Modern Tablet Computer Features

Xah Lee, 2012-03-11

Got a BlackBerry PlayBook amazon Tablet computer from a generous friend. This is a 7″ screen, 1024×600 pixels. (iPad 2 is 9.7″, 1024×768) This is my first tablet.

Things to Do

Find out the hardware spec, processor, memory, storage capacity, screen dimension.

CPU: 1 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4430 (Cortex-A9 dual-core)
Memory: 1 GB RAM
Storage: 16 GB Flash
Display: 7″ LCD display. 1024×600 (WSVGA), 16:9 aspect ratio
1080p HDMI output

• Checkout Unicode support. ⁖ Sample Unicode Characters.
• Checkout playing video on it. ⁖ youtube Selena Gomez - Love You Like a Love Song, and check out a porn video site.
• Checkout voice and video chat on it. e.g g+ hangout

Other questions.

• Checkout playing a game that touch-screen has significant advantage. ⁖ bejeweled blitz on g+.
• How to get keyboard to Dvorak Keyboard Layout.
• Checkout how to write apps on it. The nature of app on such device. What lang are they written in, what tools are required for dev. Is it compatible for Android or other such tablets. How to sell apps on it.

Checkout what degree of features it supports for html5 tech, and whether it is browser dependent, whether it has different browsers as in desktop, the nature of browsers on such device.

Basic HTML5 stuff to checkout:

• HTML5 Tags
• SVG: HTML5 Canvas vs SVG, Dragon Flags
• JavaScript Floating Box Following Scroll
• HTML5 Video Example
• HTML5 “figure” ＆ “figurecaption” Tags Browser Support
• HTML5 {meter, progress} Tags
• HTML5 “ruby” Tag

• Checkout some advanced html5 sites. See: Interesting Web Tech Related Articles
• Checkout Google Map on it. ⁖ Google Chrome Embeds Google Earth Technology, Photo: Ganges River, The Adventure of the German Student.

Results

See: Tablet Computer: Touch-screen Interface Pros and Cons.