Terms of a Tablet Operating System

"What's the difference between large-sized mobile phone with a tablet?" response that Eric Schmidt, former Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Google Inc., a few days after Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad in January 2010.

For Schmidt, the tablet computer is like a smart phone with larger size touch screen. Initially, many people think like it.

However, in reality, much different tablet with a smart phone. The main difference is in the operating system (OS). Creating a tablet OS not as easy as turning the palm of the hand.

The proof, the new Google Android 3.0 aka Honeycomb introduced, a special platform tablet, a year after the iPad was launched.

In fact, Lenovo's president Rory Read was rejected Android 2.2 Froyo platform, which is widely used smart phone, into their tablets. The reason, "Operating system not suitable for use in a multifunctional tablet computer," said Read.

This difficulty also felt Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry Playbook when developing a tablet. Canadian companies could not immediately install the operating system running on a BlackBerry smartphone into a 7-inch tablet. For that RIM must be willing to pay Rp. 1.8 trillion to acquire QNX (read: quenix) OS makers, QNX Software Systems, of Harman International, in April 2010.

There are several problems that occur when the mobile platform forced entry into the tablet. Example of the adjustment screen resolution, processor performance, web browsing functions, and power consumption.

Phone's screen resolution is smaller than the tablets. If the mobile OS running on the tablet, the display of the user interface does not fit. Images so small.

Tablets require high performance to run many applications simultaneously, aka multitasking. To that end, the minimal tablet use dual-core processors with speeds above 1 GHz.

Web browsing experience on the tablet is also an important concern. If the phone is put ability to communicate via voice and short message, the tablet forward and streaming Internet surfing functions Both of these features require support from services such as Adobe Flash and HTML 5.

Problem electricity consumption is expected strength tablet just like a laptop that can last at least until six months.

Therefore, the performance of the processor and random access memory (RAM) must be adjusted to the capacity of the battery so the battery does not drop quickly. *** [RINI KUSTIANI | POCKET-LINT | ITPROPORTAL | KORAN TEMPO 3684]

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