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A Tablet Running Both Windows and Android Side By Side

By VJ
Samsung ATIV Q tablet

The latest innovation from Samsung is the ATIV Q tablet, a streamlined 13-inch tablet that is extremely powerful and not that chunky for a tight competitor to the likes of Microsoft Surface Pro. It is thin, extremely powerful, and has a large brilliant QHD resolution screen, which is higher than Full HD. QHD is 3200x1800 pixels, while FHD is 1920x1280 pixels. Let’s take a brief look at this device.

Technical Specifications


The tablet-laptop mash-up is not yet in the market. We may update this post as it is made available in the market. Here are the brief technical specifications of the tablet.

Display 13.3 inch; 3200x1800 px (the highest in the market); 16 million colors
Processor Intel Haswell Core i5 processor (details unknown)
RAM 4 GB
Graphics Intel HD 4000
Storage 128 GB SSD
Battery life 9 hours of usage
Operating system(s) Android 4.2.2 Jelly Bean; Windows 8
Weight 1.29 kg
Other features Camera (720p HD recording)
YouTube upload support
USB 3.0 and Micro USB
Micro HDMI

The technical specifications are not complete as Samsung has not yet revealed the details yet. However, from what we can see, this is one of the best portable Windows 8 tablets out there. It can indeed be a tight competition to other existing tablets, notably Microsoft Surface Pro and iPad 4. Also, it is probably the lightest of all mid-range Windows 8 tablets that have a screen size of 13 inch or greater.

The resolution is one very important aspect that makes this tablet pretty unique. It is QHD+ (Quad HD+) at 3200x1800. If you remember our earlier post on display resolutions, Quad HD is 2560x1440 pixels, which is close to iPad 4’s resolution. This extreme resolution and an aspect ratio of 16:9 makes ATIV Q the best in the current market to watch movies or play games or browse with all the richness there is.

Resolution of ATIV Q display

The design of the tablet is also unique. It has a keyboard and a stand at the top of the keyboard that contains the motherboard, processor and all the internal components. A depression formed on the top of the keyboard acts as the placeholder for the stand.

Just as other innovative Windows tablet designs you can find, this is a quite unique one. The hinge on top of the stand can be used to rotate the display in 360 degrees. This is a design quite similar to the Acer Aspire R7 we previewed earlier. Here, you have some of the pictures of the ATIV Q.

ATIV Q in typing mode

pen input mode

As mentioned earlier, the tablet hybrid has two operating systems, Windows 8 and Android Jelly Bean 4.2.2. The tablet has a home button with Windows logo that can be used to switch between Windows 8 and Android.

In addition to all these, ATIV Q comes with a stylus similar to the S pen on Galaxy Note family. This is a great added advantage to the Android/Windows dual OS device. One other similar device was introduced by Asus a few days ago, Asus Transformer Trio that also has Android along with Windows 8.

We will not be seeing ATIV Q right now in the market. It will however come to us pretty soon. Also, these innovations will create a new era of computers that come with Android and Windows preinstalled, working side by side. It will take our productivity to a new level altogether with the capability of running Windows and Android applications at the same time.
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