When was the tablet pc first invented

As Infoworld's Kevin Strehlo wrote back in "I still can't recommend depending on a pen-based computing device to anyone but a UPS delivery person or someone who fills out forms for a living. As we've already said, timing is everything when it comes to tablets. Most people agree that Apple's Newton platform was ahead of its time, and it would be three years before Palm would respond with the Palm Pilot For now, PDAs were much more interesting than tablets.

Microsoft tried to get us all interested in tablets again at the turn of the millennium, and two years later in Bill Gates said: "The tablet is a PC that is virtually without limits — and within five years I predict it will be the most popular form of PC sold in America. If you look at the success of the iPad, Microsoft got three aspects of its tablet strategy disastrously wrong: it tried to make tablets full computers, it tried to sell them as primary PCs, and it focused on business users first.

You get points for the vision, Microsoft, but the real world execution was lacking at this stage. For a brief moment in we thought that the tablet had arrived in the shape of the It looked the part, weighed the part and for web browsing acted the part too - but matching Windows XP with a Transmeta Crusoe processor wasn't the wisest of choices.

The performance was lousy. What we really wanted was an iPad, but we just didn't know it yet. While gadget fans waited for somebody to launch a usable tablet that wasn't trying to be a PC, Amazon went off on a technology tangent with the Kindle.

While the first model was underwhelming, it proved beyond doubt that the time was right for ebooks and ereaders to make their move to the mainstream. Plus, by making the Kindle software available on the iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone, Mac and PC, customers could buy an ebook once and read it on any device they wanted to.

The idea of a tablet as a cut-down computer rather than a PC replacement had arrived, which leads us to Apple launched the iPad in April with a 9. Like most Apple products, it wasn't just early adopters and gadget-obsessed fanboys who slapped down their money and shouted: "I want one! The masses were finally ready to welcome tablets into their lives, although there were those who didn't see the point of a tablet device and still don't.

The second iPad was faster, thinner and lighter, and had cameras - it confirmed that yes, tablets were really a thing now, and everyone was going to have to get used to it. At this stage 90 percent of the tablets shifted in the world were iPads and it looked as though Apple had another iPhone-sized hit on its hands. The iPad 2 was also the first device to come with iOS 4. The tablet-specific Android 3.

The first tablet computer debuted the market in under the name of GRidPad, a name coined from the Grid System. However, before that, there were Graphic Tablets that connected to computer workstations. These Graphic Tablets enabled the creation of different user interfaces such as animation, drawing, and graphics. GRidPad was nothing near what Dynabook detailed. They were bulky, weighing around five pounds, and the screens were far from the million-pixel benchmark Kay had set.

Neither would the devices display in grayscale. Unlike the GRidPad, these computing devices had sufficient processing speed, fair graphics, and could sustain a generous amount of portfolio of applications.

In , Fujitsu launched the Stylistic tablet that ran on an Intel processor. This tablet came with Windows 95, which also featured on its improved version, the Stylistic This device ran on Comdex Technology and was to be the eye-opener into the future. This new device ran on iOS, an operating system that allowed for the integration of easy-to-customize features, an intuitive touch screen, and the use of gestures.

Later, Microsoft made up for their earlier missteps and created the touch-friendlier Windows Tablets that were convertible and worked as light laptops. H M S In the news. Julie Bort. First came the Linus Write-Top in The GridPad launched two years later. Apple's first "tablet" was the MessagePad in Microsoft's first Tablet computer arrived in The Windows XP tablet came next.

In , Jobs graced us with the Apple iPad. The iPad's success spawned new tablet competitors. Samsung came out with the Galaxy Tab. Amazon Kindle Fire undercut all of the prices, making tablets affordable for everyone. The Sony S2 launched in The Microsoft Surface tablet launched in Tablet makers like Asus are sitll experimenting with tablets like the Padfone 2. More tablets and devices are coming our way Loading Something is loading.

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