Apple's iPad, Samsung's Galaxy Tab, and HP's Slate 500 are often mentioned as competing in the same
slate tablets space.
Not exact matches
The solidly built
tablet has an evenly spaced, slate - gray bezel around the display, with a passing similarity to the bezel on the previous Nook T
tablet has an evenly
spaced,
slate - gray bezel around the display, with a passing similarity to the bezel on the previous Nook
TabletTablet.
With over 20 years of history designing
slate and
tablet PCs, Fujitsu could bring smome innovation to the
tablet space, but so far we're disappointed at the lack of further details about the 10 - inch
slate.
Apple of course competes with multiple Android OEMs — which in the
tablet space includes Amazon with its Kindle Fire range; Samsung with its Galaxy Note line up; and Google's Nexus
slates.
That it's taken the Android ecosystem more than three years to be shipping more
slates than Apple is a measure of how relatively poor Android
tablets have been vs the iPad experience (it's no coincidence that Google felt it needed to get involved directly with the
tablet space with its own - branded Nexus
slate to help bring up standards and push down prices).
What the Android
space REALLY needs is a decent ChromeOS dual - boot
slate; a
tablet that runs Android, but features all the cool attributes of ChromeOS.
Xiaomi previously used an Intel processor for its Mi Pad
tablet, but this time it has chosen a MediaTek chip — the MT8176 — to power its
slate, along with 4 GB of RAM and 32 GB of internal storage
space.