Well, whadda ya know? Engadget has its hands on a JooJoo Tablet and I don’t think this is an April Fools joke. They have pumped out some unboxing pictures. I guess we know where at least one of the 90 units shipped ended up. I love how they are a bit busy this week (I [...]
I’m going to caveat this post by saying it is April Fools Day. That said, I don’t think this info qualifies as a prank, but I would qualify it as a rumor. According to SlashGear, there is word that NVidia is having some difficulty with its Tegra chipsets and this is going to force a [...]
The JooJoo Tablet delivery schedule seems to have suffered from some delays in addition to taking some hits on the legal PR front. Brought into existence with all sorts of controversy surrounding it, FusionGarage appears to be trying hard to get those pre-ordered JooJoo Tablets in users hands. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like they have [...]
There are some companies with an eye on Tablets that will try to make sure they wave at least a small flag this week as iPad hysteria builds beyond a fever pitch. Asus appears to be one of them. Johnny Shih the chairman of Asus says that Asus is prepping two tablets. One will either [...]
Whether or not the iPad succeeds or fails, parodies have certainly reached an all time success rate. Check out the Doritos Tablet. Very spicy and very funny.
OpenPeak hasn’t nailed down a solid direction for their OpenTablet yet, but they’ve lined up a partner to supply its mobile Internet: AT&T.
March 25 is the latest shipping date FusionGarage has published for the JooJoo Tablet and that’s just a couple days away. In the meantime, the website has changed a bit. Instead of taking pre-orders it is listed as “accepting orders.” I’m still waiting to hear from someone who ordered one of these Tablets. Via Engadget
Ben at Carrypad puts the “Top 3 Big Slate Contenders” on the scales, weighing the iPad against the JooJoo and Notion Ink Adam. Seems to be a fair contest, in terms of tech. In terms of sales, well, let’s face it, there isn’t a slate out there that will compete with the iPad.
With the iPad scheduled to hit users hands the day before Easter, Amazon is showing off the Kindle app that they hope will one day grace the iPad. We already know Barnes & Noble is working up its eBook reader app as well. But the Amazon Kindle App is not just for the iPad, its [...]
I guess if you aren’t happy being alone with an iPad you can opt for a WePad. Being developed by German company Neofonie, this is another Tablet/Slate that aims to be what the iPad isn’t. It has an 11.6 inch touchscreen with a resolution of 1366 x 768. It’s powered by an Intel Atom N450 [...]
Warner Crocker is going to be our iPad guinea pig here at GottaBeMobile and Kevin Purcell is going to be taking up the role over at Notebooks.com. I’d like an Apple iPad to play with, but am holding off because I don’t need one and can’t figure out when I’d actually use an iPad instead [...]
Thoughts from the Sidelines is running info on a supposed leak of specs and price for the HP Slate. Some of this may or may not be new information and some of it we already know. The link to the source is coming up as a dead link for me, so we’ll see if we [...]
Well, that didn’t take long. Details for Windows Phone 7 Series aren’t fully revealed yet, but already there’s someone thinking about running it on a slate tablet. Looks pretty slick. However, given what we know, it’s something we won’t be seeing, at least for a while.
I’ve been searching and searching for proof that someone pre-ordered a JooJoo Tablet. Thanks to Gizmodo it turns out at least three people have. Unfortunately (for FusionGarage) the proof comes in the form of a complaints in trying to solve refund requests for customers who have changed their mind. If you recall, to pre-order a [...]
Samsung was one of the companies that went whole hog into the original UMPC scene and actually gave it a valiant effort. They’ve also come up with some of the most solid Netbooks since that scene exploded. Now it looks like Samsung is going to jump on the Tablet/Slate bandwagon. According to a report at [...]
Coming out of CeBit one of the Tablets that caught my eye was the Hanvon BC10C. Actually there were two Tablets from Hanvon. The BA10E is the one with what looks like possible good Inking potential, but we’ll have to wait and see on that one. While we’re waiting, jkkmobile got his hands on the [...]
The name is a lawsuit waiting to happen, but the concept is brilliant, and I’m not just saying that because I’ve been thinking the same thing. Behold the SmartBook, a concept phone + tablet combo by METATREND that pairs a slate tablet with a phone handset that folds out into a QWERTY keyboard.
This is an interesting read on the potential fortune of Tablets from Fortune. Beginning with a quote from NVida that says “we’ve found our most personal computer” that is a morph of of a line often uttered in the days where only Microsoft was in the Tablet PC space, it is full of promise of [...]
Word out of Computerworld is this should be a good year for ARM thanks to a deluge of new tablet devices, not to mention the eReaders, smartbooks and other devices that prompted them to reserve more space than usual at this year’s Computex trade show in Taipei. They also share details on a couple of [...]
Apple’s iPad is being released in just a few weeks. There’s new news on Microsoft Courier. Heavy Tablet PC hitters Lenovo and HP have weighed in with updates to existing Tablet PCs that are top of the line. Hanvon and countless others are readying Tablets. They all cost money and their are still big unknowns [...]
Engadget is running with some news on Microsoft Courier. Here’s the quote: We’re told Courier will function as a “digital journal,” and it’s designed to be seriously portable: it’s under an inch thick, weighs a little over a pound, and isn’t much bigger than a 5×7 photo when closed. That’s a lot smaller than we [...]
The Entourage eDGe is taking some knocks in this early review from Laptop Mag. The dual screen eBook Reader with an active digitizer that runs Android certainly has our attention here at GBM as well, given the fact that one can use digital Ink. The essence of the review is that the eDGe isn’t ready [...]
Yesterday we mentioned the great CeBit coverage from jkkmobile and Netbooknews.com. In checking out some of the videos from the show, this one from jkkmobile featuring the Hanvon Tablets caught my eye, because it is the first new wave Tablet I’ve heard about that might have a digitizer/stylus option for Inking. Hanvon is debuting two [...]
Call it a rumor, call it just another analyst trying to stir the pot. Heck, you could even call it good marketing depending on how you look at it. Regardless, an analyst at Canaccord Adams is saying that they have word that a manufacturing bottleneck could delay or reduce the number of iPad’s available at [...]
Thinking the iPad looks pretty sweet? The folks at Technoholik have given us another reason to think twice. An interesting side-by-side comparison of the two devices highlights a few major differences such as the camera, battery life, and video-out options. Still no word on an official price, but expect this puppy to sell like hotcakes [...]
I’m not surprised by this at all. After being told that the JooJoo Tablet would be in customers hands by the end of February, we’re now being told that March 25 is the shipping date forecast. The reason for the delay is supposedly a manufacturing issue with the touchscreen. Again, no surprise there. Her’s what [...]
Former GBM Team Member Hugo Ortega is keeping himself busy in his home down under. Hugo is the owner of TegaTech a company that sells mobile devices of all types. Now is getting ready to release a Tablet and he says the first batches are almost ready to ship. The TegaTech Tablet will be called [...]
The multi-touch convertible Viliv S10 Blade, which I got to handle at CES, is coming to the U.S. from Dynamism. Featuring a 10.1″ HD LCD (1366×768) and Intel Atom processor up to 2.0GHz, it’s a compact but potent package with options for built-in HSPA 3G and 64GB SSD.
With tablet computing hitting a new high, tablet-specific methods of data entry, such as handwriting recognition, are receiving more attention than ever. However, researchers at MIT are working on going a step further and developing sketch-interpreting software, carrying data entry into realms where keyboards aren’t enough.
One of the bugaboos with Tablet technology has always been resolving digitizer issues. From the early pen days to the advent of touch, the digitizer has been a crucial component to the success having impact on everything from the human interaction with the screen to battery life to the size and weight of the device [...]
The enTourage eDGe eBook Reader/Netbook combo is going to be delaying shipping by a month and looks like it has a slight price bump as well. Shipping is now listed as March 2010, which backs it up about a month. The price for a Midnight Blue colored version is now $499 up slightly from $490. [...]
In news that isn’t really news, the Wall Street Journal is reporting that HP and other Tablet manufacturers are seeking to undercut Apple on its iPad pricing. Of course they are looking for ways to do this. The real news would be if they weren’t. Breathlessly reporting, the WSJ says that execs from HP will [...]
Steve “Chippy” Paine got a chance to shoot some video of the Dell Mini 5 Tablet at Mobile World Congress. He didn’t get hands on, as it looks like Dell is still not letting these things out of their reps hands yet, but the video does show off some of the features and certainly the [...]
Wired has demoed an application for a Tablet that is running on Adobe AIR and yes it is demoed running on a Tablet. Publishers are certainly hoping this kind of effort is the future and that they will figure out a way to entice us all to pay for these things. The jury is still [...]
OpenPeak, a company that develops multimedia devices for OEMs, has introduced a new open-platform tablet called OpenTablet 7. Following the trend of numbering devices based on screen size, it is a 7″ tablet device that promises to be “the ultimate control panel”. Per the press release, here’s what it offers:
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