Stacking up the tablets, large and small, of MWC 2013
Mostly Android (and a Windows tablet or two), the tablet offerings of Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2013 in Barcelona, Spain, are out in force.
MWC is generally all about phones, but this year there are a fair number of tablets out and about. Feeling like you're losing track? Check out the round-up below, covering the biggest hits (HP Slate 7 and Samsung Galaxy Note 8) and a few unknowns (ZTE, anyone?).
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Samsung Galaxy Note 8
Coming out sometime in the second quarter of 2013 (no word on Aussie dates), Samsung's S Pen-equipped 8-inch tablet has the size and features (1280x800-pixel-resolution display, quad-core A9 processor) to be a direct competitor of the iPad Mini.
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HP Slate 7
Surprise! Hewlett-Packard's latest slate is Android, not Windows. The US$169 Slate 7 looks a like sure-fire competitor to the Nexus 7, with a steel frame, dual front and rear cameras and a dual-core ARM A9 processor. It comes out in April.
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Sony Xperia Tablet Z
Sony's new Xperia Z is the thinnest, lightest (494 grams) 10-inch tablet ever made. It's also water resistant.
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Sony Xperia Tablet Z
The Sony Xperia Z comes with a quad-core Qualcomm processor, and ships with Android Jelly Bean.
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Asus PadFone Infinity
It's yet another experimental design from Asus: the PadFone Infinity is a 5-inch 1080p long-term evolution (LTE) phone that also happens to dock into a 10.1-inch Infinity Station tablet housing.
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Asus PadFone Infinity
The Asus PadFone Infinity is seen in the image above docked inside its 10-inch tablet station. The whole package costs as much as a high-end laptop.
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Asus FonePad
Not to be confused with (but guaranteed to be confused with) the PadFone Infinity, the FonePad is a cheap, 7-inch Intel Atom-powered Android Jelly Bean tablet that can make phone calls, too.
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Lenovo S6000
Lenovo has several Windows-based tablets, and at MWC a few more Android-based ones were thrown into the mix, all of them running Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The 10.1-inch S6000 has a 1280x800 IPS display and a quad-core MediaTek processor, plus optional HSPA+ cellular data.
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Lenovo A3000
The 7-inch A3000 has a 1024x600 IPS display, and the same quad-core processor and cellular data as the bigger S6000.
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Lenovo A1000
The entry-level A1000 7-inch tablet has a dual-core processor and 16GB of on-board storage, with no cellular connection.
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ZTE V98
Hankering for another Windows 8 tablet? This one, made by ZTE, has an aluminium body and a glass display, and runs full Windows 8 off an Atom processor.
Via CNET.com