGX 535 Touchscreens Bij tablets zijn er 2 soorten touchscreens: capacitieve en resistieve.
Current Crop of Tablets: The iPad, Motorola Xoom, and Others Compared You know, this is a very biased, bullshit comparison chart if I have ever seen one. Who the hell are Skatter Tech, and why is LifeHacker posting their bogus ass, highly uninformed, lop-sided comparison chart? Technically, it's not so much an honest comparison chart as it is a marketing ad for the Motorola Xoom. Why are they (Skatter Tech) comparing unreleased products (Moto Xoom, Blackberry Playbook) against products that are already on the market (every other tab on the list). With WMC just days away, and HP expected to show off their Palm tablets there, and both Apple and HTC probably weeks away from showing off iPad 2 and HTC's new tablets, this chart looks more like BS, as it's deliberately thrown together so as to not represent the full breadth of tablet competition coming to the market in the coming weeks.
Tablet Hands-On Roundup - AnandTech :: Your Source for Hardware Analysis and News 2011 is the Year of the Tablet. With all due respect to the rabbit, who would have otherwise been assigned to this year, I think the tablet has earned the right of representing 2011. If you followed CES at all this year, you’d know why. I decided pretty early on that I would make a huge post with all the tablets we looked at instead of posting each one individually, simply because the sheer number of tablets on the show floor meant that I would have taken over AnandTech’s front page with tablet-related posts. It would have been impossible to cover all the new tablets, but I think we managed to get our hands on most of the high profile tablets in addition to some of the more promising new tablets out there. Everyone, it seemed, was debuting a new tablet. But they weren’t the only ones.
A Real Tablet has a Stylus 2011 may be the year of the tablet, but as a segment it's still painfully immature. Our hands-on with ASUS' Eee Slate EP121 last week triggered the usual arguments, dismissing the 12.1-inch tablet out of hand because of its perceived "old" technology. Admittedly, there are plenty of points where the EP121 could fall short: ASUS reckon users will see up to 8hrs runtime, which seems hopelessly ambitious for a relatively slimline slate with a Core i5 processor, and the display was frustratingly glossy. Still, the dual-mode hybrid touchscreen is its crowning glory for those who understand that there's more to a stylus than most - Steve Jobs included - would have you believe. While the EP121 will happily let you stab at Windows 7 with your finger - or two, since capacitive multitouch is supported - it'll also let you whip out the included active stylus and get far more precise. Microsoft isn't helping things with software, either.
HANDS ON: 10 New Tablets Ready to Challenge the iPad [VIDEOS] One of the standout trends of CES 2011 was the tablet. No fewer than 80 tablets were on display from manufacturers from across the globe, each hoping to take a piece of the growing market, led by the iPad. Most of the tablets, unsurprisingly, were running Android. With details of Android 3.0 Honeycomb just starting to eke out in earnest at the show, most tablet makers were instead running customized versions of Android 2.2 or 2.3. We've compiled a video gallery of some of our favorite tablets from the floors and hotel suites at CES. The first Android 3.0-based tablet, the Motorola Xoom, was one of the big stars of CES, and we can't wait to see it do more than running demos. One of our surprise favorites of CES 2011 was the ASUS Eee Transformer. 2011 is going to be a great year for tablets — Android or otherwise — and we look forward to watching these devices come to market and seeing what other surprises are in store for us from other manufacturers.