‘Touch tablet news’ Category

I don't know you, but personally when I hear manufacturers bragging about how their products are supposed to fare against the competition and how their chipsets will trash the ones they're fighting with I tend to be skeptical about it. So did Steve Paine at UMPC Portal, who put to the test the iPad against the downclocked Viliv V70 MID who uses the Menlow platform, a very similar one to the recently announced Moorestown Atom Z6xx. The Menlow was down-clocked to 800 Mhz for a megahertz to megaher...

Remember the ExoPC slate we've presented quite a while ago and the interview we've conducted with the company's CTO, Jean-Baptiste Martinoli? It seems that the tablet is on track for September 7th launch and on features there's a plus consisting on Full HD video playback thanks to the Broadcom BCM70012 or Crystal HD chip which will be included in all models. The countries where ExoPC will be offered at first are US, Canada (the company is from here) and France. After that I suspect new market...

Atom CPUs were almost always associated with low cost, low power consumption and low performance. Casual users like the first two and don't care too much about the latter, but heavy users like me always felt that the Atom CPU is not a viable alternative if you want things done. Intel is trying hard to fix this now as it just announced the Atom Z6xx series, which is meant for smartphones, MIDs, netbooks and touch tablets. The new family improves on performance while keeping a low power envelope. ...

We've told you about Microsoft and HP killing their plans for Courier and the Slate a few days ago, but it seems that the giant from Redmond is not killing the idea of a touch tablet, as they're secretly working on Menlo, a version of mobile OS that should use the Windows NT core and replace the aging Windows CE, found in many of the devices we use today on the road. The big plan is to unify kernels in Windows 7 (and future desktop OSes) with Windows Phone Series 7 and tablets so that Windows de...

As you know already, the iPad doesn't support Flash at all. This means that your favorite sites might not work completely if they have Flash elements. Adobe is in the ropes on this one, and even filed an anti-thrust law suit against Apple, allegedly for anti-competitive practices, but that's something we're not going to talk about in this post. This news flash is about Adobe demoing Air and Flash running flawlessly on a few Google Android tablets prototypes at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. T...

We've presented the Sony Dash desk tablet concept this year and now it's time to take a look at the final device, that's shipping right now on Amazon for 199$. As we've told you, Sony Dash is a sophisticated alarm clock with a large 7 inch capacitive screen and home screen widgets to stream data from the Internet cloud. Sony Dash ships with some interesting widgets like Netflix, Amazon, Youtube, Blue Octy Radio, Slacker, Pandora, Facebook and Twitter. Many others are available for you to downloa...

The fact that Samsung is working on its own touch tablet is nothing new, as we've covered the subject a few times here. We now almost know the name of the Samsung tablet, S-Pad, and the official launch date sometime in August. We also know that the S-Pad will be a 7 inch tablet with a Super AMOLED screen which will surely look gorgeous, if you can afford it, as those kind of screens are very expensive. The Samsung S-Pad will be powered by the Android OS and will feature things we're accustome...

Remember interactive tables? The kind of devices you won't see in your living room in the next two-three years because of the high cost of purchase. They're still cool, but till prices come down there's nothing you can do than just admire them in some museums. Sony plans on bringing in June its own interactive table called AtracTable, a 35 inch table with Full HD resolution that's being developed by a Swiss company called Atracsys, who sold the technology to Sony. The AtracTable uses a Swill ...

Guess who might be working right now on its own tablet! RIM, they are and they're not ashamed to use the same model as the iPad: they use a special variant of Blackberry OS to power the device, but unlike Apple they plan on using an 8.9 inch screen which could make the device smaller and thinner, something we would all like. I suppose RIM is planning on doing something more business oriented (like Cisco) so expect full synchronization with a Blackberry device and your account so you'll always be...

What I'm going to tell you about next it's the service all gamers who don't like to upgrade and be concerned about the performance of their PC dream of. It's called Gaikai and is a web service that runs the game for you on their own hardware and then it streams it to a device of your choice, in this case an iPad, which is pictured below running the WoW login screen. Don't be fooled into thinking the iPad is capable of running the WoW, a game launched a few year ago that still has millions of fan...