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115-535: The BlackBerry PlayBook is a mini tablet computer that was developed by BlackBerry . It was manufactured by Quanta Computer , an original design manufacturer (ODM). It was first released for sale on April 19, 2011, in Canada and the United States. The PlayBook was the first device to run BlackBerry Tablet OS , based on QNX Neutrino , and run apps developed using Adobe AIR . It was later announced that

230-621: 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

345-411: A cellular network . Unlike laptops (which have traditionally run off operating systems usually designed for desktops), tablets usually run mobile operating systems, alongside smartphones. The touchscreen display is operated by gestures executed by finger or digital pen (stylus), instead of the mouse , touchpad , and keyboard of larger computers. Portable computers can be classified according to

460-455: A local area network (LAN). Tablets, like conventional PCs, use several different operating systems , though dual-booting is rare. Tablet operating systems come in two classes: Desktop OS-based tablets are currently thicker and heavier. They require more storage and more cooling and give less battery life. They can run processor-intensive graphical applications in addition to mobile apps , and have more ports . Mobile-based tablets are

575-411: A rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. Tablets, being computers, have similar capabilities, but lack some input/output (I/O) abilities that others have. Modern tablets largely resemble modern smartphones , the only differences being that tablets are relatively larger than smartphones, with screens 7 inches (18 cm) or larger, measured diagonally, and may not support access to

690-405: A " beta feel" to them, noted the lack of Facebook integration with the new People app, and that the operating system was still not as intuitive for new users as its competitors. PC Magazine acknowledged influence from Windows Phone 7 in the new "People" app and improved benchmark performance on the web browser, but considered both Android Beam and Face Unlock to be gimmicks, and criticized

805-604: A "Me" profile for the device's user. The camera app was redesigned, with a reduction in shutter lag, face detection, a new panorama mode, and the ability to take still photos from a video being recorded in camcorder mode. The photo gallery app added basic photo editing tools. The lock screen supported "Face Unlock" , included a shortcut for launching the camera app, and housed playback controls for music players. The keyboard incorporated improved autocomplete algorithms, and improvements to voice input allowing for continuous dictation. The ability to take screenshots by holding down

920-404: A "Menu" key, a temporary "Menu" key would now be displayed on-screen while running apps that were not coded to support the new navigation scheme. On devices that used a hardware "Menu" key, action overflow buttons were hidden in apps and were mapped to the "Menu" key. The default home screen of Ice Cream Sandwich displayed a persistent Google Search bar across the top of the screen, a dock across

1035-483: A "system bar" across the bottom of the screen, removing the need for physical equivalents. The "Menu" button that was present on previous generations of Android devices was deprecated, in favor of presenting buttons for actions within apps on " action bars ", and menu items which did not fit on the bar in "action overflow" menus, designated by three vertical dots . Hardware "Search" buttons were also deprecated in favor of search buttons within action bars. On devices without

1150-558: A $ 485 million write-down to account for offering price discounts. Sales improved in subsequent quarters as a result. According to Strategy Analytics figures in the 2011 second quarter, the PlayBook's market share in the middle of 2011 was 3.3%, compared to iOS ( iPads ) by Apple with 61.3%, Android by Google with 30.1%, and various Windows by Microsoft with 4.6%. However, the PlayBook remained relatively popular tablet in Canada during earlier years, accounting for nearly 20% of

1265-466: A 7-inch display while Vega's was 15 inches. Many more products followed in 2010. Several manufacturers waited for Android Honeycomb , specifically adapted for use with tablets, which debuted in February 2011. Apple is often credited for defining a new class of consumer device with the iPad , which shaped the commercial market for tablets in the following years, and was the most successful tablet at

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1380-410: A 7-inch, 1024×600 WSVGA display that has an aspect ratio of 16:9, making it adequate for viewing HD video content or other media, and it has 3D graphics acceleration. It has a variety of sensors, including an InvenSense 6-axis gyroscope , magnetometer , and accelerometer . The original PlayBook uses the dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP4430 processor, while the newer, faster PlayBook included

1495-494: A BlackBerry for its native email and calendar applications, although third party email and calendar applications are supported. The platform also has relatively few native third-party applications compared to other platforms, though the number available had steadily risen. Following the mixed reviews, BlackBerry's Playbook began to gain traction and receive better reviews, as the temporary issues are being solved. Walt Mossberg , columnist for The Wall Street Journal , wrote, "I got

1610-446: A Debian-based Linux distribution custom-made for their Internet tablet line. 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. But Nokia did not commit to it as their only platform for their future mobile devices and the project competed against other in-house platforms and later replaced it with

1725-698: A certain quota as calculated by the device. Android 4.0 inherited platform additions from Honeycomb, and also added support for ambient temperature and humidity sensors, Bluetooth Health Device Profile , near-field communication (NFC), and Wi-Fi Direct . The operating system also provided improved support for stylus and mouse input, along with new accessibility, calendar , keychain, spell checking , social networking, and virtual private network APIs . For multimedia support, Android   4.0 also added support for ADTS AAC , Matroska containers for Vorbis and VP8 , WebP , streaming of VP8, OpenMAX AL, and HTTP Live Streaming 3.0. Android   4.0

1840-556: 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

1955-507: A dual core, 1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 processor. Customers could purchase the WiFi PlayBook in 16 GB, 32 GB, and 64 GB storage configurations. In June 2012, the 16 GB model was discontinued, however the 32 and 64 GB Wi-Fi versions remained for sale. In August 2012, the PlayBook 4G LTE was released in Canada. It featured a dual-core 1.5 GHz processor, 4G LTE and UMTS/HSPA+ cellular connectivity, and an NFC chip. Unlike

2070-461: A future update. Popular Android applications that have not been ported onto BlackBerry world such as Pinterest and WhatsApp can be installed by users through the sideloading process. However, after the 2.1 OS update, RIM denied this sideloading process. At first, a decision by BlackBerry to ship the PlayBook without native applications for e-mail and calendar became a source of criticism and derision by reviewers and users. The only way to access email

2185-415: A hardware and software perspective, and delivered in a business-to-business transaction. 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. Such tablets may also be ruggedized for field use. For

2300-488: A keyboard and stylus, which reflected the changing uses. As of early 2016, Android reigned over the market with 65%. Apple took the number 2 spot with 26%, and Windows took a distant third with the remaining 9%. In 2018, out of 4.4 billion computing devices Android accounted for 2 billion, iOS for 1 billion, and the remainder were PCs, in various forms (desktop, notebook, or tablet), running various operating systems (Windows, macOS, ChromeOS, Linux, etc.). Since

2415-479: A keyboard or mouse. This operation makes precise use of our eye–hand coordination . Touchscreens usually come in one of two forms: Since mid-2010s, most tablets use capacitive touchscreens with multi-touch , unlike earlier resistive touchscreen devices which users needed styluses to perform inputs. There are also electronic paper tablets such as Sony Digital Paper DPTS1 and reMarkable that use E ink for its display technology. Many tablets support

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2530-486: A large product category used for personal, educational and workplace applications. Popular uses for a tablet PC include viewing presentations, video-conferencing, reading e-books, watching movies, sharing photos and more. As of 2021 there are 1.28 billion tablet users worldwide according to data provided by Statista , while Apple holds the largest manufacturer market share followed by Samsung and Lenovo . The tablet computer and its associated operating system began with

2645-441: A million PlayBook tablets were shipped in the first quarter. However, after lukewarm market reception, there were reports that the company allegedly revised its second-quarter estimates from 2.4 million down to 800,000 – 900,000 units. Following several months of poor sales, BlackBerry started discounting the price of Playbook from its original retail price to improve the product's run rate at retail. In December 2011, BlackBerry took

2760-570: A mobile operating system such as Android have incorporated modern functionally including internet browsing and multimedia capabilities; for example Huawei MatePad Paper is a tablet that uses e-ink instead of typical LCD or LED panel, hence focusing on the reading digital content while maintaining the internet and multimedia capabilities. Some E-reader such as PocketBook InkPad Color and ONYX BOOX NOVA 3 Color even came with colored e-ink panel and speaker which allowed for higher degree of multimedia consumption and video playback. The Kindle line from Amazon

2875-520: A more significant approach to tablets in 2002 as it attempted to define the Microsoft Tablet PC as a mobile computer for field work in business, 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

2990-664: A new interface with blue-colored accenting. An official launch event for Android 4.0 and the new Nexus phone was originally scheduled for October 11, 2011, at a CTIA trade show in San Diego . However, out of respect for the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs , Google and Samsung postponed the event to October 19, 2011, in Hong Kong . Android 4.0 and its launch device, the Galaxy Nexus , were officially unveiled on October 19, 2011. Andy Rubin explained that 4.0

3105-478: A press release, BlackBerry stated that developers would be able to simply repackage, code sign, and submit their Android apps into BlackBerry App World, however for the first update, only Android 2.3 applications will be able to run on the PlayBook. These applications became available in the BlackBerry Tablet OS 2.0 , released on February 21, 2012. However, Java applications will not be available until

3220-687: A rollout of Ice Cream Sandwich to the predecessor of the Galaxy Nexus, the Nexus S . However, on December 20, 2011, the Nexus S roll-out was "paused" so the company could "monitor feedback" related to the update. On Mar 6, 2012, Android 4.0.4 was released, adding several performance improvements to the camera and screen rotation, other bug fixes, and Google Play support. Google Play Services support for 4.0 ended in February 2019. The user interface of Android   4.0 represented an evolution of

3335-724: A software example, the same transportation company might remove certain software functions in the Android system, such as the internet browser, to reduce costs from needless cellular network data consumption of an employee, and add custom package management software. Other applications may call for a resistive touchscreen and other special hardware and software. A table ordering tablet is a touchscreen tablet computer designed for use in casual restaurants . Such devices allow users to order food and drinks, play games and pay their bill. Since 2013, restaurant chains including Chili's , Olive Garden and Red Robin have adopted them. As of 2014,

3450-429: A stylus and support handwriting recognition . Wacom and N-trig digital pens provide approximately 2500 DPI resolution for handwriting, exceeding the resolution of capacitive touch screens by more than a factor of 10. These pens also support pressure sensitivity, allowing for "variable-width stroke-based" characters, such as Chinese/Japanese/Korean writing, due to their built-in capability of "pressure sensing". Pressure

3565-526: A tablet that uses Samsung Knox with the hardware from the Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 . In August 2011, Blackberry advertised the following "Made for Playbook" accessories: leather slipcase from Valextra (Italy); Premium Charger; Delvaux (Belgium) envelope-style leather case; Leather Journal; Rapid Charging Dock; Neoprene Zip Sleeve; Convertible Case; Blackberry Earphones; Ganzo (Japan) leather zipped pocket; Porter (Japan) nylon canvas sleeve, and

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3680-675: 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. The first tablet using MeeGo was the Neofonie WeTab launched September 2010 in Germany. The WeTab used an extended version of

3795-405: A unified design language, for subsequent Android versions across different device types, called Material design , starting with Android Lollipop , version 5.0. The Galaxy Nexus was the first Android device to ship with Android 4.0. Android 4.0.3 was released on December 16, 2011, providing bug fixes, a new social stream API, and other internal improvements. The same day, Google began

3910-456: A unified user experience between both smartphones and tablets. In June 2011, details also began to surface surrounding a then-new Nexus phone by Samsung to accompany ICS, which would notably exclude hardware navigation keys. Android blog RootzWiki released photos in August 2011 showing a Nexus S running a build of ICS, depicting a new application menu layout resembling that of Honeycomb, and

4025-676: A variant with 4G LTE support for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon. In September 2013, Amazon further updated the Fire tablet with the Kindle Fire HDX . In November 2013, Apple released the iPad Mini 2 , which remained at 7.9 inches and nearly matched the hardware of the iPad Air . Smartphones and tablets are similar devices, differentiated by the former typically having smaller screens and most tablets lacking cellular network capability. Since 2010, crossover touchscreen smartphones with screens larger than 5 inches have been released. That size

4140-464: A zipped bag; WANT Les Essentiels de la Vie (Canada) leather zippered wallet-style case; Soft Shell; Leather Sleeve; Rapid Travel Charger; Brooklyn (Japan) calfskin case; Ettinger (England) leather case; Neoprene sleeve; Torch Smartphone (for "accessing emails"); Leather Envelope. Various sources estimated the sales figure on launch day alone at approximately 50,000, exceeding analyst's expectations. BlackBerry announced in its quarterly earnings that half

4255-628: Is also a gaming tablet that runs on its own system software , features detachable Joy-Con controllers with motion controls and three gaming modes: table-top mode using its kickstand, traditional docked/TV mode and handheld mode. While not entirely an actual tablet form factor due to their sizes, some other handheld console including the smaller version of Nintendo Switch, the Nintendo Switch Lite , and PlayStation Vita are treated as an gaming tablet or tablet replacement by community and reviewer/publisher due to their capabilities on browsing

4370-401: Is also used in digital art applications such as Autodesk Sketchbook . Apps exist on both iOS and Android platforms for handwriting recognition and in 2015 Google introduced its own handwriting input with support for 82 languages. After 2007, with access to capacitive screens and the success of the iPhone, other features became common, such as multi-touch features (in which the user can touch

4485-411: Is generally considered larger than a traditional smartphone, creating the hybrid category of the phablet by Forbes and other publications. "Phablet" is a portmanteau of "phone" and "tablet". At the time of the introduction of the first phablets, they had screens of 5.3 to 5.5 inches, but as of 2017 screen sizes up to 5.5 inches are considered typical. Examples of phablets from 2017 and onward are

4600-551: Is still supported through the BlackBerry Bridge software, allowing users to continue to have access to it while bridged to their BlackBerry smartphone. On October 3, 2012, BlackBerry released Playbook OS 2.1. On January 30, 2013, BlackBerry confirmed that both the Wi-Fi PlayBook and the newer cellular PlayBooks would be receiving an update to the new BlackBerry 10 operating system in 2013. On June 28, 2013,

4715-521: Is touch input on a touchscreen display. This allows the user to navigate easily and type with a virtual keyboard on the screen or press other icons on the screen to open apps or files. The first tablet to do this was the GRiDPad by GRiD Systems Corporation ; the tablet featured both a stylus , a pen-like tool to aid with precision in a touchscreen device as well as an on-screen keyboard. The system must respond to on-screen touches rather than clicks of

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4830-460: The Apple Newton personal digital assistant in 1993. It used Apple's own new Newton OS , initially running on hardware manufactured by Motorola and incorporating an ARM CPU, that Apple had specifically co-developed with Acorn Computers . The operating system and platform design were later licensed to Sharp and Digital Ocean , who went on to manufacture their own variants. Pen computing

4945-567: The JooJoo . Intel announced plans to enter the tablet market with its Atom in 2010. In October 2013, Intel's foundry operation announced plans to build FPGA-based quad cores for ARM and x86 processors. ARM has been the CPU architecture of choice for manufacturers of smartphones (95% ARM), PDAs, digital cameras (80% ARM), set-top boxes , DSL routers, smart televisions (70% ARM), storage devices and tablet computers (95% ARM). This dominance began with

5060-641: The Mozilla Foundation announced a prototype tablet model with Foxconn which ran on Firefox OS . Firefox OS was discontinued in 2016. The Canonical hinted that Ubuntu would be available on tablets by 2014. In February 2016, there was a commercial release of the BQ Aquaris Ubuntu tablet using the Ubuntu Touch operating system. Canonical terminated support for the project due to lack of market interest on April 5, 2017 and it

5175-761: The Samsung Galaxy Note series (newer models of 5.7 inches), the LG V10 / V20 (5.7 inches), the Sony Xperia XA Ultra (6 inches), the Huawei Mate 9 (5.9 inches), and the Huawei Honor (MediaPad) X2 (7 inches). A 2-in-1 PC is a hybrid or combination of a tablet and laptop computer that has features of both. Distinct from tablets, 2-in-1 PCs all have physical keyboards , but they are either concealable by folding them back and under

5290-1164: The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 12.2 at 12.2 inches (31 cm), the Toshiba Excite at 13.3 inches (33 cm) and the Dell XPS 18 at 18.4 inches (47 cm). As of March 2013, the thinnest tablet on the market was the Sony Xperia Tablet Z at only 0.27 inches (6.9 mm) thick. On September 9, 2015, Apple released the iPad Pro with a 12.9 inches (33 cm) screen size, larger than the regular iPad . Mini tablets are smaller and weigh less than slates, with typical screen sizes between 7–8 inches (18–20 cm). The first commercially successful mini tablets were introduced by Amazon.com ( Kindle Fire ), Barnes & Noble ( Nook Tablet ), and Samsung ( Galaxy Tab ) in 2011; and by Google ( Nexus 7 ) in 2012. They operate identically to ordinary tablets but have lower specifications compared to them. On September 14, 2012, Amazon, Inc. released an upgraded version of

5405-545: The Series 60 . Nokia used the term internet tablet to refer to a portable information appliance that focused on Internet use and media consumption, in the range between a personal digital assistant (PDA) and an Ultra-Mobile PC (UMPC). They made two mobile phones, the N900 that runs Maemo, and N9 that run Meego. Before the release of iPad, Axiotron introduced an aftermarket, heavily modified Apple MacBook called Modbook ,

5520-669: The dual-core Texas Instruments OMAP4460 processor . The PlayBook supports high resolution video playback ( H.264, MPEG4 , WMV), and audio (MP3, AAC 5.1, WMA 5.1 audio playback) formats, and has a micro-HDMI port for HDMI video output. It received a score of 428 in "The HTML5 Test" for its browser, placing 4th for tablets, ahead of the Chrome Beta , Chrome 18 , iOS 7 (Safari) , iOS 6.0 (Safari) , Opera Mobile 12.10 , Silk 2.2 ( Amazon Kindle Fire ), Internet Explorer 11 , and Android 4.0 browsers with BlackBerry Tablet OS 2.1. It sports Adobe Flash Version 11.1.121.74. BlackBerry PlayBook

5635-591: The lock screen , visual voicemail support, face recognition for device unlocking ("Face Unlock"), the ability to monitor and limit mobile data usage, and other internal improvements. Android 4.0 received positive reviews by critics, who praised the cleaner, revamped appearance of the operating system in comparison to previous versions, along with its improved performance and functionality. However, critics still felt that some of Android 4.0's stock apps were still lacking in quality and functionality in comparison to third-party equivalents, and regarded some of

5750-473: The touchscreen and all other features of a typical tablet computer. Most of these tablets are targeted to run native OS games and emulator games. Nvidia 's Shield Tablet , with an 8-inch (200 mm) display, and running Android , is an example. It runs Android games purchased from Google Play store. PC games can also be streamed to the tablet from computers with some higher end models of Nvidia-powered video cards . The Nintendo Switch hybrid console

5865-479: The 1980s, with various input/output types tried out. 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. Examples include: Further, real-life projects either proposed or created tablet computers, such as: Following earlier tablet computer products such as the Pencept PenPad, and

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5980-467: The Americas. Android tablets were more popular in most of Asia (China and Russia an exception), Africa and Eastern Europe. In 2015 tablet sales did not increase. Apple remained the largest seller but its market share declined below 25%. Samsung vice president Gary Riding said early in 2016 that tablets were only doing well among those using them for work. Newer models were more expensive and designed for

6095-670: The BlackBerry Tablet OS would be merged with the existing BlackBerry OS to produce a new operating system, BlackBerry 10 , that would be used universally across BlackBerry's product line. A second major revision to the BlackBerry PlayBook OS was released in February 2012. The PlayBook also supported Android OS applications, allowing them to be sold and installed through the BlackBerry App World store. Early reviews were mixed, saying that

6210-946: The CIC Handwriter, in September 1989, GRiD Systems released the first commercially successful tablet computer, the GRiDPad . All three products were based on extended versions of the MS-DOS operating system. In 1992, IBM announced (in April) and shipped to developers (in October) the ThinkPad 700T (2521) , which ran the GO Corporation 's PenPoint OS . Also based on PenPoint was AT&T 's EO Personal Communicator from 1993, which ran on AT&T's own hardware, including their own AT&T Hobbit CPU. Apple Computer launched

6325-645: The Kindle Fire, the Kindle Fire HD , with higher screen resolution and more features compared to its predecessor, yet remaining only 7 inches. In October 2012, Apple released the iPad Mini with a 7.9-inch screen size, about 2 inches smaller than the regular iPad , but less powerful than the then current iPad 3 . 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

6440-662: The MeeGo operating system called WeTab OS. WeTab OS adds runtimes for Android and Adobe AIR and provides a proprietary user interface optimized for the WeTab device. On September 27, 2011, the Linux Foundation announced that MeeGo would be replaced in 2012 by Tizen . Android was the first of the 2000s-era dominating platforms for tablet computers to reach the market. In 2008, the first plans for Android-based tablets appeared. The first products were released in 2009. Among them

6555-488: The PlayBook on October 25, 2010, onstage at the opening-day keynote of the Adobe MAX 2010 conference. Among the features demonstrated was its tight integration with and support for Adobe AIR applications and full Flash support. According to Lazaridis, "We're not trying to dumb down the internet for a mobile device. What we've done is bring up mobile devices to the level of desktop computers." Lazaridis then announced at

6670-493: The U.S. and China. Android is a Linux -based operating system that Google offers as open source under the Apache license . It is designed primarily for mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Android supports low-cost ARM systems and others. The first tablets running Android were released in 2009. Vendors such as Motorola and Lenovo delayed deployment of their tablets until after 2011, when Android

6785-452: The application and prevent it from launching, but the application was not removed from storage. Android   4.0 introduced features for managing data usage over mobile networks; users could now display the total amount of data they have used over a period of time, and display data usage per app. Background data usage could now be disabled globally or on a per-app basis, and a cap could now be set to automatically disable data if usage reached

6900-557: The architecture, shipping their own ARM-based tablet computer, branded the Microsoft Surface , as well as an x86-64 Intel Core i5 variant branded as Microsoft Surface Pro. Intel tablet chip sales were 1 million units in 2012, and 12 million units in 2013. 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, as an investment for 2015. A key component among tablet computers

7015-500: The bottom containing the app drawer button in the middle, and four slots for app shortcuts alongside it. Folders of apps could now be made by dragging an app and hovering it over another. The app drawer was split into two tabs; one for apps, and the latter holding widgets to be placed on home screen pages. Widgets themselves could now be resizable and contain scrolling content. Android   4.0 contained an increased use of swiping gestures; apps and notifications could now be removed from

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7130-473: The call log display. The web browser app incorporated updated versions of WebKit and V8 , supporting syncing with Google Chrome , an override mode for loading a desktop-oriented version of a website rather than a mobile-oriented version, as well as offline browsing . The "Contacts" section of the phone app was split off into a new "People" app, which offered integration with social networks such as Google+ to display recent posts and synchronize contacts, and

7245-505: The company announced that plans to bring BlackBerry 10 to the PlayBook were cancelled sparking fears of the device's potential scrapping. According to BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins, multiple teams had spent "a great deal of time and energy" investigating ways to bring the OS to the device. Ultimately, Heins intervened to cancel the project citing his dissatisfaction with the "level of performance and user experience". While no immediate decisions over

7360-595: The company was dissolved in 2003. Sony released its Airboard tablet in Japan in late 2000 with full wireless Internet capabilities. In the late 1990s, Microsoft launched the Handheld PC platform using their Windows CE operating system; while most devices were not tablets, a few touch enabled tablets were released on the platform such as the Fujitsu PenCentra 130 or Siemens 's SIMpad . Microsoft took

7475-490: The company was exploring the opportunities for future tablet releases but had not announced further plans in the tablet market but that the PlayBook would not be converted to the new BlackBerry 10 OS, having decided "to stop these efforts and focus on [its] core hardware portfolio" of mobile phones, thereby bringing the PlayBook to its end-of-life. In March 2015, BlackBerry announced the BlackBerry Secutablet ,

7590-495: The design introduced by Honeycomb, although the futuristic aesthetics of Honeycomb were scaled back in favor of flat design with neon blue accenting, hard edges, and drop shadows for depth. Ice Cream Sandwich also introduced a new default system font, Roboto ; designed in-house to replace the Droid font family , Roboto was primarily optimized for use on high-resolution mobile displays. The new visual appearance of Ice Cream Sandwich

7705-521: The development of pen computing . Electrical devices with data input and output on a flat information display existed as early as 1888 with the telautograph , which used a sheet of paper as display and a pen attached to electromechanical actuators . 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

7820-595: The device's future are certain, Heins did promise BlackBerry would "support PlayBook on the existing software platforms and configurations." Because BlackBerry Bridge accesses mail, calendar, and contacts directly from a tethered BlackBerry phone, the PlayBook meets the same encryption standards as the BlackBerry phone. Some cryptographic components of the BlackBerry OS (kernels, cryptography-related OS and Java modules) are certified under FIPS 140-2 , which makes

7935-658: The earlier PlayBook model, the PlayBook 4G LTE was only sold through carrier channels. In November 2012, another variant of the 1.5 GHz PlayBook, the PlayBook 3G+, was released in the UK. Unlike the Wi-Fi models, the 4G LTE and 3G+ models are not available in 16 GB or 64 GB versions. Following the launch of the BlackBerry 10 operating system and the BlackBerry Z10 smartphone, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins confirmed that

8050-430: The early 2020s, various companies such as Samsung are beginning to introduce foldable technology into their tablets. Tablets can be loosely grouped into several categories by physical size, kind of operating system installed, input and output technology, and uses. The size of a slate varies, but slates begin at 6 inches (approximately 15 cm). Some models in the larger than 10-inch (25 cm) category include

8165-456: The end of his presentation that developers who get Adobe AIR applications approved on BlackBerry App World would be eligible for free BlackBerry PlayBook tablets. Since then, the free PlayBook offer has been extended to include WebWorks applications. The BlackBerry PlayBook supports up to 1080p video playback. It has a 3 MP front-facing camera for video chatting over Wi-Fi and a rear-facing 5 MP camera, both of which can record 1080p video. It has

8280-506: The end of that month, the CEO announced the platform would not be further developed. Rumors about the device had circulated for several months before its announcement, and it was nicknamed 'BlackPad' in the press because of its expected similarity to Apple's competing iPad . Research In Motion co-CEO Mike Lazaridis and Adobe Systems CTO Kevin Lynch staged the first public demonstration of

8395-532: The hardware was good, but several features were missing. Shipments totaled about 500,000 units in the first quarter of sales, and 200,000 the following quarter. Many of the 700,000 units shipped to retailers allegedly remained on the shelves for months, prompting BlackBerry to introduce dramatic price reductions in November 2011 to increase sales. Sales rebounded following the price cuts, with BlackBerry shipping about 2.5 million BlackBerry PlayBooks by June 1, 2013. At

8510-576: The improvements to text and voice input, along with the data usage controls (especially given the increasing use of metered data plans), and its overall performance improvements in comparison to Gingerbread. However, the Face Unlock feature was panned for being an insecure gimmick , and although providing an improved experience over the previous version, some of its stock applications (such as its email client ) were panned for still being inferior to third-party alternatives. Engadget also acknowledged

8625-481: The interface of iOS was too skeuomorphic and kitschy, Windows Phone 's Metro design language looked too much like "airport lavatory signage", and that both operating systems tried too hard to enforce conformity, "[without] leaving any room for the content to express itself." For Ice Cream Sandwich, his team aimed to provide interface design guidelines which would evoke a modern appearance, while still allowing flexibility for application developers. He characterized

8740-598: The internet and multimedia capabilities. Booklets are dual-touchscreen tablet computers with a clamshell design that can fold like a laptop. Examples include the Microsoft Courier , which was discontinued in 2010, the Sony Tablet P (considered a flop), and the Toshiba Libretto W100. Customized business tablets are built specifically for a business customer's particular needs from

8855-443: The larger Google Play system, thereby fragmenting the Android market. In 2022 Google began to re-emphasize in-house Android tablet development — at this point, a multi-year commitment. Android 4.0 Android 4.0 was focused on simplifying and modernizing the overall Android experience around a new set of human interface guidelines . As part of these efforts, it introduced a new visual appearance codenamed "Holo", which

8970-515: The maturing quality of the Android experience on Ice Cream Sandwich, and praised the modern feel of its new interface in comparison to Android 2.3, along with some of the new features provided by Google's stock apps and the operating system itself. In conclusion, Engadget felt that Android   4.0 was "a gorgeous OS that offers great performance and—for the most part—doesn't feel like a half-baked effort." However, Engadget still felt that some of Android   4.0's new features (such as Face Unlock) had

9085-435: The operating system's new features, particularly the "face unlock" feature, as being gimmicks . As of October 2022 , statistics issued by Google indicate that 0.15% of all Android devices accessing Google Play run Ice Cream Sandwich. Following the tablet -only release "Honeycomb", it was announced at Google I/O 2011 that the next version of Android, code named "Ice Cream Sandwich" (ICS), would be emphasized providing

9200-476: The operating system, support for a variety of Android applications and also brought three new applications built into the OS: Press Reader, a newspaper reader; News, an RSS reader; and Print To Go, which can be used to send documents from a PC to the PlayBook. BBM (aka BlackBerry Messenger ) support was not included with the 2.0 update, although BlackBerry intends to support BBM in a future update. BBM

9315-505: The option of connecting a conventional Keyboard and mouse. Intel announced a StrongARM processor-based touchscreen tablet computer in 1999, under the name WebPAD. It was later re-branded as the "Intel Web Tablet". In 2000, Norwegian company Screen Media AS and the German company Dosch & Amand Gmbh released the "FreePad". It was based on Linux and used the Opera browser . Internet access

9430-471: The power and "Volume down" buttons together was also added. On devices supporting near-field communication (NFC), "Android Beam" allowed users to share links to content from compatible apps by holding the back of their device up against the back of another NFC-equipped Android device, and tapping the screen when prompted. Certain "System" apps (particularly those pre-loaded by carriers ) that could not be uninstalled could instead be disabled. This would hide

9545-442: The presence and appearance of physical keyboards. Two species of tablet, the slate and booklet , do not have physical keyboards and usually accept text and other input by use of a virtual keyboard shown on their touchscreen displays. To compensate for their lack of a physical keyboard, most tablets can connect to independent physical keyboards by Bluetooth or USB ; 2-in-1 PCs have keyboards, distinct from tablets. The form of

9660-458: The recent apps menu and dismissed from the notifications area by sliding them away, and a number of stock and Google apps now used a new form of tabs , in which users could navigate between different panes by either tapping their name on a strip, or by swiping left and right. The phone app was updated with a Holo design, the ability to send pre-configured text message responses in response to incoming calls, and visual voicemail integration within

9775-542: 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. The chip was adopted by Psion, Palm and Nokia for PDAs and later smartphones, camera phones, cameras, etc. ARM's licensing model supported this success by allowing device manufacturers to license, alter and fabricate custom SoC derivatives tailored to their own products. This has helped manufacturers extend battery life and shrink component count along with

9890-606: The reverse, and run only mobile apps. They can use battery life conservatively because the processor is significantly smaller. This allows the battery to last much longer than the common laptop. In Q1 2018, Android tablets had 62% of the market, Apple's iOS had 23.4% of the market and Windows 10 had 14.6% of the market. In late 2021, iOS has 55% use worldwide (varies by continent, e.g. below 50% in South America and Africa) and Android 45% use. Still, Android tablets have more use than iOS in virtually all countries, except for e.g.

10005-545: The revised look of Ice Cream Sandwich as having "toned down the geeky nerd quotient" in comparison to Honeycomb, which carried a more futuristic appearance that was compared by critics to the aesthetics of Tron . In January 2012, following the official launch of Ice Cream Sandwich, Duarte and Google launched an Android Design portal, which featured human interface guidelines , best practices, and other resources for developers building Android applications designed for Ice Cream Sandwich. The initiatives by Duarte evolved into

10120-590: The screen in multiple places to trigger actions and other natural user interface features, as well as flash memory solid state storage and "instant on" warm-booting ; external USB and Bluetooth keyboards defined tablets. Most tablets released since mid-2010 use a version of an ARM processor for longer battery life. 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

10235-405: The size of devices. The multiple licensees ensured that multiple fabricators could supply near-identical products, while encouraging price competition. This forced unit prices down to a fraction of their x86 equivalents. The architecture has historically had limited support from Microsoft, with only Windows CE available, but with the 2012 release of Windows 8, Microsoft announced added support for

10350-563: The slate format. Nokia had plans for an Internet tablet since before 2000. 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. Nokia entered the tablet space in May 2005 with the Nokia 770 running Maemo ,

10465-470: The strong impression RIM is scrambling to get the product to market." RIM's then co-CEO Jim Balsillie countered critics by noting that there were more than 60 million BlackBerry smartphones in use with the ability to pair with a PlayBook. In April 2013, BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins stated in an interview that "in five years I don't think there'll be a reason to have a tablet anymore", a position that analysts attributed to BlackBerry's "spectacular failure" in

10580-463: The tablet eligible for use by U.S. federal government agencies. The BlackBerry PlayBook OS2.1 update in September 2012 enabled full-disk encryption on the device, using the same algorithm as previously used that had been limited to the Enterprise kernel handling the tethered content from a paired BlackBerry phone. The first PlayBook was a 7 in (180 mm) tablet with Wi-Fi connectivity and

10695-527: The tablet market in Research In Motion's home country in a report released in July 2012. Strong discounting of the older Wi-Fi PlayBooks resulted in strong sales in the UK during Christmas 2012. Tablet computer#Mini tablet A tablet computer , commonly shortened to tablet , is a mobile device , typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry , and

10810-476: The tablet market with the PlayBook. At the time of launch, between 2,000 and 3,000 apps were available from the BlackBerry App World. As of May 1, 2012, there are over 24,700 PlayBook applications available in BlackBerry App World. On March 24, 2011, BlackBerry announced that it would expand its application ecosystem for the PlayBook to include BlackBerry Java and Android -based applications. In

10925-468: The tablet market, ARM Ltd. 's ARM architecture and Intel's and AMD's x86 . Intel's x86, including x86-64 has powered the "IBM compatible" PC since 1981 and Apple's Macintosh computers since 2006. The CPUs have been incorporated into tablet PCs over the years and generally offer greater performance along with the ability to run full versions of Microsoft Windows , along with Windows desktop and enterprise applications. Non-Windows based x86 tablets include

11040-402: The tablet was conceptualized in the middle of the 20th century ( Stanley Kubrick depicted fictional tablets in the 1968 science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey ) and prototyped and developed in the last two decades of that century. In 2010, Apple released the iPad , the first mass-market tablet to achieve widespread popularity. Thereafter, tablets rapidly rose in ubiquity and soon became

11155-477: The time of its release. iPads and competing devices were tested by the U.S. military in 2011 and cleared for secure use in 2013. Its debut in 2010 pushed tablets into the mainstream. Samsung 's Galaxy Tab and others followed, continuing the trends towards the features listed above. 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. The top-selling line of devices

11270-936: The touchscreen ("2-in-1 convertible") or detachable ("2-in-1 detachable"). 2-in-1s typically also can display a virtual keyboard on their touchscreens when their physical keyboards are concealed or detached. Some 2-in-1s have processors and operating systems like those of laptops, such as Windows 10 , while having the flexibility of operation as a tablet. 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. Simple tablets are mainly used as media consumption devices, while 2-in-1s have capacity for both media consumption and content creation , and thus 2-in-1s are often called laptop or desktop replacement computers . There are two species of 2-in-1s: Some tablets are modified by adding physical gamepad buttons such as D-pad and thumb sticks for better gaming experience combined with

11385-424: The two most popular brands were Ziosk and Presto . The devices have been criticized by servers who claim that some restaurants determine their hours based on customer feedback in areas unrelated to service. Any device that can display text on a screen may act as an E-reader . While traditionally E-readers are designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and periodicals, modern E-readers that use

11500-587: Was Apple's iPad with 100 million sold between its release in April 2010 and mid-October 2012, but iPad market share (number of units) dropped to 36% in 2013 with Android tablets climbing to 62%. Android tablet sales volume was 121 million devices, plus 52 million, between 2012 and 2013 respectively. Individual brands of Android operating system devices or compatibles follow iPad with Amazon's Kindle Fire with 7 million, and Barnes & Noble's Nook with 5 million. The BlackBerry PlayBook

11615-576: Was announced in September 2010 that ran the BlackBerry Tablet OS . The BlackBerry PlayBook was officially released to US and Canadian consumers on April 19, 2011. Hewlett-Packard announced that the TouchPad , running WebOS 3.0 on a 1.2 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU, would be released in June 2011. On August 18, 2011, HP announced the discontinuation of the TouchPad, due to sluggish sales. In 2013,

11730-435: Was built around a cleaner, minimalist design, and a new default typeface named Roboto . It also introduced a number of other new features, including a refreshed home screen, near-field communication (NFC) support and the ability to "beam" content to another user using the technology, an updated web browser, a new contacts manager with social network integration, the ability to access the camera and control music playback from

11845-480: Was highly hyped by the media during the early 1990s. 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

11960-480: Was implemented by a widget toolkit known as "Holo"; to ensure access to the Holo style across all devices—even if they use a customized interface skin elsewhere, all Android devices certified to ship with Google Play Store (formerly Android Market) must provide the capability for apps to use the unmodified Holo theme. As with Honeycomb, devices could now render navigation buttons—"Back", "Home", and "Recent apps"—on

12075-465: Was intended to provide a "enticing and intuitive" user experience across both smartphones and tablets. Matias Duarte , Google's vice president of design, explained that development of Ice Cream Sandwich was based around the question "What is the soul of the new machine?"; user studies concluded that the existing Android interface was too complicated, and thus prevented users from being "empowered" by their devices. The overall visual appearance of Android

12190-473: Was originally limited to E-reading capabilities; however, an update to their Kindle firmware added the ability to browse the Internet and play audio, allowing Kindles to be alternatives to a traditional tablet, in some cases, with a more readable e-ink panel and greater battery life, and providing the user with access to wider multimedia capabilities compared to the older model. Two major architectures dominate

12305-572: Was provided by DECT DMAP, only available in Europe and provided up to 10 Mbit/s. The device had 16 MB storage, 32 MB of RAM and x86 compatible 166 MHz "Geode"-Microcontroller by National Semiconductor . The screen was 10.4" or 12.1" and was touch sensitive. It had slots for SIM cards to enable support of television set-up box. FreePad were sold in Norway and the Middle East; but

12420-493: Was released in Canada and USA on April 19, 2011; the UK and Netherlands on June 16, 2011; and the United Arab Emirates on June 25, 2011. Early reviews for the product were mixed, praising the PlayBook's fluid UI, Adobe Flash supported webkit -based browser, Flash Video support, fast JavaScript and HTML 5.0 Web page rendering, HDMI output, and multitasking capabilities. PlayBook was criticized initially requiring

12535-536: Was released in the form of " Handheld PCs " in 1996. That year, Palm, Inc. released the first of the Palm OS based PalmPilot touch and stylus based PDA, the touch based devices initially incorporating a Motorola Dragonball (68000) CPU. 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

12650-477: Was released to positive reception: Ars Technica praised the Holo user interface for having a "sense of identity and visual coherence that were previously lacking" in comparison to previous versions of Android, also believing that the new interface style could help improve the quality of third-party apps. The stock apps of Android   4.0 were also praised for having slightly better functionality in comparison to previous versions. Other features were noted, such as

12765-506: Was reworked to include more tablet features. Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) , released in 2011 and later versions support larger screen sizes, mainly tablets, and have access to the Google Play service. Android includes operating system, middleware and key applications. Other vendors sell customized Android tablets, such as Kindle Fire and Nook , which are used to consume mobile content and provide their own app store, rather than using

12880-436: Was streamlined for Ice Cream Sandwich, building upon the changes made on the tablet-oriented Android 3.0, his first project at Google; Duarte admitted that his team had cut back support for smaller screens on Honeycomb to prioritize sufficient tablet support, as he wanted Android OEMs to "stop doing silly things like taking a phone UI and stretching it out to a 10-inch tablet." Judging Android's major competitors, Duarte felt that

12995-565: Was the Archos 5, a pocket-sized model with a 5-inch touchscreen , that was first released with a proprietary operating system and later (in 2009) released with Android 1.4. The Camangi WebStation was released in Q2 2009. The first LTE Android tablet appeared late 2009 and was made by ICD for Verizon . This unit was called the Ultra, but a version called Vega was released around the same time. Ultra had

13110-546: Was then adopted by the UBports as a community project. As of February 2014, 83% of mobile app developers were targeting tablets, but 93% of developers were targeting smartphones. 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. The iPad held majority use in North America, Western Europe, Japan, Australia, and most of

13225-411: Was through the web browser, BlackBerry Bridge, or third-party applications from App World, which BlackBerry chose for security reasons. However, BlackBerry has made these native applications available in an update to the system software . The Playbook OS 2.0 was released on February 21, 2012. The software update added integrated native email, calendar, and contact apps. It also included visual changes to

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