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I don't know if you remember, but ECS was a while ago a manufacturer of motherboards, cheap ones. That was a long time ago, and ECS now has switched to OEM manufacturing almost completely, which means you probably won't find an ECS branded gadgets in US, but some of the things you'll buy this year might be built by ECS, under contract for a known brand. And since ECS showcased lots of tablets at CeBIT let's take a short look at what they're proposing.First is their 10 inch tablet lineup, wit...

Archos is one of the companies that specializes in multimedia products, mp3 players, PMPs and multimedia tablets, being quite successful at bringing to market cheap tablets that anyone can afford. Sure being cheap means you have to cut some corners, but it's a small price to pay for a small price (wow, that didn't come up right). Their latest cheap Android tablets, showcased at CeBIT are the Arnova 8 and Arnova 10, an 8 inch and a 10 inch form factor tablets from the new Arnova product series. ...

Most of the tablets made by Gigabyte are convertible tablets, a completely different approach from what iPad owners are used to. Apparently the Taiwanese company plans to get into the slate tablet game with the 10 inch GN-TB100, a model showcased at CeBIT past days. It's your typical 10 inch tablet powered by the powerful dual core Tegra 2 CPU from NVIDIA. As hardware specs is at the same level with Motorola Xoom, HP TouchPad and the Samsung Galaxy TAB 10.1, as it features up to 1GB RAM, up to 3...

I don't know if you remember the official announcement of the EEE Pad tablets by Asus at CES, but one of the interesting ones was the EEE Pad MeMo, a 7 inch tablet which supports both stylus and finger input, making for an interesting choice when it comes to a note taking devices. Apparently the launch is still delayed for this summer, the main problem, according to ASUS being the Honeycomb for Qualcomm, a built that doesn't exist right now.Anyhow, let's move on to the real interesting part,...

ASUS EEE Pad Transformer is one of the most interesting tablets of 2011, being announced at CES 2011. It's a normal 10 inch slate powered by the Tegra 2 CPU that docks inside a station with an integrated keyboard and battery, thus being 'transformed' into a normal laptop. By that time the EEE Pad Transformer was running a version 2.x of Android with a custom user interface. Now, two months later, ASUS presented the EEE Pad Transformer at its booth in CeBIT running on Android 3.0, codenamed Honey...

I've always liked bold companies that throw at us interesting concepts, even if they don't know yet if they're going to mass produce them. That's actually the idea, to test consumers reaction getting as much feedback as possible, not using a closed brainstorming session to decide upon a product's future. MSI is not usually one such bold company, but in the case of Dual Pad, a concept introduced at CeBIT, I have to say I'm a little bit intrigued.Let me just tell you about Dual Pad: it's simpl...

We saw all kind of Android tablets this year, except convertible tablets, at least till CeBIT, where Mag Digital presented its Skytone Alpha convertible tablet powered by Android 1.6 and an ARM11 CPU. Alpha means the beginning in Greek alphabet, and there's a lot to improve till we hit Omega. This is like the first Asus EEE PC netbook: 7 inch touchscreen (800 x 480 pixels), two hours battery life, WiFi, USB, SD card slot plus two nice features, the TV out port and the 180 degrees swivel mechanis...