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Wednesday, November 30, 2011
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Cruz Tablet unboxing.
MyTabletLife.com unboxing of the new Velocity Micro Cruz tablet. You can pick it up for 9.99 at Best Buy. Its a 7" Capacitive touch Android 2.0 tablet.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Android Tablet PC Performance: What To Look For In No-Brand Tablets
No-Brand Tablets better than PCs?
Apparently, the latest in consumer patterns for Tablets reveal that No-Brand Tablets, now-a-days being called as 'white-box' tablets are growing in sales by a whopping 19.6% (source DisplaySearch a renowned consumer analytics firm). Some of the reasons attributed for this are as varied as slow economic growth to lower prices of these manufacturer-direct tablets, especially from China and local providers. However, what No-Brand Tablets deliver is on the technology adoption, with close to 44 percent worldwide shipments, more so from China, the cradle of No-Brand tablet manufacturers. PCs sales have plummeted drastically while No-Branded Tablets entrench themselves more in expanding consumer base.
No-Brand Tablet Performance is similar to PC performance
PC is yet considered as the measuring dip for most of the modern devices making their debut. PC is perhaps on its last few laps before newer, faster and more capable technology will replace it entirely.
Ever since tablets have debuted, the debate of the end of PCs with the arrival of the final rival has been making the rounds. However, this is likely to happen only in a few years time. This is because the tablet brigade does not yet match the cost-effective hardware and processor capacities available for PCs.
However, the storage, and other core features such as CPU, RAM, screen resolution etc in PCs are considered more powerful, yet the superlative performance of tablets cannot be denied either.
This is largely because of the mobility factor that Tablets have while PCs seem rather restrained. Nevertheless, the present status quo is that Tablets augment core PC computing time by being able to use more conveniently and has greater number of applications are possible in comparison to sedate PCs.
Besides, software delivery across platforms for the PC is higher in comparison to Tablets. However, No-brand Tablets remain favorites as these come with Android 2.1 ver, the latest in tablet OS.
Cutting- edge Android Tablets Technology
Android Tablet PC uses Cortex A-8 and A-9 processors. These are stand-alone chips that any of the Smart Phone/Tablet manufacturers can source and assemble. Even Samsung Galaxy tablet, the present viral smart tablet, uses the same Cortex A-9 architecture to offer those rave features that is increasing its user base by the thousands every week.
No-Brand Tablets are giving you this core architecture, along with the same technology sans the expensive price tag of Samsung Galaxy tablet or a Motorola Xoom and other leading names in the segment.
Lower specifications will further reduce Non-Branded Tablet costs
Additionally, 'Whitebox' Tablet have another advantage, you could choose to own a Tablet that is perhaps at least one version lower than the current version of the OS presently in use and make a substantial savings (almost to the tune of half the cost price). You will continue to experience all the eulogized features of Branded Tablet PCs but without the exorbitant prices.
For example, a Chinese-manufactured Sumixe Android 2.1 Tablet with 7 inch Multi-Touch screen WiFi, HDMI, Camera costs as less as 6.94. There is even a wholesale price for institutional sales at 7.06.
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Choosing the Best Portable Ebook Reader: Key Considerations - Audio and Memory
Let me begin by listing again what I consider to be 7 key considerations that you should think about as you digest all the eBook reader reviews and comparisons so in gathering a list of the best eBook Readers, so you can choose that one great eReader you want to buy. Here they are again in no special order:
Form Factor Audio Memory / Storage Capacity Digital Content Availability File Type Compatibility Connectivity and Coverage Convenience
In Part 1, we covered Form Factor. In Part 2, we will cover the next few issues.
Audio
You might be asking, why would audio be a 'key consideration' for your choice of the best eBook reader? Well, as someone once said, better to have a gun and not need it, than to need a gun and not have one. I'm not coming down anywhere on the whole second amendment issue, just giving a pertinent illustration. Many of us like to have our favorite devices available. Music players, like iPods and MP3 players, rank right up there in the favorite devices category with things like the George Foreman tabletop grill. So, if you'd like to have background music while you read, wouldn't it be nice if the eBook reader offered that capability instead of finding it necessary to bring another device?
More connected to the reading realm is the issue of audio books, like those you can get from Audible.com, AudioBooks.com, Barnes & Noble, Amazon, Kobo, and many other suppliers. Obviously, you will need audio capabilities in your eBook reader in order to take advantage of audio books.
And then there's the matter of that slick 'text-to-speech' capability, where your eBook reader can just read the text in your eBook to you... once again, if you have audio output capabilities. Most eBook readers do not have this capability, but a few do, especially the popular Amazon Kindle®. Expect more to acquire this capability fairly rapidly. This feature allows the eReader to simply voice the text from the current eBook using the audio output. You can get either male or female digitized voices but there is a pronounced robotic 'emotionless' sound to it. It's a bit like having Stephen Hawking read your book to you. All in all however, it sounds reasonable and it's good enough to easily understand. Don't expect to get a true audiobook experience with professional readers adding emotion, along the lines of books-on-tape and Amazon's Audible, but it's convenient and usable.
If the eReader provides audio, and most do, consider how the audio is delivered. Some eBook readers have headphone jacks; some have speakers. You may prefer one or the other, but some of the best eBook readers like the Kindle, the NOOK, the Sony Touch, and the iPad, have both speakers and headphone jacks so you can choose which you prefer at the moment. By the way, eReader Speakers are not of adequate size and quality for good 'high fidelity' music, so don't expect concert hall sound.
Memory / Storage Capacity
eBooks are essentially digital files, pretty much like any typical computer file. And, just as with computers, you need to store these files in digital memory. Roughly speaking, 1 gigabyte (GB = 1 billion bytes) of digital memory will hold about 700 to 800 eBooks. File size for any given eBook will depend on a number of things including the length of the book, whether or not the book has illustrations and graphics, whether or not color is supported, the type of file, and more. So, the actual number of books you can store in a gigabyte can vary widely.
All eBook readers must have memory. There is internal memory, like a computer's RAM. All eReaders have internal memory. Some, like the Kindle and the Sony Pocket Edition, only have internal memory. Some, like the NOOK, the Sony Touch, the Kobo, iRex Readers, and the Cybook have memory expansion slots so they can support external memory. External memory devices include things like SD cards, MicroSD cards, SDHC cards, and memory sticks.
Keep in mind that the eReader's computer operating system (OS) and reading software take up a good portion of the internal memory that the device comes with. For eReaders like the Kindle and the Sony, the OS takes up over 1GB of the internal memory supplied with the device. The most commonly used eReader OS is Linux which is used by Kindle, Sony, iRex, Bokeen, and many others. The Android OS is used by the NOOK, Entourage, and Velocity Micro's Cruz. Expect the Android OS to increase in popularity as it is used by many of the newer tablets and smartphones. The iPad uses Apple's much ballyhooed iOS operating system. Windows CE is also used by some eBook readers and Windows is notorious for taking up lots of memory.
Consider memory as we do with computers. More memory is always better. And expandable memory is, to some extent, infinite memory. While the ability to hold thousands of books may sound like more than you will ever need, a gigabyte hard disk drive in your computer was also once considered humongous beyond belief. With the ascendancy of audio and video, a gigabyte is now considered itsy-bitsy. Those who do not learn from history are doomed to have it cited to them, annoyingly, again and again. Your eBook reader is very likely to become your digital library. So, make sure your eBook reader has enough memory, and/or memory expansion capability, to accommodate all the things you will want to do with it.
Note also that, if your newest choice for best eBook reader supports the same type of expandable memory as your previous choice for best eBook reader, then your library of eBooks and documents can be easily ported to your new eReader. So, choose wisely Grasshopper.
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Tablet Computers Are the Latest Craze
Most people haven't heard of tablet computers. If you are one of them, this article will shed some light for you. A tablet computer in its most simple form is a laptop computer with a touch screen. Touch input is becoming very popular on electronic devices of all types these days. Whether it's a cell phone or video game, touch screens are appearing on all sorts of electronic gadgets. If you remember watching science fiction movies like Star Trek and seeing the crew members tapping away on a small notebook like electronic device, you have a pretty good idea of what the tablet PC looks like.
Early tablet computers came equipped with keyboards but the tablets that are being revealed in the major trade shows, are missing the keyboard. Some are what they call convertible. This basically means that they can be used with or without a keyboard.
Traditionally tablet PCs have been used with an electronic pen that is used to write on the screen or make input selections. The latest craze is called "multi touch" input. This means that a user can use their fingers to touch in more than one place on the screen at a time.
This type of computer is most often used like a notepad. The user makes all of his or her input selections with either an electronic pen, a stylus, or even fingers. These types of PCs are most commonly used by technicians in the field. In situations where setting a computer down and typing is impractical, the user can simply can input their selections directly on the screen.
Another very popular item at the electronic trade shows is an electronic reader. This is basically a device used for reading books in their electronic form. The books are simply downloaded onto the electronic reader. Hundreds of electronic books can be stored on one device. Tablet PCs are being manufactured smaller and thinner to resemble these electronic readers. Basically they are crossing over so that an electronic reader can be used as a tablet PC and a tablet PC can be used as an electronic reader.
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