These settings are available in the touch interfaces on
competing tablet operating systems.
Not exact matches
The Redmond based company is facing an uphill battle where it is unable to
compete against Android in the battle of
tablet operating systems.
«E-book readers like Kindle are really going to have to go well below $ 99» to
compete with forthcoming
tablets running Android and other
operating systems, Weiner said.
The company announced Monday that they are developing their own
operating system to
compete in the
Tablet PC front.
If we can't
compete with whatever the weird collection of Android machines is going to look like, shame on us,» said Ballmer of
tablet operating systems coming from the Google camp.
IDC said that Microsoft and its partners may need to create smaller devices and lower prices in order to
compete because consumers are shying away from more expensive
tablets with desktop
operating systems.
The
competing children's
tablets differ yet again when it comes to battery capacity and
operating systems.
Most
tablet makers, including Samsung and Amazon, have chosen Android as the best and cheapest
operating system for products that can
compete against Apple's iPad.
They do nothing to refresh or improve upon iOS, and that's something that feels necessary in the face of the pressure coming from
competing operating systems on current and forthcoming
tablets (Google's Android 3.0, HP's WebOS, and RIM's PlayBook OS).
Among
competing, full - blown 7 - inch
tablets, the latest models from Acer, Samsung, Toshiba, and leading
tablet makers use Google's Android 3.2 Honeycomb
operating system, which was optimized for the larger screen sizes of
tablets.
As a latecomer to the
tablet market, Sony is betting on Google Inc.'s Android
operating system to help it
compete in the fastest - growing segment of the computer industry.
The product is designed to
compete against
tablets running Google's Android
operating system, which have fared miserably in the market compared to the iPad, and the emerging ultrabook platform, with its premium on thin, light computing.
Less than a month before its first
tablet computer goes on sale, BlackBerry maker Research in Motion announced that its PlayBook
tablet will support applications written for Android, the
operating system that powers many smartphones that
compete with the BlackBerry.
A
tablet is only as good as the apps it can run, and while there are hundreds of thousands of apps for the
competing iOS and Android
operating systems, the BlackBerry PlayBook will run a new OS based on QNX.
Online stores associated with
competing operating systems (Apple iOS, Google Android and Microsoft Windows 8 / RT, for example) provide a range of apps, games, and multimedia software for
tablet users» enjoyment.