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ViewSonic ViewPad 7e Tablet Launched in India

Unveiled back in October, ViewSonic’s ViewPad 7e has just been introduced in India. Although the tablet has yet to hit shelves at leading retailers across the country, we can expect it to be available at a very aggressive price point. According to the folks over at AndroidOS, the ViewPad 7e will soon be availa...

7 February 2012
08:27 GMT

Epson, Onkyo, Viewsonic & Others to Build Cheaper Ultrabooks

Wanting to venture into the Ultrabooks market, Epson, Onkyo, Viewsonic and a series of other smaller companies have reportedly contracted Taiwanese laptop makers to build such ultrathin notebooks for them, which could help drop the starting prices of these devices to $599 (456 EUR). According to unnamed sources cite...

6 February 2012
14:01 GMT

ViewSonic Ships 23-Inch IPS Monitor with LED

ViewSonic has just released an IPS panel that is easily one of the most affordable displays in its size class, even while using LED backlighting. For all those customers that want to buy a display but aren't interested in design embellishments and whatnot, ViewSOnic has introduced the VX2336s-LED. As the name...

3 February 2012
04:30 GMT

CES 2012: ViewSonic Showcases ViewPhone 3 (V350)

ViewSonic is another vendor that brought new Android phones to the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The company showcased its ViewPhone 3 dual-SIM handset at the event, and also confirmed a few details regarding its availability around the world. Moreover, the ViewPhone 3 (V350) smartph...

11 January 2012
10:31 GMT

CES 2012: ViewSonic e70 Tablet Runs Android 4.0 for $169 (€132)

The MIPS-based Ainol Novo 7 Android 4.0 tablet might be good enough for some, but if you prefer to remain on ARM’s side, the $169 (132 EUR) ViewSonic’s e70 definitely looks like the slate to get. Running the same Android 4.0 operating system as Ainol’s creation, the e70 is based on a so-far unident...

10 January 2012
17:01 GMT

ViewSonic Enters iPad Territory with 9.7-Inch ViewPad 97a Tablet

ViewSonic has been producing Android-running tablets sporting 10.1-inch and 7-inch displays for quite some time now, but now the manufacturer is entering iPad territory with the new ViewPad 97a slate sporting a 9.7-inch screen.Besides featuring the same display size as the original iPad, and the iPad 2, ViewSonic&rsq...

27 December 2011
16:41 GMT

ViewSonic PJD6 Series DLP Projectors Take You to School

ViewSonic already has some projectors on sale but that doesn't mean it won't make more, so it did just that, ending up with a trio of business-ready PJD6 Series DLP models. The newcomers go by the names of PJD6253, PJD6223 and PJD6553w.Obviously, few people are actually going to bother memorizin...

8 November 2011
11:06 GMT

ViewSonic V3D231 Passive Glasses 3D Monitor Arrives in Europe

After making its entrance on the North American market a couple of weeks ago, ViewSonic's V3D231 3D-enabled monitor has arrived in Europe, the company just informing us that the display is now become available across Europe.The V3D231 relies on a FPR (Frame Patterned Retarder) panel in order to add the sense of ...

2 November 2011
10:14 GMT

ViewSonic Intros ViewPad 7e Tablet for Under $200

ViewSonic has just announced the upcoming availability of its ViewPad 7e tablet with Gingerbread operating system and ViewScene 3D user interface.The new addition to the ViewPad tablet lineup is aimed at users who cannot afford a Honeycomb device and promises to offer the newest and most in-demand features available ...

24 October 2011
08:45 GMT

ViewSonic Launches New 3D Monitor in North America

Not willing to go to much time without some new product release, ViewSonic stepped forward to launch a new 3D panel with full HD support and a high contrast ratio. The new display that ViewSonic released was sent to North America and is bundled with a pair of polarized 3D glasses. It goes by the name of V3D231 an...

17 October 2011
07:26 GMT

ViewSonic ViewPad 10e Headed to the Netherlands and UK

ViewSonic is, apparently, getting ready to grace some parts of Europe with a tablet that, though not as 'up to date' as the other Android models, does have a much lower price than them. Amazon's Kindle Fire and its very low price (which was quick in attracting patent trolls) may have had a stronger...

12 October 2011
06:55 GMT

New LED LCD from ViewSonic Is 3.5cm-Thin (1.4-Inch)

ViewSonic continues in its role of display supplier with it newest monitor, a LED-backlit display whose most notable trait is the thickness, or lack thereof. As far as the IT market goes, ViewSonic has quite a varied portfolio (it even announced Android tablets), even if it is best known, in some circles at least...

21 September 2011
09:34 GMT

ViewSonic Outs Portable PLED-W500 WXGA Projector

ViewSonic announced just recently that it has expanded its product lineup with a new compact projector, known as the PLED-W500, which is aimed at users who require such a highly portable device for on the road presentations. Just as its name implies, the PLED-W500 is built using the LED projection technology and V...

16 September 2011
09:17 GMT

Microsoft Continues to Build Its Android Licensing Program Adding Acer and ViewSonic Deals

Microsoft just announced that it inked two new intellectual property licensing agreements with Acer and ViewSonic covering technologies included in the Android and Chrome platforms. The software giant is sending a clear message with these new intellectual property deals, but in all fairness, it’s more the ...

8 September 2011
08:52 GMT

ViewSonic 27-Inch Monitors Reach America Next Week

Dell isn't the only company launching displays these days, as ViewSonic also completed a pair, one that is almost ready to start shipping in both the Northern and Southern Americas.Users may or may not have learned that Dell just updated its collection of ultrathin monitors.It so happens that the company is not...

29 August 2011
09:19 GMT

ViewSonic ViewPad 7x with Honeycomb Coming in September for $500

Unveiled earlier this year during the Computex trade fair, in Taipei, ViewSonic's 7-inch tablet ViewPad 7x will be showcased at IFA 2011 starting in early September.This is allegedly the first 7-inch tablet to be released with Android 3.2 Honeycomb on board and the manufacturer has just announced that the device...

26 August 2011
11:50 GMT

ViewSonic ViewPad 10 Dual OS Tablet Formalized

Users still muling over the prospect of buying a tablet now have an extra model to consider, one that ViewSonic unveiled months ago but which has only about a day ago made its official appearance.One might say that the tablet market of today is no longer so varied, especially when it comes to those loaded with the A...

16 August 2011
08:36 GMT

ViewSonic Aims High on LED-Backlit LCD Market

ViewSonic did say, on previous occasions, that it would focus on LED backlighting from now on, and the latest reports regarding its plans for this segment have now emerged.Before LED backlighting began to be experimented with, CCFL (cold cathode fluorescent lights) were the norm.Then again, to a certain extent, they...

12 August 2011
11:04 GMT

ViewSonic Finally Releases 3D LED Monitor

There have been many announcement depicting some new or upcoming display or another, but it looks like ViewSonic is finally more or less ready to unleash one whose existence was disclosed over six months ago.The 3D display mode has been on an upward popularity climb ever since cinemas really got seriously in the gam...

1 August 2011
08:04 GMT

ViewSonic V350 and ViewPad 4 Android Phones Coming Soon in India

Unveiled back in May during the 2011 Computex tradeshow, ViewSonic V350 and ViewPad 4 Android devices are expected to be launched in India soon. ViewSonic confirmed last week the launch of its ViewPad 7 and ViewPad 10 tablets, but the company's officials recently stated that the tablets will be accompanied b...

18 July 2011
08:23 GMT

ViewSonic ViewBook Tablet with Froyo Goes On Sale at Amazon for $230

Although tablet manufacturers are trying to release their products with the latest Google mobile platform on board, it appears that ViewSonic does not care that much about it. The manufacturer's 7-inch ViewBook tablet with Android 2.2 Froyo is now available for purchase from Amazon for just $229.99. Furthe...

14 July 2011
05:29 GMT

ViewSonic Prepares 7-Inch Android Honeycomb Tablet

ViewSonic may have already taken its first actual step on the tablet market, but this doesn't mean that it isn't working on other things, especially according to recent rumors dealing with a 7-inch model.Now that it has gotten its engines running, the tablet market is not bound to drop dead any time soon, ...

9 July 2011
07:08 GMT

Three New ViewSonic Monitors Released

Being the maker of various display solutions that it is, ViewSonic decided to update its extensive product portfolio with three new members, all of which have more or less similar specifications beyond the resolution and diagonal length.The past couple of weeks have definitely not come and gone without ViewSonic mak...

29 June 2011
04:08 GMT

[UPDATE]ViewSonic gTablet Sells for Just $249.99

Today's media tablets mostly tend to revolve around the $500 price point, but ViewSonic's invention goes much lower than that although, true enough, its feature set reflects it. The thing about media tablets is that they are a novel product with a lot of potential, though the market has only begun to tap ...

28 June 2011
09:03 GMT

ViewSonic Announces 7-Inch ViewBook 730 Tablet

Although Google has yet to make Honeycomb working correctly on 7-inch tablets, ViewSonic decided to launch a new 7-inch tablet, the ViewBook 730. The device is delivered with Android 2.2 (Froyo) on board, which makes things even worse for Android fans who were expecting for an immersive Android experience. Acco...

7 June 2011
03:44 GMT

ViewSonic Also Provides a 24-Inch Smart Monitor

With the folks over at Computex now getting ready to get the show on the road, ViewSonic, like so many others, has prepared a whole collection of items to show off, one of which is an LCD smart monitor.On a market where performance is already so high that variation in it can go by unnoticed, companies have started t...

30 May 2011
04:12 GMT

ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro Uses New-Generation Oak Trail

With the 2011 edition of the Computex trade show just waiting to see its gates officially open, items on display are already making the news, one of them being an x86 tablet from ViewSonic.Computex is one of the electronic shows that happens every year, being a time when many IT players gather together in Taipei, Ta...

30 May 2011
03:54 GMT

ViewPad 7x Puts Honeycomb on a 7'' Tablet

The first tablet PC in the world to sport a 7-inch touchscreen display and run under Google's Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system at the same time has been already unveiled, the ViewSonic ViewPad 7x.The tablet PC has just been announced to the world in Taipei, during the Computex 2011 show, where its makers ...

30 May 2011
03:52 GMT

ViewSonic ViewPad 4 Tablet and V350 Dual-SIM Smartphone Land in Taiwan

Just in time for the 2011 Computex tradeshow, ViewSonic has just announced the availability of its ViewPad 4 tablet and V350 dual-mode smartphone in Taiwan. While the ViewPad 4 Android tablet can be purchased for NT $14,900 (about $518), the V350 smartphone can be bought for only NT $9,900 (about $345).“Wi...

12 May 2011
05:23 GMT

ViewSonic ViewPad 7x Spotted, Launches in June with Honeycomb and Nvidia Tegra 2

It looks like ViewSonic plans to release one of the first 7-inch tablets to run Google's Android Honeycomb platform available on the market. If HTC does not push the Honeycomb upgrade for the Flyer anytime soon, ViewPad 7x might be the first to come out with the latest iteration of Android. According to the gu...

12 May 2011
04:30 GMT

Tablets Will Replace 70% of Netbooks in 2011, ViewSonic Says

While some companies continue to look upon tablets with some skepticism, others seem to think they will have a massive effect this very year, to the point where they might take over much more than half of the netbook market.Back at the start of 2010, netbook makers were quite sure that these low-cost, entry-level mo...

11 May 2011
10:32 GMT

How to Manually Update ViewSonic's ViewPad 10 from Android 1.6 to Android 2.2

ViewSonic has recently announced the release of an Android 2.2 Froyo update of its ViewPad 10 tablet. The device was initially delivered with Android 1.6 Donut on board, but due to the recent update, the retailer will ship the ViewPad 10 with Froyo. However, for those who already own the tablet and are still oper...

3 May 2011
15:01 GMT

ViewSonic ViewPad 10 Windows 7/Android Dual-Boot Tablet Goes on Sale

Back at MWC 2011, we've had the chance to take a very close look at ViewSonic's ViewPad 10 dual-boot tablet, and now, it seems that the device is finally going on sale.As some of you will certainly remember, while visiting ViewSonic's Mobile World Congress 2011 booth, we were briefly introduced to this...

8 March 2011
05:02 GMT

Hands-On with ViewSonic ViewPad 10 at MWC 2011

It seems that ViewSonic did not just let the opportunities provided by Mobile World Congress 2011 go by, as it went and put on display a certain 10-inch tablet that has two operating systems instead of just one. One might say that, at present, there are two main types of slates, those based on x86 chips and runni...

16 February 2011
02:45 GMT

ViewSonic's Dual-SIM V350 Smartphone Now Official

A few days before the Mobile World Congress is getting ready to open its gates in Barcelona, ViewSonic, global provider of computing, consumer electronics and communications solutions, announced the launch of its new Dual-SIM Android Smartphone, the V350.The new mobile phone was designed to offer users the possibili...

11 February 2011
07:41 GMT

ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro Is a 10-inch Dual-Boot Tablet

It appears that ViewSonic has made the official introduction of a certain tablet which, though not yet available, should turn some heads considering its choice of both hardware and software platforms. Like so many other companies on the PC and consumer electronic markets, ViewSonic has entered the tablet market. ...

11 February 2011
02:47 GMT

ViewSonic Sell 60,000 7-Inch ViewPad Tablets Per Month

ViewSonic, like so many other companies, has joined the tablet market, and it seems that it is actually doing well in terms of shipments, provided a certain report is to be believed of course.Tablet PCs may have taken off only last year, but they have already begun to visibly affect the netbook market.This happened ...

31 January 2011
04:53 GMT

New LED HDTVs, AIO PCs by ViewSonic Announced At CES 2011

ViewSonic has brought plenty more products at CES 2011 (beside the ViewFun 3D lineup we've already talked about), including here a couple of new Full HD LED TVs in the VT10LED series, as well as two brand-new AIO PCs, models VPC221 and VPC191.First of all, in terms of display solutions, the company unveiled the ...

13 January 2011
03:36 GMT

ViewSonic's ViewPad 4 to Arrive Later in 2011 with Android

Last week at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, ViewSonic Corp. brought to the spotlight a new Android-based device, the ViewPad 4, which is both a tablet PC and a mobile phone.With the launch of this product, ViewSonic will be offering ViewPad solutions with displays ranging from 4 to 10 inch...

10 January 2011
12:01 GMT

ViewSonic Rolls Out ViewFun 3D Camcorders at CES 2011

Given its increasingly important presence on the CE segment, we were actually expecting ViewSonic to bring forth some new and exciting products at CES 2011, and sure enough, that's exactly what the company did, as they've unveiled the ViewFun 3D line of products, that also includes a couple of 3D camcorders...

10 January 2011
08:13 GMT

ViewSonic Suffering from Low Tablet Supply

It would appear that, while some market segments are suffering from oversupply, ViewSonic is, one would say, plagued by the opposite, at least as far as a certain tablet PC is concerned.Like many of its so-called rivals, ViewSonic decided, some time ago, that it would try to grab a slice of the tablet market now, wh...

27 December 2010
10:09 GMT

Viewsonic Says Android, Flash and Tegra 2 Are to Blame for GTablet Issues

It would appear that not all media tablets are as popular as the Advent Vega, or at least the one from Viewsonic, dubbed GTablet, has had some issues, or so early adopters reported, issues that the company claims should be fixable with a small update.By now, end-users will no doubt have learned that media tablets ha...

21 December 2010
06:00 GMT

ViewSonic Brings ViewPad 7 and ViewPad 10 to Australia

Two new Android-based tablet PCs were just announced as being set to make an appearance on the market in Australia, namely the ViewSonic ViewPad 7 and ViewPad 10. Viewsonic Australia plans on making them available for AUD $699 and AUD $799, respectively.The two slates sport different touchscreen displays, namely a 7...

1 December 2010
10:17 GMT

ViewSonic VX2258wm Now at Users' Fingertips

ViewSonic may have been working on a new all-in-one system with touch support, but the same announcement also introduced a touch-enabled monitor, one dubbed VX2258wm.With all the Full HD monitors coming out, ViewSonic figured it would differentiate its offer by providing a wider feature set.In this case, the new mon...

1 December 2010
03:52 GMT

22-inch Multi-Touch VPC220T AIO PC Rolled Out by ViewSonic

ViewSonic's been extremely active on the market lately (just look at the numerous tablets it launched over the past couple of weeks), but the company's area of interest goes way beyond the aforementioned utra-portable computing solutions, as they've also released a brand-new 22-inch touchscreen AIO (al...

1 December 2010
01:37 GMT

ViewSonic Intros Affordable Full HD Projector for Home Entertainment Enthusiasts

Although I can't think of a single home theater enthusiast that wouldn't be interested in owning a Full HD projector, the truth of matter is that most such solutions available out there are far more expensive than what many consumers can afford, so ViewSonic 1080p HD PRO8200 should prove to be quite an attr...

24 November 2010
04:35 GMT

ViewSonic Debuts DVP5 Pocket Camcorder Projector, Photo Copier Too

Beside the 3D offerings we've talked about yesterday, ViewSonic has also outed a couple of more or less standard offerings in the imaging field, namely the DVP5 Pocket Camcorder Projector and the DPF8-CAM Digital Photo Copier, both of which, however, are far from being ordinary devices in their respective segmen...

16 November 2010
04:07 GMT

3D HD Pocket Camcorder and 3D Digital Photo Frame Outed by ViewSonic

It seems that ViewSonic is seriously gearing up for the 3D-dominated 2010 Christmas shopping spree, since the company has just rolled out a complete 3D lineup (pocket camcorder plus 3D digital photo frame) that will allow users not only to record their favorite moments around the Christmas tree in 3D, but also view t...

15 November 2010
15:01 GMT

ViewSonic VG36-LED Monitor Line Grows by Two

ViewSonic decided it was time to come out and release a pair of new monitors, so it went ahead and played the environment friendliness card once again, its new creations being the VG2236wm-LED and the VG2436wm-LED.The VG2236wm-LED and the VG2436wm-LED have displays with diagonals measuring 21.5 and 23.6 inches, resp...

3 November 2010
07:12 GMT

ViewSonic's 3DV5 3D Pocket Camcorder Offers Glasses Free 3D Playback

Every manufacturer out there seems to be investing heavily in 3D these days and, although I for one ain't that impressed with the way that 3D is shaping up these days, ViewSonic at least tried to do things a little bit differently with their 3DV5 pocket sized camcorder that doesn't require those cumbersome ...

2 November 2010
06:24 GMT


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