Articles about official announcement

Toshiba Thrive was one of the good Honeycomb tablets in 2011 [read our articles about it] thanks to its array of full size ports, but it was pretty bulky. Toshiba remedied that with the AT200 announced at IFA Berlin, but what we didn't expect is for the company to announce officially a smaller 7 inch Thrive called simply Thrive 7. I guess right now the first model should be called Thrive 10.Anyway, you might want to take a look at this little thing, as it solves almost completely the bulk ...

One of the most awaited and at the same time unexpected tablets of 2011 is the Amazon Kindle tablet [see details], a cheap 7 inch device that can be better described as an advanced eBook reader. With an expected retail price of only $250, half the price of the Apple iPad 2, and tight integration with all the services offered by Amazon analysts are looking forward to get their hands on one, and I can't disagree with them until we know more about it.And that's going to happen sometime next wee...

One of the places people don't use their iPad tablet could be the kitchen, or at least that's what you would believe. Belking is not so sure so it launched three tablet accessories: Fridge Mount for iPad 2, Kitchen Cabinet Mount and, Chef Stand + Stylus, three products designed to be used in the kitchen.While the Fridge Mount for iPad 2 is not compatible with other tablets, the other two products work with pretty much any slate you might have already purchased. Now let's take the three Be...

Traditionally desktop operating systems use x86 architecture and mobile devices like tablets and smartphones are reserved for ARM chips. That's going to change next year once Windows 8 debuts, an operating system that's going to work together with x86 and ARM platforms. Apparently Android will make this step sooner, in January 2012, when the Gingerbread 2.3 version is supposed to arrive for Intel's Atom E6xx series CPU.We know this because Intel made an official announcement past days. This ...

Even though webOS devices from HP are an impossibility at this point because the company has abandoned them in an attempt to focus on the webOS software platform development the price drop to $99 move meant to clear stocks has greatly increased demand for the HP Touchpad to the point some users are discontent for not being able to get one for themselves.Rumors started then to surface that HP was preparing another batch of Touchpads for them, so the official announcement comes as no surprise...

This is the day Samsung announced officially at IFA Berlin the Galaxy TAB 7.7 tablet, rumored a few days ago. As we've guessed before this is a 7.7 inch screen tablet that falls right between the previous Galaxy TAB 7 from last year and this year's Galaxy TAB 8.9. With it and the Galaxy Note Samsung hopes to cover almost all possible tablet diagonals.You can't blame them, but don't think for a moment the Samsung Galaxy TAB 7.7 is just a smaller tablet from the Korean manufacturer, as there a...

One interesting news to start the week, completely unexpected: Google just announced an agreement has been reached to buy Motorola Mobility division for 12.5 billion dollars. The deal is not finalized yet, but considering the official announcement I'd say it's 99% done.Larry Page,  Google's CEO initiated a press conference where he explained why Google acquired Motorola. Besides the PR talk (like how great Motorola was for the past 30 years, how it is still driving innovation and so on) the...

Sharp is a company very active in Japan, but it has lots of products that are available on the US market too. Last years's Galapagos tablets didn't make it here, but this could change with the new 7 inch Galapagos A01SH tablet, which was announced officially by the company and already cleared the FCC with no problems.It seems that more and more manufacturers are trying to combine Android Honeycomb with 7 inch screens, especially since version 3.2 adds support for smaller resolutions. So let...

Google is on a big crusade started a few weeks ago, when it first changed the top user bar that's seen across all Google services. The latest layout change comes to Google Search, company's most popular product that's now optimized for touch tablets.The first compatibility list includes iOS (iPad and iPad 2) and all Android 3.1+ devices. If you're the proud owner of one such device and don't see the new layout don't worry, as Google announced it's rolling the update gradually over the next d...

People don't really desire Windows 7 tablets, especially slates, so it's quite surprising Lenovo decided to introduce the Ideapad P1, a sleek looking 10 inch Windows 7 tablet. Sure it looks good, even better than most Android tablets, but that's usually not enough, as the Windows operating system is the problem in this equation, not the hardware or the construction.Why's that? Because Windows 7 was not built from the ground up to support touch input. Lenovo thought of that and will offer an ...