History of Tablet PC in the World

Now this who is not familiar Tablet PC, this latest gadget is a trend among gadget freak and even the general public. Tablet PC is a laptop or portable computer shaped book. Having a touch screen or digital tablet technology that enables computer users to use a stylus or digital pen than a keyboard or computer mouse. The term was popularized by Microsoft in 2001, but tablet PCs now refer to any tablet-sized personal computer, even if you are not using Windows but another PC operating system. Tablets may use virtual keyboards and handwriting recognition for text input through the touchscreen.

The idea of ​​tablet computers is not new. Tablet history began in 1968, a computer scientist named Alan Kay noted that with advances in flat-panel display technology, user interface, miniaturization of computer components and some experimental work in WiFi technology. Alan Kay is not one - only because it previously had many names - big names who have contributed to the process of invention and perfected until now. The next tablet history, in 1972, he published a paper on the device and called it a "Dynabook". Sketch of the Dynabook showed a very similar device to the tablet computers that we have today, with some exceptions. On the Dynabook, both screen and keyboard * all * on the same plane. But Kay's vision even further. He estimates that with the right touch screen technology, you can display the virtual keyboard, the configuration on the screen itself.

Kay leading at that time. History proves that the tablet takes almost four decades before the tablet is similar to what he imagined taking public heart. But that does not mean there is no market for tablet computers in the fourth decade and the Dynabook concept in addition to the famous Apple iPad. Tablet first appeared on the market is GRiDPad. First produced in 1989, GRiDPad including monochromatic capacitance touch screen and stylus cables. Weighing just under 2.26 pounds. Compared to today's tablets, GRiDPad was large and heavy, with short battery life that lasts only three hours. And the people behind it are GRiDPad Jeff Hawkins, who later founded the Palm. Then there are also other pen-based tablet computers, but he did not receive much support from the community.

Apple was the first to enter the field with Newton tablet, a device that receives the amount of love and ridicule over the years. Most of the criticism of Newton focuses on handwriting recognition software. Until finally peaks tablet history began when Steve Jobs revealed the iPad first to market, and to assure the market that the tablet computer can be a viable consumer product. Currently, companies such as Apple, Google, Microsoft and HP are trying to predict consumer needs, while designing the next generation of tablet devices. The discovery of the tablet pc is a refinement and development of existing computer technology. Then is never mentioned specifically who find it.