Pc Gamers Era

The era of Tablet PC’s has arrived. Now, let us have a look at some related gizmos which have entered this competitive market with a completely new form of appearance and Features.

The gadget giant “Apple” was successful in attracting the mobile users, PC users and music lovers with its iPhone, Mac and iPod respectively. And these gizmos have occupied the top positions in the gadgets market all over the world.

And now, Apple is again going to strike the market with its much awaited Tablet PC, named “iPad”. It was officially launched by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, just a few days ago.

We are already familiar with the iPod, as it is used for watching videos and for listening to music. Then, what is this iPad?

The iPad had been introduced to the world just by changing a single letter in the word ‘iPod’(replacing ‘o’ with ‘a’). It is nothing but a first of its kind, Touch-screen Tablet computer. It just works like a normal computer, in which we can watch videos, play games and browse the internet. It can also be used as an E-reader, which is considered to be its main feature, and thus its going to have a strong stand in the competition of e-readers market.

Just like for iPhone, iPod and Mac, the Apple application store iBook has been arranged exclusively for the iPad. Nearly, about 1,40,00 software applications are already available for the iPad in the App Store. Desired application can be downloaded and can be effectively used in the iPad.

Let us have a brief outlook over its features.

• Wi-fi, Bluetooth and 3G
• iBook: 1million e-books from 5 different publishers are already available exclusively for the iPad users.
• Battery: 10 hrs, and 30 days Stand-by.
• Screen: 25 cm, Led color, multi-touch landscape.
• Measurements: 24.3 cm long, 18.9 cm width, and 1.25 cm thick.

prices:
16 GB$499 (Rs.23000 approx.)
32GB $599 (Rs.27,500 approx.)
64GB $699 (Rs.32,000 approx.)
It costs $130 (Rs.6000) more for 3G wireless services.

The other competitors in the e-readers segment, which the iPad has to face are as follows:

SONY Reader daily edition:

17.8cm screen, Expandable memory, cost $399(Rs.18,400).

Barnes and Noble nook:

15.2cm screen, multi touch color control panel, expandable memory, costs $259(Rs.12000).

Amazon Kindle DX:

24.6cm screen. Around 3500 books can be stored in it. It costs $489(Rs.22,550).

The new Indian e-Reader:(infibeam Pi)

E-books manufacturing has already been started in India. The infibeam.com is the first one to develop an e-reading device in India.

Name of the device: infibeamPi

length: 188mm, width: 118mm, thickness: 9.5mm, weight: 180gm.

An internal memory of about 512MB, with an SD card slot of 4GB is provided. The Price of this product is expected to be Rs.9999/-. Around 350 books can be stored in this device. It is also designed to support the local languages.

We can download around 1,00,000 books from “www.infibeam.com”.

Dell Mini 5:

The Dell Mini 5 has been set as the perfect competitor for the Apple’s iPad. Since, it is portable and covers more features than what iPad has in it. Yet it is not officially launched, Micheal Dell has introduced it to one of the Indian media(NDTV) during the World Economic Forum summit at Davos.

Now, let us have an exclusive comparison of Apple’s iPad with the Dell Mini 5.

Adam Another Tablet from Notion Ink

Quick look on specifications of Adam

• Android Powered by nVIDIA Tegra T20
• GPS,digital compass
• Accelerometer
• Ambient light and water sensors.
• Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and UMTS/HSDPA
• 3 megapixel camera
• Full HD video playback.
• 16/32GB variants expected to be 11.6mm/12.9 mm thick respectively with a dimensions of 6.3 x 9.8 x 0.6 inches

Compared to the 576p of Apple’s Ipad Adam outputs 1080p video,and have to mention that it has almost double the battery life compared to the Ipad ,Priced Just around $300 ,the Adam surely is a steal.

So which one will you pick ?

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