Posts Tagged ‘Ambient light’

Today, Samsung finally launched its GALAXY Tab 10.1 in Australia.

Last Friday, the Australia’s High Court lifted the sales ban of Samsung’s shoulders, and  now Australian shoppers will have the opportunity to purchase a Galaxy Tab, in time for the Christmas shopping season.

Today, Samsung Electronics Australia, announced the launch of its GALAXY Tab 10.1 slim and light tablet, which will run Samsung’s customised version of Android 3.1 Honeycomb.

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The Kyobo eReader fever in South Korea – “The checkout line is growing for the KYOBO eReader, featuring mirasol display technology!”

“The butterfly has landed” – in the beginning of this week (November 21, 2011) – Kyobo (Korea’s largest bookseller) and Qualcomm introduced Kyobo eReader – featuring Qualcomm’s mirasol Display Technology. And now, this device is one of the most wanted e-book readers in South Korea, (as we can see above). 

Kyobo’s e-Reader comes with a 5.7-inch (1024 x 768) XGA mirasol display with a screen resolution of 223 ppi, powered by and  1.0GHz Snapdragon S2 processor (by Qualcomm) . The device’s UI is based on Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The e-Reader can offer weeks of reading (based upon 30 minutes of daily reading time with Wi-Fi off and front ambient light set to 25 percent utilization.

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Yesterday, Samsung announced the launch of its new 7-inch Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus – Android 3.2 tablet.

The Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus offers a portable, rich multimedia experience on a 7-inch WSVGA (1024×600) PLS display, packed with power and productivity into a premium lightweight design. The tablet runs Google Android 3.2 Honeycomb and provides enhanced portability, weighing only 345g and measuring at just 9.96mm thin.

The Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus delivers powerful performance thanks to its 1.2GHz dual-core multitasking processor. The tablet supports Full HD videos and various video formats on its 7-inch WSVGA (1024×600) PLS display. Web browsing is also enhanced by Adobe Flash and super-fast HSPA connectivity, providing download speeds up to three times faster than a conventional HSPA connection. Also, Wi-Fi Channel Bonding combines two channels into one, improving network connectivity and data transfer speeds.

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Fusion Garage started taking preorders (for U.S. only) for its 10.1-inch Grid10 Android based tablet.

The Singapore based company Fusion Garage (formerly known as one of the companies behind the JooJoo Linux-tablet) came with a new Android-based Grid10 tablet with custom UI called – Grid OS. 

Under the hood, the Grid10 has a 1.2GHz Nvidia Tegra 2 Dual Core CPU, 512Mb of memory and 16GB of storage space. It also comes with a 10.1-inch TFT capacitive touch screen, a 1.3MP webcam, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and 3G (optional). It has a 5,800mAh battery and weighs 690g (10g more than the Eee Pad Transformer TF101 – TF101-1B240A).

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Toshiba’s Regza tablet gets new promo video, showing its capabilities through dynabook’s website in Japan.

Watch the video which shows REGZA in action from various perspectives – Design, Scene, Features (posted by Toshiba dynabook two days ago). 

The REGZA AT300 (PA300224CNAS) tablet comes with a 10.1-inch (1280 × 800) high resolution WXGA TFT LED (16:10) backlit multi-touch display. The LCD’s Adaptive Display - ambient light sensor detects the environment and automatically adjusts picture’s sharpness and brightness, to improve the readability even in the sun.

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VIZIO started taking preorders of its 8-inch Android 2.3 based WiFi tablet.

VIZIO VTAB1008 has a 1GHz CPU, a high definition 8-inch (1024×768) LED touch screen and a thin, ultralight design. It runs V.I.A. Plus (VIZIO Internet Apps Plus) interface on Android 2.3 OS. The tablet comes with 4GB of storage space (2GB occupied by system files and apps), 512MB of RAM, 802.11n WiFi, Bluetooth and a built-in GPS module.

SRS TruMedia delivers stereo audio to the integrated 3 speakers, providing stereo sound, when tablet switches between landscape and portrait. As you change its orientation, it intelligently transfers the sound to two of them.

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