Articles about tablet hybrid

Dual screen tablet prototypes have been shown during CES 2010 by a lot of small manufacturers eager to differentiate themselves from big names by doing something utterly different. Astri was one of them with their MyID eInk + touchscreen combo. I'm glad they managed to catch attention of investors as they've just announced the MyID will soon hit production. What's so important is the price: 65 $ for materials and manufacturing, which translates in 150$ max as retail price, a bargain considerin...

I like daring manufacturers that look always beyond current trends and bring to trade shows amazing prototypes of gadgets that might one day become reality. The same goes for Astri, who presented at CES a prototype of a dual screen eInk reader and touch tablet, but unlike the Entourage eDGe it's a more pocketable hybrid, and is in totally another class compared to the MSI dual screen netbook tablet.[caption id="attachment_1096" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Astri eReader + touch t...

Remember the enTourage eDGe dual tablet/eReader hybrid from last week? An interesting piece of engineering which need support from book sellers to reach its high potential. It seems enTourage is on the right track as its eBook store already has deals with McGraw Hill, Oxford University Press and John Wiley & Sons and from today from Blackboard leading e-learning platform used in many US universities.[caption id="attachment_896" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="enTourage eDGe dual...

There are two ways a manufacturer can get attention to its products: build something cheap, powerful and with nice design or do something new that breaks any patterns thus getting the media guys to talk about it, and from there it's success all over. Lenovo chose the second alternative when it came up with the IdeaPad U1 Hybrid notebook plus slate/tablet gadget. The plus means you have two gadgets in one: a regular notebook with a 11.6 inch screen and an Intel Core 2 Duo ULV CPU and a detachable...

I don't especially like products that want to be many things at the same time, but sometimes something new comes up that really deserves attention. One of those products is the Sungale Cyberus Info Tablet, a hybrid device that wants to be an eReader, a PMP and touch tablet at the same time. From the specs we see something pretty consistent: 7 inch 800 x 480 pixels scree, WiFi, and applications like Browser, Youtube viewer, Internet Radio streaming, Picasa, Gmail alerts, calendar, clock, alarm, n...