Worth noting as well: The growing ubiquity of
mobile gadgets such as the iPhone and iPad has also paved the way for a new breed of book — one which literally anybody can make and market, and as often as not includes online connectivity and extensive multimedia features.
Not exact matches
The influx of personal
mobile gadgets like smartphones, iPads, and tablets, as well as the emergence of compatible operating systems
such as Android, iOS, Windows Phone, BlackBerry, Firefox OS, etc has influenced the e-Learning field considerably.
A few
gadgets have been specifically built to read ebooks but most are generic, for instance PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants
such as the Palm or Blackberry), or high - end
mobile phones, the so - called smartphones.
It's happening as other
gadgets,
such as
mobile phones and tablet computers, give people even more choices for diving into their favorite books.
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such, the
gadget will be pitched at the Fire, also a device tied to an online shop as a
mobile content acquisition and consumption product.
Tablets
such as the Apple iPad 2 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 may be the most popular
mobile devices for
gadget buyers this holiday season, but e-readers remain a great choice for many people on your list.
iSuppli hasn't said which touchscreen - enabled
gadgets will prove the most popular,
such as compact cameras or
mobile phones.
Carlstrom added that multi-biometric technology maybe introduced eventually, hinting that people would be able to see
mobile gadgets with more than one recognition technology,
such as iris, retina, or voice recognition, by 2016.
The Samsung wearable pairs with all Android phones that run Android 4.4 or higher and have 1.5 GB or more of RAM, though Samsung says it will have more functions,
such as
mobile payments, when the
gadget is sync with a Samsung Galaxy device.