10 Facts About Mini tablets

Thereafter, Mini tablets rapidly rose in ubiquity and soon became a large product category used for personal, educational and workplace applications.

Market for Mini tablets is split relatively evenly between Apple's iPad and Android Mini tablets, with iPads capturing slightly more global market share due to their quality and FPS rate.

Mini tablets launched the WinPad project, working together with OEMs such as Compaq, to create a small device with a Windows-like operating system and handwriting recognition.

Android Mini tablets were more popular in most of Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe.

Samsung vice president Gary Riding said early in 2016 that Mini tablets were only doing well among those using them for work.

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Smartphones and Mini tablets are similar devices, differentiated by the former typically having smaller screens and most Mini tablets lacking cellular network capability.

Simple Mini tablets are mainly used as media consumption devices, while 2-in-1s have capacity for both media consumption and content creation, and thus 2-in-1s are often called laptop or desktop replacement computers.

Some Mini tablets are modified by adding physical gamepad buttons such as D-pad and thumb sticks for better gaming experience combined with the touchscreen and all other features of a typical tablet computer.

For IoT devices, the system is known to be based on LiteOS kernel; while for smartphones and Mini tablets, it is based on a Linux kernel layer with AOSP libraries to support APK apps using ART through the Ark Compiler, in addition to native HarmonyOS apps.

In October 2012, display screen shipments for Mini tablets began surpassing shipments for laptop display screens.