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Acer's mainstream tablet for 2012, the Iconia Tab A510 just received a special edition, the one for the London Olympic Games, where Acer is an official partner. The special edition is mainly an A510 with a slightly cosmetized (cosmetic changes) back panel that features the five Olympic circles on  a Gray or Silver color scheme.As Acer puts it, the Iconia A510 is the first product from the Olympic Games series and will be available later this month. I only wish Acer had disclosed the price...

One of the things Apple has to do with iOS if it wants to make it a serious productivity tool is to bring the most important Windows apps to the iPad tablet in a touch optimized version. Two of the apps I find mandatory are the Microsoft Office Suite and the Adobe Photoshop image editing software.We already know Microsoft is working on Office for the iPad, even if they don't publicly admit it, so I'm glad to see Adobe being the first to make it to the App Store, as the company just released ...

Archos might not be a premium tablet manufacturer, but it does like to launch tablet after tablet, covering every possible screen size. A recent leak including pictures and some specifications reveal the Archos Arnova G3 series, where all products will come with Android 4.0 ICS pre-installed.As you can imagine, these are meant as affordable tablets, so the emphasis is on value, not build quality or features. Some don't even come with capacitive touch screens or multi touch capabilities, a...

I remember writing a small piece on the upcoming Android 5.0 Jelly Bean version, a name that was just a rumor back then and speculating about the desktop mode (similar to the Motorola Atrix). Now it seems the new Android version is very close to the official announcement, as Asus confirmed they're going to be the first ones to offer an update to the new OS. The Taiwanese company has close ties with Google, especially after last year's successful Transformer tablets.As with Honeycomb (the min...

With the continuous spreading of mobile devices, there's one problem no one seems to tackle: online safety for kids. And not only online. I have to say current parental controls are a joke, no matter if we're speaking about iOS, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux or Android.I'm sure a lot of people can find my statement a little bit too direct, but that's how I feel about this issue. And I'm sure a lot of parents are trying to find solutions to keep their kids protected while accessing the Internet on...

I know I've been posting too many rumors about Apple's upcoming tablet, but discussing unconfirmed info is part of what I do here at AllTouchTablet. Now that the launch event gets closer and closer I bet we'll see more and more rumors about the iPad 3.The latest points towards the naming of the tablet, which is iPad HD because of the high resolution Retina Display, that will provide roughly four times the number of current pixels found on the Apple iPad 2 screen. Gizmodo is the one claiming ...

I'm sure that one of the problems we all hate about touchscreens is the way they gather fingerprints and dust, no matter how careful we are and how often we clean the screen of our beloved tablets. Toray Industries is a company that's working on a fingerprint/oil repellent film which can be applied to modern gadgets.Their technology does not try and eliminate fingerprints completely, but will reduce them considerably, lowering the quantity of grease, smudges and dust that a touch screen accu...

Toshiba starts to be an interesting name when it comes to tablets, as its products are anything but boring. Last year's Toshiba Thrive 10 was a thick rugged tablet with full size ports, then came the Toshiba Thrive 7, one of the first 7inch tablets with Honeycomb 3.2 and this year at CES 2012 it introduced officially the Excite X10, basically a renamed AT200, which is advertised as the slimmest and lightest 10inch tablet.At 7.7 mm is almost as thin as the 7.1 mm Motorola Droid Razr smartphon...

I don't know about you but I feel that Huawei is trying to change people's perception about the company, as at this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we've seen some interesting products, namely a quad core Ascend D Quad (and Ascend Quad D XL variation) smartphone and the Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD, a 10 inch tablet with a Full HD screen, not the 1080p, but the bigger 1200p (1920 x 1200 pixels). The screen technology is of course IPS.Huawei MediaPad 10FHD is also quad core, also powered...

One of the prototypes showcased at MWC 2012 and not announced officially was a quad core Tegra 3 tablet from Toshiba which adopts the 7.7 inch form factor. I think this and the 8.9 inch format are probably the best compromise for mobility while keeping the display area at a comfortable size. I personally find the 7 inch Blackberry Playbook to be a little bit on the smaller side and the Apple iPad 2 too big to carry around.Anyway, let's get back to the 7.7 inch quad core Toshiba tablet, a far...