Showing posts with label Tablet pc's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tablet pc's. Show all posts

Google Nexus 7 On Sale In UK | Specification | Price | Review



Acer Iconia Tab A110 and A210 Review | Specifications | Price

Acer didn’t only bring Windows 8 slates to Computex 2012, but also some Android 4.0 models, that didn’t get as much screen time as the other models. I’m talking about the new Acer Iconia Tab A210 and Acer Iconia Tab A110, both based on the quad core Tegra 3 CPU and Android 4.0. They didn’t even get a press release, sadly…


Acer launches super-thin, Thunderbolt-equipped Aspire S5 | Specification | Price | Review



Acer is stepping up its game in the Ultrabook market with an updated version of their S3 model as well as an all-new Aspire S5 that’s being touted as the thinnest Ultrabook currently available.

RIM 16GB BlackBerry PlayBook Tablet | Review




Like most companies, Canadian based Research In Motion saw the tablet market as a new opportunity for growth, launching a series of PlayBook tablets.

Amazon Kindle Fire Sales Take Drastic Tumble In Q1 2012

Kindle Fire

Amazon managed to sell 4.8 million tablets in Q4 2011 thanks in large part to its massive marketing campaign and the holiday shopping season, now the company has announced a drastic fall in Kindle Fire sales, racking up just 750,000 similar sales in Q1 2012.

When comparing overall market sales Amazon slipped from a 16.8 percent market share in Q4 2011 to just a 4 percent market share during the most recently reported quarter. In comparison Apple’s Q4 market share rose from 54.7 percent to 68 percent thanks to the strength of 11.8 million iPad sales.

For Amazon a slip in Amazon Kindle Fire sales is bad news, the company already sells the tablets as a loss-leader, recuperating money through the sale of digital goods found inside the Amazon marketplace. The company also has a lot invested in the tablet market as it continues to shift its attention further away from traditional e-Readers, which will always share a place on Amazon shelves, to the more robust usability of Google Android based devices.

Amazon isn’t the only Android based tablet manufacturer who saw losses, apparently the downward trend in Android based tablets was witnessed by almost all manufacturers following the end of the Q4 selling season. Analysts believe that Apple’s choice to keep the lower priced iPad 2 on the market after the new iPad arrived in March has helped the company attract more buyers, while its efforts to align with educational facilities is greatly improving sales numbers.

Following in Amazon’s declining sales Samsung has reclaimed the number two sales spot int he tablet market while Lenovo and Barne & Noble Nook tablets round out the top five.

In the meantime Amazon is expected to launch a new 10-inch tablet in 2012.

Logitech’s Solar Powered iPad Keyboard Folio



Logitech is well known for their peripheral devices and today, the company brings its latest offering for the iPad.

Intel’s First Mobile Phone is Xolo X900


It’s not unusual to see companies expand their offerings to see if they can generate new revenue streams.

9 Must-Download Apps for Drivers, Commuters and Buyers of High-Priced Gas

Gas prices are rising. It’s impossible to escape traffic. And suddenly your car feels like a prison cell instead of the liberating vehicle it was when you first sat in a driver’s seat.

Samsung Delays Galaxy Tab 2 Release



If you’re interested in buying a new Android tablet, you might have known that Samsung was planning on releasing a pair of tablets last month.

$50 Android Powered Eser Tablet

Let’s face it, who doesn’t like a good deal. Cheap and discounted gadgets are always gobbled up quickly and if they are quality products, so much the better.

ViewSonic ViewPad 10e



“It isn’t about ice cream sandwich and quad core processor. Consumers are crying out for affordable tablets to go alongside the iPad and its rivals, and we’re gradually seeing the quality of these cheaper offerings improve as the technology matures.

Fujitsu Prepares High End Smartphones For European Market


Within the United States and Europe, Fujitsu is not a name that one commonly thinks of when they think of high end mobile phones. However, as we approach the 2012 edition of the Mobile World Congress that will take place in Barcelona, Spain, it would seem that Fujitsu is getting ready to showcase new phones that will be launched within Europe.

Barnes And Noble Nook Tablet Arrives Feb 22nd



At one time, Amazon and Barnes & Noble were heated rivals, each trying to outdo the other with new product releases. However, over the fall of 2011, Amazon certainly saw considerable success with their new tablet, the Amazon Kindle Fire.

PlayBook 2.0 OS Update Expected This Month



Customers that own a RIM tablet may have been wondering just when the Waterloo company was planning on updating their device to PlayBook 2.0 OS.
 Although RIM has never provided an exact date regarding this update, they have renewed their commitment to customers that this update will occur before the month is out.

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Review



The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim –  Need an adventure game to fulfill all your imagination in exploring an unknown land in somewhere that you do not know very well? Or do you want to slay dragons with your great sword? Maybe this The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim is an answer for your adventure need.

Toshiba's new tablet is as sleek as an Apple

For Apple-watchers, it’s that time of year again. Rumours about the shape and size of iPad 3 are pouring out of Apple’s Chinese factories almost as fast as the revelations that few of the workers there (the source of said rumours) have ever seen the finished product.
My own network of spies informs me that cases for the new tablet look eerily similar to cases for the last one, ie, I can reveal that it’s still a screen, and still very slim. 

 Toshiba's AT200 runs on Android's 3.2 Honeycomb OS and has a 1280x 800-pixel LED backlit display, 1.2GHz TI OMAP 4430 processor, 1GB of RAM, and 16GB or 32GB internal storage,Battery life is eight hours


I remain firm in the belief that tablets will eventually become so thin that they’ll vanish altogether and people will just be followed around by a glowing Apple logo.
Unusually, Toshiba is leading the charge on this. Its AT200 is just 7.7mm thick – basically, a piece of glass with electronics spread on the back like butter on toast. 


To hold, though, it’s less alarming than iPad 2, which is so thin it feels like you’re passing some kind of sword around the living room – a very fragile, expensive sword. Toshiba’s slab isn’t tapered at the edge, so it feels less likely to slice the space-time continuum. 


The machine, on sale this week, beats iPad 2 with a 1280x800 pixel resolution, and refreshes all the other parts Apple doesn’t reach – ie, it does play Flash videos, has a micro USB slot, and it can plug direct into an HDTV. 


But with Android fans embroiled in a geek love affair with Samsung, will they defect from the Galaxy 10.1 for a near-identical Android slab that says ‘Toshiba’ on it? And will anyone buy any tablets until iPad 3 is announced?
I await with interest the latest news, fresh from people who glue chips onto motherboards in Asian factories.

£400, toshiba.co.uk

Asus N43SL-DH51 | Specification | Price | Review


Asus N43SL-DH51 – If you are an Asus fans and also gamer too, laptop gaming from Asus would not be something strange in your ears since it is very popular in gamer ears around the world. Now Asus has released their newer laptop called Asus N43SL-DH51. This Asus N43SL-DH51 is also known as Jay Chou Special edition laptop. Why is it called so? Because Asus has a partnership with a Taiwanese superstar Jay Chou. If you are an American audiences, you might known him as “Kato” in last year’s The Green Hornet, that was his best known movie in America. Jay Chou got his billing payment as the inspiration of the Asus N43SL-DH51. Well, if you are a skeptical person, you should know that this Asus N43SL-DH51 is more than its beauty and pretty appearances. Asus N43SL-DH51 offering an Intel Core i5 processor with Nvidia graphics, and a Blu-ray/DVD combo drive, what are you thinking about now people? The whole package of this Asus N43SL-DH51 offers a lot of good hardware in a great and good looking package.

Asus N43SL-DH51′s design is unique for sure, especially its front cover lid. Asus N43SL-DH51 uses a burnished black plastic and it is etched with a gold-painted scrolling medallion design, kungfu typical sign if you are watching those kungfu movies from China. You can also find a sheet music from Jay Chou’s own music (well, he is actually also famous as a singer too in Taiwan beside as an actor), and also you will get the original Jay Chou’s signature.

You will find something interesting too on the tile keyboard of this Asus N43SL-DH51. The J-key is having a different letter formaat and it is lettered with a Baroque-style letter J. Asus N43SL-DH51 uses a 14-inch widescreen display with its 1366 x 768 resolution. You can take this Jay Chou laptop by paying US$969.99.

Meet Windows on ARM, Microsoft’s New Tablet Platform


Microsoft has good news for mobile users: the next version of Windows will indeed run full-sized desktop applications on low-power-optimized ARM-based tablets for use with a desktop and mouse. But Windows on ARM comes with caveats for users and developers. The only desktop applications approved to appear on ARM devices will be those built by Microsoft: Internet Explorer, Office, the desktop and file explorer, and other elements of Windows itself.
In an 8,600-word blog post published Thursday, Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky, president of the Windows division, offers new information about how Windows on ARM, or “WOA,” devices will work. Sinofsky positions WOA as “a new member of the Windows family, much like Windows Server, Windows Embedded, or Windows Phone” — both like and unlike Windows 8 running on a traditional x86/64 desktop processor.
Some things work in the same way across both platforms, but others will be quite different.
While Windows 8 for x86/64 will be released in a public beta/consumer preview at the end of the month, WOA is still only being tested by developers on experimental trial devices. The two versions will be finalized “around the same time,” writes Sinofsky, but there’s no guarantee that they both will arrive on the same date.
“Our collective goal is for PC makers to ship them the same time as PCs designed for Windows 8 on x86/64,” Sinofsky writes. But considering that WOA demands much more significant integration of hardware and software, WOA devices themselves will almost certainly arrive some time later than new PCs running Windows 8 for x86/64.
“It is a good bet that the first devices will not be WOA,” IDC analyst Al Hilwa writes in an e-mail. “In fact, we may see Intel or AMD tablets before WOA tablets.”
In fact, overwhelmingly, Sinofsky does not refer to “Windows 8 for ARM” or “the WOA version of Windows 8,” but simply calls it “WOA.” “Windows 8,” meanwhile, is either referred to specifically as “Windows 8 for x86/64,” or context makes it clear that various “Windows 8″ references speak only to Windows running on x86/64.
In some ways, it’s been a mistake to say that Windows 8 will run on both Intel/AMD and ARM processors. Following Sinofsky’s post, it now appears more accurate to say there will be two new versions of Windows for PCs and tablets — one for Intel/AMD, and another for ARM.
Or, following Sinofsky’s metaphor of family relationships, if Windows Server is an older sibling and Windows Phone a first cousin, Windows 8 and WOA are fraternal twins.

A unified experience from “Start” to “Store”

Still, Microsoft’s goal is for most elements of Windows on ARM to be consistent with Windows 8 and earlier versions of Windows. “Using WOA ‘out of the box’ will feel just like using Windows 8 on x86/64,” Sinofsky writes. “You will sign in the same way. You will start and launch apps the same way. You will use the new Windows Store the same way.” And both versions of Windows will support the same range of peripherals.
The Windows Store element is important because it offers another major point of commonality among platforms. The only applications guaranteed to run on both Windows 8 and WOA will be “Metro-style apps” distributed and updated through the Windows Store.
But what about recompiling x86 desktop applications to run on ARM-based tablets? Sinofsky says no. “WOA does not support running, emulating, or porting existing x86/64 desktop apps,” he writes. It’s a sentence that developers of older software for Windows have anticipated for months. But it still must feel like a kick to the chest.
And what about sideloading applications, whether they’re new Metro apps or ports from x86? Again, no. “Consumers obtain all software, including device drivers, through the Windows Store and Microsoft Update or Windows Update,” Sinofsky adds.
Even running x86 or alternate applications in a virtual machine, Sinofsky later explains, would consume too many resources for WOA’s low-power-optimized devices. No virtualization of any kind is supported for WOA.
If we enabled the broad porting of existing code we would fail to deliver on our commitment to longer battery life, predictable performance, and especially a reliable experience over time… By avoiding these constructs, WOA can deliver on a new level of customer satisfaction: your WOA PC will continue to perform well over time as apps are isolated from the system and each other, and you will remain in control of what additional software is running on your behalf, all while letting the capabilities of diverse hardware shine through.
“If you need to run existing x86/64 software,” Sinofsky adds, “then you will be best served with Windows 8 on x86/64. If you’re already considering a non-Windows device, then we think WOA will be an even better alternative.”
Indeed, while you may log into WOA in a Windows-familiar fashion, this won’t be your father’s version of Windows. Forget installation discs and the .exe extension. Barbed-wire fences have come to the old prairie.

Microsoft applications for Windows on ARM

In terms of its own applications, Microsoft is offering two different kinds of continuity between Windows 8 and Windows on ARM. The first is a broad class of applications that will work on both platforms. The second is a small but important set of applications specifically developed by Microsoft for WOA machines that look and feel like traditional Windows desktop apps.
The first group is comprised of core “Metro style” apps (for our purposes here, read “Metro style” as “tablet”). These apps will support mail, calendaring, contacts, photos, storage and web browsing. These will work on both Windows 8 and WOA machines.
Here, the continuity runs from the tablet to the desktop. You can use the exact same apps on both devices, but will be limited to apps built and optimized primarily for use on tablets and other ARM machines. In short, you can take any app that runs on a WOA device and run it on a Windows 8 PC.
WOA machines, however, will not support “desktop” versions of these applications — i.e., versions whose look and feel are optimized for a keyboard and mouse and the traditional file-folder Windows visual style. This is the second group of apps, the second kind of continuity. And these apps will be Microsoft’s own.
Indeed, only a small number of core Microsoft applications and system utilities will support a “desktop mode.” Examples include:
  • Windows Explorer, for copying or browsing files in the file system;
  • running programs in the command shell;
  • making system adjustements in the control panel;
  • browsing the Internet and using HTML5 web applications (including hardware-accelerated versions) in Internet Explorer;
  • and finally, Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote in the new Office 15.
Parsing further, for these desktop-capable WOA applications, we can break them into two categories:
  1. on one hand, system utilities for power users that allow for greater control over their machines and the capability to peek behind the scenes of the OS;
  2. and on the other, franchise Microsoft applications that, while capable of being rewritten for touch, are really still most likely to be most valuable in situations where users have a mouse and keyboard.

Defining a standard experience on nonstandard devices

Note: Here I’m thankful to AllThingsD’s Ina Fried, whose “Highlights From Sinofsky’s 8,600-Word Opus” helped call some of these to my attention.
  1. “You don’t turn off a WOA PC.” Whoa. There’s no “sleep” or “hibernate” mode, either. Pressing the power button or allowing the device to shut itself off puts it in a low-power, quick-start state, where defined background processes continue to run. Microsoft calls this low-power state “Connected Standby.” It’s similar to what we’ve seen on mobile phones. (In fact, as Sinofsky notes, early builds of WOA were tested on phones, as they were the only ARM machines available.) But the new WOA model is quite different from anything we’ve seen on previous Windows PCs or are likely to see in Windows 8, which doesn’t offer the same kind of integrated power management. “For end-users,” Sinofsky adds, “a unique capability of WOA is that you are in control of what programs have access to background execution so that those apps are always connected, and information like new mail is always up to date.”
  2. PCs running WOA “will be built on unique and innovative hardware platforms provided by Nvidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments.” That’s the big three in ARM silicon, and it’s just a fraction of the total ARM licensees. ARM manufacturers not participating in WOA development include Marvell, Sony and Samsung. Plus Intel and Apple — although you probably already guessed that.
  3. “Windows 8 will run on every Windows 7 logo PC.” But Windows On Arm clearly won’t. In fact, there will be no single master or vanilla version of WOA, nor will a version of WOA designed for one machine necessarily work on any other. “End-users are technically restricted from installing a different OS (or OS version) on a device or extending the OS,” Sinofsky writes, describing the very different ARM design and platform philosophy.
Microsoft doesn’t want to be the sole manufacturer of all WOA devices, like Apple is for iOS. But Microsoft also doesn’t want to cede as much control to device manufacturers as Google has with Android. So, just as with Windows Phone, Microsoft is trying to split the difference. It may have to tailor each version of WOA to individual devices, but by requiring that manufacturers standardize those devices to certain chassis specifications, it keeps that process manageable. Every version of WOA can be more or less identical, and every app in the Windows Store will work on every WOA machine.
But make no mistake, we’re not talking about phones here. This is the personal computer business. Even post-Ice Cream Sandwich, there really isn’t a rich, competitive operating system for tablets and cloudbooks just hanging out there for anyone to use. At least, not anything offering the range and scope of Windows.

Conclusions

In short, with Windows on ARM, Microsoft is asserting an unprecedented degree of control over a major computing platform — only Apple has tighter reigns on its software ecosystem. That’s a difficult comparison, though, because with iOS, Apple makes only a handful of devices, and manufacturers all of them itself.
Microsoft, meanwhile, supports a huge range of devices, and works with three chipset manufacturers and many more hardware partners, where it sets the standard for the hardware specifications of those devices, pushes them to be compatible with an even wider range of peripherals, and approves all of the software that can be installed on those devices.
Chips, chassis, applications and peripherals. Add the operating system, and that’s everything.
In return, Microsoft is promising greater security and reliability, plus an unusual degree of capability in a low-power, “post-PC” device. But the “no-compromise” machine also calls for compromises everywhere by the people who make and use it. That’s the bargain being struck by everyone involved, from silicon partners to end users.
By holding on to desktop compatibility and multiple OEMs, Microsoft may be clinging to a PC model that’s being overwhelmed in Apple and Google’s post-PC onslaught. Then again, maybe this is what the post-PC, post-Wintel world looks like. When Windows 8′s fraternal twin hits the market, we’ll have a chance to find out.

Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga | Price | Review



Our love for Lenovo’s hybrid laptop/tablet hinges on, well, its hinge. Masquerading as a standard Ultrabook at 1.47kg and and 17mm thick, the Yoga aims to do for the touch-tastic Windows 8 what the Asus Transformer series did for Android, with a gorgeous 13.1 in 1699 x 900 touchscreen that twirls and flips to turn the Yoga into a powerful (if bulky) tablet.

The ‘tent’ and the ‘Stand’ modes  are good for the movies but with a proper keyboard, USB 3.0 and HDMI ports, the Yoga gets the workaholics get their fix, too. No touchscreen typing,  no net book-style compromise – this is a gadget that will literally bend over backwards for you.

Price : $1100

Gigabyte - GSmart G1345



Gigabyte - GSmart G1345 Full Specification


General
Text / Multimedia
Data
More Features
2G Network - GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 SIM 1
3G Network - HSDPA 900 / 2100 _ SIM 1 Only | HSDPA 850 / 2100 SIM 1 Only
Dimension - 120 x 62.5 x 13.9 mm
Weight - 123.3 Grams
Form Factor - Bar
Display Type - TFT Capacitive Touchscreen | 256K Colors
Display Size - 320 x 480 Pixels | 3.5 Inches (~165 Ppi Pixel Density)
Dual / Multi SIM - YES
Colors Available - Black
Alert Type - Vibration + MP3 + WAV Ringtones
3.5 mm Audio Jack - YES
Phone Book - Almost Unlimited Entries | Photocall
Call Records - Almost Unlimited
Internal Memory - 512 MB RAM | 512 MB ROM
Card Slot - MicroSD | Maximum 32GB
Touch Screen - YES
Games - YES
Message - SMS | MMS | Email
Primary Camera - 5 MP | 2592?1944 Pixels | Autofocus | LED Flash
Video - YES
GPRS - YES
EDGE - YES
3G - HSDPA
WLAN - Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g | Wi-Fi Hotspot
Browser - HTML
Bluetooth - YES | V2.1 + A2DP | EDR
USB - YES | MicroUSB Ver.2.0
OS - Android OS | Ver.2.3 (Gingerbread)
CPU - 800 MHz Processor | Qualcomm MSM7227T Chipset
GPS - YES | A-GPS Support
JAVA - YES | Via Java MIDP Emulator
Battery - Li-Ion 1500 mAh
Stand By - Up to 115 Hrs
Talktime - Up to 4 hrs 30 Min
More Feature - Dual SIM (no Dual Stand | By) | SNS Applications | Digital Compass | MP3 | AAC+ Player | MP4 | H.264 | H.263 Player | Google Search | Maps | Gmail | | YouTube | Google Talk | Document Viewer | Photo Viewer | Editor | Organizer