‘News’ Category

Confused? Wasn't the EEE Pad Transformer officially launched in January at CES? No, that was a presentation, don't worry, the official announcement took place today, with a press release, and a Facebook countdown of just 4 days till it retails in UK. Hoped for more, like a release date for US, or pricing scheme?Well, apparently ASUS didn't had time for that so we'll stick to what we know, and that is the configuration, will complete specs that confirm the Android 3.0 Honeycomb, dual core Teg...

You remember the Acer Iconia dual screen laptop? The one announced with other Acer tablets that are still not on market till this day? Apparently Acer was more successful at bringing their dual screen monster in stores, as you can now pre-order it in US and Canada from Amazon.com.The price is pretty high, as expected, at $1200 plus taxes, but considering you're getting very powerful hardware and two 14 inch screen I guess it's a good investment for an early adopter. And unlike the Toshiba Li...

Viewsonic is not the most known tablet brand but they managed to bring the ViewSonic ViewPad 7 tablet to market last year, so that's an achievement, proving that the company is serious in establishing itself on this niche. And their commitment continues with an interesting Try Before You Buy plan for ViewPad 7, that's right now in effect in UK. It's not quite "before you buy", as you have to purchase the ViewPad 7 tablet yourself, but in 30 days you can decide to return it and Viewsonic pays for...

Software updates are a part of our lives, we even buy a tablet with an older version of an operating system in the hope it will be updated sooner of later to the latest issues of the OS. That was the case last year with the Dell Streak 5, that initially came with Android 1.6 and this year it will be the case again with the HTC Flyer, which will ship in the first batch with Android 2.3, so early adopters will hope for an update to Honeycomb in the months to come.Well, in this situation is eas...

Probably you're not a big fan of Linux. I know I'm not, but I have to say Ununtu is one of the nicest operating systems for laptops and desktop you can try that's not Microsoft or Apple made. Now they're looking at tablets a the next frontier to cross (here are the previous posts on their attempts). We all know it's hard to make a desktop operating system play nice with tablets and the best example for that is Windows 7, which is not the most user friendly OS for tablet use.But this doesn't ...

I still remember the ads from TV that promote BlackBerry App World: they show a bunch of people sharing photos from their RIM device, writing emails, searching for locations, you know, the stuff any smartphone does today, and then they slap the "only in Blackberry App World" phrase at the end. I can't imagine me being one of the guys paid to say those lies on TV.... But anyway, let's move on to the real news of this Friday: indeed Blackberry Playbook will support Android apps at launch.This...

It's been a while since we've talked about new touchscreen technologies here at All Touch Tablet, but today it's the perfect time to take a look at an innovative discovery made by a small Chinese company called Greendix: touchscreen displays fitted with solar panels. Yeap, it's that good in concept: additionally to the touch screen layer fitted on the normal display you also put a transparent solar panel that boosts battery life when direct sun light hits the surface of the screen.This tech ...

Some of the saddest things with computers these days are SPAM, viruses, malware, phishing attacks and all those things that can hurt you financially. Apparently tablets are not exempt from this plague, as AVG announced Mobilation, world's first antivirus software designed for Android tablets. I know this is a good thing for AVG, but a bad thing for all of us, as it's clear at some point tablets will be  the target for massive attacks if average consumers will switch from laptops to tablets. Sad...

One of the new features that seems to catch on with mobile devices this year is 3D functionality, including recording and playback, as quite a few smartphones and the LG G-Slate tablet from LG have been announced to support this feature. I'm not saying that's good, or bad, but personally I don't believe in 3D with glasses: it's too inconvenient to use and consumers know that.And for a smartphone/tablet things are even worse since you have to carry around a pair of 3D glasses with you all the...

Sprint is one of the proud owners of a 4G network in US, and it's a shame not to take advantage of it, so their latest 4G WiMax device announced today at CTIA 2011 is the HTC EVO View 4G, a tablet previously known as the HTC Flyer.So you get the same 7 inch tablet with a different name and a few bundled apps you like or hate (Blockbuster On Demand, Sprint entertainment software). That's pretty much the only difference from what we've seen at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona last month....