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As promised, Archos has launched at Cebit his so called home tablets, Archos 7 and Archos 8, which distinctive price characteristics that puts them in the affordable range. Of course there ware compromises to be made, so some of you could be disappointed because they perform pretty slow (cheap CPUs), but it all depends on how you balance price and performance in your own value system. Archos 7 Home Tablet is a 7 inch 800x480 screen tablet, running Android powered by 600MHz ARM9-based Rockchip...

Industry reports are an important part of process of making things better, by taking the pulse of the market and predicting how things will go in the future. The latest Gartner report shows interesting signs of PC market growth for next years which is projected to go up around 20% each year till 2012. Most of this growth will be attributed to mobile devices like laptops, netbooks and tablets, which will account for about 90% of this growth. This is just like predicted in an older report. Not ...

IT trade shows like CeBIT are excellent to discovery young and ambitious companies, ready to put on market interesting products but lack the PR and marketing power to do so and rely on on-site reports to make their work known to the work, hoping to be seen by investors. Hanvon is one such company, who presented during CeBIT 2010 two 10 inch capacitive multi touch slate tablets, the BC10C and BA10E, both powered by Windows 7 Starter, with no further interface enhancements. Most see the lack of...

If past touch tablets were ridiculous expensive there is also the other side of the coin: too cheap. But how cheap? Well, the Hivision SpeedPad will retail for around 100$, or at least that's the projected price. If this news seems unbelievable for something to be worth your attention think again: it's got everything you need, 7 inch screen, Samsung ARM11 800 MHz CPU, 256 MB RAM, 2GB internal storage, Android 1.6 OS, WiFi, support for external Bluetooth, 3G, GPS modules and 6 hours battery life,...

We've talked here several times about the Acer Aspire 1820PT convertible tablet, but just now there's more official info about availability and price for one of the most anticipated convertible tablets around. Why is the Acer 1820PT so interesting? Well, mainly because it's a powerful tablet with a very affordable price (think a little above other netbook tablets) but with a Core 2 Duo CPU, up to 8 GB RAM and 320 GB Hard drive. Official pricing will start at 599 EUR in Europe so expect someth...

We saw all kind of Android tablets this year, except convertible tablets, at least till CeBIT, where Mag Digital presented its Skytone Alpha convertible tablet powered by Android 1.6 and an ARM11 CPU. Alpha means the beginning in Greek alphabet, and there's a lot to improve till we hit Omega. This is like the first Asus EEE PC netbook: 7 inch touchscreen (800 x 480 pixels), two hours battery life, WiFi, USB, SD card slot plus two nice features, the TV out port and the 180 degrees swivel mechanis...

Many technologies that saw the light of day only in the SF movies now have (almost) became reality. Who would have thought that video calls will be available at a touch of a finger for everybody, like we've seen in Star Trek for example, or the fancy gesture interface in Minority Report. Today it seams that almost everything is possible, as we see more and more companies launching "image touch" gadgets. Microsoft goes farther and announces a more portable experience (and cheaper) of its Surfa...

Thinking that the tiny touchscreens on today's mobile devices are not so comfortable to use, Chris Harrison from Carnegie Mellon University in collaboration with Dan Morris and Desney Tan from Microsoft research lab in Redmond, Washington have developed a new technology that uses the human body as touchscreens. Called Skinput, it is based on detection of ultralow-frequency sounds produced when different part of our skin is tapped. As you see in the video clip below, Skinput beams a keyboard, ...

Another IT show, another niche comes up. As CeBIT just started I come upon the official release of Intel's new Convertible Classmate PC, a cheap learning computer that people are calling netvertible (I suppose comes from the combination of netbook and convertible). Looking behind marketing names this is a classic convertible netbook tablet, but with a more childish look, exactly what you would buy your kid before going to school. Let's see what the new device brings to the Classmate series and i...

Gigabyte seems to be really into the convertible tablet race as they've displayed the T1000p netbook tablet at CeBIT and the first hands on had hit the web, of course. From initial impressions it seems we have a real deal here: chiclet keyboard (the best Gigabyte has put on a portable so far), nice resistive multitouch screen with good response, solid construction and a big 6 cell battery (56 Wh) which should be good for 7-8 hours of use. Also the interface on top of Windows 7 Starter seems a...