Articles about official announcement

I've been writing a lot lately about the ASUS EEE Pad Transformer prime and finally today came the official announcement, detailing the tablet in every possible way. This announcement marks also the first official appearance of the Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU, a quad core mobile solution that's meant to close the gap between tablets and laptops. It's not quite there yet, but the Transformer Prime is currently the most powerful tablet on market, period.Not only the second generation ASUS Transformer ...

Today Barnes and Noble officially announced the the 7 inch Nook Tablet, a slate meant to compete with the upcoming Amazon Kindle Fire. It's priced a little bit higher, at $249, but it also offers a little bit more for the money.Almost all specs from last week are confirmed, so the Nook Tablet is a 7 inch slate with 1024 x 600 pixels resolution (IPS display), a fast dual core TI OMAP 4 processor running at 1GHz, helped by 1GB RAM and 16 GB of internal storage, expandable via microSD cards up...

We've been talking about the Xoom 2, but no official info was really known at that time. Things have changed as today Motorola introduced two tablets from company's second generation slates: Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition.As expected, Motorola tried another form factor, 8.2 inches for the Xoom 2 Media Edition and threw in the 'usual' 10.1 inch screen on the normal Xoom 2. I don't understand why Motorola appended the name Media Edition to the smaller tablet. It makes more sense to want a big...

Two of the unexpected tablets of 2011 are the Sony Tablet P and Tablet S, announced a few months ago and not available yet (the dual screen Tablet P). What Sony promised was not only out-of-this world hardware design but a series of services that would have make the two products look more appealing to consumers. None of those services have not been released, until this week, when Sony announced availability of the Playstation Store and Music Unlimited.While the Playstation Store is only avai...

One of the biggest surprises of 2011 was the Amazon Kindle Fire, a shockingly cheap 7" tablet that's going to offer access to the entire Amazon ecosystem (books, music, movies, online shop). Every consumer is comparing each new tablet with the Fire in terms of pricing.It wasn't long until someone launched a competing product. Kobo is that someone, and they've released the Kobo Vox Android tablet, also a 7 inch device, also $199 retail price. From the official page we can see a very similar...

RIM announced last year at Blackberry DevCon the Playbook tablet, a business&multimedia tablet that failed to impress at launch time in 2011 due to unfinished operating system, lack of basic features like email, calendar and contacts. A few long months later down the road we're still waiting for the Software Update 2.0 which should bring all these much needed improvements together with the Android player, a software emulator that will allow consumers to run Android apps on RIM's tablet.T...

I think we all agree some of the products launched by Samsung have design similarities with Apple products, something that causes issues in Australia and Germany for the Korean company, but the new Samsung Series 7 All in One Touchscreen surely stands on its own in terms of design.It has nothing to do with the iMac and certainly not with any all-in-one touchscreen I've ever seen. Basically the Samsung Series 7 AiO is a 23 inch monitor, 16 mm thick with a base that incorporates all internal c...

One of the few outsiders that managed to grab a percentage of the tablet market last year was the Samsung Galaxy TAB 7, a 7 inch tablet that buyers seemed to like a lot, especially since it offered a smaller form factor than the best-selling iPad. Now it's outdated as specs are concerned, and everything Samsung announced this year is better looking, but unfortunately doesn't cover the same form factor.That is until today, when Samsung announced the Galaxy TAB 7 Plus, an updated version of ...

Together with the Kindle Fire tablet Amazon announced today a plethora of new Kindle eReaders that are worth your attention. The three new devices are Kindle, Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G. The previous Kindle generation was renamed to Amazon Kindle Keyboard (WiFi and 3G models from &99 to $189) to denote the presence of a physical keyboard that lacks on the new Kindle eReader.Let's digg in and see which one is appropriate for you as features and pricing are concerned. Prices vary fr...

I've always said tablets need to be cheaper, something like 200-300$ maximum, to become mainstream. Now Amazon is proving it has the same belief as it just announced the Kindle Fire (as rumored yesterday), a cheap 7 inch tablet with a clear multimedia focus: eBooks, movies, music, browsing and related actions.And cheap is the word of the day here: just $199 will get you this beauty. It's not a complete tablet, not by a long shot since it lacks 3G, a microphone and a camera, but it has everyt...