As of October, nearly a third of Americans owned tablets, either Apple or Android, according to the Consumer Electronics Association. That’s double the number who owned tablets a year ago and doesn’t count the new iPad Mini.
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The one thing that’s annoying about tablet computers is smudges on the screen. Until recently, we never thought of using a stylus instead of our finger. We figured the stylus was just for artists. A soft-tipped stylus keeps your screen clean.
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The huge Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas takes place every year in early January, and we have some flash previews of amazing stuff. As always with CES, some things are off in the future, some available now. Here are a few gee-whiz highlights:
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Amazon is rumored to be coming out with their own tablet computer in the next several months, and naturally it’s expected to be hot stuff. How hot can it be? If you don’t feel like waiting, here are a couple of newbies out now.
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How bout a tablet computer with two screens? Sony is coming out with their “P” tablet later this year (possibly November) and it offers a double display. Of course, since it’s a tablet and not a laptop, the displays are smaller.
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“E la Carte,” from elacarte.com, has provided iPad-like tablets at twenty restaurants in San Francisco and Boston. This is their first step in going national; a former executive from the big restaurant chain, Applebees, is a major investor but not the only one interested. The tablet screen displays the menu and you enter your order there.
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The attraction of the Breeze is the price: $180 instead of Apple’s $500 for iPad.
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The Motorola Xoom will be out February 17, 2011. The Tryx camera is coming soon from Casio.
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About 50 iPad rivals were on display at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The 10.1-inch Motorola Xoom tablet got CNET’s “Best of Show” because of its fast dual-core processor, compatibility with the fastest 4G cellular network, its front-and-back facing cameras for video chatting, and its HDMI-out port, for connecting the tablet to a big-screen TV. The latest tablets from Acer will come in three sizes:4.8-inch, 7.1-inch and 10.1. All will use Honeycomb, the latest version of Android. CES also displayed a lot of cameras, from the Polaroid sunglasses with built-in camera worn by Lady Gaga at the show to video cameras contained in goggles. We liked the Casio Tryx. It has a handle that can double as a tripod or [...]
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