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Acer finally announced officially the Iconia TAB A200 tablet, a 10 inch Android slate that does't differ too much from the A500 when it comes to specs if you ask me (see the complete tech specs here).What's even surprising is that Acer begins the A200 description with "Priced right and ...", but fails to tell us how much exactly the tablet will cost and when it will ship. Anyway, I expect the Iconia A200 to be significantly cheaper than the A500 as it doesn't include a back USB camera, and ...

After talking so much about the EEE Transformer prime tablet (read our articles) I'm glad to see that ASUS kept its promise and will start shipping the tablet before Christmas, on December 9th online and 12th in retail to be exact. As expected, reviews have started to pop up a few days earlier, so I have a pretty good idea about what to expect from Asus' first quad core tablet.I didn't get to test the tablet myself, so here are the impressions gathered from the many online reviews that have ...

One of the most interesting tablets of 2011 announced at CES in January, that turned into a disappointment, is the ASUS EEE Pad MeMo, a 7 inch slate for taking notes that was supposed to come with a glasses free 3D display and a Bluetooth companion, MeMic, that acted as a remote and was able to take phone calls through the tablet's 3G connection.Unfortunately, back in August we got word the EEE MeMo could be scrapped completely. Sad news, but there's not much we can do to change ASUS' mind....

We have plenty of slate tablets these days, but as you can see from our favourite netvertible list there are not too many convertible tablet PCs out there to satisfy the taste of those that want productivity and touch in the same package, or don't want one like the Lenovo X220T that costs an arm and a leg.If you're in this category then you might want to take a look at the Gigabyte T1006, an update to last year's T1005 and a completely different product from this week's Gigabyte T1132N. ...

With huge demand for high performance smartphones and tablets the mobile CPU business has become very profitable past years, with Samsung, Apple, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Marvell dominating sales.Samsung has great ambitions with the Exynos lineup, which just received the Exynos 5250 dual core chip that clocks as high as 2GHz, uses the ARM Cortex A15 architecture and promises some impressive improvements over the current chips.Samsung quotes up to twice the computing power of curr...

One of the things the ASUS EEE Pad Transformer Prime tablet is proud off, besides the quad-core Tegra 3 processor, is the 8 MP camera with f2.4 aperture, back illuminated CMOS sensor, depth of field effect and color enhancement by 30% (that's pretty vague, but we'll take it for now).I don't know if it's really a match for the iPhone 4S, a smartphone that has set new heights for what a non-digital camera can do. Anyway ASUS is proud to showcase the new camera capabilities, as it posted a few ...

Lots of people are asking if they can do office work on their tablets, and they're actually thinking about Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint. In a word "No", you can't use the Office suite on your tablet unless it's running Windows 7. Sure you can install third party software, like Pages, Numbers and Keynote for iOS (or similar suites for Android), but those apps don't offer the same flexibility and features as what you're used to from your desktop/laptop computer. You can still import and ex...

During the Christmas season it's hard to resist temptation to go on a shopping spree considering the abundance of offers and deals out there. Add special days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday and you'll see why you need a strategy for discovering the best deals out there. Google Catalogs is a tablet app that does just that in the sense that it offers you access to hundreds of catalogs.Instead of getting those in the mail you can browse them on your iPad, and since yesterday on your Android...

Have you read the rumor about Lenovo making a 5 inch tablet (see here)? I can tell you it was not just a rumor, as Lenovo just announced it officially in China as LePad S2005 together with two other models, the 7 inch S2007 and 10 inch S2010, all from the S2 series.LePad is Lenovo's tablet brand for China, so expect these models to arrive in the rest of the world as IdeaPad S2005, S2007 and S2010 if nothing changes from previous generations. All these tablets feature dual core processors, so...

Gigabyte may not have been a player in the slate tablet arena (where it offers the S1080 Atom powered tablet), but they've tried hard with their line of convertible tablets (also called netvertibles). The successor to the T1125N is called Gigabyte T1132N, and this uses the second generation Intel Core CPUs, also from the low voltage category, just like the MacBook Air.But similarities end here, with the Gigabyte T1132N being heavier and thicker than the Apple laptop: 1,76 kg and 40 mm. The...