Not exact matches
Messenger Kids is being trialled in the US as a
standalone app for a smartphone or
tablet that is controlled from a parent's Facebook account and does
not create a main Facebook profile for young users.
As a
standalone tablet the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is by far and away the best Honeycomb
tablet out there, offering style, speed and substance at a price that doesn't make your eyes water.
This makes it a really good investment if you own the Fire Phone or one of Amazons Fire
tablets, but doesn't make a whole lot of sense as a
standalone service on the Voyage.
It adds email, calendar, and contact apps, finally making the PlayBook a functional
standalone device — before, if you didn't have a BlackBerry to connect to the PlayBook, there wasn't much you could do with your
tablet.
More convertible
tablets were there to be seen from the bigwigs than
standalone tablet PCs, which perhaps is an indication of the shape of things to come in the
not too distant future.
The game - changing Asus Eee Pad Transformer combined a great
standalone tablet with a keyboard dock that
not only let you type properly but also doubled the device's battery life and gave you such connectivity gems as full - size USB ports and a regular SD card slot, essentially turning the
tablet into a mini laptop that had a better screen and lasted longer on the go than any netbook.
When it comes to e-readers, it seems that we're always talking about the big three players: Amazon, Sony and Barnes and Noble, with Kobo and Apple (even though its iPad is a multipurpose
tablet,
not a
standalone e-reader) usually lumped into the big leagues.
The new Surface Pro is more viable as a laptop replacement, but it hasn't made much progress as a
standalone tablet.
Since the smartwatches are considered as an add - on accessory more than a
standalone device, there isn't much growth as seen with the smartphones or
tablets.