Both Amazon and Barnes & Noble have downplayed actual e-reader device sales numbers, instead crowing about the number of ebooks sold in the past year. This is an important distinction because it shows us a few things about the Nook/Kindle audience. First, e-readers (dedicated e-readers, mind you, not tablets) are popular with heavy readers and, as a corollary, most e-reader owners buy a lot of… → Read More
News Corp, publishers of the New York Post, the Wall Street Journal, and a slew of other international papers including The Sun, has cancelled plans to offer a tablet-based newsstand, code-named Project Alesia. The project would have brought all of News Corp’s media holdings together in one app as well as aggregate news from other sources, a la Google News. The project has apparently been folded… → Read More
Chances are you already have a tablet on your wish list whether it be the iPad, Galaxy Tab, or even the Dell Streak. But if you don’t, the infograph after the jump will help you figure out what fanboy club you need to join. → Read More
Hopefully you weren’t sitting on the Android tablet sidelines, patiently waiting for Lenovo’s options. Yeah, it’s not going to happen anytime soon. The company’s COO recent stated that the Lenovo’s US-market tablet will not be based around the Android 2.2 Froyo release, but rather Honeycomb. Therefore, if Google pushes back Honeycomb, Lenovo’s tablet will obviously have to suit. This puts the… → Read More
This document sent to potential software partners doesn’t tell much more about the Cisco Cius Tablet than we already know. However, it does show confirmed but limited availability in Q4 2010 as well as a sub $1,000 price confirmation. This bit is particularly interesting: 5) Why is Cisco Cius twice the price of an Apple iPad? Why should I purchase Cisco Cius versus just purchasing iPad’s… → Read More
Onkyo (yes, that Onkyo) just announced that they are producing three different Windows 7 tablet computers for Japan. The bad news is there’s no word on if they will ever show up in the US. → Read More
The HP Slate is a real product — numerous mentions from HP VPs and various leaks state that — but it’s far from “official.” Somehow, though, a somewhat-thorough video review was just posted on the ol’ Interweb for the whole word to see. Remember, this product is headed for the enterprise market and you can’t even buy it, so don’t get all flame-happy when you see with your own eyes that Windows… → Read More
Here comes Digitimes again with a report that places Pegatron as the manufacturer of an unannounced HTC tablet. Said tablet is supposed to have a 1280×720 multitouch panel, 32GB SSD, 2GB RAM as well as WiFi, Bluetooth, and GPS all running on a Tegra 2 platform. It gets better, too. This tablet will even have access to both the Android Market and Chrome Web apps. How? We’re not sure just yet, but… → Read More
We know that Acer has been planning on the release of two tablets, 7 and 10-inch form factors, but now there’s new details about a third form factor. That’s right, another size, smaller than earlier mention; a 5-inch Acer will now join the lineup. → Read More
Oh boy.. turns out that the much advertised $35 “Indian Tablet” isn’t actually from India. The reality is that the tablet is made by a Chinese manufacturer named Hivision, and sold as the Speedpad. It was originally seen at CeBIT this year, and Hivision said it would sell for around $100. → Read More
With the advent of the iPad and the plethora of cheaper Android tablets that are due to flood the market over the coming months, there’s an increasingly popular theory in the tech industry: the days of the dedicated e-reader are numbered.
Last week we published the latest forecasts from Informa Telecoms & Media analysts that said as much. Sales of ‘smartbooks’ (a loosely defined term) are… → Read More
As we mentioned earlier in the summer Acer plans to release an Android-based tablet. Now Acer’s Taiwan president, Scott Lin, has just said that Acer is excited to be making their tablet PCs Android-based – something to compete with the iPad. Acer will be releasing a tablet PC, based on the Wintel platform, later this year. If the market responds positively, they will release the Android… → Read More
You can get it for 450€ ($580) and it supports Flash while it’s not just a big expensive smartphone. Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi (802.11 a/b/g/n), optional 3G (UMTS/HSDPA), 16 / 32 GB, Extension with SDHC Card up to 32 GB. The expensive version has Full-HD 1080p video output. Supported TV and Video Formats: H.264, AVI, WMV, DivX, MOV, OGG, FLV. Would you rather buy something as limited as a giant… → Read More
Korea has their first Android tablet. Called the “Identity TAB”, the new device runs a 1GHz Snapdragon cpu, and sports 8GB of internal memory. The tablet has a 7-inch screen, a DMB TV tuner, gyro-sensor, a 3 megapixel camera, and an SD card reader. At this point, it appears that we probably won’t see the Identity TAB here in the US, but KT (the Korean reseller for the tablet) is… → Read More
The iPod revolutionized the portable media player market. The iPhone shook up the smart phone market. The iPad is setting the standard for the revived tablet market. What is it about Apple that makes these products so great? In part it’s Apple’s dedication to user experience; but I’d argue that the larger factor in their success is Apple’s end-to-end control of the product. They make the hardware… → Read More
The joy of India’s $35 tablet seems too have died down a bit of late, but that doesn’t mean we can’t explore the Allgo “Stamp” system-on-a-chip it’s supposed to be running. Essentially this is an entire computer on a single die, which means you can fit the entire system along with an 800 x 480 pixel screen into a case that costs $35 to build.
It’s not odd that they chose this chip: it’s the pure… → Read More
Windows 7 is a great tablet platform, but it’s just not as sexy as Android, or the iPad. Luckily people have been making custom interfaces for Windows products for years, and Windows 7 is no exception. In fact, German developer Mirabyte has been working on a rather promising looking interface. Check out the video after the jump: → Read More
Toshiba and Fujitsu have been making tablets since the first years of the 21st century, which apparently means they can’t change a darn thing. Take these leaked shots of the new Toshiba tablet. Bulky? Check. Lots of useless ports? Check. Weird name (SmartPad)? Check. → Read More
Remember when netbooks where the next big thing? Best Buy was definitely pushing them, I remember last holiday season you couldn’t walk into your local store without being assailed by cheap, low powered computers. Well get ready, Best Buy has decided that tablet computing will be the next big thing. → Read More
You might not recognize the name N-Trig, but you probably have seen their technology. Good news for touch screen fans, because N-Trig is about to provide HTC with a multi-touch screen. → Read More
After a month of speculation, we now know that the Motorola Android Tablet, codenamed (by me) “Freddie Taylor from Muncie, Indiana,” will now be called the Stingray. The tablet will be the first device running Android 3.0 and should include 3G networking and a NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor. → Read More
BGR has some screen shots showing the upcoming Motorola line-up for Verizon, including the MZ600, the Motorola tablet. The line-up also includes the Droid Pro, a Droid 2 world phone with faster processor. → Read More
Many pixels have been spilled over Steve Ballmer’s admission that “[Apple has] sold certainly more [iPads] than I’d like them to have sold.” As Ars points out, Ballmer just doesn’t get why a dumbed down machine running a poky processor is so popular. However, any media lover can tell you it’s not about running Excel and Powerpoint on a tablet – it’s… → Read More
According to The Street, Roger Crenshaw, an “analyst,” suspects that Morotola will come out with a 10-inch tablet in November. Why? Who knows. What carrier? Don’t ask Crenshaw. However, clearly Moto needs to keep the Droid love coming and this seems like a good way to do it. A Droid Tablet, anyone? → Read More
Here’s another iPad alternative..well two..maybe; Acer 7 and 10-inch tablets running the new verision of Android, Android 2.2. If announced, the devices are rumored to get flash support and sport ARM chipsets. It’s speculated that Acer is shopping around telecom providers to package with the devices, because clearly, they want to compete with the iPad. Expect 3G on this all-out media tablet, and… → Read More
Prepare yourself people, the tablet/e-reader wars are about to heat up. Virginia based Velocity Micro announced their new “Cruz” line today, consisting of the 7″ color Cruz Reader, the 16:9 Cruz Tablet, and the kid-friendly Cruz StoryPad. The most interesting part? The entire Cruz product line runs the Android OS. → Read More
We heard a few months back that RIM was looking at building a Blackberry tablet, and it’s looking like the rumors may be true. On Friday the rumors got a whole new life due to analyst comments, and today it was more or less confirmed by “a source close to RIM”. The source, who preferred to remain anonymous (as they do), leaked to Betanews that the tablet will most likely be… → Read More
Cisco is in the business of sending bits from one place to the next. Therefore, anything that will allow them to play to their strengths, namely data access, is important. That’s why they bought Flip and that’s why they just announced this odd business tablet.
It’s basically an HD tablet running Android with full video conferencing and email and media access. Obviously there’s no price and… → Read More
I know you’re probably conked out on an Adirondack chair with a Blue Moon in your hand by now, but listen up: Asus just announced they’re making a 10- and 13-inch EEE tablet. Welcome back to 2001! → Read More
You’ve been waiting for it! It’s the Dell Streak and it’s coming to a Carphone Warehouse near you! Wait, what? The Streak, Dell’s 5-inch Android tablet, will arrive in June with O2, price to be announced. The device will come with 3G connectivity and should be subsidized by the carrier. Want the Streak in the US? It won’t arrive until “later this summer,”… → Read More
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