TOUCHY ! TOUCHY !

The big buzz words in technology today - tablets and Android, combine in this comparison.

Laptops and netbooks are handy portable devices that can handle a lot of your daily tasks. However, given their weight and bulky form factor, they aren’t ideal to lug around everywhere you go. As an alternative, touchscreen computing is already here and is taking over! Tablets have been all the rage lately. They combine touchscreens and a unique user interface, which makes using them a much simpler, quicker and fun experience. Thus, the traditional mice and keyboards are made redundant. Tablets are not just portable, but the recent tablet devices have been housing quite powerful components. Tablets have been running on processors with clock speeds around 1 GHz, around 1 GB RAM, and oodles of storage. The newest tablet devices also feature dual core processors. For all you know, they might even outperform those modest little netbooks. With the launch of the Apple iPad 2, Google’s Android Honeycomb platform, and mobile components like the Nvidia Tegra 2, tablets are here to stay.

A tablet is often mistaken to be a mere shiny or a useless gadget, but it can be used well for quick presentations, to watch movies, to catch up on the latest shows, or to sway to your favorite tunes. Browsing the Internet is a whole new experience on a tablet. With the full screen browser, the multi touch gestures, and the kinetic scrolling, no longer does browsing imply sitting for long hours in front of your PC. Then there’s the mobility factor. You don’t need to fire up your laptop or computer every time you want to look something up or catch up on the news. Innovative stands let you use tablets wherever and whenever you would need them, be it in the park, or on the dashboard of your car, showing you the way around town. They are even said to be great devices for learning, in the classroom and outside of it. Tablets have changed the face of e-books and magazines, making reading a more true to life experience, with pages you can actually touch and turn. Apps such as Google Voice, ooVoo and Skype have made VoIP on tablets far easier, and with most of the tablets featuring 3G and a secondary camera, they can be great devices for video calling and video conferencing.

While Apple’s iPad brought tablets into the limelight, there also exist tablets running Android, which are capable of doing just as much, or probably more. This is not only the end in the world on touch and smart computing still more gadgets are to be lauched in the nearby future.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible. :-)

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