Amazon’s Android based Kindle Fire creates a new space for Tablets
Oct 3, 2011 Android Tablets
When talking about the tablet industry, iPad has pretty much ruled the roost for some time now. But, with the entry of Amazon’s Kindle Fire in the market, the competition has been set ablaze. Priced at just $199, which is $300 lesser than the iPad, the Kindle Fire is an impressive Android-based media tablet.
Retailer Giant, Amazon has always has advantages over price and is effectively using this strategy for the Kindle Fire. The Android Tablet comes with Wifi but has no 3G. Instead of competing with the iPad, Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, plans to create a completely different space for the Kindle Fire starting with the price.
In his letter to his customers, which is presently on the Homepage of Amazon, Jeff Bezos has stated “Kindle Fire brings everything we’ve been working on at Amazon for 15 years together into a single, fully-integrated experience for customers”
The Kindle Fire comes with instant access to Amazon’s massive selection of digital content, a vibrant color IPS touchscreen with extra-wide viewing angle, a 14.6 ounce, dual core processor, free storage in the Amazon Cloud, and an ultra-fast mobile browser – Amazon Silk.
Amazon Silk is a new web browser which is available exclusively on Kindle Fire. This Video gives us a preview on how the new web browser works.
Tags: Amazon Kindle Fire, Android and iPad, Android based tablets, Android Tablets, Kindle, Kindle Fire
Motorola Xoom: Android 3.0 Honeycomb
Jan 6, 2011 Android Tablets
We have been anticipating this for weeks and now its finally here. The Motorola Xoom running Android 3.0 Honeycomb made its debut at CES 2011.
The Xoom features a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor with each core running at 1GHz, a 10.1-inch display (1280 x 800) and can be upgraded to a 4G LTE . It comes with a 5MP rear camera and a 2MP front-facing camera for video chat. The Xoom features a built-in gyroscope, barometer, e-compass, accelerometer and adaptive lighting for new types of applications. There is more.
Users can play videos seamlessly with Adobe Flash player. It also features Google Maps 5.0 with 3D interaction and users can access to over 3 million Google eBooks and thousands of apps from Android Market.
You can expect the 3G/Wifi enabled device to launch in Q1 2011 and the upgraded 4G version in Q2 2011.
Asus Unveils Android Tablets at CES 2011
Jan 5, 2011 Android Tablets
At the CES 2011 conference, Asus showcased its new Android Tablets . The interesting part is that the newly launched Android tablets features a physical keyboard.
One of the Android tablet that made its appearance at the conference was the Eee Pad Memo, said to be coming out this summer. This is a 7 inch tablet that is centered around cloud computing and has been optimized for both multi touch and pen browsing . This features a built in stylus and runs on Android Honey Comb sporting a 1.2GHz Qualcomm 8260 Snapdragon processor.
The Eee Pad transformer, another tablet that was unveiled is a 10-inch tablet that comes with a detachable keyboard. This again is focused on cloud computing and runs on Android Honeycomb and features a slick UI. This features a NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and will be made available in April 2011 with a price tag of $400 and $700. Similar in features is the Eee Pad Slider that was also unveiled on Tuesday.
Some of the features that are shared by both the slider and the transformer are:
- Honeycomb
- Tegra 2 processor
- 512MB RAM, 1GB ROM
- 10.1″ 1280×800 capacitive IPS display
- 1.2 MP front-facing camera, 5 MP rear
- Mini HDMI port
- Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, WiFi 802.11 b/g/n
However, the key difference is that the Slider comes with a slide up QWERTY keypad while the Transformer is a stand alone tablet that can be plugged into a keyboard dock. The slider would be available in May 2011 priced between $500 and $800
Tags: Android Honeycomb, Android news, Android Tablets, Asus, CES 2011
Archos Introduces the 70 Internet tablet.
Dec 30, 2010 Android Tablets, News
Archos announced one of their new tablets – the Archos 70 Internet Tablet. This is the first Android tablet that features a 250GB HDD.
The Archos 70 Internet Tablet also include
- 1 GHz processor
- Wifi
- 3D Graphics accelerator
- HDMI out
- 7-inch capacitive touch screen
- Android 2.2
Its internals are pretty impressive and even with 250GB hard drive, its dimensions are 7.91 x 4.49 x 0.55 inches which makes it the slimmest and lightest in the market. This is now available for $350 at Archos.com. To see more spec details, you can click here.
Tags: Android 2.2, android 2.2 m android news, Android App Development, android tablet
Motorola’s Tablet evolution Teaser surfaces at YouTube
Dec 20, 2010 Android Tablets
While we have already seen Motorola’s Tablet demostrated by Andy Rubin from Google its time for some more teasers from Motorola .The impressive piece of innovation is landing shortly in the computing space and will be announced at the CES 2011 running with the delicious honey blend of Android (3.0/2.4) .
Treat yourself with a beautiful video teaser which Motorola has posted over at their YouTube channel
Hope Motorola’s grand release wont disappoint its desperately awaiting users and android app developers .
Tags: android tablet, motorola, motorola releases
Android Tablets will beat the iPad in terms of sales.
Oct 14, 2010 Android Tablets
Despite the fact that Google is warning tablet makers not to go with the Froyo release if their tablets are sized over 7 ” , tablet makers just don’t care until their product is slick .
Google wants a better UI and high grade user experience on tablets sized over the 7 inch criterion , which according to Google is not possible with the Froyo which is generally a smartphone OS and limits to a maximum of 7 inches . As said before this is a possible cause why LG delayed its tablet release until further notice from Google . While few tablet makers have already outed their 10″ tablets but as said by Google such devices will not be able to access the Android market .
The iPad of course is the best ever selling tablet till date but managing director and senior research analyst Gene Munster from Piper Jaffray says that tablets are next big thing in computing ( after the desktops , Notebooks , netbooks , PDA and smartphones ) and Android is going to be the most popular operating system on tablets and the current market will see a drastic shift from iPad , the only available tablet in the market to thousands of Android tablets in the coming years from multiple hardware manufacturers with variety of options like size , colors , carrier choices , technology and pricing as low as $199 for a low end Android tablet when compared to the basic iPad version which costs around $500 and still lacks some key features like camera .
The prediction makes sense and gives a chance to Android app developers to make some serious profits out of android app development with so many options available today .
Would you be interested to grab one for your kids ?
Tags: Android OS, Android OS 2.2, android tablet, Android vs iOS4, Chrome OS, comparison, galaxy tab, new tablets, OS comparision, OS news, upcoming tablets