TABLET-PC

(SLATE TO TABLET )
 ABSTRACT

A tablet personal computer (tablet PC) is a portable

personal computer equipped with a touchscreen as a
primary input device and designed to be operated and
owned by an individual.] The term was made popular as
a concept presented by Microsoft in 2001, but tablet
PCs now refer to any tablet-sized personal computer,
even if it's not using Windows but another PC operating
system. Tablets may use virtual keyboards and
handwriting recognition for text input through the
touchscreen.
All tablet personal computers have a wireless adapter
for Internet and local network connection. Software
applications for tablet PCs include office suites, web
browsers,games and a variety of applications. However,
since portable computer hardware components are low
powered, demanding PC applications may not provide
an ideal experience to the user.
 Introduction

A tablet PC is a wireless, portable personal extreme conditions. Rugged tablets are

computer with a touch screen interface. usually encased in a protective shell and
The tablet form factor is typically smaller have shock-protected hard drives.
than a notebook computer but larger than a
The idea of tablet computing is
smart phone.
generally credited to Alan Kay of Xerox,
There several styles of tablets: who sketched out the idea in 1971. The
first widely-sold tablet computer was
A convertible tablet typically has a
Apple Computer's Newton, which was not
display that rotates 180 degrees and can be
a commercial success. Technological
folded to close, screen up, over the
advances in life, , handwriting recognition
integrated keyboard. Convertible models
software, larger , and Internet access have
may allow user input through a variety of
since made tablets a viable computing
methods in addition to the hardware
option.
keyboard, including natural handwriting
with a or digital pen and typing through a System software
screen-based software keyboard Following Windows for Pen Computing,
Microsoft has been developing support for
A slate tablet has electronics
tablets running Windows under the
integrated into the touch screen unit and
Microsoft Tablet PC name.[8 According to
lacks a hardware keyboard. However,
a 2001 Microsoft definition[9] of the term,
external keyboards are available for slate
"Microsoft Tablet PCs" are pen-based,
tablets, some of which function as docks
fully functional with handwriting and
for the device
voice recognition functionality. Tablet PCs
A hybrid tablet, sometimes referred use the same hardware as normal laptops
to as a convertible or hybrid notebook, is but add support for pen input. For
like a regular notebook bewitch removable specialized support for pen input,
Microsoft released Windows XP Tablet
A tablet is a slate-like model that is
PC Edition. Today there is no tablet
designed to withstand rough handling and
specific version of Windows but instead
support is built in to both Home and PC support is built into all editions of
Business versions of Windows Vista and Windows Vista with the exception of
Windows 7. Tablets running Windows get Home Basic and Starter editions. This
the added functionality of using the extends the handwriting recognition, ink
touchscreen for mouse input, hand writing collection,[ and additional input methods
recognition, and gesture support. to any computer running Vista even if the
Following Tablet PC, Microsoft input device is an external digitizer, a
announced the UMPC initiative in 2006 touch screen, or even a regular mouse.
which brought Windows tablets to a Vista also supports multi-touch functions
smaller, touch-centric form factor. This and gestures (originally developed for the
was relented in 2010 as Slate PC, to Microsoft Surface version of Vista) and is
promote tablets running Windows 7, ahead now usable by the public with the release
of Apple's pad launch.] Slate PCs are of multi-touch tablets. Windows Vista also
expected to benefit from mobile hardware significantly improved handwriting
advances derived from the success of the recognition functionality with the
introduction of a handwriting recognition
While many tablet manufacturers
personalization tool as well as an
are moving to the ARM architecture with
automatic handwriting learning tool.
lighter operating systems, Microsoft has
stood firm to Windows. Tablet functionality is available in
all editions of Windows 7 except the
Though Microsoft has Windows
Starter edition. It introduces a new Math
CE for ARM support it has kept its target
Input Panel that recognizes handwritten
market for the Smartphone industry with
math expressions and formulas, and
Windows Mobile and the new Windows
integrates with other programs. Windows
CE 6 based Windows Phone 7. Some
7 also significantly improved pen input
manufacturers, however, still have shown
and handwriting recognition by becoming
prototypes of Windows CE-based tablets
faster, more accurate, and supportive of
running a custom shell
more languages, including East Asian
With the succession of Windows writing systems. Personalized custom
Vista, the Tablet PC functionality no dictionaries help with the recognition
longer required a separate edition. Tablet Specialized vocabulary (like
medical and technical terms), and text include a tablet digitizer or touchscreen
prediction speeds up the input process to device, and hardware control buttons
make note-taking faster. Multi-touch including a Ctrl-Alt-Delete shortcut
technology is also available on some tablet button, scrolling buttons, and at least one
PCs, enabling more advanced interaction user-configurable application button.
using touch gestures with your fingers the
same way a mouse is used.[ Despite such Windows applications
advances, problems may arise with tablet Applications developed for the
functions of the OS, when, for instance, tablet PC cater to the form factor and
touch screen drivers are recognized as functionality available on the platform.
PS/2 mouse input rather than a touch input Many forms of applications incorporate a
device. In such instances tablet functions pen-friendly user interface and/or the
may be unavailable or severely restricted ability to hand write directly in the
in functionality. document or interface.

Windows 7 touch capability is built A brief description of the

with Microsoft Surface technologies. This applications included follows:
is a gesture and touch-centric UI
Experience Pack
enhancement that works with most current
touch computers. Among the first tablet • Ink Desktop: an Active Desktop

PCs launched in 2010 based on the control designed to run in the

Windows 7 operating system are bModo12 background and allow the user to

from bModo and Samsung Galaxy. write directly on the desktop.

Windows has a history of tablet • Snipping Tool: a screen capture

technology including Windows XP Tablet application which allows the tablet
[
PC Edition. Tablet PC Edition is a pen to be used to select a portion of
superset of Windows XP Professional, the the screen and then annotate it and
difference being tablet functionality, save as a file or send in an email.
including alternate text input (Tablet PC
Input Panel) and basic drivers for support • Ink Art: a painting application

of tablet PC specific hardware. developed by Ambient Design

Requirements to install Tablet PC Edition originally as Art Rage, licensed to

 Microsoft for release to Tablet PC easier use with the tablet and
users. better.

• Ink Crossword: a crossword

Linux
application developed to mirror the
experience of a paper crossword
puzzle on a tablet PC.

• Media Transfer: a synchronization

utility designed to download
music, pictures, and videos from
computers in the same network.

Education Pack

• Ink Flash Cards: an application

designed to assist memorization by
using a flash card approach, Nokia N800
enabling the user to hand write One early implementation of a Linux
their own flash cards and display tablet was the Prog by Front Path. The
them back in a slide show. Program used a Transmute chip and a
resistive digitizer. The Program initially
• Equation Writer: a recognition tool
came with a version of Slack ware Linux,
specializing in converting
but could later be bought with Windows
handwritten mathematical
98. Because these computers are general
equations to a computer-generated
purpose IBM PC compatible machines,
image for pasting into other
they can run many different operating
documents.
systems. However, the device is no longer
• : an organization and note-taking for sale and Front Path has ceased
application developed by Agilix operations. It is important to note that
Labs. many touch screen sub-notebook
computers can run any of several Linux
• Hexic Deluxe: a game with a tablet
distributions with little customization.
PC specific gesture enabled for
 X.org now supports screen rotation N900). It is currently in generation 5, and
and tablet input through Wacom drivers, has a vast array of applications available in
and handwriting recognition software both official and user supported
repositories. The, as well as the Intel
-based Utopia and GTK+-based
sponsored Moblin project, both have
Internet Tablet OS provide promising free
touchscreen support integrated into their
and open source systems for future
user interfaces. Canonical has hinted at
development.
better supporting tablets with the Unity UI
Open source note taking software for Ubuntu
in Linux includes applications such as
Tablet Kiosk currently offers a hybrid
Xournal (which supports PDF file
digitizer / touch device running Linux. It is
annotation), Gournal (a Gnome based note
the first device with this feature to support
taking application), and the Java-based Jar
Linux.
(which supports handwriting recognition
as a built-in function). Before the advent
Android
of the aforementioned software, many
Main articles: Android (operating system)
users had to rely on on-screen keyboards
and Google Chrome OS
and alternative text input methods like
Dasher. There is a stand alone handwriting Google's Linux-based Android
recognition program available, Cell operating system has been targeted by
Writer, which requires users to write manufacturers for the tablet space
letters separately in a grid. following its success on due to its open
nature and support for low-cost ARM
A number of Linux based OS projects are
systems much like Apple's iOS. In 2010,
dedicated to tablet PCs. Since all these are
there have been numerous announcements
open source, they are freely available and
of such tablets.[21] However, much of
can be run or ported to devices that
Android's tablet initiative comes from
conform to the tablet PC design. Maemo
manufacturers as Google primarily focuses
(rebranded MeeGo in 2010), a Defia
On smart phones and restricts the
Linux based graphical user environment,
AppMarketfrom non-phone devices.[There
was developed for the Nokia Internet
is, moreover, talk of tablet support from
Tablet devices (770, N800, N810 &
Google coming to its web-centric Chrome Megon is a new operating system
OS.[ Some vendors such as Motorola are developed by Intel and Nokia supports
delaying deployment of their tablet Netbooks, Smartphones and tablet PCs. In
computers until 2011, after Android is 2010, Nokia and Intel combined the
reworked to include more tablet features. Maemo and Moulin projects to form
[
Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) is the latest Mega. The first Megon powered tablet PC
version of the Android platform that is is the Moonie We Tab. The We Tab uses
optimized specifically for devices with an extended version of the MeeGo
larger screen sizes, mainly tablets. operating system called WeTab OS.
Android is the software stack for mobile WeTab OS adds runtimes for Android and
devices that includes operating system, Adobe AIR and provides a proprietary
middleware and key applications. user interface optimized for the WeTab
device
Megon
OLPC
Nokia entered the tablet space
with the Nokia 770 running Maemo, a The One Laptop per Child (OLPC)
Debian-based Linux distribution custom- organization is developing a new version
made for their Internet Tablet line. The of the OLPC, strongly resembling a tablet
product line continued with the N900 computer, called the OLPC XO-3, running
which is the first to add phone capabilities. its "Sugar desktop environment", on top of
Intel, following the launch of the UMPC, a Linux kernel. Some people classify the
started the Mobile Internet Device original OLPC as a "personal computer",
initiative, which took the same hardware whether this will be true for the XO-3
and combined it with a Linux operating remains to be seen.
system custom-built for portable tablets.
Intel co-developed the lightweight Mouli Apple Mac
operating system following the successful
Apple has never sold a tablet PC-style
launch of the Atom CPU series on
computer running Mac OS X, although OS
netbooks.
X does have support for
handwriting recognition via Inkwell.
Instead, Apple sells the ions based pad resolution.] The Acer TravelMate C300
which was introduced in 2010. has a 14.1" screen at 1024x768.

Prior to the introduction of the Timeline of tablet PC: History of

iPad, Aviation introduced the Modoc, a
tablet computers
heavily modified Apple Mac Book, Mac
OS X-based tablet computer at Macworld The following timeline list gives some of
in 2007.[ The Modoc used Apple's Inkwell the highlights of this history:
handwriting and gesture recognition, and
Before 1950
used digitization hardware from Waco. To
support the digitizer on the integrated 1888: U.S. Patent granted to Elisha Gray
tablet, the Modbook was supplied with a on electrical stylus device for capturing
third-party driver called Tablet Magic. handwriting.[
Wacom does not provide drivers for this
device. 1915: U.S. Patent on handwriting
recognition user interface with a stylus.[
Popular model
1942: U.S. Patent on touchscreen for
Screen size trends handwriting input.

As with other portable computers, 1945: Vinegar Bush proposes the Meme,
larger size brings easier usability but lesser data archiving device including
portability and higher power requirements. handwriting input, in an essay As We May

For current tablet computers, (non Think.[

tablet PCs) the general size is 10" (Used

1950: Tom Diamond demonstrates the
by the iPad) or 7" (Used by many Android
Stillwater electronic tablet with pen for
tablets). Many tablet PC makers have
computer input and software for
standardized on a 12" widescreen format,
recognition of handwritten text in real-
with a resolution of 1280x800 pixels. The
time.[
Fujitsu T5010 has a larger 13.3" display,
but still runs at the 1280x800 pixel •
• Early 1960s RAND Tablet • 1989: first ally available tablet-
invented. The RAND Tablet is type portable computer was the
better known than the Styalator, Grid Pad from Grid Systems
but was invented later. released in September. The
GridPad was manufactured by
• Late 1960s Alan Kay of Xerox
Samsung,] modified from the
PARC proposed a notebook
Samsung Pen Master which never
computer, optionally using pen
made it to commercial distribution.
input, called the Dynamos:
Its operating system was based on
however the device is never
constructed or implemented with Wang Laboratories introduces Freestyle.
pen input. Freestyle was an application that would do
a screen capture from an MS-DOS
• 1966: once fiction television
application, and let the user add voice and
series Star Trek, crew members
handwriting annotations. It was a
carry large, wedge-shaped
sophisticated predecessor to later note-
electronic clipboards, operated
taking applications for systems like the
through the use of a stylus.
Tablet PC.[ The operating system was MS-

• 1982: Percept of Waltham, DOS

Massachusetts markets a general- In partnership with Fujitsu, the Poet

purpose computer terminal using a Computer Corporation announced the
tablet and handwriting recognition arrival of the Poqet PC.
instead of a keyboard and mous
1991: Moment Pen top was released.[GO
• 1985: Percept] and CIC[] both corporation announced a dedicated
offer PC computers for the operating system, called Pinpoint OS
consumer market using a tablet and featuring control of the operating system
handwriting recognition instead of desktop via handwritten gesture shapes.
a keyboard and mouse. Operating Gestures included "flick" gestures in
system is MS-DOS. different directions, check-marks, cross-
others.
 • 1992: O Corporation shipped the • 2000: Pace Blade develops the
PenPoint S for general availability first device that meets the
and IBM announced IBM 2125 pen Microsoft's Tablet PC standard[5
computer (the first IBM model and received the "Best Hardware"
named "ThinkPad") in April. award at VAR Vision 2000

• 1993: jets releases the Poet PC • 2001: Bill Gates of Microsoft

the first pen tablet to use an demonstrates the first public
integrated wireless LAN[4Apple prototype of a Tablet PC (defined
Computer announces the Newton by Microsoft as a pen-enabled
PDA, also known as the Apple computer conforming to hardware
Message Pad, which includes specifications devised by Microsoft
handwriting recognition with a and running a licensed copy of the
stylus. The IBM releases the "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition"
ThinkPad, IBM's first operating system)[5 at Comdex
commercialized portable tablet
• 2003: Pace Blade receives the
computer product available to the
"Innovation des Jahres 2002/2003"
consumer market, as the IBM
award for the Pace Book Tablet PC
ThinkPad 750P and 360P[AT&T
from PC Professional Magazine at
introduced the EO Personal
the Cubit
Communicator combining Pinpoint
with wireless communication • 2006: Samsung introduces the
Samsung Q1 UMPC.Windows
BellSouth released the IBM Simon
Vista released for general
Personal Communicator, an analog cell
availability. Vista included the
phone using a touch-screen and display. It
functionality of the special Tablet
did not include handwriting recognition,
PC edition of Windows XP.On
but did permit users to write messages and
Disney Channel Original Movie,
send them as faxes on the analog cell
Read It and Weep, Jamie uses a
phone network, and included PDA and
Tablet PC for her journal.
Email features.

•
• 2007:Axiotronintroduces odbook, Apple unveils the pad, running Apple
the first (and only) tablet computer iOS.Quaduro Systems unveils the 10"
based on Mac hardware and Mac Quad Pad 3G Plus, a 900 gram Microsoft
OS X at Macworld.[ Windows based 3G tablet PC with 8 hours
of battery life.
• 2008: In April 2008, as part of a
larger federal court case, the Samsung unveils the Galaxy Tab, running

gesture features of the Google Android.bModo launches the

Windows/Tablet PC operating bModo12 which runs the Windows 7 OS

system and hardware were found to and features include 11.6" TFT-LCD

infringe on a patent by GO Corp. display, 3G, Wife, GPS, Bluetooth® 2.1,

concerning user interfaces for pen USB2.0, SDHC slot, unlocked SIM card

computer operating systems. Slot, minidisk connector, OMTP Jack, a

Microsoft's acquisition of the webcam, a mice, etc.Neofonie releases the

technology is the subject of a We Tab, a Megon-based slate tablet PC,

separate lawsuit.[HP releases the featuring an 11.6 inch multi-touch screen

second Multi-Touch capable tablet: at 1366×768 pixels resolution.]Dixons

the HP TouchSmart tx2 series.[ Retail plc unveils the

Advent Vega, a 10" tablet PC running

• 2009: Asus net book, the EEE PC
Android 2.2, having a 1 GHz NVIDIA
T91 and T91MT, the latter which
Tegra chipset, 512 Mb of RAM and ROM,
features a multi-touch Always
1.3 MP camera, WiFi b/g connectivity,
Innovating announced a new tablet
Bluetooth 2.1, a micro SD card slot, a
netbook ith an ARM CPU.Motion
USB port and a 16h
Computing launched the J3400.
battery life for audio playback and 6.5h for
• 2010:MobileDemand launches the
1080p video.[]Dell Announces the
xTablet T7000 Rugged Tablet PC
Inspiring Duo A flip screen Net book and
which runs a full Windows OS and
Tablet PC hybrid releases the Slate 500,
features include an integrated
running a full-version of Windows 7
numeric keypad, bar code scanner,
credit card reader, etc.
2011: Motorola announces Doom Tablet,
a 10 inch tablet powered by the upcoming
Android 3.0 Honeycombs announces the
EEE Pad Memo (7 inch tablet), EEE Slate
EP121 (Windows 7 tablet), EEE Pad
Transformer (10 inch tablet with Android
and docking keyboard that transforms it
into a laptop form factor) and EEE Pad
Slider (10 inch tablet with sliding screen
over the QWERTY keyboard) [all tablets
use IPS display]Dell showcases the Streak
7 tablet and says it's working on the 10
inch Streak 10

TOP TABLET PC INFORMATION

Apple pad:

The pad is a tablet computer designed,

developedandmarketed
by Apple primarily as a platform
for audio-visual media including
books, periodicals, movies, music,
games, and web content. At about
1.5 pounds (680 grams), its size
and weight fall between those of
contemporary smarthones and lap
top computers. Apple released the
iPad in April 2010, and sold 3
million of the devices in 80 days.
Samsung Galaxy ("Hummingbird") processor,
the Swipe input system, a
tab: 3.2 MP rear-facing camera and a
1.3 MP front facing camera for
video calls — running
the Android 2.2 (Frodo) operating
system It supports phone
functionality.
It is a hit product in India.

HP SLATE:

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is an

Android-based compact tablet
computer produced by
Samsung that debuted on the 2nd
of September at the 2010 IFA in HP slate is a multi touch tablet PC

Berlin The Galaxy Tab features a run on WINDOWS 7.It has a 3MP

7-inch (180 mm) TFT-LCD cam on back panel and a VGA

touchscreen, Wife capability, a cam on front panel. A 8.9"

1.0 GHz ARM ortex-A8 capacitive touch screen supports

a screen resolution unto 1024 X It has HDMI out. Runs on android
600 with a 1.86 GHz Intel atom 2.2
z540 processor with 2GB ram and
64GB on board memory with flash
storage and supports USB 2.0.The
Slate 500 also has support for a
stylus pen/digitizer, to enable on-
screen freehand drawing and
writing.

Dell Streak:

Dell Streak (previously known as

the Mania Smartphone/tablet
PC hybrid from Dell that uses
the Android operating system. It
comes with a 5-inch (13
cm)capacitive touchscreen and
two cameras, a 5MP one with
dual-LED flash on the back and
a VGA-resolution one on the front
for video calling; both are video.