Samsung, Korean electronics brand has confirmed that it will launch the Windows 8 operating system based tablet in the month of October this year. Tablet based on the upcoming Windows 8 RT platform will be launched. It will be optimized for better touch screen performance along with the inclusion of the 'Metro' style user interface that is similar to the one that is being used on Windows Phone presently. It has been reported that Samsung tablets will be released when Windows 8 itself is unveiled in October. They will enhance Microsoft's continuing bid to get into a tablet market that is dominated by Apple's iPad. Samsung join the bandwagon of Windows 8 based device manufacturers of which HP has already announced to be a part of but HP will only be focusing on Windows 8, Intel processor, based devices in order to maintain its core business.
Microsoft has offered Windows RT access only to limited number of PC makers in order to maintain the quality of devices that will be available in the market. Nvidia, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments were allowed to design the chips for devices such as tablets, notebooks or hybrid devices like the Asus transformer. Large chunk of the tablets available today are based on the ARM architecture based processor including Apple iPad.

Source : Themobileindian

According to the recent reports HP is expected to offer ARM processors based Windows 8 game tablets. It has been Stated by HP spokeswoman that the company has decided to focus on the Intel x86 chips based mobile processors meant specifically for the tablets and netbooks.  Its main focus is to target the business class users with the HP tablets with Windows 8 on them. HP had a hard luck with tablets - be it the Windows 7 based tablets or the HP Touch Pad. . Now the company is planning to play it safe with the next major Windows 8 operating system based tablets. HP is expected to use the Intel Cedar Trail-W processors in its Business centric tablets running Windows 8 operating system. . Not to be neglected, that Windows 8 on these tablets will be a full blown operating system unlike the Windows RT that supports ARM architecture based mobile processors. It has been stated by HP spokeswoman that consumer feedback email played a very important role in deciding to focus on Intel CPU based tablets.

HP sticks to Intel chips only based tablets that may result into less number of ARM based Windows RT running tablets this year. Microsoft has offered Windows RT access to limited number of PC makers in order to maintain a quality. Nvidia, Qualcomm and Texas Instruments were reportedly allowed to design their chips into two devices - tablets, notebooks or hybrids. Today ARM architecture design based processor which includes the Apple iPad is available in majority. We are expecting to see Intel processor based tablets in the market to compete head to head with the ARM based tablet this year. Large chunk  of the tablets available today are based on the ARM architecture design based processor which also includes the Apple iPad. We expect to see Intel processor based tablets in the market to compete head to head with the ARM based tablets b y the end of this year.

Source : Themobileindian

World’s leading computer manufacturer Hewlett Packard has decided to make tablets, starting with Windows 8 tablet.
The launch was announced by HP’s Chief Executive Meg Whitman at Global Influencer Summit at Shanghai. As per Todd Bradely, Executive Vice President for printing and personal systems, “The Windows 8 tablets will come with ‘cloud-based technology’ for content sharing across devices.”
The final launch date of Windows 8 device has not been announced yet, but the company is planning to launch it in the same year because of the fierce competition in the market as other brands like Nokia has also showed interest in Windows 8 platform for the tablets.

Source : Themobileindian

A few months ago, the $100 (approx Rs 5200) fire sale suddenly made HP's TouchPad a desirable gadget, selling out its entire stock in hours. Now, things are going to get even better for those buyers lucky enough to snag a piece, as team CyanogenMod is set to release a custom ROM that will bring Android 4.0 to the tablet. The TouchPad features a dual-core 1.2 GHz CPU, which is more than enough to run Ice Cream Sandwich.

CyanogenMod's ROMs are very popular among Android mobile users. Thankfully, these modders have also started paying attention towards tablets. Although there's no word on the firmware's availability, reports suggest that it will be out in the next few days.

Source : Techtree

The operating system that hogged maximum limelight, WebOS is now due for another controversy. Ex-Palm employees and current HP folks feel that HP`s Palm and WebOS acquisition was a failure bound to happen.

When Palm initially made the operating system, they had a clear picture in mind, the operating system to be based on common Web technology, WebKit. The idea was to make it easy to create software for the device, which Palm hoped would attract programmers to make WebOS apps. But that was not the end result.

Unnamed HP employees have also passed such statements saying : “there were neither the right leaders nor the right engineers to do the job.”

Developers believe that WebOS is an interesting Operating system and one of the best out there. It`s a good thing HP finally decided to OpenSource the bad-boy OS.

Source : Igyaan.in