The touchscreen display is operated by gestures executed by finger or digital pen (stylus), instead of the mouse, touchpad, and keyboard of larger computers. [5] Thereafter, tablets rapidly rose in ubiquity and soon became a large product category used for personal, educational and workplace applications.
[6] Popular uses for a tablet PC include viewing presentations, video-conferencing, reading e-books, watching movies, sharing photos and more.
Throughout the 20th century devices with these characteristics have been imagined and created whether as blueprints, prototypes, or commercial products.
In addition to many academic and research systems, several companies released commercial products in the 1980s, with various input/output types tried out. [12] Another important enabling factor was the lithium-ion battery, an indispensable energy source for tablets,[14] commercialized by Sony and Asahi Kasei in 1991.
Tablet computers appeared in a number of works of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century; all helped to promote and disseminate the concept to a wider audience. In 1992, IBM announced (in April) and shipped to developers (in October) the ThinkPad 700T (2521), which ran the GO Corporation’s PenPoint OS. The operating system and platform design were later licensed to Sharp and Digital Ocean, who went on to manufacture their own variants.
Microsoft, the dominant PC software vendor, released Windows for Pen Computing in 1992 to compete against PenPoint OS.
The company launched the WinPad project, working together with OEMs such as Compaq, to create a small device with a Windows-like operating system and handwriting recognition. However the project was abandoned two years later; instead Windows CE was released in the form of “Handheld PCs” in 1996.
Also in 1996 Fujitsu released the Stylistic 1000 tablet format PC, running Microsoft Windows 95, on a 100 MHz AMD486 DX4 CPU, with 8 MB RAM offering stylus input, with the option of connecting a conventional Keyboard and mouse. Intel announced a StrongARM[38] processor-based touchscreen tablet computer in 1999, under the name WebPAD. Sony released its Airboard tablet in Japan in late 2000 with full wireless Internet capabilities.
[44][45] Microsoft took a more significant approach to tablets in 2002 as it attempted to define the Microsoft Tablet PC[46] as a mobile computer for field work in business,[47] though their devices failed, mainly due to pricing and usability decisions that limited them to their original purpose – such as the existing devices being too heavy to be held with one hand for extended periods, and having legacy applications created for desktop interfaces and not well adapted to the slate format.
An early model was test manufactured in 2001, the Nokia M510, which was running on EPOC and featuring an Opera browser, speakers and a 10-inch 800×600 screen, but it was not released because of fears that the market was not ready for it. The user interface and application framework layer, named Hildon, was an early instance of a software platform for generic computing in a tablet device intended for internet consumption.
Before the release of iPad, Axiotron introduced[53] an aftermarket, heavily modified Apple MacBook called Modbook, a Mac OS X-based tablet computer. The Modbook uses Apple’s Inkwell for handwriting and gesture recognition, and uses digitization hardware from Wacom.
To get Mac OS X to talk to the digitizer on the integrated tablet, the Modbook was supplied with a third-party driver. Following the launch of the Ultra-mobile PC, Intel began the Mobile Internet Device initiative, which took the same hardware and combined it with a tabletized Linux configuration. Intel codeveloped the lightweight Moblin (mobile Linux) operating system following the successful launch of the Atom CPU series on netbooks. In 2010, Nokia and Intel combined the Maemo and Moblin projects to form MeeGo, a Linux-based operating system supports netbooks and tablets.
Several manufacturers waited for Android Honeycomb, specifically adapted for use with tablets, which debuted in February 2011. In March 2012, PC Magazine reported that 31% of U.S. Internet users owned a tablet, used mainly for viewing published content such as video and news. Hewlett Packard announced that the TouchPad, running WebOS 3.0 on a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, would be released in June 2011.
[69] In 2013, the Mozilla Foundation announced a prototype tablet model with Foxconn which ran on Firefox OS. By 2014, around 23% of B2B companies were said to have deployed tablets for sales-related activities, according to a survey report by Corporate Visions. Android tablets were more popular in most of Asia (China and Russia an exception), Africa and Eastern Europe. Tablets can be loosely grouped into several categories by physical size, kind of operating system installed, input and output technology, and uses. Mini tablets are smaller and weigh less than slates, with typical screen sizes between 7–8 inches (18–20 cm).
[91] On July 24, 2013, Google released an upgraded version of the Nexus 7, with FHD display, dual cameras, stereo speakers, more color accuracy, performance improvement, built-in wireless charging, and a variant with 4G LTE support for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.
That size is generally considered larger than a traditional smartphone, creating the hybrid category of the phablet by Forbes[92] and other publications. Further, 2-in-1s may have typical laptop I/O ports, such as USB 3 and DisplayPort, and may connect to traditional PC peripheral devices and external displays. PC games can also be streamed to the tablet from computers with some higher end models of Nvidia-powered video cards.
Examples include the Microsoft Courier, which was discontinued in 2010,[95][96] the Sony Tablet P (considered a flop),[97] and the Toshiba Libretto W100. For example, in hardware, a transportation company may find that the consumer-grade GPS module in an off-the-shelf tablet provides insufficient accuracy, so a tablet can be customized and embedded with a professional-grade antenna to provide a better GPS signal. [98] Such devices allow users to order food and drinks, play games and pay their bill. Since 2013, restaurant chains including Chili’s,[99] Olive Garden[100] and Red Robin[101] have adopted them.
[102] The devices have been criticized by servers who claim that some restaurants determine their hours based on customer feedback in areas unrelated to service. While traditionally E-reader is only designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals, modern E-reader that is running on mobile operating system such as Android had incorporated modern functionally including internet browsing and multimedia capabilities, for example Huawei MatePad Paper are an tablet that are using e-ink instead of typical LCD or LED panel, hence focusing on the reading digital content while maintaining the internet and multimedia capabilities. Kindle line from Amazon mostly retain on the E-reading capabilities, however the recent update to their Kindle firmware had allowed the Kindle reader line to browse the internet and audio playback that can be substitute to traditional tablet due to more readable e-ink panel and battery life, while still allowing user to access to wider multimedia capabilities compared to the older model. Intel’s x86, including x86-64 has powered the “IBM compatible” PC since 1981 and Apple’s Macintosh computers since 2006. [105][106] In October 2013, Intel’s foundry operation announced plans to build FPGA-based quad cores for ARM and x86 processors.
[108][third-party source needed] This dominance began with the release of the mobile-focused and comparatively power-efficient 32-bit ARM610 processor originally designed for the Apple Newton in 1993 and ARM3-using Acorn A4 laptop in 1992. This has helped manufacturers extend battery life and shrink component count along with the size of devices. [113] Intel chairman Andy Bryant has stated that its 2014 goal is to quadruple its tablet chip sales to 40 million units by the end of that year,[114] as an investment for 2015.
They allow a high level of precision, useful in emulating a pointer (as is common in tablet computers) but may require calibration. Most finger-driven capacitive screens do not currently support pressure input (except for the iPhone 6S and later models), but some tablets use a pressure-sensitive stylus or active pen. The ARM Cortex family is powerful enough for tasks such as internet browsing, light creative and production work and mobile games. Other features are: High-definition, anti-glare display, touchscreen, lower weight and longer battery life than a comparably-sized laptop, wireless local area and internet connectivity (usually with Wi-Fi standard and optional mobile broadband), Bluetooth for connecting peripherals and communicating with local devices, ports for wired connections and charging, for example USB ports, Early devices had IR support and could work as a TV remote controller, docking station, keyboard and added connectivity, on-board flash memory, ports for removable storage, various cloud storage services for backup and syncing data across devices, local storage on a local area network (LAN).
In both cases, the voice input is sent to central servers to perform general speech recognition and thus requires a network connection for more than simple commands. In both cases, the voice input is sent to central servers to perform general speech recognition and thus requires a network connection for more than simple commands.
[132] In late 2021, iOS has 55% use worldwide (varies by continent, e.g. below 50% in South America and Africa) and Android 45% use. Android is a Linux-based operating system that Google offers as open source under the Apache license. [138][139][140] Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), released in 2011 and later versions support larger screen sizes, mainly tablets, and have access to the Google Play service. [141] In 2022 Google began to re-emphasize in-house Android tablet development — at this point, a multi-year commitment.
HarmonyOS (HMOS) (Chinese: 鸿蒙; pinyin: Hóngméng) is a distributed operating system developed by Huawei to collaborate and interconnect with multiple smart devices on the Internet of Things ecosystem. [144][145] In its current multi-kernel design, the operating system selects suitable kernels from the abstraction layer for devices with diverse resources.
[145][146][147] For IoT devices, the system is known to be based on LiteOS kernel; while for smartphones and tablets, it is based on a Linux kernel layer with AOSP libraries to support APK apps using ART through the Ark Compiler, in addition to native HarmonyOS apps. Prior to the introduction of iPadOS in 2019, the iPad ran iOS, which was created for the iPhone and iPod Touch.
[150] Although built on the same underlying Unix implementation as macOS, its user interface is radically different. iPadOS is designed for touch input from the user’s fingers and has none of the features that required a stylus on earlier tablets.
The UI includes a HOME screen, consisting of the top bar, the screenshot viewer (“Album”), and shortcuts to the Nintendo eShop, News, and Settings. [153][154] Ubuntu Touch can run on a pure GNU/Linux base on phones with the required drivers, such as the Librem 5[155] and the PinePhone. Tablets running Windows could use the touchscreen for mouse input, hand writing recognition and gesture support. In 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8, which features significant changes to various aspects of the operating system’s user interface and platform which are designed for touch-based devices such as tablets.
Several hardware companies have built hybrid devices with the possibility to work with both Android and Windows Phone operating systems (or in rare cases Windows 8.1, as with the, by now cancelled, Asus Transformer Book Duet), while Ars Technica stated: “dual-OS devices are always terrible products. Windows and Android almost never cross-communicate, so any dual-OS device means dealing with separate apps, data, and storage pools and completely different UI paradigms. So from a consumer perspective, Microsoft and Google are really just saving OEMs from producing tons of clunky devices that no one will want. As a smartphone OS, it is closed-source and proprietary, and only runs on phones and tablets manufactured by BlackBerry.
One of the dominant platforms in the world in the late 2000s, its global market share was reduced significantly by the mid-2010s. This can be used to reduce the impact of malware, provide software with an approved content rating, control application quality and exclude competing vendors.
[185][186][187][188] Apple and IBM have agreed to cooperate in cross-selling IBM-developed applications for iPads and iPhones in enterprise-level accounts.
In 2012, Intel reported that their tablet program improved productivity for about 19,000 of their employees by an average of 57 minutes a day.
[194] Tablets are increasingly used in the construction industry to look at blueprints, field documentation and other relevant information on the device instead of carrying around large amounts of paper. A 2014 survey found that mobiles were the most frequently used object for play among American children under the age of 12.
The blue wavelength of light from back-lit tablets may impact one’s ability to fall asleep when reading at night, through the suppression of melatonin. [220] Experts at Harvard Medical School suggest limiting tablets for reading use in the evening.
On November 13, 2013, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) announced that the use of mobile terminals could be authorized on the flights of European airlines during these phases from 2014 onwards, on the condition that the cellular functions are deactivated (“airplane” mode activated). [225] In September 2014, EASA issued guidance that allows EU airlines to permit use of tablets, e-readers, smartphones, and other portable electronic devices to stay on without the need to be in airplane mode during all parts of EU flights, however each airline has to decide to allow this behavior. [226] In the US, the Federal Aviation Administration allowed use of portable electronic devices during all parts of flights while in airplane mode in late 2013. Some French historical monuments are equipped with digital tactile tablets called “HistoPad”.
Some professionals – for example, in the construction industry, insurance experts, lifeguards or surveyors – use so-called rugged shelf models in the field that can withstand extreme hot or cold shocks or climatic environments. For example, United States Army helicopter pilots are moving to tablets as electronic flight bags, which confer the advantages of rapid, convenient synchronization of large groups of users, and the seamless updating of information. [230] US Army chaplains who are deployed in the field with the troops cite the accessibility of Army regulations, field manuals, and other critical information to help with their services; however power generation, speakers, and a tablet rucksack are also necessary for the chaplains.
List of Samsung tablets
Samsung announced its first tablet, the Android-powered Galaxy Tab 7.0, in September 2010. Samsung announced the original Galaxy View, an 18.4-inch tablet, in October 2015. [2] It was succeeded by the slightly smaller, 17.3-inch, Galaxy View 2 in April 2019.
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
For the Google branded tablet made by Samsung, see Nexus 10 The first model in the series, the 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, was presented to the public on 2 September 2010 at the IFA in Berlin and was available on 5 November 2010. It was later split into three separate lines: the Galaxy Tab S series for high-end tablets, the Galaxy Tab A series for mid-range tablets, and the Galaxy Tab E series for entry-level tablets. Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro [ edit ] The original Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro devices, released in 2014, were a series of three high-end tablets running the Android operating system. These tablets would be succeeded by the Galaxy Tab S series.
In 2016, Samsung released another device in the Tab Pro line, the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S, although that tablet ran Windows 10 instead of Android. It was succeeded by the Samsung Galaxy Book the following year.
The Galaxy Tab S series is Samsung’s high-end tablet line, running the Android operating system and mirroring the Galaxy S series of smartphones. The Samsung Galaxy Tab E series is a line of entry-level tablets.
Name Model number OS Released Network Display CPU GPU RAM Front camera Rear camera Video recording Internal Storage External Storage Height Width Thickness Weight Battery Stylus Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2019) SM-T510 (Wi-Fi); SM-T515 (WiFi+4G) Android 9.0 up to Android 11.0 1 April 2019 LTE 700/800/850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100/2300/2500/2600 EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 1200 × 1920 TFT Exynos 7904 Octo-core (2x 1.8 GhHz ARM Cortex-A73) & (6x 1.6 GHz ARM Cortex-A53) Mali-G71 MP2 2 GB / 3 GB 5 MP 8 MP 1080p HD @30 fps 32 GB/ 64 GB/ 128 GB microSD (up to 512 GB) 245.2 millimetres (9.65 in) 149.4 millimetres (5.88 in) 7.5 millimetres (0.30 in) 465 g (1.025 lb) 6150 mAh Galaxy Tab A 8 (2019) SM-T290 (Wi-Fi); SM-T295 (WiFi+4G) Android 9.0 up to Android 11.0 1 July 2019 LTE 700/800/850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100/2300/2500/2600
EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 1280 × 800 TFT Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 quad-core (4 × ARM Cortex-A53) Adreno 504 2 GB 2 MP 8 MP 1080p HD @30 fps 32 GB microSD (up to 512 GB) 210 millimetres (8.3 in) 124.4 millimetres (4.90 in) 8 millimetres (0.31 in) 345 g (0.761 lb) 5100 mAh Name Model number OS Released Network Display CPU GPU RAM Front camera Rear camera Video recording Internal Storage External Storage Height Width Thickness Weight Battery Stylus Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 SM-T230 (WiFi) 1280 × 800 TFT Marvell PXA1088 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 GC1000 1.5 GB 1.3 MP 3 MP 720p HD @30 fps 8/16 GB microSD (up to 64 GB) 186.9 mm (7.36 in) 107.9 mm (4.25 in) 8 mm (0.31 in) 276 g (0.608 lb) 4000 mAh Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 SM-T330 (WiFi)
1280 × 800 TFT Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 Adreno 305 1.5 GB 1.3 MP 3 MP 720p HD @30 fps 16/32 GB microSD (up to 64 GB) 210.0 mm (8.27 in) 124.0 mm (4.88 in) 8 mm (0.31 in) 320 g (0.71 lb) 4450 mAh Galaxy Tab 4 10.1 SM-T530 (WiFi) 1280 × 800 TFT Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 Adreno 305 1.5 GB 1.3 MP 3 MP 720p HD @30 fps 16/32 GB microSD (up to 64 GB) 243.4 mm (9.58 in) 176.4 mm (6.94 in) 8 mm (0.31 in) 487 g (1.074 lb) 6800 mAh
Tablet computer
The touchscreen display is operated by gestures executed by finger or digital pen (stylus), instead of the mouse, touchpad, and keyboard of larger computers. [5] Thereafter, tablets rapidly rose in ubiquity and soon became a large product category used for personal, educational and workplace applications. [6] Popular uses for a tablet PC include viewing presentations, video-conferencing, reading e-books, watching movies, sharing photos and more. Throughout the 20th century devices with these characteristics have been imagined and created whether as blueprints, prototypes, or commercial products.
In addition to many academic and research systems, several companies released commercial products in the 1980s, with various input/output types tried out. [12] Another important enabling factor was the lithium-ion battery, an indispensable energy source for tablets,[14] commercialized by Sony and Asahi Kasei in 1991. Tablet computers appeared in a number of works of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century; all helped to promote and disseminate the concept to a wider audience. In 1992, IBM announced (in April) and shipped to developers (in October) the ThinkPad 700T (2521), which ran the GO Corporation’s PenPoint OS.
The operating system and platform design were later licensed to Sharp and Digital Ocean, who went on to manufacture their own variants.
Microsoft, the dominant PC software vendor, released Windows for Pen Computing in 1992 to compete against PenPoint OS. The company launched the WinPad project, working together with OEMs such as Compaq, to create a small device with a Windows-like operating system and handwriting recognition. However the project was abandoned two years later; instead Windows CE was released in the form of “Handheld PCs” in 1996.
Also in 1996 Fujitsu released the Stylistic 1000 tablet format PC, running Microsoft Windows 95, on a 100 MHz AMD486 DX4 CPU, with 8 MB RAM offering stylus input, with the option of connecting a conventional Keyboard and mouse. Intel announced a StrongARM[38] processor-based touchscreen tablet computer in 1999, under the name WebPAD.
Sony released its Airboard tablet in Japan in late 2000 with full wireless Internet capabilities. [44][45] Microsoft took a more significant approach to tablets in 2002 as it attempted to define the Microsoft Tablet PC[46] as a mobile computer for field work in business,[47] though their devices failed, mainly due to pricing and usability decisions that limited them to their original purpose – such as the existing devices being too heavy to be held with one hand for extended periods, and having legacy applications created for desktop interfaces and not well adapted to the slate format.
An early model was test manufactured in 2001, the Nokia M510, which was running on EPOC and featuring an Opera browser, speakers and a 10-inch 800×600 screen, but it was not released because of fears that the market was not ready for it. The user interface and application framework layer, named Hildon, was an early instance of a software platform for generic computing in a tablet device intended for internet consumption.
Before the release of iPad, Axiotron introduced[53] an aftermarket, heavily modified Apple MacBook called Modbook, a Mac OS X-based tablet computer. The Modbook uses Apple’s Inkwell for handwriting and gesture recognition, and uses digitization hardware from Wacom.
To get Mac OS X to talk to the digitizer on the integrated tablet, the Modbook was supplied with a third-party driver. Following the launch of the Ultra-mobile PC, Intel began the Mobile Internet Device initiative, which took the same hardware and combined it with a tabletized Linux configuration. Intel codeveloped the lightweight Moblin (mobile Linux) operating system following the successful launch of the Atom CPU series on netbooks. In 2010, Nokia and Intel combined the Maemo and Moblin projects to form MeeGo, a Linux-based operating system supports netbooks and tablets.
Several manufacturers waited for Android Honeycomb, specifically adapted for use with tablets, which debuted in February 2011. In March 2012, PC Magazine reported that 31% of U.S. Internet users owned a tablet, used mainly for viewing published content such as video and news. Hewlett Packard announced that the TouchPad, running WebOS 3.0 on a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, would be released in June 2011. [69] In 2013, the Mozilla Foundation announced a prototype tablet model with Foxconn which ran on Firefox OS. By 2014, around 23% of B2B companies were said to have deployed tablets for sales-related activities, according to a survey report by Corporate Visions. Android tablets were more popular in most of Asia (China and Russia an exception), Africa and Eastern Europe.
Tablets can be loosely grouped into several categories by physical size, kind of operating system installed, input and output technology, and uses. Mini tablets are smaller and weigh less than slates, with typical screen sizes between 7–8 inches (18–20 cm). [91] On July 24, 2013, Google released an upgraded version of the Nexus 7, with FHD display, dual cameras, stereo speakers, more color accuracy, performance improvement, built-in wireless charging, and a variant with 4G LTE support for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon.
That size is generally considered larger than a traditional smartphone, creating the hybrid category of the phablet by Forbes[92] and other publications. Further, 2-in-1s may have typical laptop I/O ports, such as USB 3 and DisplayPort, and may connect to traditional PC peripheral devices and external displays. PC games can also be streamed to the tablet from computers with some higher end models of Nvidia-powered video cards.
Examples include the Microsoft Courier, which was discontinued in 2010,[95][96] the Sony Tablet P (considered a flop),[97] and the Toshiba Libretto W100. For example, in hardware, a transportation company may find that the consumer-grade GPS module in an off-the-shelf tablet provides insufficient accuracy, so a tablet can be customized and embedded with a professional-grade antenna to provide a better GPS signal. [98] Such devices allow users to order food and drinks, play games and pay their bill. Since 2013, restaurant chains including Chili’s,[99] Olive Garden[100] and Red Robin[101] have adopted them.
[102] The devices have been criticized by servers who claim that some restaurants determine their hours based on customer feedback in areas unrelated to service. While traditionally E-reader is only designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals, modern E-reader that is running on mobile operating system such as Android had incorporated modern functionally including internet browsing and multimedia capabilities, for example Huawei MatePad Paper are an tablet that are using e-ink instead of typical LCD or LED panel, hence focusing on the reading digital content while maintaining the internet and multimedia capabilities. Kindle line from Amazon mostly retain on the E-reading capabilities, however the recent update to their Kindle firmware had allowed the Kindle reader line to browse the internet and audio playback that can be substitute to traditional tablet due to more readable e-ink panel and battery life, while still allowing user to access to wider multimedia capabilities compared to the older model. Intel’s x86, including x86-64 has powered the “IBM compatible” PC since 1981 and Apple’s Macintosh computers since 2006.
[105][106] In October 2013, Intel’s foundry operation announced plans to build FPGA-based quad cores for ARM and x86 processors. [108][third-party source needed] This dominance began with the release of the mobile-focused and comparatively power-efficient 32-bit ARM610 processor originally designed for the Apple Newton in 1993 and ARM3-using Acorn A4 laptop in 1992.
This has helped manufacturers extend battery life and shrink component count along with the size of devices. [113] Intel chairman Andy Bryant has stated that its 2014 goal is to quadruple its tablet chip sales to 40 million units by the end of that year,[114] as an investment for 2015.
They allow a high level of precision, useful in emulating a pointer (as is common in tablet computers) but may require calibration. Most finger-driven capacitive screens do not currently support pressure input (except for the iPhone 6S and later models), but some tablets use a pressure-sensitive stylus or active pen. The ARM Cortex family is powerful enough for tasks such as internet browsing, light creative and production work and mobile games. Other features are: High-definition, anti-glare display, touchscreen, lower weight and longer battery life than a comparably-sized laptop, wireless local area and internet connectivity (usually with Wi-Fi standard and optional mobile broadband), Bluetooth for connecting peripherals and communicating with local devices, ports for wired connections and charging, for example USB ports, Early devices had IR support and could work as a TV remote controller, docking station, keyboard and added connectivity, on-board flash memory, ports for removable storage, various cloud storage services for backup and syncing data across devices, local storage on a local area network (LAN).
In both cases, the voice input is sent to central servers to perform general speech recognition and thus requires a network connection for more than simple commands. In both cases, the voice input is sent to central servers to perform general speech recognition and thus requires a network connection for more than simple commands.
[132] In late 2021, iOS has 55% use worldwide (varies by continent, e.g. below 50% in South America and Africa) and Android 45% use. Android is a Linux-based operating system that Google offers as open source under the Apache license.
[138][139][140] Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), released in 2011 and later versions support larger screen sizes, mainly tablets, and have access to the Google Play service. [141] In 2022 Google began to re-emphasize in-house Android tablet development — at this point, a multi-year commitment.
HarmonyOS (HMOS) (Chinese: 鸿蒙; pinyin: Hóngméng) is a distributed operating system developed by Huawei to collaborate and interconnect with multiple smart devices on the Internet of Things ecosystem. [144][145] In its current multi-kernel design, the operating system selects suitable kernels from the abstraction layer for devices with diverse resources.
[145][146][147] For IoT devices, the system is known to be based on LiteOS kernel; while for smartphones and tablets, it is based on a Linux kernel layer with AOSP libraries to support APK apps using ART through the Ark Compiler, in addition to native HarmonyOS apps. Prior to the introduction of iPadOS in 2019, the iPad ran iOS, which was created for the iPhone and iPod Touch. [150] Although built on the same underlying Unix implementation as macOS, its user interface is radically different. iPadOS is designed for touch input from the user’s fingers and has none of the features that required a stylus on earlier tablets. The UI includes a HOME screen, consisting of the top bar, the screenshot viewer (“Album”), and shortcuts to the Nintendo eShop, News, and Settings. [153][154] Ubuntu Touch can run on a pure GNU/Linux base on phones with the required drivers, such as the Librem 5[155] and the PinePhone.
Tablets running Windows could use the touchscreen for mouse input, hand writing recognition and gesture support. In 2012, Microsoft released Windows 8, which features significant changes to various aspects of the operating system’s user interface and platform which are designed for touch-based devices such as tablets. Several hardware companies have built hybrid devices with the possibility to work with both Android and Windows Phone operating systems (or in rare cases Windows 8.1, as with the, by now cancelled, Asus Transformer Book Duet), while Ars Technica stated: “dual-OS devices are always terrible products. Windows and Android almost never cross-communicate, so any dual-OS device means dealing with separate apps, data, and storage pools and completely different UI paradigms. So from a consumer perspective, Microsoft and Google are really just saving OEMs from producing tons of clunky devices that no one will want. As a smartphone OS, it is closed-source and proprietary, and only runs on phones and tablets manufactured by BlackBerry.
One of the dominant platforms in the world in the late 2000s, its global market share was reduced significantly by the mid-2010s. This can be used to reduce the impact of malware, provide software with an approved content rating, control application quality and exclude competing vendors. [185][186][187][188] Apple and IBM have agreed to cooperate in cross-selling IBM-developed applications for iPads and iPhones in enterprise-level accounts. In 2012, Intel reported that their tablet program improved productivity for about 19,000 of their employees by an average of 57 minutes a day.
[194] Tablets are increasingly used in the construction industry to look at blueprints, field documentation and other relevant information on the device instead of carrying around large amounts of paper. A 2014 survey found that mobiles were the most frequently used object for play among American children under the age of 12.
The blue wavelength of light from back-lit tablets may impact one’s ability to fall asleep when reading at night, through the suppression of melatonin. [220] Experts at Harvard Medical School suggest limiting tablets for reading use in the evening. On November 13, 2013, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) announced that the use of mobile terminals could be authorized on the flights of European airlines during these phases from 2014 onwards, on the condition that the cellular functions are deactivated (“airplane” mode activated).
[225] In September 2014, EASA issued guidance that allows EU airlines to permit use of tablets, e-readers, smartphones, and other portable electronic devices to stay on without the need to be in airplane mode during all parts of EU flights, however each airline has to decide to allow this behavior. [226] In the US, the Federal Aviation Administration allowed use of portable electronic devices during all parts of flights while in airplane mode in late 2013. Some French historical monuments are equipped with digital tactile tablets called “HistoPad”.
Some professionals – for example, in the construction industry, insurance experts, lifeguards or surveyors – use so-called rugged shelf models in the field that can withstand extreme hot or cold shocks or climatic environments. For example, United States Army helicopter pilots are moving to tablets as electronic flight bags, which confer the advantages of rapid, convenient synchronization of large groups of users, and the seamless updating of information.
[230] US Army chaplains who are deployed in the field with the troops cite the accessibility of Army regulations, field manuals, and other critical information to help with their services; however power generation, speakers, and a tablet rucksack are also necessary for the chaplains.
Samsung Galaxy Tab series
For the Google branded tablet made by Samsung, see Nexus 10 The first model in the series, the 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab, was presented to the public on 2 September 2010 at the IFA in Berlin and was available on 5 November 2010.
It was later split into three separate lines: the Galaxy Tab S series for high-end tablets, the Galaxy Tab A series for mid-range tablets, and the Galaxy Tab E series for entry-level tablets. Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro [ edit ]
The original Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro devices, released in 2014, were a series of three high-end tablets running the Android operating system. These tablets would be succeeded by the Galaxy Tab S series.
In 2016, Samsung released another device in the Tab Pro line, the Samsung Galaxy TabPro S, although that tablet ran Windows 10 instead of Android. It was succeeded by the Samsung Galaxy Book the following year.
The Galaxy Tab S series is Samsung’s high-end tablet line, running the Android operating system and mirroring the Galaxy S series of smartphones. The Samsung Galaxy Tab E series is a line of entry-level tablets.
Name Model number OS Released Network Display CPU GPU RAM Front camera Rear camera Video recording Internal Storage External Storage Height Width Thickness Weight Battery Stylus Galaxy Tab A 10.1 (2019) SM-T510 (Wi-Fi); SM-T515 (WiFi+4G) Android 9.0 up to Android 11.0 1 April 2019 LTE 700/800/850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100/2300/2500/2600 EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 1200 × 1920 TFT Exynos 7904 Octo-core (2x 1.8 GhHz ARM Cortex-A73) & (6x 1.6 GHz ARM Cortex-A53) Mali-G71 MP2 2 GB / 3 GB 5 MP 8 MP 1080p HD @30 fps 32 GB/ 64 GB/ 128 GB microSD (up to 512 GB) 245.2 millimetres (9.65 in) 149.4 millimetres (5.88 in) 7.5 millimetres (0.30 in) 465 g (1.025 lb) 6150 mAh Galaxy Tab A 8 (2019) SM-T290 (Wi-Fi); SM-T295 (WiFi+4G) Android 9.0 up to Android 11.0 1 July 2019 LTE 700/800/850/900/1700/1800/1900/2100/2300/2500/2600
EDGE/GPRS 850/900/1800/1900 1280 × 800 TFT Qualcomm Snapdragon 429 quad-core (4 × ARM Cortex-A53) Adreno 504 2 GB 2 MP 8 MP 1080p HD @30 fps 32 GB microSD (up to 512 GB) 210 millimetres (8.3 in) 124.4 millimetres (4.90 in) 8 millimetres (0.31 in) 345 g (0.761 lb) 5100 mAh Name Model number OS Released Network Display CPU GPU RAM Front camera Rear camera Video recording Internal Storage External Storage Height Width Thickness Weight Battery Stylus Galaxy Tab 4 7.0 SM-T230 (WiFi)
1280 × 800 TFT Marvell PXA1088 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 GC1000 1.5 GB 1.3 MP 3 MP 720p HD @30 fps 8/16 GB microSD (up to 64 GB) 186.9 mm (7.36 in) 107.9 mm (4.25 in) 8 mm (0.31 in) 276 g (0.608 lb) 4000 mAh Galaxy Tab 4 8.0 SM-T330 (WiFi)
1280 × 800 TFT Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 Adreno 305 1.5 GB 1.3 MP 3 MP 720p HD @30 fps 16/32 GB microSD (up to 64 GB) 210.0 mm (8.27 in) 124.0 mm (4.88 in) 8 mm (0.31 in) 320 g (0.71 lb) 4450 mAh Galaxy Tab 4 10.1 SM-T530 (WiFi)
1280 × 800 TFT Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 1.2 GHz quad-core Cortex-A7 Adreno 305 1.5 GB 1.3 MP 3 MP 720p HD @30 fps 16/32 GB microSD (up to 64 GB) 243.4 mm (9.58 in) 176.4 mm (6.94 in) 8 mm (0.31 in) 487 g (1.074 lb) 6800 mAh
Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 Kids Android tablet gets UK release date
Samsung has confirmed a UK release date for its Galaxy Tab 3 Kids, its first Android tablet intended for use primarily by children. Samsung will be preloading the device with a range of e-books, apps and games, while also curating its own “Kids Store” for parents to download new content.
The device has a seven-inch screen, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, front and rear cameras, and 8GB of internal memory plus a microSD card slot for storage.
Android versions: A living history from 1.0 to 13
Things were pretty basic back then, but the software did include a suite of early Google apps like Gmail, Maps, Calendar, and YouTube, all of which were integrated into the operating system — a stark contrast to the more easily updatable standalone-app model employed today. Cupcake also brought about the framework for third-party app widgets, which would quickly turn into one of Android’s most distinguishing elements, and it provided the platform’s first-ever option for video recording. Donut filled in some important holes in Android’s center, including the ability for the OS to operate on a variety of different screen sizes and resolutions — a factor that’d be critical in the years to come. Eclair was the first Android release to enter mainstream consciousness thanks to the original Motorola Droid phone and the massive Verizon-led marketing campaign surrounding it.
The release’s most transformative element was the addition of voice-guided turn-by-turn navigation and real-time traffic info — something previously unheard of (and still essentially unmatched) in the smartphone world. And it made waves for injecting the once-iOS-exclusive pinch-to-zoom capability into Android — a move often seen as the spark that ignited Apple’s long-lasting “thermonuclear war” against Google. Froyo did deliver some important front-facing features, though, including the addition of the now-standard dock at the bottom of the home screen as well as the first incarnation of Voice Actions, which allowed you to perform basic functions like getting directions and making notes by tapping an icon and then speaking a command. Android 3.0 came into the world as a tablet-only release to accompany the launch of the Motorola Xoom, and through the subsequent 3.1 and 3.2 updates, it remained a tablet-exclusive (and closed-source) entity. It had a space-like “holographic” design that traded the platform’s trademark green for blue and placed an emphasis on making the most of a tablet’s screen space. With Honeycomb acting as the bridge from old to new, Ice Cream Sandwich — also released in 2011 — served as the platform’s official entry into the era of modern design.
Spread across three impactful Android versions, 2012 and 2013’s Jelly Bean releases took ICS’s fresh foundation and made meaningful strides in fine-tuning and building upon it. Multiuser support also came into play, albeit on tablets only at this point, and an early version of Android’s Quick Settings panel made its first appearance.
Late-2013’s KitKat release marked the end of Android’s dark era, as the blacks of Gingerbread and the blues of Honeycomb finally made their way out of the operating system. The release was Google’s first foray into claiming a full panel of the home screen for its services, too — at least, for users of its own Nexus phones and those who chose to download its first-ever standalone launcher.
Lollipop introduced a slew of new features into Android, including truly hands-free voice control via the “OK, Google” command, support for multiple users on phones and a priority mode for better notification management.
Pixel Tablet: Everything we know and what we want to see (Update: Sept. 02)
After that also failed to gain traction, Google formally announced it was exiting the tablet market completely. Assuming Google can get the tablet ready for 2023, it would probably launch it in either May 2023 at the next I/O or in October 2023 at its fall hardware event.
There were no subtle hints, either: the company showed the tablet from all sides, giving us a very solid idea of what to expect.
Finally, during the I/O keynote, you could very briefly see a set of pogo pins on the back of the tablet underneath the Google logo.
It’s also possible the tablet could double as a smart display, as we’ve heard rumors Google is working on such a device. Confirmed specs and features So far, the only thing we know for certain about the hardware inside of the Pixel Tablet is that it will run on Google’s Tensor chipset.
A listing discovered by NuGiz (via 9To5Google) suggests that the Pixel Tablet might get stylus support. The publication found a Google tablet named “Tangor” in a list of Universal Stylus Initiative (USI) products.
USI aims to create a standard for active pen input so that any supported accessory works with every certified device.
However, its appearance on the list is a bit strange since Google isn’t expected to launch the Pixel Tablet until 2023. Looks like we’ll have to wait and watch if more evidence emerges in the future about a Google-made stylus coming with the tablet. Elsewhere, code-sleuth Kuba Wojciechowski found evidence that every strongly suggests the Pixel Tablet is not designed to leave the house.
According to AOSP code, the tablet will lack a modem, GPS, proximity sensors, and a barometer. Theoretically, you could snap the tablet onto a base of some sort and it would act pretty much like a Google Nest Hub Max. According to some leaked code found by 9to5Google, the Pixel Tablet could lack support for 4K video recording. Now, Google could be using the term “premium” to refer to the hardware and user experience, but the price could still be lower than what you would expect from an iPad Pro or a Galaxy Tab S8 Ultra. It would be an eminently smart business move for Google to try to undercut competitors here, which could keep the price fairly low. Likewise, remember that one of the biggest reasons for the failure of the Pixel Slate line was how expensive they were. Google’s attempts at creating its own tablets were weak at best, and the company barely made any tweaks to Android to help it accommodate larger screens from other manufacturers. However, there’s no reason to bog down the phone version of Android with code designed specifically for tablets.
However, we’ve seen plenty of tablet keyboard folios, as first popularized by the Microsoft Surface line. Instead, we’re hoping the rumor that Google is working on a detachable smart display system turns out to be true. Theoretically, this would allow you to attach the Google Pixel Tablet to a base when you want it to act as a smart display. We have our fingers crossed that Google doesn’t conflate “premium” with “expensive.” The thing keeping us hopeful is the Pixel 6.
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How Android Tablets Work
” ” The Motorola Xoom hit the market in early 2011 and is the first device to run the tablet version of the Android operating system. While Google optimized the original build of Android for smartphone devices, the company continued to develop the mobile operating system.
You can watch videos, listen to music, surf the Web, read electronic documents, play games and launch apps from a tablet.
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