Not exact matches
The technology will appear in various types of devices — laptops and
tablets, for example — from
hardware partners like Asus, Dell, HP and Lenovo,
among others.
Forrester identified a general allegiance
among smartphone owners to their phone's brand when choosing a
tablet — especially pronounced for iPhone owners but not limited to Apple's
hardware.
There's absolutely nothing
among the Top 10 Core
Tablet Use Cases that needs a quad core processor, or a Retina Display, or any other new
hardware over what existed in Nook Color and Kindle Fire.
With computers,
tablets and phones there are tons of different processors and
hardware components used
among them.
While it is too early to tell how much traction
tablets will gain
among potential buyers, analysts say the state of technology is such that there might finally be the right mix of applications,
hardware and mobility available to make
tablet PCs more than just a niche device in an already - crowded market, with gadgets designed to deal with almost any computing a person may need.
Samsung is doing quite well in the smartphone and
tablet marketplace,
among other areas, and is at work developing new
hardware.
RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook
tablets are unique
among the company's current - generation
hardware as they're the only ones, according to leaked RIM documents, at least, that are on - track for getting upgrades to BlackBerry 10 when it arrives early next year.
Several
tablets already have already received the newly released (in late July) Android 3.2 update that boasts improved backwards app compatibility and better
hardware utilization
among other goodness mostly geared towards developers.
That said, the low price that Android
tablet customers are coming to expect means that the potential for profit
among hardware manufacturers without their own content hubs is shrinking at an alarming rate.
The Nook
Tablet has the technically superior
hardware, with double the RAM and double the storage space
among other things, but doesn't make very good use of it.
Among all the
tablets I tested Kindle Fire's button placement and overall
hardware button configuration felt the most awkward and uninspired.
Chief
among those, of course, is likely to be Amazon, which may also be the biggest threat to Apple's
tablet lead should it launch
hardware to go with its upcoming Android app store.
One more thing: Because this is a Google
hardware product, the Pixel C will be
among the first Android
tablets to be updated with new features.
Among Windows
hardware, laptops and
tablets starting with Intel's fourth - and fifth - generation Core processors and Intel's own 7260 wireless chip supported Miracast, but the Intel technology underlying that support, WiDi, has been discontinued in favor of the Windows 8.1 / 10 support mentioned above.