With the Xplore XC6 there is now a Windows Tablet for rough terrain. Even at a height of over 15,000 meters in 60 degree heat and sandstorms can the tablet with Windows 8.1 still use. The target groups are the military and all sorts of outdoor use.
The XC6 Xplore tablet is IP67 certified, which means that it is absolutely dustproof and also about 30 minutes against submersion protected.Xplore is claims to be the only manufacturer that offers IP67 certified tablets. The XC6 is also the  outdoor tablet to be available on the market. A battery life of up to eight and a half hours to guarantee that outdoor use is never silence too fast. The operating system acts Windows 8.1 Pro or Windows 7 Pro.
Readable even in bright sunlight

The Xplore XC6 is a DMSR-Tablet (Abbr: dual mode sunlight readable).The maximum brightness of 1,300 cd / m² will allow a good read even in bright sunlight. The touch screen should be capable of operation even with wet fingers or gloves. The tablet produced for extreme conditions to temperatures of minus 34 to plus 60 degrees withstand and can be used both in ice and snow as well as in the desert. Also, over 64 km / h Wind speed can not hurt the tablet, and it can be even in height 15.240 meters to keep.
High storage capacity

Inside the Outdoor Tablets an Intel Core i5 processor potters. The storage capacity of the Windows tablets will have quadrupled compared to its predecessor. In addition, a micro SD slot is available. The RAM is 4 GB, on request Xplore equips the XC6 DMSR with up to 16 GB DDR3L-1600 from. Who wants to ensure the ultimate outdoor tablet, must for at least $ 5,299 shell.
Video: Xplore XC6 Tablet with Windows 8.1

It's not just you who's sick of waiting for the latest Android updates to arrive on your phone -- Google is too, and it has a plan to tackle it.

Sick of waiting for your phone to get the latest version of Android? So is Google, apparently. To help speed the process, the tech giant may start shaming companies that take too long to bring fresh versions of Android to their devices.

Google already has a list that ranks manufacturers by how up-to-date their handsets are, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. While this list is currently only available internally -- and to the manufacturers themselves -- Google is reportedly planning to make the list public.

In doing so, it will hopefully shine a spotlight on those firms that take too long in updating the phones.

The good The Galaxy S7 Edge has a gorgeous larger curved screen and
larger battery than the otherwise identical standard S7. It really is something special. The extra navigation tools can be useful when used judiciously.

The bad When you pile on these extra navigation tools, they slow you down rather than speed you up. It's pricier than other good phones.

The bottom line The gorgeous Galaxy S7 Edge makes the best Android phone that much better.

Here's the phone you should buy right now: This one. What catapults the Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge to such heights? Is it the excellent camera, the beast of a battery, the expandable storage or the seductive design that's worth more than the sum of its parts? Yes, and more. This phone kicks the already-fantastic (just slightly smaller) Galaxy S7 up a notch with a bigger battery and that wraparound design on both sides that never fails to draw me deeper into whatever I'm viewing or doing.

Everything about the 5.5-inch S7 Edge excels from the inside out, and Samsung has refined the extra navigation software that dresses up the screen's physical curves. There are of course a few minor drawbacks -- there's no such thing as a perfect device -- but something about it feels more organic than your garden-variety phone, more complete. If you've ever seen one of Samsung's curve-bcpscreen phones before, such as the S6 Edge, S6 Edge+ and Note Edge, you know what I'm talking about.

I've been using the next version of Android for some months now - Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) - or to put it more correctly, I've been using various iterations of the Android M developer preview. After three developer versions though we’ve finally made it to the final release and we even have shiny new hardware to run it on, in the form of the Nexus 5X. Although as a write it's also available on the Nexus 5, Nexus 6 and Nexus 9.

A new version of Android used to be welcomed with great jubilation, but as with iOS it’s now pretty mature and the changes in each new version become less revolutionary and more incremental. Not that there’s nothi

ng here to desire, after all Android 5.0 wasn’t perfect, but most the changes are unlikely to blow you away.

Before you leave in disgust, there’s still some important new stuff to read about. Google has provided access to its Google Now assistant across the whole operating system, there’s improved standby battery life, plus support for the latest hardware trends such as fingerprint scanners and USB Type-C.

You may not be clamouring at Google to get Android 6.0 on your current handset (though if you’re keen read When will my phone get Android 6.0 Marshmallow?) but there’s certainly enough here to make it worth looking forward to.

Big new features
There’s loads of little improvements in Android 6.0 but here we’ll deal with the big new features. It’s impossible to say which of these will make it through complete to your handset manufacturer’s particular version of Android, such as Samsung’s TouchWiz, but most of us should benefit.

Now on Tap
Google Now has been around for a while, but you may not have seen it if you’re using a modified version of Android. It’s a personal digital assistant that provides pertinent information in a series of ‘cards’, based on your situation. Standing at a bus stop and you’ll get bus times, book a flight and it’ll pull the details out of your email confirmation, it also learns what sites you visit in Chrome and pops up new headlines from them.

Android Lollipop isn't a baby anymore – it's been around for almost a year. And, now that we have the benefit of hindsight, has it been a success or will it be remembered as a bit of a dud in the development of Google's Android operating system?

Up-to-date Nexus devices now run Android 5.1.1, which has had a few tweaks that address some of the things people really hated about Android Lollipop when version 5.0 first arrived back in 2014. Doesn't time fly in the tech world?

Everyone was expecting Key Lime Pie to serve as the delicious moniker for the next version of Android. Google surprised us all by bucking tradition and releasing Android 4.4 under the name KitKat.

Version 4.0 started life as Ice Cream Sandwich, but the last three decimal additions came under theJelly Bean banner. This new version was obviously deemed different enough to snag a new nickname, but not different enough to merit a jump to version 5.0.

It's no longer the latest version of Android, however, with Android 5.0 Lollipop recently coming out. It hasn't reached a huge amount of smartphones at the moment, so there's still a good chance that your Android device is rocking Android 4.4 KitKat.

If you'd like to find out when (or if) your device is getting updated to Android 5.0 Lollipop, check out our guide on when you can expect to see the upgrade.

But back to Android 4.4 KitKat; don't be fooled, this is an important step up for Android. KitKat is super-smooth, the UI is refined and elegant, there are improvements to the long-neglected calling and messaging side of the platform, a new focus on productivity, and your fortune-telling digital assistant is brought front and centre as Google Now reaches maturity.