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Gigabyte was present in the tablet market since last 2010, but their products are not quite what you would call popular, mainly because the company chose to go with Windows 7 on their products, a very unpopular touch OS, which increases computing power requirements, decreases battery life, adds bulk and increases price, just to name a few of the inconveniences.At CES 2012 Gigabyte was present with three tablets: T1006M (rumored before), T1132N (also previously known) and S1081 (successor to ...

ASUS PadFone tablet-smartphone hybrid is an old acquaintance of ours, one that has raised a lot of interest, but failed to reach the market. Fortunately it seems ASUS is on track to deliver on this concept, at the sample demoed at CES 2012 was actually a working one, albeit it didn't look problem free.The biggest source for worries is the docking part, when you have to slide the smartphone inside the tablet body (a screen with an additional battery and some ports, not an actual tablet) and c...

I don't know about you, but I like the idea of a touchscreen device with a full size QWERTY keyboard. Intel thinks the same, but I'm not convinced with the whole sliding tablet-laptop hybrid (I mean durability).Lenovo might have just the thing I am looking for: IdeaPad Yoga. The name suggests a device with pretty flexible characteristics, and this 13.3 inch ultrabook migth just cut it. What's so special about a touch ultrabook? This one can swivel the screen 360 degrees thanks to not one, bu...

I don't know about you, but I hate stupid battles. Like the one for the thinnest and lightest tablet in the world. Sure I don't want a 1-inch thick tablet, but why make it paper thin? The first iPad was a little bit too heavy, but nice to hold in hand, while the second generation is a lot lighter, but poses problems with hand grip unless you use a case. Irony anyone?Why did I mention this battle for the thinnest slate? Because the title now belongs to Toshiba with the Excite X10, renamed fro...

Lenovo is a pretty serious company, but they do make products that appeal to 'normal' consumers. One such tablet is the IdeaPad S2 10, a 10 inch tablet with pretty typical specs: Android 4.0, 1280 x 800 px 10" IPS screen, a dual core Snapdragon 89560 CPU @1.5GHz, 1GB RAM, up to 64 GB storage, 3G, micro HDMI and dual cameras (1.3MP and 5MP).What makes the Lenovo S2 10 interesting is the that is will increase battery life from 9 to 20 hours, will provide the full QWERTY Keyboard, two more USB...

If you want to get noticed with a tablet in 2012 it has to be quad c0re, that's what I understand from CES. Lenovo IdeaTab K2 (known as LePad K2010 in China) is another quad core tablet, powered this time by a very impressive 1.7 GHz Nvidia Tegra 3 CPU, while all other models are limited at 1.3 currently.Lenovo positions its tablet as a high end model for business users, so expect a hefty price. What sets this tablet apart is not the Full HD screen (IPS of course) and the quad core CPU, but ...

It seems one of the trends in 2012 for tablets is the high resolution Full HD screen (1920 x 1080 pixels), besides the quad core processor. This means tablets pretty much outrun laptops, ultrabooks and even desktop in the race for performance (I know a quad core CPU is not equivalent to a quad-core mobile SoC, but most consumers don't know that, so it's a comparison they'll make).Acer is one of the manufacturers who had introduced a tablet with these two specs at CES 2012. It's the old rumor...

ASUS launched not one but two tablets from the MeMo lineup, one being last year's model, called ME171 and the other, ME370t, both with a lot to be proud of.First there's the fact both are powered by Android 4.0, have high resolution screens: 1280 x 800 px (very high pixel density for the screen size) and come with capacitive styluses and dedicated apps for taking notes (no handwriting recognition yet, but that's not Asus' fault).The ASUS EEE Pad MeMo ME171 is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual co...

Intel had one of the biggest conference at CES 2012 today, and among the products presented there the second generation of ultrabooks caught my attention, as Intel has made all possible steps to improve performance, decrease thickness, and read this: have touchscreen displays.Intel says touch is the natural way of navigating on a display (somewhat true), but people don't want to get rid of a keyboard (totally true if you don't just want to consume media), that's why a touchscreen ultrabook m...

If you are the proud owner of the ASUS EEE Pad Transformer Prime tablet you'd better sit down, as this is an ugly news for you.ASUS just announced the high end ASUS Eee Pad TF700T Transformer Prime tablet, a high end version of the current Prime, which brings a Full HD screen (1920 x 1080px), an improved 2 Megapixel front facing camera and Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich.Price has gone up to $599 for the 32 GB version and $699 for the 64B model, with availability rumored for sometime in...