Articles about official announcement

It's not the first time we write about the Toshiba Folio 100, but now it's time to take things to an official level, as Toshiba officially announced the tablet at IFA Berlin a few days ago. As expected a lot of the initial specs were confirmed, but with one minor difference, one that makes all the difference in the world: Folio 100 lacks Android Marketplace support, which is a deal braked for most of us. I don't understand why companies still want to launch products that don't feature support...

I'm glad that people still care about convertible tablet PC's and manufacturers like Fujitsu still support this legacy format, that exists for a couple of years already. Their latest model, the Lifebook T580, was just announced by Fujitsu at IFA Berlin 2010 and packs a lot of punch in a 10.1 inch format. Practically you would buy the Fujitsu Lifebook T580 if you want a powerful but still portable laptop that's touch enabled. And speaking of touch, the Fujitsu T580 features a four finger multi to...

A few days ago, when Steve Jobs announced the availability of the 6th gen iPod Nano and 4th gen iPod Touch he also hinted at the iOS version 4.2 upgrade for iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone that is set to arrive sometime in November this year. It's not the first update to come, as iOS 4.1 is scheduled to hit upgrade servers pretty soon, but it's the upgrade most are waiting for as it will give the iPad new 'powers', allowing it to catch up with the iPhone 4 in terms of functionality, plus adds a few ...

Finally someone getting serious about tablets, and that someone is Archos, who just officially announced five new Android models: the 28, 32, 43, 70 an 101. If you're confused, don't be, as each model name stands for it's diagonal in inches, with one decimal, so the Archos 28 is 2.8 inches, Archos 32 is 3.2 inches, Archos 43 is 4.3 inches, Archos 70 is 7 inches and Archos 101 is 10.1 inches. All tablets are powered by Android 2.2 Froyo and feature a lot of multimedia functions, because that's...

If I were to define right now the perfect Android tablet I would definitely say: Android 2.2, Tegra 2 graphics chip, capacitive screen with multi touch and 7 to 10 inches in size. The tablet Hannspree just announced has all that plus a few aces down the sleeve to help it become an interesting choice for those hunting for an Android slate. Tegra 2 bring full HD 1080p video playback so plenty of media to watch out there when you travel. Mini HDMI ensures you can output that video to a big scree...

With just a few days off until IFA Berlin 2010 starts up, Viewsonic officially announced the ViewPad 7 (which we've talked about already), a 7 inch Android tablet running software version 2.2. Viewsonic prides itself with the full phone functionality of the ViewPad 7 (full SIM card also supported), but I have to question this, as I already know a 5 inch tablet is too big to act as a phone without a bluetooth headset, which is not offered by default with this tablet. Another thing we must ques...

If you've followed our Dell Streak hands on preview or all the other news about this 5 inch tablet you already know that one of the biggest problems with it is the Android 1.6 OS, an antiquated version of Google's Open Source software. Even if distributors and mobile operators are saying that firmware upgrades are coming for the Streak, no official info was released by Dell, so you don't know yet what to expect, or when. It seems that now O2, the operator selling the Streak in UK, has confirm...

Even if Viewsonic is not a big hardware manufacturer that doesn't mean it doesn't have its ambitions in the touch tablet arena, as it just announced they're going to officially present an Android tablet at IFA Berlin next week. There isn't too much info covering this but expect to know much more in a few days. Now, from the official picture released from Viewsonic for ViewPad 7 (supposedly that's going to be the name of the new Android slate) and the name of the model we can speculate the scr...

We all know that the biggest component consuming power in today's mobile devices is the screen. We all like nice colors, great viewing angles and such but we don't realize how much this is affecting battery life. E-Ink is one of the pioneer companies that invested a lot in low power displays like their eInk lineup consisting of monochrome displays that don't need power to keep an image on the screen, but only when the image changes. As imagined, those kind of screens are ideal for eBook reade...

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...