you should look at the kickstarter games , there will be alot of great stuff for windows tablets coming from that.
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you should look at the kickstarter games , there will be alot of great stuff for windows tablets coming from that.
i don't think you will see many 4:3 windows tablets
I should have said Portrait instead of Picture, i.e. Portrait vs. Landscape. I am not talking about physical aspect but orientation.
Oddly straight up widescreen is even worse for documents than 4:3 or 5:4 aspect displays unless you have a large screen which notebooks and tablets by their nature do not. At least a robust Tablet that supports KB MS will solve this general problem: plop it upright and use a wireless mouse, keyboard and tada. Why normal notebook makers ever got the hit I don't know.
Win 8 tablet with a 1600x1200 screen would be nice (not rivaling iPad, but good enough). It's not impossible as the current Samsung Series 7 tablet has an 1366x768 11.6" screen, and Ivy Bridge has around 50% faster GPU than Sandy. The current Slate already has plenty of GPU power to run the desktop (and videos, etc) witthout any slowdowns. There are already some Ultrabooks with exactly the same hardware as the Samsung Slate and a 1600x900 screen. Extra 300 pixels of horizontal resolution with a 50% faster GPU wouldn't be much a strech. But just like the current Slate (and Ultrabooks), these devices would cost over 1000$, so the mass appeal is not yet where is should be for a hugely successful product.
On the flip side if they go with an AMD APU they should be able to drop costs quite a bit
My colleague just bought an Android pad, currently costs 159 euro at the local grocery store. It's not super great of course, but it's Android 4.0, has an IPS screen, 1GB, plays movies smoothly at most resolutions, etc. and seems to perform reasonably well so long as you don't open too many apps (QWare tabel). It's no iPad 3 (or even iPad 2), but certainly does well enough.
I argue that if price were really the primary motivator, then the Kindle Fire and all other cheap Android tablets should have outsold the iPad by a wide margin. Since a tablet is not as much a requirement as a phone or a computer, if a product isn't good, people will live without it as they have in the past.
Isn't the fire the best selling andriod tablet ?
I think the main problem for andriod as a whole is its performance and software . Hell I got a new printer this weekend and the software is of a much higher quality on the ipad than the andriod devices. The andriod app is very limited and looks very basic while the ios app is full featured and has a very nice interface kinda like using a web browser.
Amazon have never published any sales numbers but it begs the question, what can we conclude from that?
That Android buying consumers are sensitive about pricing when it goes north of $200? Or that the Kindle Fire currently has the best infrastructure in the Android eco-system? It certainly isn't the fastest Android tablet or best featured.
Considering the Nook Tablet has been available for $200 for quite a number of months (but after the holidays) makes me think of two things:
1) There is a price limit for holiday gifts for most people, and that's around $200 or so (Kindle Fire territory).
2) Amazon has the best ad space of any retailer, right on their front home page.
3) They have a content infrastructure 2nd only to Apple.
It will be interesting to see how well Kindle Fire sales seem to be in the future, as there is already signs of them slowing.
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I think I remember reading that sales of the Kindle fire have dropped ~35%. But I might be thinking of something else. Basically all manufacturers are having falling Android tablet sales numbers (IIRC), just some are falling faster than others.
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That explains the careful approach of Samsungs Tab 2 line.
http://www.neowin.net/news/this-is-dells-windows-8-tablet
meh , what are these guys thinking with those cpus. Even the c-50 will give this thing a run for its money
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What GPU does Clover Trail have?
The internets are telling me it's a single-core SGX544? Auch..
AMD has a huge window of opportunity for Brazos 2.0 here.
The internets are telling me it's a single-core SGX544? Auch..
AMD has a huge window of opportunity for Brazos 2.0 here.
Fairly heavy for a tablet device compared to what's out there.
