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To be more specific, it weighs 14 ounces and measures 0.55 inches thick, compared to 11 ounces and 0.43 inches for the A70 with 8 GB flash drive. Still, the use of a hard drive wasn't a serious detriment to the tablet's performance. The HDD-equipped A70, which runs Android 2.2 with a 1 GHz processor, was pleasantly responsive, and the video game Real Racing ran without a hiccup. Previously-opened apps resumed immediately,[url=http://www.duveticajacketsjp.com/][b]デュベティカ 激安[/b][/url], and freshly-executed ones lagged just slightly behind Archos' solid state A70. Same goes for video files. Of course, Archos' demo unit wasn't brimming with stored data. I'd be interested to see how the A70 holds up with 200 GB of video on board. But for now, if you've got that much multimedia to put on a tablet, Archos has the only solution. It's available now from major online retailers for $350. Check out our complete coverage of CES 2011.
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The most apparent end-use may be as a simpler way to access sports, movie and standard television content, without the need for cable, satellite, or the game consoles that many households now resort to for streaming video. "We have been doing net TV for more than two years, especially in the American market," said Masaaki Osumi, head of Toshiba's TV division. "It's replacing the kind of things people used to rent on video, not so much looking up stock prices or searching for things. cable company, Comcast Corp. These tie-ups are being spurred on by the cable companies' need to protect their customer base against growing threats from the Web, where viewers watch many programs for free. Beyond conventional TV content,[url=http://duveticaitaly.albirank.net/][b]Duvetica Coats[/b][/url], the future is less certain. 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Android, which Google licenses to manufacturers for free, has become the number two mobile operating system in the United States according to comScore, with a 26 percent market share trailing Research In Motion's Blackberry OS but ahead of the 25 percent for Apple's iPhone OS. Another technology giant expected to make a splash in the tablet arena,[url=http://duveticadownjacketssale.webmium.com/][b]http://duveticadownjacketssale.webmium.com/[/b][/url], Seattle-based Microsoft, with its Windows 7 operating system, again failed to deliver. Windows-powered tablets were few and far between at CES and attracted little notice with the exception of the Eee EP121 from Taiwan's Asus, which runs Windows 7 software and features a 12-inch (30.5-centimeter) touchscreen. As if adding insult to injury, a Lenovo hybrid tablet-laptop, the IdeaPad U1, runs Windows 7 when serving as a U1 laptop and Android when the detachable screen is removed to work as a tablet, the LePad. Rotman Epps said Google's Honeycomb actually "poses a much bigger threat to Microsoft than it does to Apple. "Of the 24.1 million tablets we expect US consumers to buy in 2011, the majority will still be iPads, but consumers looking for a cheaper, feature-rich alternative will turn to Google, not Microsoft," she said. "I guess the world will have to wait for Windows 8 tablets," Rotman Epps added in a blog post. Mike Cleron, a Google engineer, said the Mountain View, California-based Internet search giant had spent more than a year "rethinking everything about Android from the ground up" before coming out with Honeycomb. "We optimized Android for the new hardware," Cleron said, pointing out features which were not available on the first version of the iPad such as multi-tasking. Most of the Android-based tablets on display also integrated other features not included on the iPad such as front- and rear-facing cameras to enable video chat and the ability to run Adobe Flash video software. Motorola Mobility device team head Alain Mutricy, accepting the award for best gadget at CES,[url=http://duveticaoutletcanada.halod.com/][b]http://duveticaoutletcanada.halod.com/[/b][/url], described the Xoom, whose 10.1-inch (25.6-centimeter) screen is about the same size as that of the iPad as the "next generation of tablets." "Our partnership with Google has been very intense and has enabled some great technology," Mutricy said.
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