Best Tablet PC Reviews, News and 2012 tablets

After the rumor about Nook Color 2 from two days ago it's time for more confirmation thanks to a leak that details pretty much everything you want to know about Barnes and Noble upcoming tablet: Nook Color Tablet (this is the official name). Update - the actual name is even easier to remember: Nook Tablet.Yes, it goes for sale on November 16th, one day before Amazon Kindle Fire, the main competitor, with an official announcement on November 7th.We also know the price: $249, 50 dollars more ...

I've stumbled upon quite a few Apple news and rumors today so I thought of massing them into one larger post. The three bits regard the upcoming iOS 5.0.1 update, Apple's views on the November coming cheap Amazon Kindle Fire tablet and the possibility of seeing two new iPads next year.Got any Apple news I haven't covered? Drop me a line and I'll update this post. Now read on! Apple iOS 5.0.1 With iOS 5 just out of the door is not surprising at all for Apple to release a minor version soon...

Kobo Vox, one of the few Amazon Kindle Fire competitors (on paper) just made it to stores in US and Canada, beating Amazon's product to market, as the other 7 inch media tablet will only arrive on November 17th.I know that Kobo doesn't have the strength to compete with Amazon, even if technically speaking, the Vox is at least as powerful as the Fire and also sells for $199. While the Vox is a 7 inch Android tablet Kobo likes to say it is world's first social eReader, which in layman's terms ...

HP has already two misses in the tablet segment with last year's HP Slate 500 and this year's WebOS powered TouchPad. Unfortunately HP seems not to have learned anything from these experiences as it just released the HP Slate 2, a small update to the slow Atom powered Windows 7 tablet.So what can you expect from the late 2011 HP Slate 2 tablet? Slightly updated specs (new Atom CPU from the Oak Trail series), 30 more minutes of battery life, optional 3G Gobi chip and $100 shaved off from the...

We've been talking about the Xoom 2, but no official info was really known at that time. Things have changed as today Motorola introduced two tablets from company's second generation slates: Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition.As expected, Motorola tried another form factor, 8.2 inches for the Xoom 2 Media Edition and threw in the 'usual' 10.1 inch screen on the normal Xoom 2. I don't understand why Motorola appended the name Media Edition to the smaller tablet. It makes more sense to want a big...

Logitech, one of my favourites peripherals manufacturers (I've owned quite a few of their products), has released another accessory for tablets, called the Mini Boombox. As you can guess from the name, this is a wireless speaker that connects via Bluetooth to compatible tablets, smartphones and laptops.And by compatible I mean gadgets with Bluetooth that support Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP) or Bluetooth Hands-Free Profile (HFP 1.5)  if you plan on routing your calls for ever...

Remember the ASUS roadmap leak from Monday? We've unveiled that day ASUS' plans for the EEE Pad line in 2012, including two new unnamed Android devices and two Windows 8 tablets later that year.For the end of this year ASUS is preparing the Transformer Prime tablet, but what got to my ears is that one of the two 'here products' (not my words) ASUS plans to launch in Q1 2012 is a surprising 7 inch EEE Pad Transformer tablet.Personally I've always found 10 inch tablets a little bit too bul...

Since it released the Motorola Xoom at the beginning of this year, no other tablet was announced by the American company. It's easy to blame the Honeycomb evolution, plagued by the lack of dedicated apps and inferior performance when compared to its main competitor, iOS, but Motorola is awake now and prepares for the launch of Xoom 2.We've been talking a little bit about Motorola Xoom 2 back when a few spy pictures made it to the web, but since then nothing else was revealed to us. That's u...

Although it was the first of its kind, the Apple iPad often gets a bad rap because of its high price, although some would say that you get what you pay for and the build quality and performance characteristics of the tablet makes it well worth the costs.However, there are plenty of options out there for those of us who either can’t stretch to the iPad or simply don’t fancy using an Apple device. In fact, with the Google Android operating system appearing on countless tablets, this can be...

Leaks are an important part of the IT industry. The press needs them to get a glimpse on what's coming and I suspect some companies are deliberately releasing info in order to gather feedback and apply that info before the actual products make it to market.The most recent leak gives us an idea about ASUS' EEEPad strategy for 2012. As expected, the Transformer Prime, the second generation convertible Android tablet, will be introduced officially on November 9th. It's not clear when exactly we...