Google has finally showcased its eagerly anticipated 10-inch tablet. Developed with Samsung, the Nexus 10 is described by the company as "the ultimate tablet for watching movies or reading magazines," and is a clear shot across Apple's bows.
Measuring 10.055 inches diagonally and boasting 2560x1600 pixels (that's 300ppi) it has a 4MP resolution, surpassing not just everything in Apple's iPadrange, but any other tablet on the market. Google claims that the battery will support nine hours of video playback. The Nexus 10 boasts stereo speakers, features a dual-core A15 processor, 2 GB of RAM and supports NFC. It comes with either 16GB or 32GB of memory and, although it is wi-fi enabled, doesn't support 3G or 4G technology.
LONDON: Taiwanese computer maker Acer is putting off the launch of tablets using Microsoft's new Windows RT operating systemto give itself time to see how Microsoft's own Surface tablet fares.
The world's No. 4 PC vendor by shipments initially planned to roll out Windows RT tablets based on ARM chips early next year. However, the launch of Microsoft's tablet last week and the mixed reviews it has drawn has prompted Acer to wait and see until at least the second quarter of 2013.
"Originally we had a very aggressive plan to come out very early next year but because of Surface, our R&D development doesn't stop, but we are much more cautious," Acer President Jim Wong told Reuters on Tuesday. "Originally our plan was Q1, but now I don't think it will be earlier than Q2," Wong said on the sidelines of a presentation of Acer's new line of Windows 8 touchscreen notebooks and tablets.
Acer was one of the first companies to criticise Microsoft for moving into the computer hardware business and competing with its partners' devices.
Microsoft has announced the availability of its Windows 8 operating system for its customers in India and around the world. Starting Friday, October 26, consumers worldwide will have access to the latest Microsoft OS on a wide range of Windows 8 PCs, ultra books, tablets and hybrid devices.
Windows 8 PCs and tablets will be available in India from 14 manufacturers – Acer, Asus, Dell, Fujitsu, HCL, Hewlett-Packard (HP), Lenovo, RP Infosystems, Sai Info System, Samsung, Sony, Toshiba, Wipro and Zenith Computers. In India, over 250 Windows 8 enabled devices, including 23 completely new SKUs of Windows 8 PCs will be available across 100 cities and more than 2500 retail stores.
When Apple published the iPhone 5, the brand new iPod touch units started at the same occasion excessively accepted a warm welcome. Be that as it may, an item that is absent with the unit is that it tries not to come outfitted with a surrounding light sensor.
Apple declared in a press discharge on Monday that the brand new iPad Wi-Fi and iPad Wi-Fi + 4G can be ready in dark or white in 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models. The cost for the Wi-Fi models for 16GB, 32GB and 64GB can be at Rs 30,500, Rs 36,500 and Rs 42,500, separately. The Wi-Fi+4G models are estimated at Rs 38,900 (16GB), Rs 44,900 (32GB) and Rs 50,900 (64GB), complete of VAT. The iPad can be sold through select Apple Commissioned Resellers.
Apple presented a more diminutive iPad-iPad scaled down, as looked for, but likewise overhauled its full-estimated one. It in addition revealed revamped Mac PCs, incorporating a 13-creep form of a MacBook Ace with more honed, Retina presentation. With a screen measuring 7.9 crawls on the askew, the iPad smaller than normal is about part of the extent of the consistent iPad. The iPad scaled down is 23 for every penny thinner and 53 for every penny lighter than the third crop iPad. The iPad scaled down items FaceTime HD and iSight cameras. It's guaranteed to award up to 10 hours of electric storage device existence.
Granted that one of the crux emphasizes and pitching purposes of the newfangled iPad is the 4G LTE underpin, regardless of whether brand new buyers get any 4G connectivity on the brand new iPad will substantially rely on the area. As published by Apple, the recommended retail cost for the apparatus "reflect these of the US Apple Stores, but, as for the most part living outside North America may vouch, the value could probable be trekked versus the sum these dwelling Stateside are paying," the web page, Redmond Pie reported.
Bharti Airtel has as of now started India's first 4G system in Kolkata and is stretching to different urban communities like Bangalore, Pune and Chandigarh in the afterward few months, states an article by Reuters. Then again, the 4G LTE grid in the brand new iPad is not perfect with the system in India as of now and consequently clients will do with the 3G systems. Apple New iPad Launch Video
