‘Touch tablet news’ Category

We've told you about Toshiba's SmartPad tablet rumored a while ago, but this bit of news might come as a surprise, as we've got word on the Toshiba Folio 100 Android tablet which is set to be released pretty soon, maybe this year. At its core, the Folio 100 is a 10 inch tablet with 1024 x 600 pixels display and Android 2.2 OS. The heavy piece is the Tegra 250 dual core CPU from the Tegra 2 chipset which will speed up things a bit and will over complete Flash 10.1 compatibility along with Full HD...

Samsung Galaxy Tab is one of the most leaked tablets of 2010, making for maybe one of the biggest PR stunts or is just proof that Samsung doesn't know how to safeguard its secrets. The leak we'll talk today comes from Israel and bring further info about the CDMA version of Galaxy Tab that will probably be offered in conjunction with Verizon and Sprint in US market. We also have a few pictures for you showing the tablet compared to a Motorola Android Smartphone and one with the browser (slight...

Social media is a big deal these days even for big companies like HP, who used it past days to gather impressions from HP fans about three mysterious devices tweeted by HP's CEO Phil McKinney. He appeared holding all three in some post-processed pictures where the devices were blacked out. From the three silhouettes we foresee some kind of phone, a tablet sized gadget and a wrist device which really intrigues us. From Phil McKinney we found out that those three devices are some early prototyp...

Even if Viewsonic is not a big hardware manufacturer that doesn't mean it doesn't have its ambitions in the touch tablet arena, as it just announced they're going to officially present an Android tablet at IFA Berlin next week. There isn't too much info covering this but expect to know much more in a few days. Now, from the official picture released from Viewsonic for ViewPad 7 (supposedly that's going to be the name of the new Android slate) and the name of the model we can speculate the scr...

We've talked a bit here about the ExoPC Windows 7 slate with a custom user interface on top, we've even interviewed the CTO, but now news since end of May. That is till today, when ExoPC announced on its forum it will start preorders soon, on September 3rd. As details emerged, the first 1200 members of the forum will get the chance to preorder the device, on September 20th 120 will go to partners all over the world and even a few will reach journalists (maybe I'll be lucky this time). On Sept...

I've always said that touch screen technology has one major disadvantage: you have to move your hands (or fingers) for it to work and after a while, after throwing your hands into the air you become tired. The same goes for voice recognition: you can't just talk to a computer 8 hours straight at your desk. For me the ultimate interface is thought control and it seems we're not far-off from that, as Intel has just released info on an experiment they're completed successfully with a subject contro...

Sharp is about to launch it's new eReader with color LCD screen in Japan (with US launch to follow later this year) and the President of the company is already making bold statements that will surely make some laugh a lot, like the fact that the new device will take on the all mighty iPad on features, speed and user friendliness. Why I don't believe all that PR talk is because Sharp hasn't released a lot of info on this eReader. One thing tough that's being said is that this particular eReade...

After so much speculation on the Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet it's time to see some official action, in this case a very very short teaser video that tells us a little bit more of this enigmatic tablet. First, it's a 7 inch slate, just the right size if you ask me, strategically place between the Dell Streak (5 inch) and Apple iPad (9.7 inch) and features the Android 2.2 OS for starters. Maybe we'll see upgrades to 3.0 Gingerbread or what else will come up from the Google pipeline. The 7 inch sc...

We've hinted a few months ago about Apple planning a touchscreen iMac all in one desktop but we didn't have proof at that time, but now things are about to change, as Apple has filled a patent about touchscreen desktops and notebooks that take into consideration he switching from a high resolution mode (controlled by keyboard and mouse) to a low resolution mode where elements on screen are transformed, get bigger of dissapear. It's an interesting approach to what others are doing now. Think M...

We already know that MSI has two tablets in works, both called WindPad, one with Android and the other with Windows 7. It's clear that MSI wants to offer customers a choice here, and is also careful with details like performance, as it seems the Windows 7 version, WindPad 100 will be delayed till 2011, when Intel will presumably launch the next generation Atom platform called Oak Trail. Apparently MSI is not happy with current performance under Windows 7 and power consumption of current Atom chi...