Showing posts with label Tablet. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tablet. Show all posts
Toys 'R' Us Children presents Tablet Tabeo
The Wi-Fi enabled tablet will bring flexible parental controls for Web browsing, the security profiles can be created for up to eight different users. Optionally, to up to 27 different content categories can block as well as individual pages or disabled pilot to be. 50 apps are pre-installed, including games, educational programs and e-books fairy tales. Likewise, a separate app store with child-friendly content are available with a choice of 7000 apps. The operating system Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich installed.
For hardware-based features of the 380 gram Tabeo According to the company include 4 GB of flash memory which can be expanded via a microSD slot, 1GB of RAM and a processor is an ARM Cortex-A8 processor with up to 1 GHz. The capacitive display has a resolution of 800 pixels, the 480th Until the launch already pre-orders are taken via the company's website counter. If the tablet comes in German stores is not yet known.
HP remains interested in the tablet market
Todd Bradley, head of the just-folded Printing and Personal Systems Group device manufacturer HP wants to set up in his area of responsibility, a new department that will take care of "consumer tablet" and to "further market segments and product categories", the one at HP's assessment "differentiated value for customers "offer. As the magazine TheVerge commented smugly, the thrust is almost exactly a year after HP has withdrawn its iPad competitor TouchPad off the market and sold off its remaining stock of the device, and soon after the group the underlying operating system WebOS as a Community Edition, the open source had issued community.
Head of the new department will be Alberto Torres, who had once directed the fortunes of the system at Nokia MeeGo. As under the new Nokia CEO Stephen Elop very hosted on Windows Phone, Torres took his leave with the Finns. We can now look forward to seeing how the new HP strategist will set the course for the consumer business of the Group. While HP's unannounced tablet business is rumored to focus on Windows 8, a Microsoft platform for future consumer devices under the aegis of Torres appears less obvious. Rather, one could imagine that HP will resurrect the remains of WebOS. Just a few days ago they had transferred this task to a newly formed, fully HP-Gram own company.
Toshiba says Windows Tablet on with ARM processor
Toshiba plans to bring but no tablet with ARM processor and Windows RT, the ARM version of Windows 8 on the market, reports the industry magazine EE Times. Instead, a tablet with x86 processors and Windows 8 would appear.
In the RT-abstinence from HP and Acer - at least Microsoft called a few days ago as a launch partner only Asus, Dell, Lenovo and Samsung - especially the dissatisfaction of the manufacturer with Microsoft's own RT-tablet surface are suspected. Toshiba calls but another reason: there is simply supply problems in some components.
Which components are said Toshiba, but a connection with the faltering 28-nm chip production suspected. Toshiba wanted to use TI's OMAP processors, Asus and Lenovo during a Nvidia Tegra, Dell and Samsung are using a Qualcomm Snapdragon. Qualcomm had bought recently additional production capacity for 28-nm processors.
Asus Android tablet Transformer with LTE will start in mid-August
LTE is also slowly going Tablets: Asus wants to be by mid-August Android tablet Transformer TF300 with an option to offer LTE. Is used a Qualcomm modem that is designed for the bands 800, 1800 and 2600 MHz, that are used by the German network operators. It achieved gross up to 100 Mbit / s in downlink. Away from the LTE-served areas to surf via UMTS with gross 42 Mbit / s (HSDPA +).
Asus demanded 530 euros for the LTE tablet, 30 € more than the UMTS variant. For 630 € you get it with docking station with USB connection and extended battery. So far, in Germany there is only one tablet with the fast data transmission, the Galaxy Tab 8.9.
Lenovo presents its first Windows 8 Tablet
Lenovo has unveiled its first Windows 8 Tablet: The ThinkPad Tablet 2 runs on an Intel processor should only weigh about 600 grams and come in October simultaneously with Windows 8 on the market. "More detailed information on the European market," Lenovo wants at 30 August announce at IFA. A prototype was seen in June at Computex.
According to Lenovo, the 10-inch tablet a USB host port and a HDMI output and is 9.8 millimeters thick. For an additional charge, the producer with a pen, with which one can draw and write (Windows has a handwriting recognition on board). UMTS, and a docking station are optional. There is also the predecessor with pen, UMTS and docking station, but it runs on Android and with an ARM processor.
The now-8-announced Windows Tablet, however, has an X86 chip from Intel, the expected dual-core Atom Clover Trail. Tablets with this system-on-chip are expected from several manufacturers, such as Acer and Dell. It will be exciting how fast Windows runs on the platform and whether the battery life is on par with the competitors with ARM CPU. The previous Intel Atom Tablet disappointed in these disciplines.
In addition, Lenovo has announced the U.S. prices for two ultra-known books that have been introduced several months ago: The ThinkPad X1 Carbon will cost at least 1,300 U.S. dollars, which is available from T430u ThinkPad 780 U.S. dollars. The price of the ThinkPad Tablets betrayed not the manufacturer.
Galaxy Note 10.1: Samsung's pen tablet available from 600 €
As accessories Samsung will later mitliefern a keyboard docking station, from start to want an extra battery, a small docking station (30 €), alternate pins and some bags and envelopes will be available. In addition, there are 50 € for a Bluetooth headset in stick form, which is also used as a pin.
The technical data of the first time at MWC in February, Samsung had updated equipment shown on Monday. The Galaxy 10.1 is an Android-touch tablet with stylus operation in addition to normal touch. The 10-inch display has a special digitizer layer, so that a pin comes with a thin plastic tip used. This can be exploited much more accurate than the capacitive pins with their thick, which otherwise are common in tablets and smartphones. Normal plastic pins around for resistive touch screens work but no, it must be the special pen from Samsung.
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