Articles about slate tablet

A lot of tablets presented at CES this year were powered by Atom CPUs mainly because every manufacturer already has netbooks and other gadgets running on Atom and it's easy to implement them in similar devices (from hardware point of view). It works for netbook tablets and convertible tablets but it doesn't work for slate devices and I'm going to tell you why be looking at the Inkia MID500 slate tablet (handled by Crunchgear) with a 5 inch display, a very similar device as functionality to Dell'...

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...

Now that CES made tablets roam wild there's a second battle manufacturers take: showing users what they can do with a touch tablet. Cydle build the M7 like a portable desk television set, thus including a TV tuner, in this case a ATSC model. The OS used by Cydle is Android, without too much modifications, but the final version is expected to have a special home scree that will offer access to the tablet's main functions. Power comes from an 800 MHz ARM CPU so nothing fantastic here. A stand perm...

Touch tablet devices are gadgets, they are used by geeks for web browsing, sending emails and stuff that doesn't include actual work around the house, but Nimble wants to change that with the Touch Revolution Tablet, a 7 inch device that can be integrated into microwave ovens, refrigerators and dishwashers and seemingly integrate with them. They gave a few examples of integration: you scan with a barcode reader any packaging that you've emptied and the tablet orders another one from your favorit...

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 ...

The ink hasn't ever dried on the Nvidia's Tegra 2 chipset family announcement and tablet prototypes running it had already hit the web. Quanta, one of the biggest OEM manufacturers in the world, presented at its booth at CES a working prototype of a slate tablet running Android OS on a Tegra 2 chipset. Being a prototype means beta software so some things didn't run as smoothly as you might have expected, notable being the touch screen which seemed to miss a few touches once in a while and a wobb...

Everybody was waiting for a miracle with Microsoft at CES last week: announcement of a tablet slate that will go head to head with the yet unannounced Apple iSlate. As it turned out Microsoft was pretty lame by just announcing they're working with HP on a Windows 7 Slate type tablet and that HP is also working on other models.As it turned out a few days later HP is in works for deploying many tablets this year, one being of big interest for us: a slate running Android shaped like an iPhone b...