Articles about competition

I can't stop sometimes and laugh at Microsoft, when Steve Ballmer makes bold statements, that they're gonna crush the competition, that they have a really amazing product in works and such. Let's face it, Microsoft is a big company, and can't afford to tell people they're weak, that they weren't able to do something in time or anything like that (like it happened to search, online advertising and tablet wars). I do understand how things with investors, shares, market value work (at least at basi...

You know Synaptics, the one that make almost every trackpad found in laptops today. Well, they're stepping up in the touch tablet arena, by announcing the ClearPad 7200 series multi touch screens, with 10 inch diagonal and some performance features that makes them ideal for Windows 7 and Android slates. Those performance figures are 10 fingers simultaneous multi touch, low latency (between the touch gesture and the moment it is registered and sent for processing), plus two things I don't real...

We all know big companies are full of themselves and Microsoft is definitely one such example, but they are also smart when it comes to studying the competition, even if not admitting that's happening. Last week Microsoft announced on Facebook an event that targeted iPad users, who were invited to the Redmond campus for a two hours study where they would be asked a few things about their experience with the Apple tablet, how they use it, what are they using it for, what they like and what the...

With every big name out there announcing tablets or plans to build tablets, every eye looks at HTC to see what they would come up with, but they're in for a surprise, as HTC announced officially through their global PR and online Community Manager, Eric Lin, that there isn't going to be a HTC tablet any time soon. It's not that they don't want to jump right in, but they don't feel right now they have something different to attract customers. HTC doesn't want to be just another company that d...

It's time again to see what the competition is doing in the tablet field, you know, the ones that haven't launched yet a tablet. LG is one of them and recently has 'leaked' some info about their tablet plans, which include an Android slate which will be ready to get to consumers in Q4 2010. That's 3-4 months time and if it will appear by then, there's a chance we could buy it before winter season, something surely LG is aiming for. This is different from what we've heard initially about LG's pla...

It's interesting to see big names in the IT industry fighting each other in completely different official statements, just like in a cock fight, but in the end the market decides who's the winner. That's how it is and how it will ever be. Today we have Microsoft pitted against Nvidia in the tablet wars, if you like, where both companies have completely different opinions on Android OS and it's purpose in life. On one hand Steve Guggenheimer, Microsoft's OEM vice president, says Android is jus...

Chinese people really love showbiz and that's what the press got during the Hanvon official launch of the Hanvon TouchPad B10 slate type tablet. The Hanvon CEO smashed an ice sculpture of an Apple, which symbolizes the fact that the iPad has now a new competitor, one that plans to sell over one million units in the next months. Seems crazy, right? Well, I have to admit that the Hanvon B10 (which we've previewed here when it was called BC10) looks rather nice on paper, except the price which i...

I bet you can guess the obvious answer, but don't have a clue about the right one. As teachers tell us, the obvious is not always correct and the same stands for the question in the title of this post. So, you see two tablets in an online store, specs are similar (or even identical) and prices differ a bit. You tend to go for the cheaper one but that's not always the best choice and in this post I'll tell you why. First, the thing is that specs are a simplification of what a product can do for y...

iPad is a success, everybody knows that, now that the 1 million mark of sold units was surpassed in less than 30 days. Google has an eye on the tablet market for some time, but it didn't made any serious move till now, when we know they're developing an iPad killer together with Verizon Wireless. We don't know yet who's building the hardware, but I bet it's HTC, as they've already collaborated nicely for the Nexus One smartphone and is not out of the question for HTC to start developing a slim t...

After some rumors about Asus's plans to launch a slate tablet from the EEE series it seems we finally have the first official announcement that states the company will launch a slate type tablet device during Computex IT show this July. We knew already it was going to be presented at Computex, the biggest IT show in Taiwan and that the price will be situated around the 500$ mark. We now know officially that it will use the Nvidia Tegra 2 platform powered by Android OS and will feature all the...