Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 is latest entrant to the tablet market

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A woman experiments with the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet in New York Aug. 15. The tablet is designed to make a more personal connection with users, aiming to knock Apple's iPad off its market throne. A key feature of the Galaxy Note 10.1 is a sophisticated "S Pen" that can be used as if it were a pen on paper or a computer mouse. Samsung built technology from Japan-based Wacom into the tablet screen to create a layer that can sense "S Pens" so precisely that it can tell how hard they are being pressed or even if they are hovering, slightly out of touch. The tablet is powered by Google's latest generation Android software and features powerful quad-core processors as well as two gigabytes of RAM for quick handling of videos, games and other graphics rich content.

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Hugo Barra of Google holds the Nexus 7 tablet during the Google I/O conference. The $199 handheld computer features a 7-inch screen and a Tegra 3 quad-core processor. It is designed to help the company vie with Apple, Microsoft and Amazon in the surging market for tablets.

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Apple released its new iPad in March, betting on a sharper screen and faster chip to extend its lead over Google and Amazon in the growing market for tablet computers. Apple leads sales in the global tablet market. The new iPad is 0.37 inches thick, 9.5 inches long and weighs 1.46 pounds, with retina display.

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Panos Panay, the general manager of the Microsoft Surface, holds the "Surface," a new tablet computer shown with optional covers options at Hollywood's Milk Studios in Los Angeles. The 9.3-millimeter (0.4-inch) thick tablet comes with a kickstand to hold it upright and keyboard that is part of the device's cover. It weighs less than 1.5 pounds.

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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 runs on the Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Its display is 10.1 inches and it comes equipped with both front and rear-facing cameras.

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos holds the new Amazon tablet called the Kindle Fire at a show in New York in September 2011. The tablet is Amazon's tool for delivering e-books and online newspaper and magazine subscriptions to readers.

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Models show off Sony's new tablet computers, Tablet S, left, and Tablet P during a launch event in Tokyo in September 2011. The wedge-shaped Tablet S, about the size of an iPad, can double as a universal remote control while the Tablet P opens like a book to reveal two screens.

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Asus International chief executive Jonney Shih presents the Eee Pad Transformer, one of the company's newest tablets, at a press event. The Asus tablet is 10.1 inches long, weighs 1.2 pounds and is 8.6 millimeters thick.

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A visitor uses the Acer Iconia tablet A700 at the Acer booth during the 2012 Computex exhibition at the TWTC Nangang exhibition hall in Taipei, Taiwan, in June 2012. Critics have praised the Iconia's battery life but bemoaned its price and design. The tablet is 10.1 inches long, weighs 1.4 pounds and 9.8 millimeters thick, with an LCD display.

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An attendee plays the Electronic Arts Sports' Madden NFL 2012 game on a BlackBerry PlayBook at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco in March 2012. Research In Motion (RIM) reported selling 500,000 PlayBooks last quarter, which pales in comparison with Apple's 11.8 million iPads, according to Bloomberg. PlayBook is 0.4 inches thick, 7.6 inches wide and weighs just less than one pound, with an LCD display.

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Barnes & Noble CEO William Lynch introduced the new NOOK tablet in New York in 2011. In June, NOOK announced that it will begin hosting DC Comics and graphic novels. NOOK is 8.1 inches long, 0.48 inches thick and weighs just less than one pound.

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The Toshiba Excite 10 LE is the company's third crack at building a popular tablet. It comes in sizes of 13-, 10- and 7.7-inch tablets and is 0.3 inches thick.

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