History of tablet computers

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Technology experts suggest that Apple is getting court injunctions to stop the slide, although these injunctions are only preliminary measures as Apple has to provide more substantial evidence in subsequent court proceedings that the design of competing products infringed its patents or copied their designs in order to make any bans permanent. These cases take months or even years to come to court, unless there is no settlement, and if Apple loses it will be liable for the business lost by a competitor due to the injunction. Although risky, experts say that this kind of strategy gives time for Apple to hold off rivals and grab even greater market share with their iPad, since it is a market that is developing fast where Apple leads, regardless of the damages that they have to pay if they lose the case. Google's David Drummond complained "They (Apple) want to make it harder for manufacturers to sell Android devices. Instead of competing by building new features or devices, they are fighting through litigation."

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applications." Further, they state that they expect the iPad to have a "free run" through the 2011 holiday season and that Apple will "maintain a market share lead throughout our forecast period by commanding more than 50 percent of the market until 2014." Gartner revised their projection of Apple's worldwide tablet market share at the end of 2011, up to 73.4% after their previous projection of 68.7% for the year.

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tablets from 7.6 million units in 2010, to more than 46 million units in 2014. More recent reports show predictions from various analysts in the range from 26 to 64 million units in 2013. On 2 March 2011, Apple announced that 15 million iPads had been sold in three fiscal quarters of 2010, double the number that IDC then predicted.

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showed slides identifying the makeup of the site's users who bought tablets in 2011 consisting of 76% iPad (39% iPad 2, 37% original iPad), 6% HP TouchPad, and no other tablet at over 4%. He noted that the numbers did not include previous purchases of the iPad or other tablets in 2010. In a breakdown

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In 1987 Linus Technologies released the Write-top, the first tablet computer with pen input and handwriting recognition. It weighed 9 pounds and was based on MS-DOS with an electroluminescent backlit CGA display and a "resistive type touch screen in which a voltage is applied to the screen edges, and

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Despite the large number of competing tablets released in 2011, none of them had managed to gain considerable traction as the market continued to be dominated by the iPad and iPad 2. Several manufacturers had to resort to deep discounts to move excess inventory, as what happened with the HP TouchPad

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as personal devices with screens from 7 to 12 inches, lightweight operating systems "currently based on ARM processors" which "provide a broad range of applications and connectivity, differentiating them from primarily single-function devices such as ereaders". IDC also predicted a market growth for

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to be their proprietary operating system running on the Linux kernel. Versions 1.0 to 2.1 of webOS uses the patched Linux 2.6.24 kernel. HP has continued to develop the webOS platform for use in multiple products, including smartphones, tablet PCs, and printers. HP announced plans in March 2011, for

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According to IDC, Android have 63% of all "media tablet" sales in 2013 and rising and Windows is also rising in market share. Apple's iPad had 83% of all "media tablet" sales in 2010 and 28% of market share in 2013. At the unveiling of the iPad 2 in March 2011, Steve Jobs claimed that the iPad held

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In China, according to an AlphaWise survey of 1,553 Chinese consumers across 16 cities over the summer of 2011, Apple's iPad currently holds a 65% share of that nation's tablet market. When asked about future purchases, 68% of those surveyed indicated an intent to buy an iPad, versus other brands'

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A report by Strategy Analytic showed that the share of Android tablet computers had risen sharply at the expense of Apple's iOS in the fourth quarter of 2011. According to Strategy Analytic, Android accounted for 39% of the global tablet market in the final three months of 2011, up from 29% a year

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device in 2010. While the iPad places restrictions on the owner to install software thus deviating it from the PC tradition, its attention to detail for the touch interface is considered a milestone in the history of the development of the tablet computer that defined the tablet computer as a new

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Open source note taking software in Linux includes applications such as Xournal (which supports PDF file annotation), Gournal (a Gnome-based note taking application), and the Java-based Jarnal (which supports handwriting recognition as a built-in function). Before the advent of the aforementioned

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Tablet PCs failed to gain popularity in the consumer space because of unresolved problems. The existing devices were too heavy to be held with one hand for extended periods, the specific software features designed to support usage as a tablet (such as finger and virtual keyboard support) were not

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On 14 September 2011, IDC announced that in the second calendar quarter of 2011, the market share of the iPad increased to 68.3% from 65.7% in the previous quarter, while market share for Android-based tablets decreased from 34.0% the previous quarter down to 26.8% in the second quarter. Besides

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dominated sales, outselling Android and other rival OS tablets by a ratio of eight to one. Apple's iPad held 66 percent of the global tablet market in Q1 of 2011, but the share is predicted to drop to 58 percent by the end of the year due to the influx of new products, mostly Android tablets.

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On 22 September 2011, Gartner lowered their forecast for sales of tablet computers based on the Android OS by 28 percent from the previous quarter's projection, explaining that "Android’s appeal in the tablet market has been constrained by high prices, weak user interface and limited tablet

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through it, as well as the device acting as a storefront for physical goods sold through Amazon. Besides the Kindle Fire's low price, reviewers have also noted that it is polished on its initial release, in comparison to other tablets that often needed software updates.

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on TouchPad tablets when its price was dropped from US$ 499 to as low as $ 99 after it was discontinued resulted in a surge of interest. This dramatic increase in its popularity potentially raised its market share above all other non-Apple tablets, at least temporarily.

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of Microsoft demonstrates the first public prototype of a Tablet PC (defined by Microsoft as a pen-enabled computer conforming to hardware specifications devised by Microsoft and running a licensed copy of the "Windows XP Tablet PC Edition" operating system) at

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was released in 1993 with a Compaq-modified version of MS-DOS 6.2 and Windows 3.1, a.k.a. Windows for PEN, with pen-entry and Wacom compatibility. Functionally the Concerto was a full featured laptop that could operate in pen-mode when the keyboard was removed.

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HP TouchPad, the first addition to HP's tablet family, was shipped out with version 3.0.2. Version 3.0.2 gives the tablet support for multitasking, applications, and HP Synergy. HP have also claimed in its webcatalog to support over 200 apps with its release.

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technology, and thus the development of tablets has deep historical roots. The first patent for a system that recognized handwritten characters by analyzing the handwriting motion was granted in 1914. The first publicly demonstrated system using a tablet and

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Wang Laboratories introduces Freestyle, an application that captured a screen from a MS-DOS application, and let users add voice and handwriting annotations. It was a sophisticated predecessor to later note-taking applications for systems like tablet

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machines, they can run many different operating systems. However, the device is no longer for sale and FrontPath has ceased operations. Many touch screen sub-notebook computers can run any of several Linux distributions with little customization.

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of Apple envisioned in a 1983 speech an "incredibly great computer in a book that you can carry around with you and learn how to use in 20 minutes". In 1985, as the home-computer market significantly declined after several years of strong growth,

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devices for field work. In the health care sector, tablet computers were intended for data capture – such as registering feedback on the patient experience at the bedside as well and supporting data collection through digital survey instruments.

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Personal Communicator, an analog cellphone using a touchscreen and display. It did not include handwriting recognition, but did permit users to write messages and send them as faxes on the analog cellphone network, and included PDA and email

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A number of Linux-based OS projects are dedicated to tablet PCs. Since all these are open source, they are freely available and can be run or ported to devices that conform to the tablet PC design. In 2003, Hitachi introduced the VisionPlate

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Again in 1996, Fujitsu released the Stylistic 1000 tablet format PC, running Microsoft Windows 95, on a 100 MHz AMD486 DX4 CPU, with 8 MB RAM offering stylus input, with the option of connecting a conventional Keyboard and mouse.

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In 1986, Hindsight, a startup in Enfield CT, developed the Letterbug, an 8086-based tablet computer for the educational market. Prototypes were shown at trade shows in New England in 1987, but no production models ever came out.

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In 1994, the European Union initiated the 'OMI-NewsPAD' project (EP9252), requiring a consumer device be developed for the receipt and consumption of electronically delivered news / newspapers and associated multi-media. The

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class of portable device, different from a laptop PC or netbook. A WiFi-only model of the tablet was released in April 2010, and a WiFi+3G model was introduced about a month later, using a no-contract data plan from

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in October 2011, iPads no longer require being plugged into a separate personal computer for initial activation and backups, eliminating one of the drawbacks of using a non-PC architecture-based tablet computer.

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in his 1972 proposal: A personal computer for children of all ages, the paper outlines the requirements for a conceptual portable educational device that would offer functionality similar to that supplied via a

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more than 90% market share, but the difference between the figures could be explained by the difference between the amount of hardware shipped into the channel versus the number that have been actually sold.

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being affected by the introduction of the iPad 2 in March 2011, this can also be partially attributed to the introduction of RIM's PlayBook tablet, which took 4.9% share of the market in the quarter.

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released the first tablet PCs designed to the Microsoft Tablet PC specification. This generation of Microsoft Tablet PCs were designed to run Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, the Tablet PC version of

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developed and delivered an ARM based touch screen tablet computer for this program, branded the NewsPad. The device was supplied for the duration of the Barcelona-based trial, which ended in 1997.

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present in all contexts, and there were not enough applications specific to the platform – legacy applications created for desktop interfaces made them not well adapted to the slate format.

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The Reading Appliance Revolution, by: Bill N. Schilit, Morgan N. Price, Gene Golovchinsky Kei Tanaka (FX Palo Alto Laboratory), Catherine C. Marshall (Xerox PARC). Published: IEEE 1999-01

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system in June 2011. HP released it a month later in July, only to discontinue it after less than 49 days of sales, becoming the first casualty in the post-PC tablet computer market. The

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Marcano Belisario, José S., et al. "Comparison of self-administered survey questionnaire responses collected using mobile apps versus other methods." Cochrane Database Syst Rev 7 (2015).

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1900, the first commercially successful tablet computer. It weighed 4.5 pounds and had a tethered pen resistive screen like the Write-top. The handwriting recognition was created by

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as one of the several webmail services it can access. At a cost of only US$ 199 for the Kindle Fire it has been suggested that Amazon's business strategy is to make their money on

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said that a successful home computer needed to be the size of and as convenient to carry as a spiral notebook. He and others urged the industry to research the Dynabook concept.

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In April 2008, as part of a larger federal court case, the gesture features of the Windows/Tablet PC operating system and hardware were found to infringe on a patent by

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to support Netbooks, Smartphones and tablet PCs. In 2010, Nokia and Intel combined the Maemo and Moblin projects to form MeeGo. The first MeeGo powered tablet PC is the

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earlier. Apple's share fell to 58% from 68%. A total of 26.8 million tablet computers were sold in the quarter, up from 10.7 million a year ago, the report said.

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initiative, which took the same hardware and combined it with a Linux operating system custom-built for portable tablets. Intel co-developed the lightweight

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describes an Opton, a portable device with a screen "linked directly, through electronic catalogs, to templates of every book on earth" in the 1961 novel "

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In 1999, Intel announced a StrongARM based touch screen tablet computer under the name WebPAD, the tablet was later re-branded as the "Intel Web Tablet".

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and CIC both offer PC computers for the consumer market using a tablet with handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard and mouse. Operating system is

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database software for it. With the introduction of the iPad 2 Apple also released full-featured first party software for multi-track music composition (

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name and project goals were borrowed from and inspired by Arthur C. Clarke's 1965 screen play and Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film: 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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a version of webOS by the end of 2011, to run within the Microsoft Windows operating system to be used in HP desktop and notebook computers in 2012.

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a stylus detects the voltage at the touched location." The handwriting had to be individually trained for each user. Around 1500 units were sold.

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Tom Dimond demonstrates the Stylator electronic tablet with pen for computer input and software for recognition of handwritten text in real-time.

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Intel announces a StrongARM-based, wireless touch screen tablet computer called the WebPad, the device was later renamed the "Intel Web Tablet".

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tablet was the ProGear by FrontPath. The ProGear used a Transmeta chip and a resistive digitizer. The ProGear initially came with a version of

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In 1996, The Webbook Company announced the first Internet-based tablet, then referred to as a Web Surfboard, that would run Java and utilize a

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concerning user interfaces for pen computer operating systems. Microsoft's acquisition of the technology is the subject of a separate lawsuit.

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with the exception of the requirement for any Dynabook device offering near eternal battery life. Adults could also use a Dynabook, but the

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Thorsteinsson, Gisli (15 June 2012). "Piloting a Use of Graphic Tablets to Support Students Drawing within a Secondary School in Iceland".

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Apple released the iPad Pro in a 9.7-inch display that had a 256 GB option, the largest amount of storage available on a consumer tablet.

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In 1999, Microsoft attempted to re-institute the then decades old tablet concept by assigning two well-known experts in the field, from

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Early competitors to Apple's iPad in the market for tablet computers not based on the traditional PC architecture were the 5 inch

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by platform he showed a chart indicating Apple's iOS at 76%, Google's Android at 17%, HP's webOS at 6%, and RIM's PlayBook OS at 2%.

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CPU, that Apple had specifically co-developed with Acorn Computers. The operating system and platform design were later licensed to

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develops the first device that meets the Microsoft's Tablet PC standard and received the "Best Hardware" award at VAR Vision 2000.

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Tablet computers appeared in a number of works of science fiction in the second half of the 20th century, with the depiction of

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for this class of devices. Microsoft Tablet PCs were targeted to address business needs mainly as note-taking devices, and as

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Cadre System markets the Inforite point-of-sale terminal using handwriting recognition and a small electronic tablet and pen.

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in January 2011, over 80 new tablets were announced to compete with the iPad. Companies who announced tablets included:

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markets a general-purpose computer terminal using a tablet and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard and mouse.

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in Douglas Adams 1978 comedy of the same name, all helping to promote and disseminate the concept to a wider audience.

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In addition to many academic and research systems, there were several companies with commercial products in the 1980s:

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receives the "Innovation des Jahres 2002/2003" award for the PaceBook Tablet PC from PC Professional Magazine at the

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Hindsight develops and tests the Letterbug, an educational tablet computer before making the trade show tour in 1987.

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Axiotron introduces Modbook, the first (and only) tablet computer based on Mac hardware and Mac OS X at Macworld.

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for general availability and IBM announced IBM 2125 pen computer (the first IBM model named "ThinkPad") in April.

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touch and stylus based PDA, the touch based devices initially incorporating a Motorola Dragonball (68000) CPU.

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PARC publishes: "A personal computer for children of all ages" describing and detailing possible uses for his

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handheld organizers with flip-around clamshell display with pen support and Graffiti handwriting recognition.

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released for general availability. Vista included the functionality of the special Tablet PC edition of

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15 million iPads sold from April 2010 through December 2010, for 9.5 billion USD in 2010.

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which is the first to add phone capabilities. Intel, following the launch of the UMPC, started the

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based touch OS. The company would be bought by AT&T, and some technology borrowed for its 1991

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software, many users had to rely on on-screen keyboards and alternative text input methods like

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Android and Windows tablets (and smartphones) are up to 4 GB RAM, using 64-bit processors.

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Annotated bibliography of references to handwriting recognition and tablet and touch computers

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operating system. The devices were manufactured by several manufacturers, based on a mix of:

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Roger, James-Yves; Roger, Jean-Yves; Stanford-Smith, Brian; Kidd, Paul T. (1 January 1998).

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MTVs "Pimp My Ride" features multiple Motion Computing tablets PCs in customized automobiles

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shares of 10% for Asus, 8% for Lenovo, 6% for Samsung, and 3% or less for any other brand.

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On 18 August 2011, HP announced that it would discontinue production of all webOS devices.

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envisioned a KiddiComp; while a PhD candidate he developed and described the concept as a

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and Communications Intelligence Corporation were among the best known of a crowded field.

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Cyrix-NatSemi announce and demonstrate the WebPad touch screen tablet computer at COMDEX.

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The "QBE Vivo" pen computer created by Aqcess Technologies ties for COMDEX Best of Show.

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imagines a flatscreen tablet device wirelessly playing a video broadcast in the movie

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The tablet computer market was reinvigorated by Apple through the introduction of the

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Fingerworks develops the touch technology and touch gestures later used in the Apple

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invented. The RAND Tablet is better known than the Styalator, but was invented later.

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operating system following the successful launch of the Atom CPU series on netbooks.

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on the integrated tablet, the Modbook was supplied with a third-party driver called

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licensed the design from Samsung and was also sold as the better known GRiDPad SL.

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The tablet computer and the associated special operating software is an example of

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of IP55 and IP57, making it dust-resistant, water-jet resistant, and waterproof.

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instead of a keyboard for working with a modern digital computer dates to 1956.

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The first commercially successful tablet-type portable MS-DOS computer was the

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Samsung introduced the formidable and elegantly designed PenMaster which used

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Notion Ink. Many of these tablets were designed to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb,

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chip and a resistive digitizer. The ProGear initially came with a version of

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made a concept video of a tablet device with a color display and a focus on

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and provides a proprietary user interface optimized for the WeTab device.

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1914: U.S. Patent on handwriting recognition user interface with a stylus.

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Motion Computing releases the LE1600 and paperback sized LS800 Tablet PC.

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Technologies for the Information Society: Developments and Opportunities

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technology, and the development of tablets has deep historical roots.

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Microsoft releases the Microsoft Tablet PC, designed and built by HP.

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In 1992, Samsung introduced the PenMaster. It was based around the

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An Innovation in Control Panels for Large Computer Control Systems

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Notes on the History of Tablet- and Pen-based Computing (YouTube)

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convertible tablet that could be folded like a laptop called the

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with an ARM microprocessor and two step Kickstand. Alongside the

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smartphone being the first 64-bit mobile device the month before)

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Always Innovating announced a new tablet netbook with an ARM CPU.

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concept video of a tablet device with focus on media consumption.

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Apple Computer announces the Newton PDA, also known as the Apple

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and the associated special operating software is an example of

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