Articles about cheap tablet

This is the first post of a monthly series that will try and present you with the best deals of touch tablets you can purchase at a given time. I'll take into consideration the price, features, availability and even popularity (don't know yet how I will do that) of various tablets. Of course, it'll be my pleasure to receive updates from you guys as I don't expect my list to be exhaustive. I will divide the list in tablet categories like slate tablets, convertible tablets, netbook tablets and suc...

Remember the EROS tablet from China? If I were to resume it in a few words I would say: slate, replica, Atom, Windows 7. You get the point, it's a Chinese replica of the iPad slate design, powered by netbook hardware that runs Windows 7. Today I've got my hands on a video showing a user interacting with EROS.As expected there's not much to see as it runs pretty slow, exactly like other netbooks running Windows 7,  plus you pretty much need a stylus everywhere you go because Microsoft did no...

First of all, to get rid of any confusion, the Boogie board LCD writing tablet is not a touchscreen tablet per say, but an advanced Etch A Sketch with the ability to write directly on the screen, a flexible plastic LCD, called Reflex LCD in this case. It's the kind of screen that persistently keeps the info designed on it without needing power.A watch type battery is provided for the Boogie board tablet that allows for up to 50.000 screen resets. The price, on Amazon is what makes this gadge...

Chinese manufacturers are well known for their 'indigo' skills, that produced in time replicas like Nookla, Sunsang, Suny, Reobak and such that mimic products form famous brands. It comes at no surprise that China already released replicas for Apple's unannounced tablet and one of them is the EROS Shenzhen, a 10 inch slate tablet with 720p HD resolution powered by an Atom N270 CPU. Other hardware features include 1 GB RAM (with 2 GB option), 160 GB hard drive (with 320 GB option) and a choice of...

A lot of tablets presented at CES this year were powered by Atom CPUs mainly because every manufacturer already has netbooks and other gadgets running on Atom and it's easy to implement them in similar devices (from hardware point of view). It works for netbook tablets and convertible tablets but it doesn't work for slate devices and I'm going to tell you why be looking at the Inkia MID500 slate tablet (handled by Crunchgear) with a 5 inch display, a very similar device as functionality to Dell'...

One of the issues with touch tablets, the exorbitant price for most of the people, is addressed by Freescale, the company that delivers Kindle's CPU and 70% of the chips inside any eBook reader on market. Freescale presented at CES 2010 a reference design for a touch tablet/slate that could be sold for a price as low as 199$ and it's not cheap on features as you might have expected. Freescale will try to sell the reference design to other manufacturers which in turn will customize it and sell it...

Chumby was one of the first  manufacturers to pave the way to cheap touch tablets as they had in offer for quite some time tablets using a simple proprietary OS widget friendly and with simple user interaction, plus, the most important of all things, it was cheap enough for user to buy. Now the Chumby Sunfury is in works and intends to bring another level of simplicity (now even Sony uses Chumby's OS) but with upgraded features.The Sunfury will be a 7 inch tablet (800 x 480 pixels resolutio...

All of us heard about OLPC projects: from the 100 bucks laptop  (XO model) which was a failure, because it never has been anywhere near $100, to the dual-touchscreen XO-2, which the organization abandoned in November 2009. Both these projects were nothing compared with the new enthusiastic concept: an absurdly thin tablet PC slated for 2012, renders of which OLPC revealed these days.They aim to make it from a semi-flexible plastic, extremely durable and waterproof. Having half the thickness...

Guess what Asus, the creator of netbook concept is doing right now? I won't let you guess, it's working on a cheap tablet EEE PC  (maybe called EEE Pad). Everything is in rumor stage wight now, but it seems  plausible for them to work on a cheap tablet PC alternative.[caption id="attachment_611" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="User tablet mod of a EEE PC 701"][/caption]The best guess right now is that we won't see a convertible tablet netbook but more like a tablet/slate, with...

What do you want from a touch tablet? I bet you want it to be cheap, to have multitouch, to be slim and maybe run Windows 7. The LBook T9 is supposed to do all that plus will come in a pretty nice package and a configuration good enough to power your browsing and office software you need to run.The LBook T9 will come next year in March at a price point around 350-375$, will feature a slim 12,7mm profile. All input is done via a 8.9 inch 1024 x 600 screen. Weight is only 670 grams, a little l...