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Scopad SP0712: the tablet in education, Thailand made ​​the leap to $ 32.8 million

Scopad SP0712 – And so the subject appears on everyone’s lips: should we adopt a tactile medium for education? To what extent and for what purposes? We mentioned this morning, our new President has been working in this direction in his department of Correze in choosing the first version of iPad for 2500 students. But Apple’s tablet is not the only possible solution and considered. And it is in this sense that Thailand has decided to act by unveiling the largest body of Touch Panel education ever undertaken.

The tablet is called the chosen Scopad SP0712 by Shenzhen Scope. It is a slate featuring a TFT capacitive multitouch LCD 7 inch, 1024 x 600 resolution. It is powered by a Rockchip processor single core 1.2 GHz clocké – ARM Cortex-A8 – offers 1 GB of RAM and runs on Android Ice Cream Sandwich. Connectivity is complete with WiFi, GPS and Bluetooth. Connectivity is not left since a USB Host port is in the game. 8 GB of internal storage is allocated and it is possible to extend it via the microSD port of the device. We are thus faced with a tablet of good quality Chinese that will meet all the needs of elementary school use.

iPad 4G + WiFi renamed

iPad 4G + WiFi – What at first appeared to be a slight name change affecting only some Apple Online Stores in the world, to reach the American version has finished becoming an official change that affects all models of the new addition to the WiFi iPad also include data connectivity.

iPad 4G + WiFi the name that appears now in the online store is the iPad WiFi + Cellular, which translated could be interpreted as ” iPad + WiFi mobile connectivity.” In stores now speaking, as the Spanish or Mexican still see the old name but it was not surprising that this would change from one moment to another.

Especially because this change is due to the problems that the shift to 4G, 3G instead of using the first two iterations of the iPad, has resulted in some regions such as Australia and Europe for misleading advertising. Remember that speed is reached only 4G network completely under American and except in some countries like Spain where he can connect to DCHSPA (Dual Channel HSPA) that it is pretty close to 4G, in other countries, although the device itself is capable to connect the data goes through a standard 3G connection. iPad 4G + WiFi

Kindle Fire sales are in freefall

It seemed to be the revelation of the last months the Kindle Fire, tablet cheap product from Amazon and only sold in the U.S., in record time became the best selling Android tablet; Well it seems that now the trend has reversed and the Kindle Fire became the tablet whose sales are falling faster in the history of Android.

According to IDC, a leading company involved in market research, after the last quarter of 2011 on Amazon’s product had earned the second place among the best sellers around the iPad tablet with a rate of 16.8% of market in the first quarter of this year its new distribution has been drastically reduced to 4%, even the previous quarter.

The reason? The competition at this point has been able to (slowly) adapt more to the operating system (yet Gingerbread) the success of the Kindle is the result of the simplicity and affordable price. Has now come on the market the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 7″ which is sold in the U.S. at $ 250, competitive price, especially considering the hardware and operating system than already upgraded to Ice Cream Sandwich, and many other tablet on whose price is falling, like the Asus Transformer Pad 300, not to mention the rumors about a Nexus Tablet expected in a few months.

iPad 2: Self-improvement is confirmed!

iPad 2 – You talked about there not long ago: Samsung, the 45 nm, it’s over, all production machines have been calibrated to etch 32-nm processors with the arrival of the new iPad. Result, instead of running two chains of production cost, it is more profitable for Apple not to rent a home and its subcontractor somewhat modified his iPad 2 than continue with the same processors A5. It had been observed previously that the new A5 were engraved, as A5X, in 32 nm, but the question remained whether this had any interest.

Performance: no. On battery, however, is another story. 32nm processors are a little less and consumers as the size of the battery of iPad 2 does not change, there is a significant gain on this machine that was already the most successful in this field. Thus, as the table shows, the “new iPad 2″, which is now called “iPad 2.4″ is about 1:45 of battery than the iPad 2 of a year ago, which is when even super comfortable. Better yet, only the tablet reaches beyond the autonomy of a Transformer Pad 300 with dock, which is quite a feat.

Kindle Fire: $ 139, Target divorce from Amazon

Overseas, the Kindle Fire continues to make inroads into the world of tablet price gun and it seems that Amazon has not said its last word today and today only, the firm sells models ” refurb “fully functional and ready for the modest sum of $ 139, roughly a hundred dollars. Yes, a hundred euros for a mid-range tablet, offering arguably the best entertainment system closed behind the iPad. This is really nothing and it should still boost sales of this tablet, alone, begins to take an important place in the U.S. market and is climbing.

This success is a double-edged, of course: if Amazon can afford to sell tablet Kindle Fire without margin – even at a loss – is that the shortfall is offset by the sale of content, be it applications, books, music or movies. So, by limiting both the margin, not for resellers that offer Amazon products to derive any benefit: eg Target has announced that it will remove all Amazon products from its tablets well physical.

Toshiba Excite 13: the 13-inch wide tablet for June at $ 650

Toshiba Excite 13 – Perhaps this is a serious competitor in the market of the tablet! We had the mobility of 5 to 7 inches, the standard 8 to 10 inches, Toshiba has thought for multimedia use, the tablet could also be 13 inches, Toshiba Excite 13. It’s not stupid, far from it, with such a diagonal, we would really have something to watch movies comfortably in bed, especially as the tablet Toshiba Excite 13 will come with a stand so you do not have to bring it to the end of arm.

This prototype is indeed a reality: it will be proposed in June from $ 650 for a 32GB model, equipped with a GB of RAM and a Tegra 3 processor. In terms of connectivity, there are micro-HDMI port, an SD slot and USB ports full-Host. Product placement is surprisingly good: it’s about the price of a  iPad 32GB tablet and Toshiba, for once, a real strong argument, if you allow us the pun.

Galaxy Note 10.1 delayed by processor upgrade

The launch of the Galaxy Note 10.1 is postponed until June because of an upgrade from the dual-core processor. Samsung would like to replace the quad-core 1.5GHz Exynos 4412, the Korean newspaper says MK. The newspaper is an attempt by Samsung to Apple, which last month launched the new iPad, to outdo.

The message about the delayed launch of the Galaxy Note 10.1 has not been confirmed by Samsung. The Korean company has so far been silent about the release date of the Note 10.1. The tablet was in February during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona announced.

The new iPad takes several hours to charge

It was one of the questions that arose last week after Apple confirmed during the keynote presentation of the new iPad. If this was to maintain, apparently, the same duration in hours of battery life than its predecessors, then these should be considerately larger to face the screen with four times more pixels and the new A5X with quad-core GPU.

And it is something that has been confirmed when iFixit has laid hands on the first iPad and the first reviews of the U.S. press, which goes on sale tomorrow, the battery takes considerably more, it comes to hours, to load than its predecessor, the iPad 2. No longer a logical consequence of this increased capacity we mentioned, but it’s miss me like Apple, which has always put a lot mime in this area (on the iPhone for example is very fast), has allowed something like part of the new iPad.

Lenovo IdeaTab S2109A, a tablet 9.7-inch with Android

Lenovo has recently submitted to the FCC, the U.S., a pattern that reveals a tablet that we did not know and that would codenamed Lenovo IdeaTab S2109A. While Lenovo we had rather impressed by his range at CES Windows, this new tablet rather unique turn on Android 4.0. Original why? Its format is absolutely not in the conventional world of Android and could steal some of you: Images submitted to the FCC unit show a 9.7-inch 4:3.

“As the iPad” so to speak, and for many the ideal 4:3 ratio on tablet. We had seen some manufacturers to embark on this path but few had crossed the Atlantic to get their models in Europe, and indeed, to my knowledge, the diagonals were in any case smaller Android and no model of about 10 inches has been created here on earth. Engadget adds that the Lenovo IdeaTab S2109A model would have a processor Texas Instruments OMAP without specifying what it is.

PlayBook is betterthan the iPad in Best Buy for Canada

Interestingly, last month, as suggested by cleverly title of this news, he would have sold more than PlayBook in Best Buy stores that iPad. The Canadian company does obviously not a precise figure, and even if Apple holds 68% market share in Canada, we must recognize that such a feat does not happen every day. Apparently that would have allowed RIM to regain 15% market share in its home country.

So obviously, there can be several reasons. Of course, RIM is gaining ground and starts selling its PlayBook, but what benefit manage to achieve in having lowered the price of its products nearly 60% to bring it to $ 199? The PlayBook is not a bad product, it is simply no output functionality – in fact, this year at MWC, RIM has done as if they had a new slate so that only the OS has changed and won essential functions that consumers expect, as a mail client.