Articles about slate tablet

Although it was the first of its kind, the Apple iPad often gets a bad rap because of its high price, although some would say that you get what you pay for and the build quality and performance characteristics of the tablet makes it well worth the costs.However, there are plenty of options out there for those of us who either can’t stretch to the iPad or simply don’t fancy using an Apple device. In fact, with the Google Android operating system appearing on countless tablets, this can be...

With the emergence of the iPad, tablet computers are making a comeback. Tablets are touch-screen appliances that rely on a stylus or your finger to navigate. There are two types of computer tablets: the slated tablet and the convertible tablet, also known as netvertible (see our post on best netvertibles). As to which one is better, it really depends on your specific needs.The convertible tablet has an external hardware keyboard and looks more like a laptop than the slated tablet. The keyboa...

The tablet market is shaping up locally, not only globally. Meet the Advent line, which is being developed and marketed by Dixons Group, a UK retail chain.The Advent comes in two sizes, at 7 and 10.1 inches, respectively. The 7 inch tablet, called the Advent Amico, is priced at £129.99, and the 10.1 inch tablet is called the Advent Vega and costs £249.99. They will hit the market at the beginning of November.Both tablets run Android, are about 1.5 cm thick and come in only one color: b...

As we've told you a few times ago, Moorestown is Intel's newest mobile platform, focused on consumer devices, and last week at IDF in San Francisco someone spotted the NFS N-Pad, a slate tablet powered by Moorestown. Nothing is too out of extraordinary here, except the fact that the NFS N-Pad is half the weight of the iPad and can run pretty much any OS you throw at it, thanks the its x86 architecture: Android, MeeGo, Windows.We don't know too many specs of the tablet, but we do know is powe...

We've talked a bit here about the ExoPC Windows 7 slate with a custom user interface on top, we've even interviewed the CTO, but now news since end of May. That is till today, when ExoPC announced on its forum it will start preorders soon, on September 3rd.As details emerged, the first 1200 members of the forum will get the chance to preorder the device, on September 20th 120 will go to partners all over the world and even a few will reach journalists (maybe I'll be lucky this time). On Sept...

Best Buy is looking further at tablets with great interest for this end year, as it did past years with netbooks. They believe this is going to be the next big thing in mobile computing so they're doing everything possible to be ahead of the wave on this one. Best Buy already announced plans to sell its own branded tablet (made by Rocketfish), but now they say a bigger push will be seen for this year Christmas shopping season, when many other tablets are expected to arrive from names like Samsun...

Remember the 35$ cheap tablet from India? Well, I bet you do, as it's hard to ignore such a low price point slate tablet. Apparently the Indian government is very fond of their R&D and said they'll going to order 0ne million devices next year that will get into the hands of students. That doesn't mean you'll be able to get the tablet for that price, as that's the special price for massive orders.This doesn't mean the tablet is actually more expensive, but that the Indian government will ...

After Kmart it's time for Best Buy to get their own slate tablet to consumers. Their model will be Best Buy branded (Rocketfish brand), unlike the Augen GenTouch 78 sold by Kmart. Best Buy's CTO tweeted a few 'spy' shots like pictures of their slate, that resembles a lot the HP Slate canceled a few months ago and then reenacted for the business market.If the Best Buy tablet is manufactured by HP it means it will be bearing the Windows 7 or WebOS operating system. I just hope it will be more ...

Even if not all things that come from China are good that doesn't mean that from time to time we find something interesting like the 11.6 Eros tablet, which now looks very different from what we've seen at the beginning of the year. This thing grew up in size a little bit, got a distinctive design that doesn't resemble the iPad anymore (although is still a black plastic tablet) and comes with the option to be configured with a Celeron CPU and Nvidia Ion 2 graphics (not together).Of course yo...

You might not have heard about Interpad, a German company that just announced they will sell a 10 inch Android tablet for 399EUR (~ 518$ at current exchange rate).Even if the price seems a little too high (slightly bigger than the entry level iPad), that doesn't mean the specs are not intriguing, considering it runs Tegra 2 on Android 2.1, which will get you Full HD playback capabilities. Here's the list with the main specs:Operating Sytem: Google Android 2.1 Scren: 10 inch capaciti...