The Mobile Dock adds serious value and usability to the Vivo Tab, transforming it into a netbook-style productivity device complete with USB port and 7 additional hours of battery life.

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While its usability remains rough, Windows Mobile dominated the new smartphone scene in 2006.

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Windows 8 adopts the mobile-optimized Metro design language and usability shell, places it into a desktop context ... and hopes for the best.

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As for usability, it was exactly on par with the mobile demo we saw at MWC a year ago, though in the scaling up of this tech or the hasty build of this mockup it might've lost just a tad of the pixel-perfect sensitivity we witnessed before (but only just barely).

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Usability features also help set the Fujitsu slate PC apart from other mobile devices.

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On a scale of usability, it falls just beneath Windows Phone 8 - the third-place mobile platform it has no choice to but to parry with.

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