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Amazon’s iPad killer in stores by Christmas 2011?
Not to be outdone by all the buzz for the newly released Blackberry Playbook or iPad 2, it seems Amazon is also joining the color tablet PC fray. Quanta Computer, the Taiwanese tablet PC manufacturer of the Playbook and Sony S1 & S2, along with E Ink Holdings, have received orders from Amazon to develop [...]
Android Tablets Undercutting IPad Prices
In an effort to attract buyers away from Apple’s iPad, device makers are setting starting prices of Android tablets to undercut iPad’s US$499 entry-level price. The starting prices for tablets with 10.1-inch screens from ViewSonic, Asustek and Acer range from $279 to $449. The tablets run different versions of Google’s Android OS, include 10.1-inch displays, [...]
Tablets Continue To Cannibalize PC Sales
Per Sharon Gaudin, of ComputerWorld: PC sales in the first quarter of this year suffered, and analysts are placing the blame on the tablet market and the disaster in Japan. Global PC shipments dropped 3.2% in the first quarter compared to the same period last year, according to industry analyst group IDC. IDC analysts called [...]
Back To The Future! 1988 / 2011
24 years ago, Apple’s co-founder Steve Wosniak laid out a vision for what the computer would become. The year they gave was 2000 – a bit optimistic it turns out. However, today 2011, everything in their vision has come true! When this video was created in 1988, there was no World Wide Web, no flatscreen [...]
Tablet Market Trends 2011
The Tablet Universe 2011 Tablets appear to be stratifying in their segements: Apple iOS for the iPad; Windows (both Starter Edition on the loaw end, and the full Windows 7 Home Premium or Prefssional editions), and the specrum of Androids. Windows is not expected to be the leader, but does fill essential niches, especially for [...]
ODROID-A tablet fits 1366 x 768 res on a 10-inch screen, dual-core Exynos inside transparent shell
Samsung might not have quite enough Exynos 4210 processors to sell a tablet of its own based on that Cortex-A9 dual-core beastie, but it’s found a few to hand over to Korean partner Hardkernel for this ODROID-A reference platform. It’s strictly a dev kit, and as such is unlikely to find its way to your [...]
AdvanceTC’s 4.8-inch tabletphone runs Windows 7 on a 1.6GHz Atom CPU
It may not sound like the most practical combination, but we’ve got to hand it to AdvanceTC — it’s shoehorned telephony into a Windows 7 tablet, fulfilling our dark desire for a spiritual successor to the xpPhone. Yes, that’s not Windows Phone 7 you’re looking at above, but rather full desktop Windows running on a [...]
LG G-Slate: A Dual-Core, Honeycomb Tablet With a 3D Display
Here’s the first look at LG’s G-Slate tablet, gunning to be the best Android tablet by equipping a dual-core Tegra 2 chipset, 8.9-inch 3D display, 3D camera, and of course, Honeycomb. It also runs on T-Mobile’s 21mbps HSPA+ network. The 1GHz Tegra 2 chipset enables 720p HD and 3D content on the tablet, and the [...]
More details on HP’s WebOS Topaz tablet
As February 9 draws nearer more details about HP’s slate of WebOS tablets that the company is expected to announce keep leaking out. Today’s edition is brought to us by PreCentral.net, which obtained a very detailed spec sheet for the Topaz tablet HP is reportedly working on. PreCentral’s document is about a year old, but [...]
MSI shows off tablet concept with a integrated projector
We’re not sure how we missed this concept tablet at CES a few weeks ago — oh right, there were over 40 something tablets hanging around! — but MSI’s projector-equipped Windows 7 slate sure is an interesting one. Yep, in addition to its crazy Butterfly and Angelow all-in-ones, MSI also put together a rather chunky [...]