Sentences with phrase «tablets than desktop»

In fact, many market studies show that people prefer accessing digital content more often on smartphones and tablets than desktop computers.

Many hope that this new version of Windows will be a sharp departure from Windows 8, which was intended more for tablets than desktops and was not well - received by the tech community.

Not exact matches

By 2021, more than 26 percent of leisure travelers and 20 percent of business passengers globally will be «mobile only,» operating with smartphones and tablets rather than laptop or desktop computers, according to the Atmosphere report.

MLB.com's website, meanwhile, is being accessed more from mobile devices, such as phones and tablets, than from desktop PCs and laptops.

The Microsoft Surface 3 is perhaps more of a tablet than a laptop, but it boasts a desktop - class operating system in Windows 10 and is compatible with Microsoft's self - built keyboard that you can use to type up your emails, papers, and Facebook posts.

«I'm less optimistic about the desktop Web than I am about tablets.

Their custom software not only gives you the ability to track your child's progress from your phone, tablet, or desktop, but it simplifies scheduling so that swim lessons can fit into your life rather than the other way around.

Between smartphones, tablets, ebook readers, and, of course, desktop and laptop computers, you may read online more often than off.

«Stopping e-waste is proving very complicated and difficult,» particularly because the newest gadgets, such as tablet computers, are even more difficult to recycle than old desktop computers.

You won't get anything less than complete satisfaction on IWantU, which is available on all devices — from laptops to desktops to smartphones to tablets.

Given these characteristics, the use case for tablets is more similar to laptops / desktops than it is to smartphones.

He also stresses the importance of taking out good warranties with tablets, as they are sealed units and therefore more difficult and costly to fix than a standard desktop computer.

The smartphone clearly leads the table, claiming more sessions than tablets and desktop sessions combined.

However, remember that tablets have interfaces and features that are different than desktops.

A mobile Learning Management System incorporates this flexibility by giving learners the choice to learn on a smartphone or a tablet on - the - go rather than being stuck to a desktop or a laptop.

Phones and tablets are everywhere, and people turn to them more than they do a traditional desktop.»

When a project will be accessed on mobile devices, we design it specifically for tablets or phones, rather than designing it for desktop computers and expecting it to be functional when it shrinks to a tiny screen.

Tablets and Smartphones tend to be held at angles that pick up more of the surrounding ambient light than the more vertically oriented screens in laptops, desktops, and HDTVs.

Tablets and Smartphones are all used under a very wide range of ambient lighting conditions that are frequently much brighter than for other displays — like laptops, desktops, and HDTVs.

Analyst Ben Evans posits that it «may be better to think of tablets, laptops and desktops as one «big screen» segment, all of which compete with smartphones, and for which the opportunity is just smaller than that for smartphones.»

If anyone needed further proof of tablet devices being more in vogue than the traditional PCs, here it is: theBBC iPlayer app has seen almost a million downloads (941,000 to be precise) on tablet devices from Dec 21 til the end of the year, surpassing the traditional desktops and laptops for the first time ever.

Consumers have had enough with the desktops and laptops and nothing is more exciting now than the new sleek tablet devices.

For tablet usage it's more comfortable and easier to use than a 10» tablet like the Acer Ionia W510 and can be used on the desktop for more serious work but is definitely more suited to consumption using store apps because of the smaller display.

So why can't smartphones — generally more affordable than tablets and desktop computers — also house people's digital bookshelves of both borrowed and owned books?

So far in 2013, Kobo's customers, either on smartphone, laptop, tablet, desktop computer, or eReading devices, have turned more than 1.3 - billion pages, logging more than 10 - million hours of reading time in the process.

Even more disappointing for a kid's tablet, the Kurio Smart's software pre-load consists of nothing more than a handful of shareware titles you could download for yourself on any tablet, along with desktop shortcuts to Microsoft's built - in Windows parental controls.

More consumers are using tablets and it probably hurts Microsoft more than it does Apple as consumers start neglecting their Windows desktop computers.

In the long run, consumers may grow to believe that high - end computing tablets with desktop operating systems are worth a higher premium than other tablets, but until then (selling prices) on Windows 8 and Windows RT devices need to come down to drive higher volumes.»

So the benchmarks for a tablet's SoC is a far better guide to the tablet's performance than (say) a CPU's benchmark on a desktop system.

In some instances tablets are even more valuable than desktop computers.

Indicative of audiences» desire for hyperlocal content, since launch, HalifaxToday.ca has experienced great success, reaching more than 275,000 people across mobile, tablet, and desktop *.

Mobile games, in particular, are the fastest growing segment of the gaming market as smartphone and tablet owners are using their devices for game - playing on the Internet, increasingly more than desktops and consoles.

In 2014 Gartner predicts that more tablets (270.7 million) will be sold — just — than PC desktops / laptops (276.7 million).

It would be hard to find a new desktop, laptop, or even tablet that comes with less than 2 to 4 GB of RAM pre-installed.

Windows 10, meanwhile, offers an impressive array of more than 100,000 touch - screen - friendly tablet apps, but its real strength is in running the millions of existing Windows desktop apps.

Tablets are without a doubt, one of the most outstanding device in the mobile industry as they provide the capability of a desktop computer although with less power, but in a size that's fairly more satisfying than those from smartphones.

You got ta be realistic about the use case and it is fine for the sort of things you are likely to be doing on a tablet rather than on a calibrated desktop.

And is it possible that the subject might read faster and better off a tablet or even phone than off a desktop monitor?

Between the tablet's size and and projected battery life, it isn't as portable as the average tablet, but it is more portable than say, a desktop set up.

What that means is that any old - and - busted e-book reader you give this year will seem horribly old and hideously busted when the new smartbook - style tablets (tablets that run cell phone, rather than desktop, operating systems) hit.

Running the full x86 version of Windows 8 and offering full compatibility with desktop apps within a decidedly portable form factor, the Tablet 2 aims to occupy the (small) gap between Microsoft's two Surface tablets: it's less than 10 mm thick and offers 10 - hour battery life, much like the ARM - based Surface for Windows RT, but maintains desktop app compatibility and all the other business - centric features of the full - fat Intel - based Surface tTablet 2 aims to occupy the (small) gap between Microsoft's two Surface tablets: it's less than 10 mm thick and offers 10 - hour battery life, much like the ARM - based Surface for Windows RT, but maintains desktop app compatibility and all the other business - centric features of the full - fat Intel - based Surface tablettablet.

While all tablets are inherently less expandable than laptops, which in turn are less expandable than desktop PCs, the iPad tends to be more limited than some Android tablets.

For most, a smartphone is good enough for a couch platform, honestly having a laptop, desktop and smartphone and adding a tablet into the mix for anything other than just having a tablet to have it, is about the same as owning an iPhone and an iPod.

Today's employee consumes information in so many different ways (text, video, voice, data) in so many different formats (mobile more than desktop) and on so many different devices (tablets, smartphones, -LSB-...]

It'll be an app just for the PlayBook, which will allow for video chatting, but I'm hoping they launch a desktop application as well, even in open beta like FaceTime so we can chat with more people, rather than just tablet owners.

Tablets might be better than laptops and desktops for most people IF (and it is an IF) they mostly just surf the web and check email and check Facebook.

With more than 13 million downloads of Adobe Digital Editions, a free software application for acquiring, managing and reading ebooks, users can transfer their digital content to their netbooks and desktops, and by taking advantage of a growing number of mobile applications, users can also consume ebooks from Google eBooks on tablets like the iPad.

However, it's hard to make a credible argument that Tablets (or for that matter any of today's technology other than the Internet and things like desktop and laptop computers and phones) will be around in 10 - 15 years.

28 % of respondents say their tablet is now their primary computer, while 43 % say they spend more time using their tablet than they do their desktop or laptop computer.

The theory, at least in the early phases of the tablet's introduction, was that the interface of content through applications would be so much richer an experience - due to similar portability to paper, a larger reading screen than smart phone, much improved screen resolution than desktops and added richness of applications than desktops - that people would pay for it.