1 00:00:07,500 --> 00:00:08,940 - Let's talk about tablets. 2 00:00:08,940 --> 00:00:11,190 This is a tablet computer. 3 00:00:11,190 --> 00:00:13,620 It's a thin mobile device. 4 00:00:13,620 --> 00:00:17,280 We operate it by tapping on the touchscreen 5 00:00:17,280 --> 00:00:19,440 to do what we need here. 6 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:21,750 I think everyone who's watching this video is 7 00:00:21,750 --> 00:00:24,630 pretty familiar with how to operate one of these. 8 00:00:24,630 --> 00:00:26,790 So, let's get into the details of these. 9 00:00:26,790 --> 00:00:31,790 Now these generally measure between six and 10 or 11 inches 10 00:00:32,010 --> 00:00:35,070 and that's measured diagonally by the screen size 11 00:00:35,070 --> 00:00:37,170 by the display size. 12 00:00:37,170 --> 00:00:39,330 You can use these for simple tasks 13 00:00:39,330 --> 00:00:43,600 such as reading books or browsing the internet 14 00:00:45,960 --> 00:00:48,720 but you can use them for more complex tasks as well. 15 00:00:48,720 --> 00:00:50,640 If you have a more powerful tablet 16 00:00:50,640 --> 00:00:52,080 you could do more than that. 17 00:00:52,080 --> 00:00:54,930 You can go and do recording, editing, 18 00:00:54,930 --> 00:00:56,860 photo editing, even programming 19 00:00:57,930 --> 00:00:59,850 but you have to make sure you match 20 00:00:59,850 --> 00:01:03,120 the tablet with what you need, the specs of the tablet 21 00:01:03,120 --> 00:01:05,553 with what you need for your applications. 22 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:10,560 And the main reason that I have this, this is an Apple iPad. 23 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:12,090 The main reason I have this 24 00:01:12,090 --> 00:01:14,880 is so I can use it as a control surface 25 00:01:14,880 --> 00:01:19,880 for my wireless recording for video. 26 00:01:20,370 --> 00:01:24,630 All my cameras are hooked up to a hub that's over here 27 00:01:24,630 --> 00:01:26,070 and it's a wireless hub 28 00:01:26,070 --> 00:01:28,890 and this program actually controls that 29 00:01:28,890 --> 00:01:30,360 it's all done wirelessly. 30 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:33,240 And so, that's the main purpose for this. 31 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:36,270 So, need a good amount of power on the tablet 32 00:01:36,270 --> 00:01:41,223 in order to run this program and control that wireless hub. 33 00:01:42,180 --> 00:01:45,333 So you gotta use the right tool for what you need. 34 00:01:47,580 --> 00:01:48,810 Okay, so I mentioned these screens 35 00:01:48,810 --> 00:01:52,500 they're usually six to say, 11 inches diagonal. 36 00:01:52,500 --> 00:01:56,580 And this particular one is a 9.7 inch display. 37 00:01:56,580 --> 00:01:59,820 This is an Apple iPad 2017 model 38 00:01:59,820 --> 00:02:04,020 it's LED backlit so, it's using diodes 39 00:02:04,020 --> 00:02:06,870 and it's a multi-touch display. 40 00:02:06,870 --> 00:02:11,830 So, that means that we can tap with one finger 41 00:02:12,930 --> 00:02:16,290 and we can use multiple fingers to swipe 42 00:02:16,290 --> 00:02:18,690 and to move to other apps, 43 00:02:18,690 --> 00:02:22,563 to close apps with the five fingers swipe and so on. 44 00:02:23,580 --> 00:02:26,700 And these are capacitive touchscreens. 45 00:02:26,700 --> 00:02:28,980 Again, they can respond to one or more fingers 46 00:02:28,980 --> 00:02:32,943 but also they can respond to specialized stylus devices. 47 00:02:33,810 --> 00:02:35,880 Now these are usually proprietary. 48 00:02:35,880 --> 00:02:38,880 So, if you're using an iPad, you'd need an Apple pencil 49 00:02:38,880 --> 00:02:40,590 special stylus that you can use. 50 00:02:40,590 --> 00:02:44,730 This one is a Samsung stylus, so this one's not gonna work 51 00:02:44,730 --> 00:02:47,343 but it will work on Samsung devices. 52 00:02:48,330 --> 00:02:53,330 So, you could use specific stylus or styli 53 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:57,573 for these multi-touch screens as well. 54 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:04,050 And this particular one uses IPS, in-plane switching. 55 00:03:04,050 --> 00:03:07,800 So we can have a wider viewing angle. 56 00:03:07,800 --> 00:03:12,570 And in fact, you can see here we can go pretty wide 57 00:03:12,570 --> 00:03:15,510 and you can still see everything on the screen very well 58 00:03:15,510 --> 00:03:17,040 so that's IPS. 59 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:22,040 And this one is a Quad Extended Graphics Array, QXGA. 60 00:03:22,170 --> 00:03:27,170 And it has a resolution of 2048 across by 1536 up and down. 61 00:03:30,150 --> 00:03:33,810 And that's a four to three aspect ratio. 62 00:03:33,810 --> 00:03:35,940 And you may say, well four to three aspect ratio 63 00:03:35,940 --> 00:03:39,600 that sounds kind of old school like CRT monitors 64 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,543 but that's what iPads and a lot of tablets use. 65 00:03:43,440 --> 00:03:45,120 And you would say well, 66 00:03:45,120 --> 00:03:47,740 most laptops that I see are 16 by nine 67 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:52,470 and PCs are 16 by nine or 16 by 10. 68 00:03:52,470 --> 00:03:53,490 And why is that? 69 00:03:53,490 --> 00:03:55,560 Well with the four by three aspect ratio 70 00:03:55,560 --> 00:03:58,740 you get a little bit more space, a little bit more height. 71 00:03:58,740 --> 00:04:03,360 So if you have an on-screen keyboard that pops up 72 00:04:03,360 --> 00:04:05,820 you'll only lose about this much up to here 73 00:04:05,820 --> 00:04:08,400 and you'll still be able to see up up here. 74 00:04:08,400 --> 00:04:09,688 And that works a little bit better 75 00:04:09,688 --> 00:04:14,040 than having a wider screen, like a 16 by nine. 76 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:15,330 So, quite often you'll see that 77 00:04:15,330 --> 00:04:18,483 plus it kinda works for handling the device as well. 78 00:04:19,530 --> 00:04:23,440 Now, this one has a 1.85 gigahertz CPU 79 00:04:25,200 --> 00:04:28,320 and there's two main goals for these tablets. 80 00:04:28,320 --> 00:04:30,060 The first, is to be highly portable. 81 00:04:30,060 --> 00:04:31,260 You wanna be able to move it around, 82 00:04:31,260 --> 00:04:32,810 to do what you need to with it, 83 00:04:34,050 --> 00:04:37,770 long battery power, portable, but then also 84 00:04:37,770 --> 00:04:40,410 you wanna have powerful processing capabilities 85 00:04:40,410 --> 00:04:42,360 but it's such a small device. 86 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:44,670 In order to accomplish this 87 00:04:44,670 --> 00:04:47,823 what we use is a system on a chip or SOC. 88 00:04:48,780 --> 00:04:53,780 What that does is it combines a CPU, RAM, storage, and more 89 00:04:55,080 --> 00:04:58,150 like it's an entire system on a single substrate 90 00:05:00,750 --> 00:05:03,300 essentially a system unto itself. 91 00:05:03,300 --> 00:05:08,300 And the CPU that's used is arm-based A-R-M. 92 00:05:10,380 --> 00:05:15,360 And that's a type of reduced instruction set computing risk. 93 00:05:15,360 --> 00:05:20,360 And the idea is an Arm-based CPU uses less transistors 94 00:05:20,580 --> 00:05:24,750 than a CPU you would find in a PC or a laptop. 95 00:05:24,750 --> 00:05:29,220 And that uses less space, it's lower power consumption 96 00:05:29,220 --> 00:05:31,350 but still you get a lot of processing power. 97 00:05:31,350 --> 00:05:35,130 So, the Arm-based CPU system on a chip is very common 98 00:05:35,130 --> 00:05:38,730 for mobile devices like tablets and smartphones. 99 00:05:38,730 --> 00:05:42,900 Built into that system on a chip, you'll have DDR RAM. 100 00:05:42,900 --> 00:05:47,900 In this case, this one has two gigahertz of LP DDR4 RAM. 101 00:05:50,250 --> 00:05:53,850 Smaller form factor than any other DDR you'll find in a PC 102 00:05:53,850 --> 00:05:56,013 or SO-DIMM that you'll find in a laptop. 103 00:05:57,360 --> 00:05:59,790 Quite often with tablets you'll have 104 00:05:59,790 --> 00:06:03,520 beyond the memory beyond the RAM 105 00:06:04,500 --> 00:06:07,080 which is usually two, gig four gigs, six gig 106 00:06:07,080 --> 00:06:09,120 currently as of the recording of this video, 107 00:06:09,120 --> 00:06:11,310 you'll also have long term storage, 108 00:06:11,310 --> 00:06:16,310 permanent storage between say 32 and 256 gigabytes. 109 00:06:17,280 --> 00:06:20,550 And that's flash memory similar to a USB flash drive. 110 00:06:20,550 --> 00:06:24,153 This one has 128 gigabytes. 111 00:06:28,410 --> 00:06:33,410 These also come with a long life battery 112 00:06:33,510 --> 00:06:35,580 and all these devices today use 113 00:06:35,580 --> 00:06:38,940 lithium ion polymer batteries, 114 00:06:38,940 --> 00:06:42,060 Li-ion polymer batteries. 115 00:06:42,060 --> 00:06:45,240 And so it's similar to the lithium ion batteries and laptops 116 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:47,160 but these could be made into any shape 117 00:06:47,160 --> 00:06:51,000 so, you can shape it to what you need for this device. 118 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:55,800 This particular one is 8,827 milliamp-hours 119 00:06:55,800 --> 00:06:58,770 otherwise known as 32.4 watt-hours. 120 00:06:58,770 --> 00:07:01,896 And what that effectively means is 121 00:07:01,896 --> 00:07:05,850 you can work on it typically for about 10 hours 122 00:07:05,850 --> 00:07:07,203 on a full charge. 123 00:07:09,390 --> 00:07:11,340 And then you have cameras. 124 00:07:11,340 --> 00:07:13,263 You have some built in cameras here. 125 00:07:14,520 --> 00:07:17,670 And here we have one on the back. 126 00:07:17,670 --> 00:07:19,590 That's the more powerful camera. 127 00:07:19,590 --> 00:07:21,720 This is an eight megapixel camera. 128 00:07:21,720 --> 00:07:24,840 So, you can take very large pictures 129 00:07:24,840 --> 00:07:27,630 and you can record at 1080P, 130 00:07:27,630 --> 00:07:32,343 that's 1920 by 1080 resolution video recording. 131 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:36,930 And then these usually have a second camera 132 00:07:36,930 --> 00:07:38,013 on the front here. 133 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,660 And that's used for doing things like FaceTime or Skype 134 00:07:42,660 --> 00:07:45,570 or what have you communicating with people. 135 00:07:45,570 --> 00:07:50,570 And so, that camera is a 1.2 megapixel camera. 136 00:07:51,060 --> 00:07:55,620 So much smaller pictures, and it does 720p video. 137 00:07:55,620 --> 00:07:59,340 That's 1080 by 720 resolution, still high def 138 00:07:59,340 --> 00:08:02,883 but the lowest version of high def that's available to you. 139 00:08:05,250 --> 00:08:09,273 So, there's some of the details of this device. 140 00:08:10,920 --> 00:08:14,043 And again, there are different types of tablets. 141 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,550 Okay, here we have an Amazon Fire and this is a Kid's Fire. 142 00:08:20,550 --> 00:08:21,690 And it's a pretty nice device. 143 00:08:21,690 --> 00:08:26,690 It's really good for reading books or for doing basic apps 144 00:08:26,820 --> 00:08:28,710 and things like that 145 00:08:28,710 --> 00:08:31,440 but this would never be able to handle 146 00:08:31,440 --> 00:08:34,080 the video recording that I need to do. 147 00:08:34,080 --> 00:08:36,090 It doesn't have a powerful enough processor. 148 00:08:36,090 --> 00:08:38,250 It's not meant to do that type of stuff. 149 00:08:38,250 --> 00:08:41,340 It's a much more inexpensive device. 150 00:08:41,340 --> 00:08:43,110 And so this is good for kids, 151 00:08:43,110 --> 00:08:46,140 it's good for adults who just wanna read or browse the web. 152 00:08:46,140 --> 00:08:51,140 But if you want to get into something 153 00:08:51,750 --> 00:08:54,300 where you've got real power, 154 00:08:54,300 --> 00:08:57,540 you're gonna need something more powerful, right? 155 00:08:57,540 --> 00:09:00,510 And like I was saying, I'm using this wireless hub 156 00:09:00,510 --> 00:09:05,510 to record what we have here, record my various video devices 157 00:09:07,350 --> 00:09:10,170 and switch between different screens. 158 00:09:10,170 --> 00:09:12,270 And so you need something like an iPad. 159 00:09:12,270 --> 00:09:15,540 In fact, it's proprietary for this program gotta use an iPad 160 00:09:15,540 --> 00:09:19,110 but you might wanna work with something else as well. 161 00:09:19,110 --> 00:09:22,140 For example, if you need something powerful 162 00:09:22,140 --> 00:09:25,563 that's Android based, you might go at something by Samsung. 163 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:32,460 And kind of bridging the gap between laptops and tablets. 164 00:09:32,460 --> 00:09:35,820 You have the surface, the Microsoft Surface 165 00:09:35,820 --> 00:09:38,250 which of course will run Windows, 166 00:09:38,250 --> 00:09:42,000 but those are touch screens they come with a keyboard. 167 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:44,760 So, it's a laptop it's a tablet 168 00:09:44,760 --> 00:09:47,490 who knows you can call it whatever you want really. 169 00:09:47,490 --> 00:09:49,440 And sometimes they'll even call it both. 170 00:09:49,440 --> 00:09:51,870 They'll call it a surface, they'll call it the laptop 171 00:09:51,870 --> 00:09:54,120 sometimes they'll it a tablet 172 00:09:54,120 --> 00:09:56,400 'cause it all depends on how you're using it. 173 00:09:56,400 --> 00:09:58,800 Are you using that keyboard 174 00:09:58,800 --> 00:10:01,263 or you just have it flat in tablet mode? 175 00:10:03,690 --> 00:10:05,550 So, the whole idea here again is 176 00:10:05,550 --> 00:10:08,680 that you wanna use the right device 177 00:10:11,070 --> 00:10:14,010 and depending on what type of device you use 178 00:10:14,010 --> 00:10:17,350 you're gonna have a different connector for charging 179 00:10:18,540 --> 00:10:20,280 and for synchronization of data. 180 00:10:20,280 --> 00:10:23,730 This one, this iPad uses a lightning connector. 181 00:10:23,730 --> 00:10:25,230 And that's an example of that. 182 00:10:29,040 --> 00:10:32,100 Again for charging, and you could probably hear that 183 00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:35,430 now it's charging and it's also for synchronization of data. 184 00:10:35,430 --> 00:10:40,430 This one uses a USB connection and that is a micro-USB 185 00:10:45,990 --> 00:10:48,600 which will show again and we've shown before 186 00:10:48,600 --> 00:10:53,600 but you might have a device also that uses USB-C. 187 00:10:56,468 --> 00:11:00,117 And so here's a quick view of both of those. 188 00:11:02,370 --> 00:11:04,350 On the right we have the micro-USB 189 00:11:04,350 --> 00:11:06,933 and on the left we have the USB-C. 190 00:11:12,900 --> 00:11:14,040 So you wanna know the differences 191 00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:17,250 between all those micro-USB, USB-C, 192 00:11:17,250 --> 00:11:19,350 and also the lightning connector 193 00:11:19,350 --> 00:11:23,070 that you'll find on iPads and other Apple devices. 194 00:11:23,070 --> 00:11:25,260 So make sure that you understand 195 00:11:25,260 --> 00:11:28,560 the various hardware specifications for a device, 196 00:11:28,560 --> 00:11:29,700 how to read these 197 00:11:29,700 --> 00:11:34,230 and how to understand what it is that they're talking about 198 00:11:34,230 --> 00:11:37,710 and what all these specs mean for these different devices. 199 00:11:37,710 --> 00:11:41,670 And always remember to select the right tool 200 00:11:41,670 --> 00:11:45,420 for the job at hand, for the task at hand. 201 00:11:45,420 --> 00:11:48,690 Whether you're just browsing the web and reading books 202 00:11:48,690 --> 00:11:53,100 or doing some content creation and video editing 203 00:11:53,100 --> 00:11:55,503 and audio editing and things like that. 204 00:11:56,580 --> 00:11:59,370 And keep in mind also, you might have some people 205 00:11:59,370 --> 00:12:02,370 that will refer to a device like this as a tablet 206 00:12:02,370 --> 00:12:05,040 because it's thin and you can read things on it 207 00:12:05,040 --> 00:12:08,520 but really this is just an e-reader. 208 00:12:08,520 --> 00:12:10,980 And what we have here is just black and white. 209 00:12:10,980 --> 00:12:12,990 It's just meant for reading books. 210 00:12:12,990 --> 00:12:15,750 So, it's really not considered a tablet 211 00:12:15,750 --> 00:12:18,000 by technicians and by companies 212 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,720 it's considered an electronic reader or e-reader. 213 00:12:21,720 --> 00:12:26,070 And here we have "The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin" 214 00:12:26,070 --> 00:12:27,510 if that excites you. 215 00:12:27,510 --> 00:12:29,160 So, different device though 216 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,020 you want to definitely differentiate 217 00:12:31,020 --> 00:12:33,660 between those and tablets. 218 00:12:33,660 --> 00:12:35,490 All right, so a little bit about tablets 219 00:12:35,490 --> 00:12:39,300 and take a look at some of the latest tablets 220 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:40,710 that are out there today. 221 00:12:40,710 --> 00:12:45,710 Take a look at Apple, Samsung, Microsoft Surface 222 00:12:46,200 --> 00:12:47,970 some of the Kindle devices 223 00:12:47,970 --> 00:12:49,620 look at all the manufacturers out there 224 00:12:49,620 --> 00:12:51,450 and see what they have to offer 225 00:12:51,450 --> 00:12:54,570 and take a look at the specs of those devices 226 00:12:54,570 --> 00:12:57,660 and make sure that you can understand 227 00:12:57,660 --> 00:12:59,670 the different specifications 228 00:12:59,670 --> 00:13:04,670 like the CPU, like the RAM, the flash memory, 229 00:13:04,830 --> 00:13:07,620 the battery, and the display technology, 230 00:13:07,620 --> 00:13:08,913 as well as the cameras.