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CES Tablets Jockey for Traction Against Apple's iPad
It's showtime for the approximately 85 tablet computers introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show as they challenge Apple's iPad. The big question is which CES tablet, maybe Motorola's Xoom or Research In Motion's PlayBook, will capture second place in a market dominated by the iPad. Android tablets are expected to be big challengers.
The dust is settling from the big Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas last week, and the positioning has begun. One of the hottest questions is which product will emerge as the second-place contender against Apple's iPad, the leader in the tablet category.
Going into CES, Samsung had a credible claim to second place with its Galaxy Tab being distributed by all four major U.S. carriers. The company said it shipped a million units in the first two months of release.
More Than 85 Tablets
But CES can reshuffle perception and momentum, as Nintendo's Wii and other devices can demonstrate. But while the gaming-console category is a battle between three contenders, including Microsoft and Sony, there was no shortage of tablets at this year's CES.
Some contenders included tablets from Lenovo, Dell, NEC, Acer, Motorola, Research In Motion, Toshiba, Samsung, ASUS and others. By some counts, more than 85 tablets were announced at the show.
Two tablets receiving a great deal of post-CES attention are Motorola's Xoom and RIM's PlayBook.
Motorola stoked anticipation for its tablet with a pre-show, highly engaging video that literally put its product on a pedestal -- under wraps as the latest evolution in a museum exhibition of the greatest tablets in history. The lineage started with the Ten Commandments.
As unveiled at CES, Motorola's Xoom sports dual-core processors, compatibility with 4G, HDMI-out, a two-megapixel camera in front and a five-megapixel camera in back, and a 10-inch screen. It also uses Android 3.0, known as Honeycomb, which has been optimized for tablets. And it has a secret asset -- a built-in barometer for measuring atmospheric pressure in case you want to predict your own weather.
RIM's PlayBook contains a one-gigahertz ARM processor, a seven-inch screen, 1GB of RAM, HDMI-out, and two cameras -- a three-megapixel in front and a five-megapixel in back. There's Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and, for 3G connections, the PlayBook connects through Bluetooth to a BlackBerry smartphone.
Whither Sony, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard?
Other tablets that gained attention include Toshiba's, with a 10-inch display and what the company calls Adaptive Technology to automatically adjust visual and audio settings to match the environment. Vizio's Via Plus has three speakers for left, right and center spatial separation and an infrared emitter that can act as a universal remote for home theaters.
The ASUS Eee Pad Slider features a slide-out keyboard, and Lenovo showed the IdeaPad U1, which can flip between being a Windows 7 or Android notebook , or an Android tablet. And a dual-screen tablet from NEC, the Cloud Communicator, shown at CES as a prototype, could point to the next generation of tablet form factors.
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Microsoft's 5 Initiatives To Rule The Mobile World
At the Mobile World Congress 2010, Microsoft had introduced its Windows Phone 7 operating system and also talked about the devices based on the software. At present, the company is dominating the PC operating system's market, but only building momentum in the world of mobile operating systems with the new WinMo 7 software.
Earlier also the company had tried many times to rule the mobile segment with its innovative products, but could not built products like Apple's iPhone. Here, the feature discusses its various mobile products that failed to rule mobile world.
WinPad, or Microsoft at Work for Handhelds
In 1990, Microsoft had worked on devices based on the alpha versions of the Windows CE operating system. One among them was WinPad, which is a PDA-like operating system. The company also indicated in 1994 that it had yet to complete code on WinPad. It was said that the devices based on WinPad use a Polaris chip with a 386 core and powered by Windows 95-like operating system called Microsoft at Work. However, the company had scrapped the WinPad platform due to its troubles at work.
Palm-sized PCs
Microsoft had launched a new category in 1996, called Handheld PCs, which can be compared to present netbooks. Also, they were known as Palm-sized PCs and powered by a version of Windows CE operating system. But, the Palm-sized PCs never took off and only laid the concept of the Pocket PC platform.
Windows XP Tablet Edition
Microsoft had launched its Windows XP operating system in 2000. The software was adopted by masses and to encash more from the new release; the company had designed a version for tablets, called Windows XP Tablet Edition. With the new software, the company had introduced Pen computing with the use of Stylus, handwriting analysis and voice recognition. However, due to high prices, lack of power management and heat release from the device created negative impression in the users mind.
Redmond giant had refreshed its tablet edition in 2005, but could not succeed in satisfying the expectations of the users.
Ultra-mobile PCs (UMPCs)
In 2006, the company had created much hype with its "Project Origami." It was rumored that the device was some kind of Windows based gaming device that would compete with the PlayStation Portable. The company also showcased a device, called the Oqo model 02, which is claimed to be the smallest fully functional computer. In 2009, Microsoft had introduced few experimental models for the UMPCs, which was similar to the tiny netbooks released by ASUS, called Asus EEE PC.
Microsoft's Project Pink
From last year, it has been rumored that the company is secretly working on ‘Project Pink' to compete with Apple's iPhone. Now, after the release of new operating system for mobiles, the rumor is in news again. It is expected that the company will merge the project pink with Windows Phone 7.
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