Best Tablet PC Reviews, News and 2012 tablets

I know we've been talking a little bit too much past days about the Samsung Galaxy Note, a 5.3 inch tablet/smartphone, but it's one interesting device, with a form factor that reminds us of the 2000's PDAs.Someone posted a comment on All Touch Tablet which basically asked the question: "who would buy the Samsung Galaxy Note?". It's a valid question and I'll try to answer it before showing you the 10 minutes video review made by newgadgets.de in a German store.So, what makes the Samsung G...

Ice Cream Sandwich is one big update to Android that competes directly with Apple iOS version 5.0, and as more developers start digging deeper into the features we find out more surprises that might make a difference in the future tablet wars.We already know ICS 4.0 brings native support for styluses (no handwriting yet), and this week it came to our attention that USB game pad controllers can be used for analogue control of your favorite Android tablet games.Since reports show people ar...

Just past days we were talking about the much anticipated Blackberry Playbook OS 2.0 update, the one promised from the beginning of the year by RIM, showcased last week, and the one fans are waiting for since the day the tablet launched.Unfortunately rumors point towards a mid-February 2012 delay, as RIM is struggling to get the same Blackberry account work with multiple PINs, as most users have a tablet and a smartphone they want to use with the same account.Personally I tend to believ...

One of the odd products announced this year is the Samsung Galaxy Note (initial preview), a device that looks like a smartphone, but thanks to the huge 5.3 inch diagonal screen can be better described as a tablet. The Super AMOLED display features a huge 1280×800 pixels resolution, so it makes it even harder to catalogue the Galaxy Note.A stylus is included, which points towards a digital assistant that works like a good old PDA. But it's more like a multimedia PDA, being capable of shooti...

I haven't talked here for some time about touch screen technologies, but researchers are not laying down and watching TV. TapSense is the latest advancement in touchscreen research field and is a technology that hopes to achieve something unbelievable: determine with high accuracy what you've used to touch a screen.Basically TapSense is a huge advancement from the palm detection technology used in some devices today. With TapSense a device could be able to determine if you tapped the screen,...

I've always believed competing tablets need to be cheaper than the market leader, the iPad, if they want to stand a chance. Last year we've seen few tablets make it to market, but in 2011 the Android competition grew stronger, not as pricing is concerned, but in the number of available models.Pricing remained the major problem, as the best models were priced at the same level as the iPad 2, or even higher, at 700-800 $ price levels (example). A recently study puts a number on this issue: $1...

One of the secondary enhancements the iPad 2 has received was the Smart Cover case, an official Apple accessory which greatly complemented the slim tablet with a very slim profile, stand functionality and a very clever magnetic mechanism for automatic attachment and wake/sleep function when you take the cover off or put it on.Apple doesn't normally update its accessories, so it comes as a surprise that they've updated the Smart Cover case. Let's see how the new case for iPad 2 differs from t...

We've been talking a bit about Dell's upcoming Latitude ST tablet that first showed up in a leaked roadmap and then got detailed a bit in a presentation back in July. From the suggested specs we had some doubts about a 10 inch Full HD screen, but everything else seemed plausible.Today a teaser/presentation video from Dell made it onto the web and details a pretty average business tablet for the enterprise sector. Why do we say average? Mainly because we've hear the words "Intel Atom". That'...

We've been covering Windows 8 here at AllTouchTablet for the past couple of months since we've heard Microsoft talk about it. For all accounts next year we could see another player in the tablet market besides iOS and Android, and that could be Microsoft's 8th reincarnation of Windows.Microsoft cleverly designed a friendly touch interface from the ground up, but also kept the highly acclaimed desktop experience everyone enjoys (I'm not kidding, people WANT the Windows desktop to be present i...

After this week's announcement of the Blackberry BBX operating system and the introduction of the Playbook OS 2.0 developer beta I was curious to see how the Android bridge (or emulator, doesn't matter how you call it) works with your typical Android apps.Fortunately I come upon this seven minutes long video preview of the OS 2.0 for the Playbook tablet. It shows mainly how Android apps are running and how you can now create folders to group apps in a perfect iOS style (perfect feature copy...