Showing posts with label Tablets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tablets. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Toshiba Readies WT301/D Wintel tablet for Early 2012

Toshiba WT301/D Wintel tablet

Toshiba's push into the tablet market will continue next month with the release in its home market (Japan) of the WT301/D, a 10.1-inch model which is powered by an Intel Atom processor (maybe the Z670?) and runs Microsoft's Windows 7 Professional 32-bit.

Monday, December 5, 2011

Verbatim Announces Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard for Tablets

Verbatim Announces Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard for Tablets

Verbatim, the global leader in data storage technology, has just announced its new Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard is now shipping to retailers nationwide. Designed to work with iPads, iPhones and other Bluetooth-enabled tablets with HID keyboard support, this thin, portable keyboard delivers a more familiar typing method to touchscreen users. By offering a quick and easy way to compose e-mails and other important documents on-the-go, the Ultra-Slim Bluetooth Keyboard enhances productivity and efficiency anywhere.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Samsung Unleashes Cortex-A15 2GHz Exynos 5250 Chip For Tablets

Today Samsung has announced its Exynos 5250 chip, which is a a new System-on-chip (SoC) for mobile devices (just like tablets). The chip is based on two Cortex-A15 chips clocked at 2GHz. And the company said Exynos 5250 is the industry’s first dual-core processor based on the ARM Cortex-A15 core.

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Acer Iconia Tab W500 (Windows 7) tablet PC ships in North America

Acer Iconia Tab W500 tablet PC

Acer has today rolled out in the US and Canada its Windows 7 (Home Premium or Professional) powered Iconia Tab W500 tablet PC. This 0.63" thick device features a 10.1-inch (1280 x 800) LED-backlit touchscreen and is powered by AMD's Brazos platform.

PowerDVD 11 outed, brings lots of love for smartphones and tablets

cf62f21dc8581f762ccf8220562f6ce2-400x512.jpg

CyberLink has today introduced the 11th version of its PowerDVD software which can be used to play Blu-ray/DVD movies, videos, view photos and listen to music. The content seen with PowerDVD can come from a hard drive, an optical drive, the internet, or from mobile devices like phones and tablets.

Asus Eee Pad Transformer Android tablet to ship in the US next week


Motorola Xoom, watch out as next week, on April 26th, Asus' Eee Pad Transformer will reach stores in both US and Canada, offering a fresh mix of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) and Tegra 2. This new tablet will be available in two versions - with 16GB of storage space ($399) and with 32GB ($499).

Monday, April 4, 2011

Acer Iconia Tab A100 Tegra 2 tablet listed at £300, to ship on April 20th

acer-iconia-a100-front-550x550.jpg

According to Amazon UK, Acer's tablet offensive will continue this month with the release (on April 20th apparently) of the Iconia Tab A100, a 7-inch tablet which is powered by Nvidia's Tegra 2 dual-core chip and runs Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).

Archos' Arnova 10 Android tablet goes on sale

b097b43b4cd52f3c2bed7430ac23a879-497x297.jpg

Announced in February, the 'flagship' of Archos' Arnova line of cheapo Android tablets has now become available for purchase, priced as low as $187.66. This device runs Android 2.1 (Eclair) and is powered by a Rockchip RK2818 processor.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Apple slinging iPad 2 to 25 more countries this Friday, even more next month


Still having trouble locating an iPad 2 here in the US of A? Grab your passport, bub. Starting on Friday, March 25th, Apple will start hawking its latest and greatest tablet in 25 other nations, with sales to begin at 5PM local time through Apple retail stores and select Apple Authorized Resellers (or 1AM online).

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Netflix for Android leaks out, doesn't seem to stream video right now


This prototype LG Revolution may be the only Android phone actually capable of streaming Netflix at the moment, but there's nothing keeping you from giving it a go - some enterprising hacker extracted a full system dump from the Revolution this week, tossed it to AndroidSPIN, and @al3xevolved subsequently pulled out the juicy Netflix innards.


Tuesday, March 15, 2011

First HTC Pyramid Photos Emerge


One of the mobile phones that should arrive on the shelves at T-Mobile in the not too far future is the HTC Pyramid, which has just made an appearance into the wild, or at least this is what the latest reports on the matter suggest.


Thursday, March 10, 2011

ViewSonic Delivers the Best of Both Worlds with Availability of its ViewPad 10 Tablet

ViewSonic Corp., a leading global provider of computing, consumer electronics and communications solutions, today announced North American availability of the ViewPad 10. Giving users a choice between Windows 7 and Google Android within the same device, this 10.1" dual-boot tablet is ideal for maximizing business productivity alongside entertainment.

"The lines of professional and personal life are blurring, which creates a need for devices that are suited for both sides," said Adam Hanin, vice president of marketing for ViewSonic Americas. "The ViewPad 10 delivers just that by enabling users to merge business productivity with personal enjoyment anywhere, anytime. We are proud of our 10-year tablet history and are dedicated to further extending our tablet product portfolio to meet every individual need."



Friday, February 25, 2011

Galaxy Tab 10.1 Hits Vodafone Portugal in March for €699

Last week during the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, South Korean mobile phone maker Samsung Electronics announced the release of Galaxy Tab 10.1, the bigger brother of its 7-inch Galaxy Tab tablet PC, which will be distributed in a large number of markets exclusively on the airwaves of Vodafone.



Tuesday, February 1, 2011

iPad loses significant share to Android tablets

Apple's iPad still reigns supreme among tablets, but its grip on the market is starting to loosen.


In the fourth quarter, Apple's tablet captured 75.3 percent of worldwide market share, easily besting Android-based devices' 21.6 percent share, according to market-research firm Strategy Analytics. However, those figures differ vastly from the third quarter when Apple had 95.5 percent share and Android had just 2.3 percent.


ipad_610x318_270x141.png


Facebook Creating Application For All Tablets

Facebook may have left the task of creating a native application for the iPad to third-party developers, but it appears that the company plans to create something to run on all tablets, including the Apple device.The social network's Chief Technical Officer Bret Taylor told TechCrunch's M.G. Siegler, "We need to make a tablet version of Facebook. It's something we're working on right now."



Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Archos 9 tablet gets an SSD upgrade

Archos is clearly one of the brand names that manages to offer affordable tablets, with a lot of products priced in the 200-400 $ range, thus cheaper than the iPad and any other competing products. Of course Archos tablets are not the best you can get for the money, but you do get considerably better products than those no name Android tablets. One of the older models, the Archos 9, a 9 inch tablet as the name suggests, recently got a small upgrade in terms of performance: a 32 GB SSD drive.



Sunday, January 23, 2011

HP Topaz - 9-inch tablet: 1.2GHz Qualcomm MSM8660 processor

HP's recently unearthed Topaz tablet has been fully detailed courtesy of leaked documents published by Pre Central. The webOS-based iPad competitor sports a familiar black color scheme with both HP and Palm branding, and it has an identically sized 9.7-inch 1024x768 multitouch display protected by oleophobic Gorilla Glass. Initial reports of a 1.2GHz processor were accurate as the device is powered by Qualcomm's dual-core MSM8660.



Motorola Xoom pegged for February 17 retail release

Motorola's recently unveiled Xoom tablet computer, which could become a serious market rival for Apple's hot-selling iPad, looks set for an imminent retail launch via the shelves of Best Buy.


Wednesday, January 19, 2011

1-Color Display NoteSlate Bridges the Gap Between Tablets, eReaders

Without a doubt, we're seeing plenty of Internet tablets and eReader-like devices making their way to the market these days, and while some of them do offer some pretty interesting features at more or less affordable price points, other are simply strange, their particular target segment not being very clear, and that's exactly the case with the NoteSlate.



Thursday, January 6, 2011

Motorola XOOM™

Motorola XOOM is redefining what a tablet experience can be as the world's first device to run Android 3.0 Honeycomb, Google's powerful operating system designed specifically for tablets and featuring the latest Google Mobile Innovations. Motorola XOOM also comes with support for Adobe® Flash® Player, allowing you to browse the web with full access to Flash sites, videos and games. Enjoy all of this on the Motorola XOOM's 10.1" HD widescreen display, enabling HD video content that's richer and clearer than ever before.