Acer had declared that they weren’t focusing on the Tablet/Slate craze. Well, that apparently didn’t last. Acer CEO Gianfranco Lanci was recently seen showing off a 7″ Android Tablet in Beijing. From the picture, I’d have to agree with Engadget that it looks like it follows the Amazon Kindle form factor of having a screen [...]
Joanna Stern with Engadget got a peek at a 10″ tablet based running a Marvell chipset. She didn’t find out which on of Marvell’s customers will be offering it, but whoever it is, they’ll have a fairly sleek-looking gadget on their hands. “…it has a brushed metal back and there’s an opening on the front [...]
It seems like hardly a day goes by that we don’t see a new study that says Netbooks are on the decline. And of course we have one today. Most of the recent ones focus on the iPad, but this latest one suggests that Netbooks are being squeezed from both the iPad and Notebooks. This [...]
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos told shareholders that bringing color to the Amazon Kindle eBook reader “is still a long way out” and not in the immediate future. Calling what he’s seen in his labs, “not ready for prime time production,” I’m guessing that Bezos is a little frustrated by what he’s seeing. That said, keep [...]
Looks like the good folks in England will get their hands on the Dell Streak in early June. The Android Tablet/Phone with the 5 inch screen will roll out with O2 as the exclusive carrier at first. The rest of Europe will follow later in the month and those of us interested in the device [...]
Intel Vice President Mooly Eden, who previously answered positively to a question about whether Intel was serious about tablets, answered a new question from our friend Chippy at Carrypad about their new ultra-thin solutions in tablets. The keyword this time is “dedicated”.
The Los Angeles Times reports that the U.S. government is dropping eight billion dollars to upgrade and improve our GPS satellite system. While the price tag might get the goat of those who decry wasteful government spending, one look at how much our modern economy relies on GPS and $8B looks like a bargain.
The touchscreen all-in-one market continues to heat up. ASUS is bringing up the low-end with their EeeTop PC ET2010 series available with a dual core processor/graphics combo of either AMD Athlon II X2 / ATI Radeon or Intel Atom / NVIDIA Ion.
DigiTimes is reporting that HP Taiwan VP Monty Wong is confirming what most suspect, that HP will indeed bring WebOS to a slate. The report says we’ll see this at the end of HP’s fiscal year which is October. According to the report HP won’t be bringing WebOS to netbooks and we’ll hear more after [...]
This week is the Netbook Summit, where lots of folks with an interest in Netbooks will gather and talk about, well, Netbooks. I think that’s the agenda. But I’m guessing Tablets and Slates will be on their mind as well, seeing as some folks think that the iPad is the beginning of the end of [...]
Location, location, location. Turns out Amazon is working with notebook/netbook maker Asus to have its Kindle App pre-installed on some Asus models. Users could certainly install the app themselves and have had that capability for some time now. While some may view the icon showing up on the desktop as CRAPWARE, I’m sure it will [...]
Remember back in April when I mentioned a little contest we were going to hold giving away a new HP Data Vault x510? Well, our time has come! You all had your chance with these other participating sites, but they left the best for last: Neowin -April 11- 18 Jake’s MediaBlab -Apr 18-25 Hardwaresphere -Apr 25- May [...]
Thinking about ways Microsoft can turn things around after getting mostly snubbed in the Google TV comparisons, despite offering a more powerful media option, I’ve come up with a few suggestions based on my own experience, starting first and foremost with touch control.
Last we visited, I was questioning where Netbooks fit in my mobile life. Since that time I’ve traveled with a variety of Netbook hardware, (brief comments on each below), the iPad arrived on the scene, and I continue to love my Motion J3400. Before all of the questions of where each of these approaches to [...]
Uh, oh. Methinks that I will be taking rehearsal notes in Digital Ink for my next show on the iPad after all. Inkers who have been hoping for some iPad app that makes Inking possible the way Tablet PC users are used to doing so have largely been disappointed so far. There have been some [...]
The Google I/O conference was destined to be full of news and it was/is. Google TV, the next version of the Android OS-Froyo, web based music, an app store for web apps, a new video codec for HTML5-VM8, and other things Google is promising for the future. And while the ongoing spats between Google and [...]
There’s a lot to like about the Sprint Evo 4G and I’ve had a few friends tell me that they’re going to buy the device. It runs on Sprint’s speedy next-gen network, can act as a hotspot and runs on Google’s Android operating system. But, Walt Mossberg from the WSJ reviewed the phone over the [...]
We’ve blogged about down under Tableteer and former GBM Team member Hugo Ortega’s adventure into bringing a Tablet to market earlier. Now it looks like the debut of the Tega Tablet is just around the corner, coming at CeBit Australia on May 24 to May 26. The Tega Tablet promises both touch and pen interaction, [...]
Gateway announced today they’re bringing down the price and raising the specs on their high-end all-in-one, so if you’ve been eyeing the One ZX series with multi-touch displays for your home entertainment PC, now could be the time to buy.
Motion Computing is releasing updates to its vaunted slate line of computers the F5 and C5. Both now sport options for I5 and I7 processors and other advances. These rugged beauties descend from Motion’s work in the medical niche with the original C5. When the F5 made its debut it was targeted at folks who [...]
Motion Computing’s F5V Slate Tablet PC makes me wish I had a larger bank account. This rugged Slate Tablet PC, with its distinctive handle, is a great mobile note taking tool and I could easily see myself using it in my theatre work. It’s rugged, conforming to MIL-STD-810G and IP-54 standards. Running Windows 7 Professional, [...]
Vietnamese site Tinh Tế has photos and video of an unreleased iPod touch sporting a 2MP camera on the back. Labeling indicates it’s a design verification test unit. But is it the next iPod touch or the rumored iPod touch with camera that was expected but not released last year?
Popular topic at the moment seems to be battery life. Warner put it at the top of his list of what slate makers need to do. Meanwhile, ASUS and Apple have both upped the ante with promises of 10+ hours of notebook battery life.
At CES2010 the “Year of the Tablet” was ushered right as the new year was beginning. There were promises of Tablet/Slates promised in just about every flavor you could imagine. All of this with this news that Apple was going to release its iPad lurking just around the corner. Just like baseball’s spring training when [...]
Roger Linn, the inventor of the drum machine, is showing off an interesting multi touch instrument prototype. The multitouch UI is a blend of a guitar and piano. Unlike some synthesizers, it sounds much more like a natural instrument since its tones can be controlled in three dimensions per finger. Linn’s using a multi-touch controller from TouchCo, [...]
We got an email from Fujitsu today with the subject line: “Introducing the New Fujitsu LifeBook T730 Tablet PC.” And just like that, with no added fanfare, their new 12″ convertible with optional multi-touch was unleashed upon the world – It’s on sale now at the Fujitsu site.
Last we heard from Evoluce, they introduced a 47″ HD multi-touch display for surface computing. Now, they’ve made touch unnecessary with an off-screen gesture detection system that responds to your hand movements as if you were touching the screen, much like Microsoft’s Project Natal.
Bloomberg is reporting that Wal-mart will likely begin selling the iPad later this year. The world’s largest retailer already sells an array of iPods and the iPhone 3GS. “We anticipate being able to have the iPad later this year,” Gary Severson, senior vice president of entertainment for Wal-Mart’s U.S. stores, said in a telephone interview. [...]
The only thing that comes close to new device rumors in numbers these days are posts about companies filing patent infringement claims against each other. HTC, who has beeen sued by Apple, is now firing back filing a complaint with the International Trade Commission alleging that Apple is infringing on five patents. This is not [...]
Yes! Finally, Intel is taking the gloves off and getting serious about getting into the tablet market. At least that’s the message from Intel VP Mooly Eden and to prove he’s serious, he even held up an Intel tablet design at an Intel investor meeting. An Intel-based tablet? Wow! I’ve never owned one or three [...]
The Netbook Summit (San Francisco, May 25) is gearing up to celebrate, discuss, and promote all things Netbook. In the wake of the “news” that the Apple iPad is cutting into Netbook sales, it looks like at least one speaker is planning on taking that topic on. According to Laptop Mag, Tim Bajarin, president of [...]
This time it is from Vietnam. Apparently a Vietnamese business man bought this prototype of the new iPhone for $4000. Of course, he took it apart, took some pictures, and now we’ve got another case of new iPhones in the wild. This is getting a bit tiring, especially when you read the breathless accounts of [...]
We’ve heard reports and some grumblings about the inconsistency that users face when using apps on the iPad. Essentially apps (and of course their developers) have their own way of thinking how a user wants to interact with them and there isn’t really a consistent approach to how controls and functions work from one app [...]
While we still wait to hear about the U-150 Hybrid from Lenovo that got everyone so excited, Lenovo is rolling out updates to its U-Series and Z-Series lines adding options for Core I3, I5, and I7 Intel Core and Core ULV processors. The U160, U460 and U460S can be configured in an array of different [...]
The WiFi Alliance, the organization that sets standards for WiFi is announcing new standards for a new technology that is aimed at increasing wireless speeds dramatically. Working with the Wireless Gigabit Alliance (WiGig) the new technology is not a replacement for WiFi, but an add-on or compliment to WiFi. Supposedly due out in the next [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
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