iPad Galaxy Tab Win Editors Choice Awards in 3 Tablets Categories

iPad, Galaxy Tab Win 10rate Editors Choice Awards in 3 Tablets Catagories - Editors from 10rate evaluate and recommend tablets from various categories and issue Editors Choice awards.

10rate editors Chris and Steve Holdgren cut through all the choices out there in the Tablet category to come up with their top choices. According to the Best Tablets page at 10rate.com they selected their top choices based on the following criteria:

1. Price
2. Speed of the device
3. Amount of internal and expandable storage for apps, photos, games, and music
4. Wifi and cellular network accessibility
5. Size of screen and resolution
6. Operating system
7. Attractiveness of design
8. Comfortable to use

Blackberry, Apple, and Samsung all had highly rated tablets according to the reviewers.

Editors also evaluated and selected the Best 7” Tablets based on the following:
1. Price
2. OS (Android, Windows, etc)
3. Features
4. Wifi/3G/4G Connectivity
5. Internal Memory Space + Expandability
6. Inputs/Outputs
7. Battery Life
8. Out of box experience/usability
9. Tablet build quality + Look and feel

According to reviewers Google, Amazon, Samsung, and Acer all figured prominently in the rankings.

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New Wide 10.1-Inch Sharp® LED-backlit LCD Tablet Computers

New Wide 10.1-Inch LED-backlit LCD from Sharp® Ideal for Tablet Computers - Sharp Microelectronics of the Americas (SMA) announced its new 10.1-inch WXGA LED-backlit LCD (LQ101K1LY04), ideal for computer tablet applications. Sharp technology has addressed key issues for tablets, including the prevention of pooling (image distortion) that is common with touch overlays.

A 1280 x 800 wide resolution allows for superb viewing of high-resolution images, and a 160°/160° viewing angle and of brightness of 400 nits combine to deliver crisp images from any angle. Additionally, an LVDS interface helps ease the design process.

Sharp’s product line also includes a 12.1-inch WXGA ideal for tablet computers. Other Sharp LCDs featuring the popular wide resolution specification include 3.0-inch, 5.0-inch, 7.0-inch and 8.5-inch products. All of these displays feature specifications perfectly suited to meet the rugged demands of the Industrial Application (IA) market. Sharp’s IA panels are factory-supported for a minimum of three years. They are ideal for applications including Factory Automation, In-Flight Entertainment, Gaming, Medical Devices, Point of Sale (POS) Terminals, Transportation, Test and Measurement, and many others. For details on all Sharp LED-backlit LCDs, visit sharpledlcd.com.

Sharp continues its migration from CCFL-based LCD products to an all-LED backlight line-up, averaging nearly one replacement panel per month over the last year. Sharp assists customers in switching from CCFL to LED-backlit displays by helping them better understand the related technology benefits and design considerations; SMA’s online LED-backlit LCD Resources page sharpledlcd.com/resources.html features videos, “The Switch” podcast, and technical papers to aid your LED-backlit design process. New materials are periodically being added.

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Rugged Handheld Computer - Trimble Nomad 800LC

Special Pricing on the Trimble Nomad Rugged Handheld Computer from Group Mobile - Group Mobile is offering a special, limited-time discount on the Trimble Nomad 800LC rugged handheld computer. Unit pricing starts at $999. This amazing offer is good from September 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011, or while supplies last.

Group Mobile, well known for carrying the top brands in rugged laptops, rugged tablet PCs, rugged PDAs, and rugged handheld computers is offering a special, limited-time discount on the Trimble Nomad 800LC rugged handheld computer. Unit pricing starts at $999. This amazing offer is good from September 1, 2011 through October 31, 2011, or while supplies last.

“We are excited to offer this special pricing on the Trimble Nomad to our customers," said Group Mobile Marketing Director, Stephanie Kreitner. "The Trimble product line is very popular among our customers. The Nomad provides innovative features to streamline work tasks in a single outdoor-rugged handheld device at an unbelievable price.”

The Nomad 800LC offered in this promotion features an 806MHz processor, 1GB internal memory, a long-life hot-swappable battery, and built-in wireless capabilities like 802.11g, and Bluetooth. The Nomad 800LC also features a high-resolution, sunlight-visible VGA touchscreen display that presents graphics and maps in vivid detail.

The Nomad 800LC rugged handheld makes it simple to gather, save, and send out data with its many built-in capabilities including an integrated GPS receiver for navigation applications and a 2MP digital camera to capture color images in the field.

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Latest Windows Based Pen + Touch Tablet Computer - Kupa X11

Kupa is Showing Off X11, the Latest Windows Based Pen + Touch Tablet Computer at the IFA Consumer Electronics Trade Show in Berlin, Germany from Sept. 2nd to Sept. 7th - Kupa is showing off X11, the latest Windows based pen + touch, 10 hour battery life, 128 GB SSD tablet computer at the IFA Consumer Electronics trade show in Berlin, Germany from Sep 2nd to Sep 7th. Visit Kupa representative at the trade show to test out the latest advances in tablet PC technology. There will be X11 units available at the event for user to test out features, and check out the build. Kupa representatives will be there to answer any questions users may have.

The IFA consumer electronic trade show is the global trade show for consumer electronics and home appliances, presents the latest products and innovations in the heart of Europe‘s most important regional market. IFA offers such a comprehensive overview of the international market and attracts the attention of trade visitors each year from more than 100 countries and Kupa is proud to be part of it.

Kupa X11 is the next generation Windows based table PC with pen + touch dual input system, 10 hours battery life and many unique features that are not found in current tablet computers:

Pen + Touch Input System with pen is the sensitive to different levels of pressure
10 hours continuous operation and 30 days standby battery life with a single charge
Robust , and energy efficient operation with thin and light profile result from solid state design
128GB SSD is the largest storage option of any tablet computer
Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth, USB and mini HDMI offers full connectivity, wireless or wired
Dual cameras: Front 2MP / Rear 5MP
Embedded full GPS Chip, the first of its kind in any tablet PC or laptop
Enterprise security features such as fingerprint scanner and Trusted Platform Module
Dual antenna design for Wi-Fi, 3G and GPS for maximum signal strength
Windows 7 Professional

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Apple Retakes Top Mobile PC Market Share Position from HP in 2011

Apple Retakes Top Mobile PC Market Share Position from HP in Q2’11 - Apple shipped over 13.5 million mobile PCs in Q2’11 for 136% Y/Y shipment growth, overtaking HP for the top spot, according to preliminary results from the latest DisplaySearch Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report. Nearly 80% of Apple’s mobile PC shipments were iPads, which reached over 10.7 million units, for 107% Y/Y growth. Apple’s total mobile PC shipments (notebook and tablet PCs) were 3.9 million units more than HP’s nearly 9.7 million units for the quarter.

From a category perspective, tablet PCs continue to be the engine of growth for the mobile PC industry. Tablet PC shipments were up nearly 70% Q/Q and over 400% Y/Y with nearly 16.4 million units shipped in Q2’11. Notebook PC shipments were down 2% Q/Q but up 2% Y/Y with nearly 48 million units shipped in Q2’11. A consumer notebook PC adoption slowdown continues to hold back the industry following a 2% Y/Y drop in shipments in Q1’11. Worldwide mobile PC shipments (including notebook and tablet PCs) reached 64.4 million in Q2’11, up 10% Q/Q and 28% Y/Y. Among the top five players, Acer experienced the largest decline in shipment growth. Acer’s shipment growth declined in Q2’11, falling 4% Q/Q and 12% Y/Y.

In the notebook PC category, Samsung and Dell had the fastest shipment growth, up 44% and 33% Y/Y, respectively. Dell was also up Q/Q with 27% shipment growth, as it continues to take advantage of a rebound in commercial market PC shipments. Samsung’s shipments fell 16% Q/Q as it was unable to build off of strong shipment results in EMEA and China. Still Samsung was able to top Q1’11 shipment levels in North America and Asia Pacific.

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Rugged Battery-Powered All-In-One Mobile Server - Vigor EX-B

Rugged, Battery-Powered Server from NextComputing Brings Local Cloud Computing to the Field - All-In-One, deployable server delivers virtualized computing resources to tactical operations centers

NextComputing, a leading provider of portable workstations and dense, small-footprint servers, announces a new rugged portable server solution for forward deployed military environments or any remote location that requires enterprise computing resources. The Vigor EX-B is NextComputing’s first completely battery-powered and fully mobile rugged server, able to run on its own internal power for up to 4 hours. Designed to support tactical operations centers and other mission-critical environments, the Vigor EX-B is the ideal platform for delivering virtualized “local cloud” computing services to multiple users in a remote setting.

As cloud computing continues to grow across multiple industries, off-site operations are often seeking solutions to provide these types of services in the field. While traditional rackmount servers can do the job, these systems and their associated rack infrastructure – including power conditioning, switching, KVM, etc. – are often impractical in a tactical environment where size, weight, power and mobility are important factors. Electrical power is usually unreliable in these situations, and a typical UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) can only run a server for a very short period of time. And though laptops are usually the preferred platform for client systems, these computers are not up to the task of running multiple concurrent applications and operating systems with virtualization – a requirement for deploying cloud services.

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All-in-One Battery Powered Portable Workstation Radius EX-B

New Battery Powered Portable Workstation from NextComputing Offers Fully Mobile Power Computing Compact, all-in-one system features Intel® Core™ i7 and Xeon® processors, runs for over 2 hours on battery.

NextComputing, a leading provider of portable workstations and dense, small-footprint servers, announces the latest addition to its Radius series of mobile computers, the Radius EX-B. Based on NextComputing’s Radius EX all-in-one portable workstation, the Radius EX-B is NextComputing’s first portable system to feature an integrated battery for total mobility.

Watch a video about the Radius EX-B.

Users in industries like military intelligence, oil and gas exploration, digital video production, and network testing need high-performance hardware for their demanding applications. Features like full-powered CPUs, high-end 3D graphics, fast RAID storage, and PCI expansion slots are often required for these mission-critical applications. But when trying to run these applications in the field, these users are often forced to choose between large, non-mobile systems like a tower or rack-mount server that gives them the performance they require, or scale their application down to run on a laptop for mobility.

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