Portable computers can be classified according to the presence and appearance of physical keyboards. The touchscreen display is operated by gestures executed by finger or digital pen (stylus), instead of the mouse, touchpad, and keyboard of larger computers.
Modern tablets largely resemble modern smartphones, the only differences being that tablets are relatively larger than smartphones, with screens 7 inches (18 cm) or larger, measured diagonally, and may not support access to a cellular network.
Tablets, being computers, do what other personal computers do, but lack some input/output (I/O) abilities that others have. Apple's iPad (left) and Amazon's Fire, two popular tablet computersĪ tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package.
