Articles about official announcement

Asus is really trying hard to conquer new markets to increase its sales and one of those fields is the raising slate tablet niche, where Apple is king of rumors right now with it's yet unannounced slate tablet. Asus is known to work on a touch tablet (called EEE Pad by journalists) but not much info was released. We won't add too much to the old rumors but we have something somewhat official to share with you.It seems that Corporate Vice President Eric Chen told TechRadar that Asus has serio...

Acer is the second biggest systems manufacturer in the world and it's natural to assume they are also working on a touch tablet device, not convertible tablets like the 1820p and 142op but slate type devices like the one Apple is supposed to announce two days from now.Well, it seems that from supposition we got today to hard facts as the Jim Wong, the president of the IT products division, revealed some details about Acer's plans for 2010, which include the launch of an app store (everyone i...

HP is becoming more and more active in the touch tablets field, as now announced it is working on models that will be released this year with included pico projectors. That's at least intriguing as small pico projectors started to pop up last year as independent devices or included in cell phones and camcorders, paving the way for a new digital trend that might catch up next year at CES.[caption id="attachment_1135" align="aligncenter" width="468" caption="Pico Projectors could be the next t...

Tegra chipsets are really starting to equip a lot of touch tablets, gaining grown in front of the Windows 7 and Atom combination. It's really no wonder as Tegra 2 chipset is known for its low power consumption and capable multimedia playback including Full HD video. VTablet 101 is the latest slate type tablet to be announced by Viewsonc in Beijing but I'm sure it will soon hit US as Viewsonic is pretty active on this market.[caption id="attachment_1124" align="aligncenter" width="468" captio...

Not a day goes by without a new Apple touch tablet rumor, but this time things will be different, as the official invitation to the January 27th event just arrived for all the media folks living in US. The event will be held at the Arts Theater in San Francisco and the invite mysteriously says: "Come see our latest creation". Not one detail more. It's so Apple. Now let's hope they will live up to the hype they've created in past months. It's also expected for them to launch the iPhone OS 4.0 ver...

It's pretty odd to launch a touch tablet now, just a few days after CES has ended and tablets got their 15 minutes of fame but DigitalRise (known for its iPhone clones) did it and it's not that crappy as it seems, packing an Atom CPU with all the connectivity features like 3G (WCDMA-SCDMA, CDMA200 variant), WiFi and GPS into a slate type body.The screen is a 10.2 inch multi touch display (1024 x 600 pixels) but we don't know yet if it's a capacitive or resistive display. But we know about th...

3M is one of the biggest companies out there pushing out news technologies for consumers to embrace. Their latest trick, presented at CES 2010, was a multi touch screen panel capable to figuring out 10 finger multi touch gestures. That surely it the maximum we need for single use (we don't have more than 10 fingers don't we?). The 19 inch screen with 1680 x 1050 pixels screen made sure things weren't too cramped there and your fingers can move freely. The prototype presented had DVI and VGA conn...

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...

MSI caught our attention last week at CES with its dual screen netbook tablet but that wasn't the only tablet presented by them as they also have  a 10 inch slate type device running Android OS. Not too much info is available but we know the screen is capacitive and proved to be pretty responsive. Apparently the chipset used is the new Tegra 2 announced also at CES by Nvidia. Even if the prototype was far from final what Engadget saw there was a pretty solid device, which means we'll see it in ...

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...