Alternative Choices to the iPad

When Apple first released its iPad tablet computer a couple of years ago there were plenty of people who were quick to dismiss it as not really being relevant. Since then, however, it has gone on to become a massive bestseller and, as a result, all of the other manufacturers have gone out of their way to come up with an iPad killer of their own. While that means rich pickings for people who don’t want to go down the Apple route, deciding on the right model can be tricky…


The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 stands up as one of the main rivals to the Apple iPad and once you explore its inner workings, you soon find that this is a tablet that has star quality. The build, design and performance are all well up there in the high-end tablet stakes, while thanks to Android as an operating system you can supplement the built-in features with lots of apps too.

The Motorola Xoom 2 is an updated new tablet and continues on from where the old one left off. It’s got a 10.1-inch screen and also has the added advantage of MotoCast, which is a way of streaming video to the device. There are also plenty of options for music playback and the customised Android interface is quick and easy to use. Better than the first version, and keenly priced too.

The Asus Eee Transformer has been around for a while, but it doesn’t lose its appeal simply because this is a little bit different. You get a detachable keyboard, so it becomes almost like a traditional laptop. You can use the touchscreen if you prefer, but people who don’t get on with virtual keyboards will love it.

The HTC Flyer is an expensive bit of kit, but this Android-running tablet is certainly up there with the best of them. It looks really nice, rather like a bumper version of the one of the HTC smartphones. Meanwhile, the customised interface is as pleasing to look at and use as the Sense UI is on their handsets. Shop around though, rather than pay full price.

The Acer Ionia Tab 500 is a neat little 10-inch tablet that also comes running with Android and has styling that’s good on the eye too. There’s plenty of decent battery life, with about ten hours between charges, while it also has a full suite of multimedia toys on-board.


That’s really just the tip of the tablet iceberg though, because tablets are everywhere and they look set to become even more popular as 2012 rolls on. Whatever your thoughts on these mobile devices, there’s no escaping the fact that the tablet is here to stay. The only question remaining is; when will you be getting yours?

This guest post was contributed by Rob Clymo, from Broadbandgenie.co.uk. You can find more information on the tablets above as well as a netbook comparison of the latest models for 2012 on the website.

Samsung announces Galaxy Tab 7.0N Plus

 

After facing copy wright infringement from apple in many Europeans countries

specially in Germany, Samsung is reintroducing its Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus as

Galaxy Tab 7.0N in Germany.


Earlier in 2011 German court bans Samsung's 7 inch tablet Galaxy Tab 7.0

Plus due to its similarity with apple's iPad.

Samsung has included a new forward-facing speaker as major redesign while

other features remains the same like 7 PLS LCD capacitive touchscreen of

WSVGA (1024 x 600) resolution, Android 3.2 Honeycomb(Ice Cream Sandwich

coming Soon) etc.


Possible specs :


* 3.2 mega pixel of primary camera with auto focus LED flash
* 2 mega pixel of secondary camera
* Processor : Dual-core 1.2 GHz
* Internal of 16/32 GB storage
* 1GB RAM
* Video : 720p at 30fps
* Standard battery : Li-Ion 4000 mAh
* weight : 345g


It is expected to arrive later this month with a price tag of 600 EUR or $750

US.Please note that this tablet will be launched only in Germany and not in

other European countries.


Tell us what do you think about these changes in new and improved commenting

system below.

Infographic: What could you do if you owned every tablet in the world?

Gadgetfans around the world are buying up tablet computers at an ever-increasingrate, and Indian consumers are no exception.

Approximately32,000,000 tablets have been sold worldwide to date. From October 2010 to June2011, 8,000 were sold every day in India alone, with 46% of these sold bySamsung, 21% by BlackBerry, 18% by Apple, with the rest of the numbers made upby smaller tablet manufacturers. Computer Market Research (CMR) estimates thatIndian consumers will buy 85,000 tablet PCs in 2012, rising to 23.4 million in2017 as sales are expect to double yearly.

Witha size and weight somewhere between laptops and smartphones, they provide theideal combination of portability and usability. Their larger size andhigh-quality graphics makes them ideal for playing games, reading books andnews,  and watching videos. As well asconsumers, they have also been extremely popular in the business world. Theiruses in the workplace include attorneys responding toclients, medical professionals accessing health records during patient exams,and managers approving employee requests. Tablet computers received animmediately positive reception upon their release - the Apple iPod causedpandemonium, with thousands of fans queuing up outside stores to purchase theirown.

Tabletcomputers' popularity has been aided in part by the rise in low cost tabletslike the Aakash, which makes tablets accessible to everyone - research showsthat tablets costing under 10,000 Rs are the most popular in India. Comparedwith the smartphone BlackBerry Bold 9790, Datawind's Aakash seemsa very reasonable - it's priced at just 2,500 Rs for a device with the fullfunctionality of a tablet computer, compared with the BlackBerry Bold price of over 20,000 Rs.

Thebelow infographic demonstrates helps you to visualise what it would look likeif you owned all of these 32,000,000 tablets.

  

   

       

   

Source:Tehelka.com

Amazon is Selling Over 1 Million Kindle Fire Per Week

Amazon is on fire in this holiday season as they are selling more than 1 Million

Kindle Fire Per Week.However the Amazon has never released specific sales

figures for the Kindle Fire.The announcement came on Thursday in a press release

and after the press release Amazon shares rose by 1.5 percent.

“Kindle Fire is the most successful product we’ve ever launched – it’s the

bestselling product across all of Amazon for 11 straight weeks, we’ve already

sold millions of units, and we’re building millions more to meet the high

demand. In fact, demand is accelerating – Kindle Fire sales increased week over

week for each of the past three weeks. People are buying Kindle Fire because

it's a simple, fully-integrated service that makes it easy to do the things they

love – watch movies, read books and magazines, listen to music, download apps,

play games, and surf the web,” said Dave Limp, Vice President, Amazon Kindle.

“Our family of Kindle e-ink readers are close behind Kindle Fire on the

Amazon.com bestseller list. Customers continue to report preferring their Kindle

e-reader for long-form reading, and in fact we’ve seen many customers buy two

Kindles – both a Kindle Fire and a Kindle or Kindle Touch – this holiday

season.”

These figures are more than awesome for Amazon as kindle fire is only available

in US till now.Kindle fire was earlier considered as iPad killer and it

definitely can stop its dominance in tablet market to some extent.



iPad is still leading the way in the tablet market with 75% market share.What do

you think about this tablet fight, do share your opinions in comment section

below.


You can check out Detailed Specifications of Kindle Fire Here.

world's cheapest tablet computer, Sakshat to be unveiled tomorrow

world's cheapest tablet computer, Sakshat to be unveiled tomorrow

Sakshat is a tablet computer designed and developed in India as a low

cost but full functioning device.Shkshat is expected to lauch

tomorrow(October 5th) by HRD Minister Kapil Sibal.

SakshatTablet

   




On July 22, 2010 HRD Minister Kapil Sibal unveiled a prototype of

Sakshat worth $35 ( RS 1500 ).However the price of the Tablet has

been changed to $49.



   

SakshatTablet

   





Full/Detailed Specification of Sakshat Tablet  :




* Price : $49
* Operating System : Android
* Wi-Fi enabled
* Display: 7 inch colour LCD/TFT
* 2GB of RAM
* Processor : Unknown
* miniSD card slot ( upto 32GB )
* Video out
* Headphone jack
* 2 Watts of power consumption with solar charging option
* Educational software developed at Indian Institute of
  Technology(IIT)

* SIM card slot
* VGA Port : For connecting to Projector
* USB 2.0, Ethernet port
* Built in Keyboard 
* Web browsing, video conferencing and word processing software






What  you think about Sakshat, share your thoughts in comment section
below.

Amazon Kindle Fire Full/Detailed Specifications

Amazon Kindle Fire

   


Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet is available on pre-order and is set
to release on November 15th 2011


Detailed Specifications :

* 7 inch multi-touch IPS display
* Dual core Processor
* Resolution : 1024 x 600 pixels.
* 8 GB of internal storage
* Free unlimited cloud storage
* Android OS
* Battery Life : about 8 hours
* Dimensions : 190 x 120 x 11.4 mm
* USB 2.0
* Weight : 413 grams
* supported media formats : Kindle (AZW), TXT, PDF, MOBI, PRC,

Audible, DOC, DOCX, JPEG, GIF, PNG, BMP, non-DRM AAC, MP3, MIDI, OGG,

WAV, MP4, VP8

* Scheduled release : 15 Nov 2011
* Multi-touch
* Price : $199.00
* Browser : Amazon Silk


official Kindle Fire page

Amazon Announces Android Based Kindle Fire Tablet

Amazon Announces Android Based Kindle Fire Tablet

  



Today Amazon Announces their 7-inch kindle fire tablet at 
Amazon's press event.The device will be running on Android 
and will be available in three price range($149,$99,$79).


Kindle Touch 3G will cost $149, while Kindle Touch, a Wi-Fi-only
version is available for $99 and and a regular eink Kindle will cost
$79(without touch).






The devices will be available for pre-order at
amazon.com/kindle and ship on Nov. 21.


What you think about Amazon's kindle Fire Tablet will it stop
ipad dominance, Share your thoughts in comment section below.

Lenovo Announces Low Budget Android Tablet, IdeaPad A1 For $199

Lenovo Announces a new Low Budget Android Tablet, IdeaPad A1
For $199.



specifications :

* 7 inch capacitive multi-touch screen
* OS : Android 2.3 Gingerbread
* 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor
* 8GB of internal memory that
* 32GB SD card slot
* It has Global positioning system (GPS)
* 12.7 mm thick
* weight : 409 grams


Availability is yet to be announced.

Amazon to Launch 7-inch Android-based Tablet in November for $250

Amazon has announced a 7-inch Android-based Tablet, Amazon's kindle

tablet.The tablet is set to launch in November for $250.

Amazon's Kindle Tablet Likely To Have Following Specifications :


* 7-inch screen
* two-finger multi-touch
* single-core processor
* 6GB of disk space
* OS :  Android
* price : $250



Reportedly Amazon is planning to launch a 10-inch version in the

first quarter of next year.

Acer ICONIA Tab A500 : Tab To Look Out For

Acer ICONIA Tab A500

The Iconia Tab A500 tablet runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. It is equipped with Nvidia’s Tegra 2 Processor,Android Honeycomb on a 10.1-inch screen along with GPS, Adobe Flash compatibility  and is 13.3mm thick with a 1280×800 screen resolution and 1080p HDMI capacity. It supports 3G and Wi-Fi connectivity. Iconia Tab A500 tablet also features a 5 MP rear-facing camera plus an HD front-facing camera for video chat,with  the build quality and finish at reasonable price.

The tablet has a very nice brushed metal coat. It’s fairly slim measuring 10.24mm in depth, which is slightly thicker than the iPad 2. It's slightly heavier at 730g.The Iconia Tab is certainly not a iPad-killer, but it does give hints of the power of Android's more open and flexible platform.

All and all, the Acer Iconia Tab A500 is a solid piece of hardware,it tops the Motorola  Xoom in functionality.

HTC Flyer : Sets The Future of Mobile Device For HTC

HTC Flyer


Having set the smartphone market place ablaze, HTC has its eyes set on the
mobile computer tablet market.HTC Flyer is an awesome tablet PC from
HTC which is recently brought.

HTC Flyer Specifications :



* 7.0 inches LCD capacitive touchscreen
* 32 GB storage Internal with microSD, up to 32GB
* Multi-touch
* 5 MP with autofocus
* 1.3 MP Secondary Camera
* OS : Android OS, v2.3.3 (Gingerbread)
* 1.5 GHz processor
* Weight : 420.8 g
* HTC Sense UI
* Geo-tagging
* HTML Browser
* Bluetooth v3.0

HTC Flyer magic pen turns anything. You can draw, paint, write, and even retouch images.

It's a fine tablet and has a bright future ahead.

Tablets, tablets, tablets...but which one?

Tablets, tablets, tablets...but which one?




Tablets are a cross between a smartphone and a laptop and are currently the most sought after device in the tech world right now.



So far, the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 are the only mainstream contenders for the number one tablet.


Tablets are no doubt going to be this year's most popular gift for Christmas, but how you do the impossible task of choosing which one to buy if you're not particularly tech savvy?



I've reviewed some of the current and up and coming tablets on the market so the all important decision can be that little bit easier for you.



All tablets allow users to browse the Internet with their fingertips, flick through photos, read e-books and even watch films but which tablets really stand out from the crowd?



Apple iPad 2


The iPad 2 is the second generation of the iPad, a tablet computer designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc. It serves primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including books, periodicals, movies, music, games and web content, and is available in black or white. The Foxconn China-manufactured iPad 2 has a lithium-ion polymer battery that lasts up to 10 hours, a new dual core Apple A5 processor and VGA front-facing and 720p rear-facing cameras designed for FaceTime video calling.

The iPad 2 uses iOS 4.3.3. The 4.3.1 system fixed a bug with the graphics on the iPod touch, as well as problems connecting to some cellular networks, and authenticating with some enterprise web services.It has a dual core Apple A5 processor that Apple claims doubles processing speed and has graphics processing that is up to nine times faster than the previous iPad.The iPad 2 has a 25 watt-hour rechargeable lithium-ion polymer battery that lasts 10 hours.It has front and rear-facing cameras.




Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 series is an Android-based tablet computer produced by Samsung, introduced on February 13, 2011 at its Samsung Unpacked event in Barcelona.
It belongs to the next generation of the Samsung Galaxy Tab series, which consists of the 10.1" model and the 8.9" model. Similar in design to the Samsung Galaxy S II, it directly competes in the market against the Apple iPad 2.

The Galaxy label 10.1 ships with Android 3.1, the latest account of Google's Honeycomb OS. In an motivating twist, Samsung is transport the tablets with Google's stockpile Android software - but strategy to update them at some point "in the near outlook" to add in its proprietary TouchWiz UI. Depending on your outlook, this may be a good or a bad craze.
Like most Android devices, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 fully ropes playback of Adobe Flash content.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1: The Storage
Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1 comes in equally 16GB and 32GB models. Neither copy chains external storage space via microSD, according to a Samsung delegate.

all and all it is a good deal to have and is certainly the best android tablet out there.


3.HTC Flyer

Having set the smartphone market place ablaze, HTC has its eyes set on the mobile computer tablet market.

HTC Flyer is an awesome tablet PC from HTC which is recently brought. The tablet is preloaded with lots of wonderful features. the HTC Flyer tablet with a 7" display and a superfast 1.5 GHz processor is perfect for web browsing.To make it even better, it features Adobe Flash support, multi-window browsing with pinch to zoom, and a clever quick look-up that lets you tap into facebook, twitter, Youtube and other web resources.


All in all its a good deal and has a bright future ahead.

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 : Best Android Tablet

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 series is an Android-based tablet produced by
Samsung,introduced on February 13, 2011 at its Samsung Unpacked event in
Barcelona.
It belongs to the next generation of the Samsung Galaxy Tab series, which
consists of the 10.1" model and the 8.9" model. It directly competes in the
market against the Apple iPad 2.



 

Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 specifications :



* 10.1 inches TFT capacitive touchscreen
* 16/32 GB storage Internal
* Multi-touch
* 8 MP with autofocus & LED flash
* 2 MP Secondary Camera
* OS : Android OS, v3.0 (Honeycomb)
* Dual-core 1GHz ARM Cortex-A9 proccessor
* Tegra 2 T20 chipset
* Weight : 589 g
* Geo-tagging
* HTML Browser

All and all it is a good deal to have and is certainly the best Android tablet out there.

iPad 2 : King of Tablets

Detailed specs, iamges and small review.


The iPad 2 is the successor of the iPad, a tablet PC designed,  developed and marketed by Apple Inc.It is available in black or white.It comes with Much needed front-facing VGA camera and 720p rear-facing camera designed for FaceTime video calling.

iPad 2 : King of Tablets

Apple claims doubles processing speed and has graphics processing that is up to nine times faster than the previous iPad.iPad 2 is about 33% much lighter than the iPad.Apple has set the value of ipad 2 as same level with the iPad i.e. between $499 to $829.

ipad 2

iPad 2 Detailed specifications : 


* 1 GHz dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor
* Apple A5 chipset
* GPU : PowerVR SGX543MP2
* 9.7 inches  capacitive touchscreen
* Resolution : 1,024×768
* Multi-touch
* 16/32/64 GB storage
* 512 MB RAM
* No Card slot
* USB v2.0
* Primary Camera : 0.7 MP
* Secondary Camera : VGA
* Battery : Li-Po 6930 mAh
* iOS 4
* Weight : 607 g
* Height : 9.50 inches
* Width : 7.31 inches
* Depth : 0.34 inch
* Price : between $499 to $829



The iPad 2 is an  excellent product and must have.Go for it!!!!!!

BlackBerry PlayBook Arrives in India

BlackBerry PlayBook Arrives in India



Research In Motion (RIM) announced the launch of BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in India. It will be distributed nationally through Redington India and Ingram Micro, initially in 1000 retail stores across 8 cities and then expanding to other parts of the country.

"The BlackBerry PlayBook is an incredibly powerful and innovative product in the growing tablet marketplace.  It's perfect for both large organizations and individuals, and it gives users an unmatched mobile experience," said Frenny Bawa, Managing Director, India – Research In Motion.

"With the BlackBerry PlayBook we are stepping into a new era of mobile computing and opening up new and even more exciting opportunities for developers and content publishers with support for Adobe Flash, Adobe Mobile AIR and HTML-5," Ms. Bawa added.

Customers who have a BlackBerry smartphone (running OS 5.0 or higher) can also benefit from BlackBerry Bridge, a feature that allows a user to wirelessly and securely connect their BlackBerry smartphone to their BlackBerry PlayBook over Bluetooth.Also the secure connection allows the user to access their BlackBerry smartphone's email, address book, calendar, BBM and browsing functionality using the large display on the tablet.

BlackBerry PlayBook specifications :


* 7-inch capacitive LCD touch screen

* Multi-touch

* 1 GHz dual-core Cortex-A9 CPU

* PowerVR SGX540 GPU

* Adobe Flash 10.1 support

* Camera : 5 MP with autofocus and 3 MP Front facing camera

* BlackBerry Tablet OS with support for symmetric multiprocessing

* MP3, AAC and WMA audio playback

* Weight : 425 g