‘Touch tablet news’ Category

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...

Viewsonic might not be the most interesting IT manufacturer of them all, but that doesn't mean they can't surprise us from time to time, like now, when they're about to present at IFA Berlin two new touch tablets (not the VTablet announced a while ago), one a 7 inch model and the other a 10 inch one. That's not surprising at all, right? Well, the 10 inch one will feature dual boot OS, one Android and the other an unknown Windows variant, a speculated Windows Embedded Compact 7. We know quite ...

Toshiba is one of the big IT names that hasn't come up with a tablet of their own (besides the Libretto W100, a dual screen concept for enthusiasts), but has announced plans to get back in the race till the end of the year with Toshiba SmartPad, that now has leaked in a few press photos that further detail what the Japanese manufacturer was able to cram into the 10 inch tablet. To start with the specs let's take a look at the main attractions: the 10 inch display powered by a Tegra 2 chipset ...

With IFA Berlin just around the corner it's normal for various manufacturers to announce their plans for the event. PocketBook is one of them, who plans on launching quite a few Android tablets and eBook Readers, none of them particularly interesting, except the PocketBook IQ, marketed as a 'entertainment model', but what we really have there is a 7 inch Android Tablet (OS version 2.0) with a few color case options (always good to have a choice). There's not much really information on the Poc...

LG is just one of the big names of the industry who failed to bring a tablet to market yet, after 7 months since Apple announced its iPad, despite various rumors hitting the web. Now it seems LG is awake and has big plans, very big, to overthrown the iPad with their Optimus line of tablets, based on Android and content creation, not entertainment. And because big is nothing without a bold statement, LG’s Marketing VP announced into a Wall Street Journal article that “our tablet will be be...

Best Buy is looking further at tablets with great interest for this end year, as it did past years with netbooks. They believe this is going to be the next big thing in mobile computing so they're doing everything possible to be ahead of the wave on this one. Best Buy already announced plans to sell its own branded tablet (made by Rocketfish), but now they say a bigger push will be seen for this year Christmas shopping season, when many other tablets are expected to arrive from names like Samsun...