HP Touchpad Ready to Compete IPad
Hewlett-Packard (HP) presents the fruit of their first hand with Palm in tablet form titled touchpad. It is promised, with WebOS this product would be more superior than its competitors, including the iPad. Approximately over a year ago HP acquired plam with a value of USD 1.2 billion. Not a small ammount indeed, and of course HP has set up a big plan behind it, including in the manufacture of smart phones and tablets.
HP’s first Tablet-Palm is a touchpad. This product weighs 725g, with a 9.7-inch landscape display. Inside there is a camera, a virtual keyboard and operating system is powered by WebOS. Quoted from USA Today on Thursday , HP positioned this product to be a fierce rival iPad. But keep in mind as well if Apple has prepared iPad 2 with a specification that is not less sophisticated.
The marketing strategy of Endpoint Technologies Associates, Roger Kay HP also should consider in terms of application compatibility. Because, until now there were 60 thousand applications interesting for the iPad. There is no information about the price later this touchpad, but this product will begin recananya marketed in around April 2011, in conjunction with HP smart phone Veer.
Having Honeycomb Google Is Ready To Persue iPad
Android version 3.0 or Honeycomb was officially launched by Google. They have showcased a preview of the OS in tablet Motorola Xoom. Honeycomb staying flagshipped to undermine the dominance of Apple in the realm of tablets. Honeycomb was specifically intended for tablet devices that use a large screen and higher computing capability. But some analysts to assess the presence of Honeycomb will not necessarily change the market mapping.
According to them, this (Honeycomb) did little to shorten the gap. But there was nothing in it that would make them queueing for it, said analyst Colin Gilis of BCG, with references from the queues that occur when launching the iPad.
Quoted by Reuters last week, Apple still straddling in the realm of Android tablets. But Apple was not able to pursue Android in the smartphone market, which had just overthrown the most popular Symbian OS in the world. Google’s ambition to beat iPad tablet market will depend on support from the manufacture of Honeycomb, telecommunication operators and application developers makers. Google currently had more than 100 thousand applications for Android, still less with applications for Apple’s which counted to 300 thousand .
With the introduction of Honeycomb, the big vendors were expected to soon release a tablet-based OS ‘beehive’ is the latest in mid-2011. Motorola Xoom for example, would start shipping in the first quarter of this year.
Motorola Tablet Honeycomb Stated to Compete iPad and Galaxy Tab
In the gadget world exhibition event, the Consumer Electronic Show 2011 in Las Vegas, Motorola announced the arrival of Android tablets. Motorola Xoom, that is said preparing to plunge the fierce competition in the tablet market. Previously, Motorola had to present a video about the presence of Xoom. Even in these videos on YouTube, Motorola claims to tablet is more severe than the Apple iPad and Samsung Galaxy Tab. True?
Xoom seems to have adequate features. Armed 1GHz dual-core processor and 1GB of DDR2 DRAM, Motorola Xoom also has two cameras. Rear-resolution 5 megapixel camera with 720p HD recording capability and the front 2-megapixel camera. From this perspective, Xoom has been excellent.
Xoom screens that of 10.1-inch has a resolution of 1280×800 pixels, better than iPad and Galaxy Tab. Then users can also enjoy the video quality of 1080p HD. Included version 5.0 Google Maps with 3D interaction, built-in gyroscope, a barometer, e-compass, and accelerometer.
Motorola Xoom available from the first quarter of 2011 in the United States. Xoom be the first tablets which are marketed by directly adopting Android Honeycomb or the so-called version 3.0. Honeycomb promised very suitable to be applied on the tablet compared to previous versions of Android.
Quoted by AFP, Sanjay Jha as Motorola’s Mobility Chief Executive stated Xoom will feature 3G connectivity. In the United States, Xoom is going to be marketed with the telecommunications operator Verizon.
