Best Tablet PC Reviews, News and 2012 tablets

We've showed you the Microsoft Courier concept, a dual screen netbook/reader they've released a promotional video a few months ago, but some users couldn't wait that much so decided to build their own dual screen netbook. The base was once again the Dell Mini 9, a robust netbook when it comes to modifications, but a pretty awful one when it comes to performance and ergonomics.[caption id="attachment_589" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Harlequin working"][/caption]This dual scre...

There are two major types of touchscreen technologies today and those are resistive and capacitive, but they're not the most precise or good when it comes to maintaining screen color quality or registering exact screen presses. Motorola aims to change that by working on developing a touch screen technology that relies on sound waves to register user input on the screen.[caption id="attachment_576" align="aligncenter" width="234" caption="SONAR like touch technology"][/caption]Motorola an...

Gentlemen and ladies, it's the dawn of a new era, where people realized that touch input hardware is nothing without software to take advantage of it. Ciplex in collaboration with Microsoft had used Silverlight to create the first multi touch enabled website: Silver PAC.It's just the beginning of course, as users reported the site loads rather slow and reacts the same to user input from a multi touch device, but hey, it's a start, even if for now you can't do advanced stuff like rotating thi...

Not everybody likes touchscreens, study says, not me, but if I were to bet on a category that surely will have it I would bet on professional photographers, who are in love with their antiquated DSLR design (yes, it dates at least a few decades ago).[caption id="attachment_565" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="DSLR with a touch screen"][/caption]Canon says that amateurs are often confused by modern DSLRs, which feature a lot of buttons, functions to adjust and so, that's why it w...

I've said it before and I'll say it again: if touch tablets are to succeed the most important change has to come from software and applications you can run on them, only on them or  better on them. Show me a way I could use a touch tablet and I will buy one, and I think I'm not the only one that thinks like this.[caption id="attachment_560" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Sports Illustrated, digital version"][/caption]Luckily someone's doing something. That someone is Time Inc....

When you think about touch tablet you definitely don't think about Motorola, but it seems the American company is struggling to keep the good karma that grew for the first time in too many years with the Droid and now they're working on a touch tablet called Sholes.If you look at the specs (released by a Chinese website) it's much like the Nokia N900, but it runs Android OS 2.0 or 2.1 (depends of release time):550MHz OMAP TI 3430 processor 3.7″ touch screen, 800 x 480 resolution H...

It's not the first time we've talked about the Apple Touch Tablet and we hope it won't be the last either, but till now no official name was given, everything was speculated, like iPad and iTablet. Today we have a possible name for Apple's tablet, as there is evidence the company from Cupertino has acquired the TabetMac brand name last year from Axiotron.It might not be 100% the final name, but we're inclined to think here that it the best candidate so far. I would personally incline to beli...

We've told you about Michael Arrington's Crunchpad, the 12 inch touch tablet that was meant as an easy and convenient way to surf the web. It was in works for over one year and past weeks showed great improvement.Unfortunately things were not meant to be for the Crunchpad, as a lot of problems started to arise lately with Arrington's associate company, Fusion Garage. Things escalated rapidly when Arrington received an email stating that the hardware will be sold separately by Fusion Garage, ...

While everybody is waiting excited for the unconfirmed Apple Tablet, a company called Camangi already announces its WebStation, which is a 7-inch Android-based touchscreen tablet.It comes with features like: Wi-Fi, GPS, microSD card reader, web browsing, Gmail,etc. In their press release, Camangi tells us that its WebStation, "running a Marvell processor with around 350 grams weight, only 2mm thicker than iPhone" "is about to launch in the late November of 2009, but everything is still on it...

We've talked before here about Nvidia's tablet platform, which uses the Tegra system on a chip, developed especially for smartphones, PDAs and MIDs. Now it's time to see what's capable of on a short hands on preview done by Engadget in London with a prototype version of the Tegra Tablet powered by Windows CE operating system.From this preview we're glad to see that 720p video playback runs smoothly and that this tablet might be the first to use a wireless charging station, with magnetic ...