Best Tablet PC Reviews, News and 2012 tablets

We've told you just last week about RIM's intentions to discount the Blackberry Playbook tablet and finally bring that important software update with calendar, email and contacts. No, the update is not here yet, but after Rogers started offering the 7 inch tablet to its employees at $249 for the smallest version, as of today you can get the Playbook in Canada from Best Buy and Future Shop starting at $299.You'll have to add the tablet to your shopping cart and then the $100 discount to the $...

A lot of you have asked me or commented about a recommendation for a good tablet that can do handwriting recognition. It's not easy to answer this question, that's why I thought of writing this post and clarify things a little bit.Since the beginning of tablets you're used to see someone holding a tablet PC like an agenda and writing with a stylus. That was until earlier last year, when Apple introduced the iPad. Slates are not for writing The iPad marks the beginning of the slate tablets ...

If you ask me, Netflix is one hell of a service, even if some people have complained from the recent price increase and the removal of the DVD option in the basic streaming plan. If you're a movie buff there's no reason not to pay under 10 bucks and get access to a lot of good movie titles, most of them not quite what you would call 'recent', but that doesn't matter for me.One of the great things about Netflix is that it's available for lots of platforms including PC, Mac, PS 3, Wii, Xbox 36...

Sony Tablet S is by far the most different tablet when it comes to looks this year. While specs are similar to what you've seen already, Tegra 2, 1GB RAM, dual cameras and 16/32 GB storage, the external case resembles a folded back magazine.Techrepublic took the 9.4 inch tablet through a thorough tear-down process which revealed some interesting facts about Sony's slate. First there's a plastic frame over the components that's supposed to add more rigidity and that's a good thing for a mob...

If you remember, the Huawei Mediapad was meant to be one of the first 7 inch Honeycomb tablets, but it got delayed to the point Viewsonic Viewpad 7x will probably beat it to market. Apparently Huawei is almost done with the hardware and software optimizations as the latest pricing and official release dates were unveiled by the company.Huawei is a company with a big presence in Asia, that's why in October it will launch the Mediapad tablet in Malaysia, with US, China, Hong Kong, and Thailand...

Nvidia was a few years ago a major player in the desktop motherboard chipset market, but Intel managed to push them away, so right now Nvidia is strong in the ARM SoC (System on a chip) market, where the Tegra 2 seems to be the processor of choice in 2011 tablets.You know already of the Kal-El project, a codename for the commercial Tegra 3, the first quad-core processor for mobile devices [see our articles here]. As the official launch date approaches, more info about the hardware architectu...

Logitech, the world known peripheral manufacturer turned tablet accessory aficionado, has just released info about the upcoming Harmony Link device. Harmony is Logitech's line of universal remote controls and the Logitech Harmony Link is nothing else than a bridge between your iPad/iPhone/Android phone with which it communicates via WiFi and your other electronic devices with which it communicates via Infrared and radio waves.Harmony Links  is a hardware+software platform as you'll have to...

One of the places people don't use their iPad tablet could be the kitchen, or at least that's what you would believe. Belking is not so sure so it launched three tablet accessories: Fridge Mount for iPad 2, Kitchen Cabinet Mount and, Chef Stand + Stylus, three products designed to be used in the kitchen.While the Fridge Mount for iPad 2 is not compatible with other tablets, the other two products work with pretty much any slate you might have already purchased. Now let's take the three Be...

ASUS EEE Pad Slider is certainly one of the most interesting tablets with a spectacular sliding keyboard design. We've talked about it here at AllTouchTablet.com for a while [read review here], but up until now it was nowhere to be seen in stores and where it was listed for pre-order there was an uncertainty towards when we'll actually be able to buy ASUS' sliding tablet.As of today it come to our attention that the ASUS EEE Pad Slider was already listed on Newegg, B&H and Amazon (US and...

Now that Microsoft is starting to release more and more details about the upcoming Windows 8 operating system, the one which will work on desktops, servers, laptops and tablets, we start to hear rumors about products in development.The latest points towards HTC working already at a tablet with a Qualcomm CPU, not released yet. HTC was once a close partner with Microsoft during the Windows Mobile era. Since Microsoft proved unable to code a decent mobile operating system HTC turned slowly to ...