How apps can change your life. Pages 2-3
Tablet Buyer’s Guide - May 2011
Essential Android application for your touchscreen tablet.
Tablet range at The Carphone Warehouse Pages 4-5 A complete range of tablets available in-store or online at The Carphone Warehouse.
Coming Soon Tablets Pages 6-7 A quick glimpse at the most essential touchscreen tablets still to come this year.
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Tablets Buyer’s Guide - Page 2
Want to be more organised, have fun and be better informed? Discover just what apps can do for you
An app is a piece of software that helps you
landmark to a bottle of wine), and Goggles will tell
perform a specific task. It can be anything from
you everything you need to know about it – from
a guitar tuner to a wedding planner, a stock
potted histories to the best online prices.
market tracker to an electronic personal trainer. The best thing is you can have as many of them as you want and access each one at the touch
added every day), many of which are free, there
Friendly Android Superb apps for socialising
really is an app out there for everything.
With an Android tablets, you
of a button. And because there are over 100,000 apps* available for Android phones (with more
can talk and text like never before. Love free instant
Clever Android Apps designed to do things differently
messaging? Check out WhatsApp. Want free
Suffering from slow internet
to connect you with the rest of the world. Naturally,
speeds? Opera Mini 5 Beta
Android also has dedicated Twitter and Facebook
cleverly shrinks web content
apps, to keep you posted on your friends and family.
face-to-face video calls? Pick up the new Skype for Android app, which utilises your mobile internet
to make pages load faster on your tablet. Or maybe you want to touch up your holiday snaps while you’re still on holiday?
information you’re after? Then feast your eyes on
Hardworking Android Apps for working on the move
Google Goggles, which combines your tablet’s
Perhaps you want a task list that
camera with Google’s search engine. Simply
reminds you what you should be
take a photo of an object (anything from a public
doing, just before you’re meant
Adobe Photoshop Express lets you fine-tune your photographs using your fingers. Perhaps it’s instant
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How Apps can change your life
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to do it? Simply download the Astrid productivity
reading about it? If so, the Sky News app offers up
app. Need a second phone number for work calls?
to the minute video bulletins. Want more music on
Google Voice lets you make calls from your tablet
your tablet? There’s an extensive range of apps that
on a unique phone number that’s all your own, and
you can access anywhere, from radio stations to
even turns your voicemail into text to save you time.
Shazam, which lets you identify that elusive track. Perhaps you prefer your music live? Then try Gigstar, a gig-finding app that lets you search for events and artists, buy tickets to shows, and even tell you
Globetrotting Android Great apps for globetrotting
when your favourite band is coming to town.
If you’re struggling to keep tabs on your travels, TripIt is the ultimate itinerary planner, compiling everything from flight details to hotel numbers, local directions to restaurant bookings. New in town? The Layar Reality Browser uses your tablet’s camera to display real-time information for restaurants, hotels, shops and theatres for your current location, right before your eyes. Want to know if you’ll need an umbrella? The Weather Channel app doesn’t just provide a detailed report by town and city, but will give accurate forecasts based on a specific postcode. Need to
Get off on the right foot with Walk Out Working
get places fast? Google Maps is a free turn-by-turn navigation aide**, which gives the fastest route by car, public transport, or (fitness depending) on foot.
Entertaining Android Apps that are made for multimedia Want brilliant games to keep you occupied on your
Of course, the one pitfall of buying a tablet that can do everything is getting to grips with how it all works. Thanks to our free new service, Walk Out Working, we can help you get set up and ready to do everything you want, before you leave our store. When you receive your new tablet instore, our sales consultant will download your first app and set up email. It only takes 15 minutes.
commute? They don’t come any more addictive than Angry Birds Lite, the game that lets you exact tweet revenge on some opportunist egg thieves. Or perhaps you prefer watching the news to
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*All of these apps are free, unless otherwise specified. ** Your operator may charge you for using the internet on your handset. Please check first.
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Tablets Buyer’s Guide - Page 4
Sick of the same old thing? Go ahead and try one of our new tablets.
Tablet only
€699.90
Motorola Xoom You want a tablet that just works. Motorola’s Xoom is one of the most impressive tablets we’ve seen so far, helped by Android’s specially designed tablet OS.
Tech Specs
Browse the web
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• Scren size: 10” • OS: Android 3.0 Honeycomb • Nvidia Tegra 2: 1GHz Dual Core • 1GB RAM • Memory: 32GB • WiFi+3G
Listen to music Watch movies Use as Navigator WiFi
Camera Battery Life: 7h
16GB Internal Memory
Archos 10
€349.90
Experience one of the best desirable Android™ technology with a large, high-resolution 10.1’’ screen, a weight of 480g, and a thickness of just 12 mm.
Tech Specs • Scren size: 10” • OS: Android 2.2 Froyo • 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 Processor • 512MB RAM • Memory: 8GB or 16GB • WiFi Only
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8GB Internal Memory
€299.90
Browse the web
Send emails
Listen to music Watch movies
WiFi
Camera Battery Life: 7h
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FREE*
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7”
*Subject to a 24 month connection to 3 Bill pay
You’re looking to get a tablet right now that offers you Flash support, as well as a more portable size to Apple’s iPad.
Tech Specs • Scren size: 7” • OS: Android 2.2 Froyo • 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 Processor • 512MB RAM • Memory: 16GB • WiFi or 3G
WiFi Only
€379.90
Browse the web
Send emails
¿
Listen to music Watch movies Use as Navigator WiFi
Tablet only
€369.90
Camera Battery Life: 7h
Linx N700 A tablet which combines 3G and Wi-Fi usability, Android powered with 512MB internal memory and a MicroSD card slot.
Tech Specs
Browse the web
Send emails
¿
Listen to music Watch movies Use as Navigator WiFi
• Scren size: 7” • OS: Android 2.2 Froyo • Qualcomm 600MHz CPU • 512MB RAM • Memory: 4GB • WiFi+3G Camera Battery Life: 5h
Disgo Tablet 6000 This lightweight, compact tablet has a bright high resolution display for watching movies and reading eBooks, and thanks to its fast 1GHz processor you can multitask on the move.
Tech Specs • Scren size: 7” • OS: Android 2.1 Eclair • 1GHz ARM Processor • 256MB RAM • Memory: 2GB • WiFi Only
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WiFi Only
€179.90 Browse the web
Send emails
Listen to music Watch movies
WiFi
Battery Life: 3h
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Coming Soon A quick glimpse at the most essential touchscreen tablets still to come this year
HTC Flyer 5 megapixel auto focus camera with LED flash
Highly portable 7-inch screen
Magic Stylus
HTC Flyer Conveniently compact and light for travel, yet amazingly powerful, the HTC Flyer tablet with a 7” display and a superfast 1.5 GHz processor is perfect for web browsing at home, in the car or on a business trip. To make it even
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better, it features Adobe Flash support, multi-window browsing with pinch to zoom, and a clever quick look-up that lets you tap into Wikipedia, YouTube and other web resources. The stylish aluminium design looks and feels fantastic, while also providing real durability on the road.
Tech Specs • Scren size: 7” • OS: Android 2.3 Gingerbread • 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon CPU • 1GB RAM • Memory: 32GB SSD • WiFi Only
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Asus Eee Pad Transformer 1.2 megaPixel Front Camera 5 megaPixel Rear Camera
USB 2.0 Port
The docking station extends the Transformer’s battery life up to 16 hours. Sold separately.
*Subject to a 24-month contract on Selected Vodafone Bill pay tariffs. Pre pay €579.90.
Asus Eee Pad Transformer With a super slim profile of only 12.98mm thick in a frame that weighs only 680g, the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is comfortable to hold from any position. The unique textured pattern offers
a better tactile sensation, so it won’t feel as if it will slip out of your hands. Powered by the NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor, the Transformer browses the web at blazing speeds, providing a snappier response time and better performance when multi-tasking.
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1”
Tech Specs • Scren size: 10.1” • OS: Android 3.0 Honeycomb • Nvidia Tegra 2: 1GHz Dual Core • 1GB RAM • Memory: 16GB or 32GB • WiFi Only
Exclusive to Vodafone From
€399.90*
8 megaPixel Rear Camera
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1” The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1” is the larger brother of the original Galaxy Tab, however, rather than simply using a larger screen, Samsung has opted for an impressive new design, and crammed in the
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latest technology giving it great performance and making it a very competitive tablet. Samsung’s stunning 10.1-inch tablet is extremely impressive and the combination of Android 3.0 and its great capacitive touchscreen is sure to make this one one of the best tablets you can buy.
Tech Specs • Scren size: 10.1” • OS: Android 3.0 Honeycomb • Nvidia Tegra 2: 1GHz Dual Core • 512MB RAM • Memory: 32GB SSD • WiFi Only
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