1:46 AM
Ahmed Abd ElkadeR
By now, it is no secret that 2012 is expected to be the year of tablets. It is also expected to be the year of Android, the year or mobile advertising, and the year of 4G technology, but those are topics for another time.
CES was filled with companies who want a piece of Apple’s tablet cake
and are doing everything in their power to get it. We saw dozens of new
tablets, each with its own unique advantages, some with slideout
keyboards, some with two HD recording video cameras, some with dual core
processors, and lots of other goodies.
Of course by the time most of these new tablets are released, there will already be an iPad 2 with full multitouch
gestures and possibly no buttons on it whatsoever, which should provide
an even more intuitive user experience than the first iPad.
In any case, I thought I would share some videos of the
top contenders for the tablet king title, which now undeniably belongs
to the Apple iPad (sorry Galaxy Tab, but we can still be friends.).
The following are five of the most exciting tablets to be released to the market in the coming months:
1: BlackBerry Playbook: RIM’s
debut into the tablet market brings with it a 7″ screen, some pretty
sweet looking multitasking capabilities, 1080p recording, and a Cortex
A9-based, dual-core 1GHz CPU with 1GB of RAM. Take a look.
2: Motorola XOOM: The
mobile giant throws its hat into the tablet ring and what a hat it is…
Fully equipped with Android 3.0, a.k.a Honeycomb, a 10.1″ capacitive
screen with a resolution of 1280×800, and the ARM-based Tegra 2 chipset.
This is one nice lookin tablet device. Here it is in action.
3: Asus Eee Tablets: Everyone
else is doing it, so why not Asus? The Asus tablets seem to address the
issue of text input without a hardware keyboard, something I solved
with my beloved Zaggmate. In any case, check out some of the cool innovation that went into the all new Asus tablets.
4: Vizio Via Tablet: Vizio,
a company most well known for their HDTVs is now blurring the lines of
our digital eco system with their new tablet… Watch the video, you will
see what I mean…
5: Dell Streak 7:
Dell is at it again after their Dell Streak 5″ did not take off… The
Streak 7″ runs an nVidia Tegra T20 – Dual Core 1 GHz processor, Android
2.2 (Froyo), and a Gorilla Glass protected screen… Not bad, not bad at
all.
Of course, there were many more tablets announced at CES, but I
thought these were the most exciting. If you ask me, my next tablet is
coin toss between the iPad 2, Playbook, and XOOM.
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