‘News’ Category

It's pretty clear that up until now 10 inch tablets were the ones users were buying. I would say it's pretty obvious since the iPad and iPad 2 are ten inch slates that have dominated the market in 2010 and 2011. But things are bound to change, as some consumers start realise a 4:3 aspect ratio screen that big is not the best size for a tablet.It may also be that the offer is really diversified right now and consumers are willing to try something different. Anyway, a recent graph I come upon ...

Now that Windows 8 started to bite into iOS territory it's normal for someone to pit together the two operating systems and compare them at the following chapters: lock screens, icons and movement, customization, browsers (Safari vs. IE 10), keyboard head to head, settings and control panel, built in search.I'm sure you can find more features worth comparing, but I guess the 11 minutes video at the end of this post (courtesy of Winrumors) is in-depth enough to be worth watching. The t...

One of the tablets we've been talking about much at AllTouchTablet is the Blackberry Playbook (see thread here) that despite its not so stellar sales performance is one of the best tablets as hardware is concerned. But it doesn't matter much, as software is the one thing that sets apart looser tablets from winners.So it's quite important for RIM to do something after Q2 shipments for Blackberry Playbook barely topping only 200.000 units, with actual sold units counting even lower. The action...

Windows 8 is by far the most important piece of software that's about to be launched in 2012 [see some of our articles here] and one of the things that made it very important to processor manufacturers and current slate tablet owners was the fact Microsoft promised ARM compatibility, which some interpreted, including me, that you'll be able to run normal desktop apps (compiled for x86 architecture) on slates like the ones powered this year by Android.Apparently there was a misunderstanding ...

Things are so complicated in US when it comes to wireless carriers and their networks. I can understand the pain Apple goes through with the iPad 2, the 3G version(s) as with each major carrier a new version of the iPad 2 has to be built. So far we have the 3G enabled iPad 2 tablet for AT&T and Verizon, but rumors say a Sprint iPad 2 is coming.And there's a reason to wait for the Sprint iPad 2 model, as this particular wireless carrier still has true unlimited data plans, unlike other 'u...

We've been talking about the Archos G9 series a few months ago when we've mentioned the whooping 250 GB Seagate Momentus Slim hard drives, a characteristic that makes the two models, Archos 80 G9 and 101 G9 stand out from the crowd of multimedia tablets out there. Add to this the 1.5 GHz Texas Instruments OMAP 4 processor and you see why the new tablets have risen eyebrows all around.Unlike previous Archos tablets the new models have closed the gap between them and more pretentious models, a...

Samsung Galaxy TAB 8.9 is a tablet I have big hopes for, since the smaller footprint of the 8.9 inch screen seems more desirable for a portable device that can do pretty much anything you would do on a laptop, minus serious work. While it was announced at the same time with the bigger Galaxy TAB 10.1, just now it became available for pre-order, at Best Buy for starters.Am I excited? Not really, since the starting price is $469 for the 16 GB version and you must add another $100 to jump to 32...

AMD was always the challenger to Intel's biggest CPU manufacturer title. They had a chance with the Athlon 64, but past years have caught AMD in the shadow of Intel. Last year they managed to strike a serious punch to Intel's Atom platform with the Fusion APU that proved a powerful contender for the low power netbook market.AMD was present also in some tablets like the Acer Iconia Tab W500 and the MSI WindTab 110W, both powered by the C-50 APU (read our AMD articles here). Since Windows 8 is...

Logitech is getting more and more serious when it comes to tablet accessories, launching product after product, and the latest items are the Wireless Headset and Wireless Boombox for iPad, both using Bluetooth technology. While Logitech mentions the iPad in the product name, it's actually a marketing gimmick, as both peripherals are compatible with iPad/iPad 2, iPhone (3G or later), iPod Touch (2nd gen or later) and tablets, smartphones, music players and other audio sources with Bluetooth A2DP ...

It took Mozilla two weeks to get from the official Firefox for Honeycomb tablets announcement to the first nightly build, but it's here and you can download and install it on your Android tablet.As people report already, the Firefox mobile for smartphone functionality is offered also on the tablet version, but the main change is in the interface layout, with a much cleaner, minimalistic look and a few distinctive elements from what you've seen already on mobile browsers.The most importa...