And if it runs apps from the App Store («yes» seems to be the general consensus), you'll be able to read books in
the Apple tablet format * and * in Amazon's Kindle format (with the Kindle app), which can't be happy news for Amazon, hardware-wise.
Not exact matches
How you can read manga: You can download eManga titles in 7
formats (PRC, MOBI, EPUB, PDF, CBZ,
Apple EPUB, Kobo EPUB), for a bunch of devices, though it depends for some: PC, iPhone, iPad, iPod, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Android, Nook 6», Nook Color, Kobo 6», Kobo
Tablets, Sony Readers, Linux, Mac, Windows, and Palm OS, Windows Mobile, Motorola Xoom, Abode Digital Editions, Blackberry, Bebook, Aluratek Libre Pro, Cybook Opus, Digital Reader 1000, EZ Reader by Astak, Hanlin, iLiad, iRiver Story.
While comics have been in digital
formats, legally and otherwise, for years, few would argue that
Apple's sleek
tablet is the first platform to offer an optimal digital reading and purchasing experience, from comiXology's innovative Guided View -LSB-...]
If it seems like I have forgotten about the iPad Mini 3, I wasn't the first —
Apple really had very little to say about their smaller -
format tablet, other than to tell us that it also has the fingerprint ID sensor.
They bought the digital comics company Clickwheel a number of years ago, far in advance of the real blossoming of digital comics with the advent of the iPad (and whatever you feel the merits of
Apple vs Android, the iPad was what really opened the doors to the
tablet becoming a mass - medium digital comic reading device) and have been selling PDF / CBZ
formats of 2000AD ever since.
One other impressive new
tablet is the Icoo 8 ($ 185) which launched this week and is the first 8 - inch Android
tablet with an HD 1280x800 screen — previously, all 8 - inch
tablets have been sporting a low resolution 1024 x 768 display — the first to offer the new Icoo 8 model is T ab l e t S p r i n t — and the 8» size is almost as compact as a 7»
tablet but offers 40 % more screen space to play with, which makes quite a difference in user experience and the key reason
Apple choose this size
format.
The Kindle Fire has been so big that it made Google want to create its own cheap 7 inch
tablet and even
Apple is rumored to explore this smaller and cheaper
tablet format because of the same product.
Analyst Tom Mainelli at research firm IDC said
Apple has discovered that larger
tablets are not universally popular, noting that users in Japan «with a more mobile culture» may prefer a smaller
format, which also may be better for education in primary schools.
Apple really needs to move on and update the experience to be a little more appropriate for the
tablet format.
It's
Apple's focus on larger
formats that has depressed the 7in
tablet market to date - or at least until Amazon shipped the Kindle Fire late last year.
Talk of
Apple doing some kind of touch - based,
tablet -
format device has circulated since the company gave up on the Newton in 1998.
The new digital
format is targeted at a new generation of touchscreen - equipped smart phones, e-readers, and
tablet computers, including the just - announced Fusion Garage JooJoo (previously known as the CrunchPad), and the anticipated - but - unannounced
Apple tablet, which many industry watchers expect to debut sometime in 2010.
Tablet formats (
Apple and Android) are promised to follow.
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Huawei is now the third largest smartphone maker in the world behind Samsung and
Apple, and the Huawei MediaPad M2 10.0 shows that it's bringing that know - how to the
tablet format.