Monday, February 14, 2011

New Tablets: with 3D, double heart and split personality

Barcelona - is now the grown-up's Tablet: After already presented to the consumer electronics show CES in January, dozens of flat computer and announced, are the industry is now putting to a large scale. On the first day of the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the world's biggest mobile phone trade fair, a number of exciting new devices were shown.

Some of them are followers products without real value over the competition. But some producers go their own way and show that you can develop interesting products, without just emulate known models. One such manufacturer is Samsung. The Korean conglomerate in Barcelona presents his first Galaxy Tab 10.1, while the larger scaled version of the first Samsung-Tablet-PC, the company introduced the 2010 IFA in Berlin.

The name says it all, the screen measures exactly 10.1 inches on the diagonal. Thereby surpassing Samsung Apple iPad, which with 9.7 inches, however, only slightly less viewing area. This is the Galaxy Tab 1.10 10.9 millimeters thick and even a touch flatter and with 599 grams of substantially lighter than the tablet from Apple.

More, the processor used is exactly like Apple clocked at one gigahertz, thanks to two cores but he should provide more power. Samsung is banking on nVidia's Tegra-2 chips, which provide plenty of processing power in addition to the forced graphics performance for gaming and video. This is also necessary because the display is not only more space, but also more pixels than the Apple tablets musters.

1280 x 800 pixels are sufficient to play HD video in 720p resolution. The built-in digital cameras have a total of ten megapixels, eight of them for snapshots and two in the user looking for webcam for video chats. Samsung will be the first to provide one such double camera has to offer so far hardly a tablet.

Samsung will equip the new tablet with Android 3.0, a new version of the Google operating system have been improved greatly in the among other things, the camera functions. Who really wants to exploit, is all the more pleased about each gram, the Samsung has a faster Tablet. Besides the tablet photos can also record HD video and smooth video at 30 frames per second.

Under the current state of affairs could be the Galaxy Tab 10.1 the first Android be Tablet 3.0, which comes on the market in this country. While Motorola's Xoom may be delivered earlier, but initially only in the United States. The Samsung-Tablet should however be offered simultaneously in 20 countries of Vodafone, sometime in the spring to a previously specified price.

The double eye of the V900, the LG looks Optimus pad of Samsung's arch rival LG Electronics is different. From April to the device that will be called in the U.S. G-Slate, come on the market, cost 999 euros, the company said on Monday in Barcelona. That should be the pricing area, would break into the Samsung.

Technically, the LG-Tablet makes up only once a very similar impression as the Galaxy Tab 10.1. When driving the same Tegra-2 processor is used, the screen has a resolution of 1280 x 768 pixels almost the same resolution, but is much smaller at 8.9 inches. Logically, also, that LG's Optimus Pad also can play HD video smoothly and is equipped with Android 3.0.

And that LG also installs cameras, no surprise - except one looks at it. Because on the back of the Optimus pad emblazoned two 5-megapixel cameras. Thus, it promises the manufacturer, would enable 3-D video in HD resolution can be rotated. You can look at those movies but only with a separately available glasses on the device itself or on a 3-D TVs to which the tablet is connected via HDMI.

You might want his 3-D video in the 3-D space to upload from YouTube. The split personality of Viewsonic with the features of the Android 3.0 models from Samsung, Motorola and LG can not compete Viewsonic. Technically, the new ViewPad 10Pro is more brown bread, even if it is anything but ugly.

But with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels, a 10-inch screen, no GPS, and with the previously unpopular Tablets at Oak Trail processor from Intel, it really has no chance to get ahead of the competition of large corporations. But only really. Because with a fine trick to Viewsonic but then wants to secure its place in a niche.

Besides the usual in many Tablets Android operating system, the Viewpad can also use namely Windows 7 and fit it in office environments where the Microsoft system is essential. It should be able to switch without rebooting between the two systems. And this should be an option which some users have been waiting for Android for everything that is beautiful or urgent, Windows for the office stuff.

A huge market will not be that opens up there, but a gap, worry about the other and not in the man it can make itself comfortable.

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