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California based custom PC builder ZaReason has just announced the new ZaTab tablet running Android 4.0.3 “Ice Cream Sandwich” operating system, on its official website. Using a single core ARM Cortex A8 processor along with Mali-400 GPU, ZaTab is not the most powerful ICS tablet on the block, but it clai... |
26 May 2012
09:21 GMT |
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We thought the Toshiba Excite 13 was an oversized tablet, but we might have to reassess that conclusion now that we know what ViewSonic has in store for the world. ViewSonic will attend the Computex 2012 trade show, which will take place in Taipei, Taiwan, between June 5 and June 6. As such, it will have quite a ... |
26 May 2012
03:54 GMT |
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ASUS’ Transformer Pad TF300 is very popular lately. The tablet comes with a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 processor from Nvidia, with powerful graphics and a very nice 10” screen. Connectivity is well improved over the first generation of Transformers, but only WiFi is available as a networking option. W... |
25 May 2012
08:28 GMT |
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American company DELL is one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world. For a long time an Intel exclusive partner, DELL is reportedly getting ready to launch its first Windows 8 tablet which will be powered by an Intel processor. The device will have quite a large 10.8” screen and will sport the drea... |
25 May 2012
03:40 GMT |
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 tablet is a fine piece of work, but there is one perk we may have not mentioned back when we reported on its availability.
Long story short, people who decide to buy the Galaxy Tab 2 will be granted a one-year Dropbox account.
Said account will let them store up to 50 GB of data in the cl... |
24 May 2012
09:24 GMT |
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There may soon be a new tablet up for sale at your local retailer, as well as through online stores, one made by Toshiba and equipped with the latest, though not unexpected, set of hardware and software features.
We'd just love to be able to tell you that the Android 4.0-loaded Toshiba AT300 will be every bit ... |
24 May 2012
06:04 GMT |
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So-called “hybrid” devices have been cropping up on the IT market for as long as the industry has been around, so we aren't at all shocked to see tablets and ultrabooks combine. Chinese company CZC Tech has formally introduced something called U116T, which behaves like a tablet but has ultrabook ha... |
24 May 2012
04:20 GMT |
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If your kid is not that keen on spending time with others his age, or if he just has too much time on his hands, a gadget to keep him or her occupied could be just what is needed. Genius kept this in mind when it made the Kids Designer II tablet, but it also thought about how it could encourage intellectual develop... |
23 May 2012
13:21 GMT |
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What a coincidence. Just after we ran upon a statement saying that the Acer Iconia Tab A510 has issues, we find out that the company is working on a new one.
Of course, “new one” is a stretch, since it's just the same tablet with a different theme on the case.
Sure, there will be a trial period o... |
23 May 2012
09:52 GMT |
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NVIDIA's Tegra mobile platform has become quite famous on the tablet market, so it is natural for the Santa Clara, California-based company to want to build on that prestige.
NVIDIA held its annual meeting with stockholders just a short time ago and, during it, it revealed a new tablet project called Kai.
If... |
23 May 2012
07:39 GMT |
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Giant motherboard manufacturer, Taiwanese company ASUS has just released a bootloader unlock for the new Transformer Pad 300, on its official website. This will most certainly void your warranty, but that’s better for ASUS, as it practically reduces their warranty costs overall. When ASUS released the first Tr... |
23 May 2012
05:21 GMT |
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Once again the US Federal Communications Commission has provided information on a product, or in this case a pair of products, that won't be out for a while yet. Certainly, being certified by the FCC means that a product is just about ready to show up for sale, but ASUS won't sell the ones herein spoken o... |
23 May 2012
04:35 GMT |
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People hoping to get their hands on the Acer Iconia Tab A510 will have to spend some more time waiting for their dream to come true.
Anyone checking in with the online order page on Amazon will have seen that there is an “item under review” notice.
“While this item is available from other market... |
23 May 2012
04:00 GMT |
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Korean giant electronics company Samsung has reportedly thoroughly redesigned its up-and-coming Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 device, which now comes with a special S pen slot. We were caught by surprise when Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 test scores were briefly revealed earlier this month. The main assumption is that, if t... |
23 May 2012
03:43 GMT |
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The online giant Amazon is reportedly trying to decide whether selling some premium advertising packages for 600,000 dollars each is worth the bother. The money gained is likely to be used to reduce the initial price of the Kindle Fire to around 150 USD. That would be around 117 EUR for the European digital readers.... |
20 May 2012
23:08 GMT |
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While the manufacturing cost of an ARM powered TabletPC is around 300 ~ 350 USD for a 10” model and 150 ~ 200 USD for a 7” model, Microsoft reportedly plans to charge tablet manufacturers a huge 90 ~ 100 USD for a Windows 8 ARM Edition.We were talking about Intel’s strangely failed attempt at the mo... |
18 May 2012
12:13 GMT |
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There are reportedly many rumors claiming that Amazon will change focus from Samsung’s Galaxy tablets and will instead attack Apple’s iPad with a 10.1” Kindle Fire. As the summer holiday season is approaching, Amazon seems interested in capturing the traveling reader's market and it will likel... |
18 May 2012
09:30 GMT |
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Apple managed to set the price of tablets high, and it even held it up there for a while, at the $500 / 470 Euro mark. That didn't stop the Chinese from making slates that are actually cheap though.
Right now we get to look at the A10, a 7-inch small wonder made by Shenzen-based manufacturer HuaYi.
Powered b... |
17 May 2012
10:44 GMT |
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Chinese PC and notebook manufacturer Lenovo is now stuffing Intel’s new Ivy Bridge processors in most of its laptops. The ThinkPad T series are now updated to T430, T430s and T530 models that come with an HD 720p webcam and Lenovo’s RapidCharge. The i7-powered systems with the T430 label come complete ... |
16 May 2012
11:20 GMT |
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We've seen our share of tablets, most of them powered by an ARM processor of some sort, and now we get to report on one that doesn't cost a fortune.
Not that tablets normally cost more than a life's salary. All things considered, $399-$499 price tags have come to be seen as standard, approachable mar... |
15 May 2012
09:39 GMT |
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Toshiba has launched some new Regza-series tablets, one of which is particularly large, well beyond the 10-inch form factor that the world has gotten used to.
The Android 4.0-loaded Regza AT830 slate has an LCD (liquid crystal display) with a diagonal of 13.3 inches, which makes us wonder if it will bump heads with... |
15 May 2012
04:53 GMT |
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Texas-based CPU designer Advanced Micro Devices, also known as AMD, is currently preparing and gathering stocks for the Q4 launch of the company’s first tablet targeted processor called Hondo. The chip is reportedly made at TSMC in the same 40 nm manufacturing process as Brazos 2.0.AMD’s long awaited Trin... |
14 May 2012
14:41 GMT |
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Motorola has gone on record again to announce that two of its tablets have reached Finnish stores, specifically the El-Gigantii chain, so prospective buyers can rush to shops and get them. The slates in question are called Motorola XOOM 2 and Motorola XOOM 2 Media Edition and have prices of 399 upwards. To be mor... |
14 May 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Speaking in Santa Clara at an investors’ meeting, Intel’s CEO Paul Otellini tried to do his best in downplaying Intel’s huge embarrassment from two weeks ago. He said that, when it comes to Windows and x86 software, Intel has much more experience. The thing is that there is a strong possibility tha... |
12 May 2012
10:10 GMT |
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If you were looking for a nice tablet that didn't completely butcher your savings, the Hyundai A7HD may be just the thing. Set to cost 160 Euro / $200, it is bound to make its debut alongside two other slates, one of the same size (7-inch) and a 9.7-inch model. The Hyundai A7HD, as reported by AndroidPit, wi... |
12 May 2012
06:04 GMT |
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Aaron J. Seigo, one of the main KDE developers, has said that Vivaldi, the first tablet to come with KDE installed by default, has changed its configuration, for the better of course. The Vivaldi tablet will now ship with 1 GB of RAM and the internal storage has been increased to 8 GB. The prices haven't been... |
11 May 2012
09:42 GMT |
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A source talking to an Apple-centric blog claims to have learned that Apple is pushing forward with plans to release a smaller version of the iPad to go on a rampage, just as it did with the iPod media players. Despite having vocally expressed discontent towards the 7-inch tablet form factor, Apple Inc. now seems ke... |
11 May 2012
05:55 GMT |
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The Iconia Tab A700 could be just the sort of tablet Acer needed to catapult it in the lead, or close to that spot, especially if the company manages to avoid this kind of screen problems. The tablet is one of the few to have a high-resolution screen, and by hight resolution we mean Full HD 1,920 x 1,200 pixels. ... |
9 May 2012
11:15 GMT |
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It seems that Korean giant Samsung was not quite satisfied with the performance of Android Ice Cream Sandwich on the big screen 10.1” Galaxy Note tablet when using a dual-core Cortex A9 ARM processor. So they reportedly decided to wait until the quad-core ARM CPU becomes available. Samsung’s Exyn... |
9 May 2012
08:57 GMT |
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Samsung's Galaxy Note, by the name alone, could be mistaken for a sort of electronic notepad or e-reader if it didn't have the “10.1” in its name and, of course, that quad-core Exynos CPU. But that's just the thing: the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 was expected to have a dual-core processor a... |
9 May 2012
08:17 GMT |
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The ASUS Transformer Pad 300 TF300 received a warm welcome and got pretty favorable reviews, but some issues are coming to light.
ASUS seems to be establishing a rather unfortunate track record of releasing tablets with hardware and software shortcomings.
The Transformer Prime had to go through more than one upda... |
9 May 2012
02:32 GMT |
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We've seen tablets being promoted based on their looks, their performance, the content they can access and any combination of these three, but never for their ability to grant control to a network-attached storage device.
It so happens that Thecus has launched a slate whose main purpose is to help owners of Th... |
8 May 2012
13:21 GMT |
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Just when we thought cheap tablets were never going to have better performance than that of the Aakash and its ilk, Digilink shows off the Digilink. Ahem, well, maybe that's not the actual name of the tablet but, for now, we just know it is referred to by the same name as the company, so we'll go with tha... |
8 May 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Toshiba has just started selling the new Excite 10 tablets, on its official website. These new tablets are powered by Nvidia’s well-known Tegra 3 quad core ARM Cortex A9 processor. The display is protected with the popular Corning Gorilla Glass and thus, the Excite 10 tablet is scratch resistant and can also r... |
8 May 2012
09:53 GMT |
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Google recently announced, at its Android Developers Forum, the latest update to their NDK. This was a fulfilment of Amit Rohatgi’s promise that Google would be adding the MIPS ABI into the Android NDK. Amit Rohatgi is MIPS Mobile Architect and, in the light of recent MIPS developments, he promised that MIPS wi... |
4 May 2012
10:48 GMT |
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Surprisingly, Amazon's tablet shipment share fell significantly during the first quarter of 2012, so the company lost its comfortable second spot on the Android slate market.
Earlier today, we reported on the general state of the worldwide tablet market and how the number of sold Android slates decreased, comp... |
4 May 2012
09:49 GMT |
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It wasn't too long ago that we wrote about the slight decline of interest in the Android operating system, and now we get to look at the other side of the equation, so to speak. In Q1, 2012, tablet shipments ended up decreasing, compared to the fourth quarter of 2011, by more than was expected. The Android o... |
4 May 2012
05:23 GMT |
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The International Data Corporation (IDC) has found that sales of tablets haven't being doing as well as everyone expected during the past two quarters. Among successful product types, tablets rode their initial momentum for one of the longest times, namely two years, give or take. That momentum is finally wind... |
4 May 2012
02:59 GMT |
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Toshiba is preparing to experiment with user preferences, aiming to see if there is any point to tablets with screens larger than 10-11 inches in diagonal.
For those who don't know, the company will soon start shipping the 13-inch Excite 13 slate, otherwise called AT330.
It is this product that has passed th... |
3 May 2012
09:36 GMT |
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Biometric recognition is considered one of the, if not the most, reliable security authentication procedures ever, since biometric prints are believed to be truly unique, even between “identical” twins.
It also isn't exactly possible to forge a biometric imprint. Fingerprints can be faked easily eno... |
3 May 2012
09:10 GMT |
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There was one day, back in late March, when Amazon's refurbished Kindle Fire sold for $30 less than the normal product price, and the deal is back today.
Refurbished products are items that got returned to the vendor for some reason or other and have since been fixed.
Obviously, it doesn't make much sense... |
3 May 2012
08:52 GMT |
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We've seen a few dual-panel tablets over the past couple of years, but the design concept wasn't patented by anyone, so Samsung figured it might as well do it itself.
The patent submitted with the USPTO (US Patent and Trademark Office) includes the sketches for the tablet type, showing it both open and cl... |
3 May 2012
05:36 GMT |
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We've seen quite a few tablet accessories and cases in the past, but this one that BigPixel made might just be the coolest yet.
Yes, we know that is a totally subjective assessment, but it's a commonly accepted fact that black and white go with everything, especially when they're together.
Basically,... |
2 May 2012
08:34 GMT |
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ASUS is very confident in its tablet expertise, so much that it has set the goal of becoming the primary supplier of Android-loaded slates in the second half of 2012.
The tablet market will experience its second great upsurge in the second half of this year, when Microsoft will release the Windows 8 operating syste... |
2 May 2012
05:54 GMT |
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Acer's Iconia Tab A510 has been selling in the US for a while now, but availability in Canada took longer to ramp up.
Now, though, the slate is finally up for order there, at a price of $449.99.
For the sake of comparison, the same item is listed, in Europe, for 399 Euro.
Alas, Future Shop (where the slate... |
30 April 2012
08:13 GMT |
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If you've been waiting for that Ice Cream Sandwich update, but your Acer Iconia Tab A500, or A501, still hasn't received it, you're in luck. Apparently, the operating system isn't getting upgraded properly, so Acer made a special app that would take care of the problem. The video embedded above ... |
30 April 2012
07:34 GMT |
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In addition to media tablets, business-oriented slates will appear when Microsoft finally launches the Windows 8 operating system, although not in as high a number.
As one may or may not be surprised to hear, HP is among the companies that will launch a tablet fit for businessmen.
According to murmurs, there is a ... |
28 April 2012
06:06 GMT |
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It looks like there are two new tablets on Arnovatech's website, both of them running the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, predictably enough.
Arnova is actually going to have a larger lineup of tablets, ranging, in size, from 7 to 10 inches.
Only two of them have been added to its website th... |
26 April 2012
08:56 GMT |
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With all the talk about laptops possibly going touch-enabled en masse, especially ultrabooks, people are wondering what this means for tablets.
Apparently, Apple's chief executive officer doesn't think anything will come of laptops equipped with touchscreens or, at least, they won't really take off e... |
25 April 2012
11:07 GMT |
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Even though the Transformer Prime and Transformer Pad are the tip of ASUS's marketing spear on the tablet market, the company has not forgotten about the original Eee pad transformer.
Last time we heard of an update was in February, when the firmware moved to version 9.2.1.11 and Android 4.0 was installed.
Ran... |
25 April 2012
09:35 GMT |
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