tablet Archive

Asus EeePad tablets unveiled at Computex

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Published: June 1, 2010Tags: ,

Asus unvelied 2 Eeepad tablet PC’s at Computex in Tapiei on Monday. The first tablet, the EP121, sports a 12.1 inch capacitive touchscreen with Windows 7 Home Premium and an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. The device can run up to 10 hours between charges, and is built for multimedia viewing as well as a built-in e-reader. There is also an available dock with a keyboard if you don’t want to use the onscreen one.

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There are 2 avialable docking stations, one that just has a keyboard and the second which basically turns the Eeepad into a laptop.

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Adobe showcases new Google tablet

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Published: May 6, 2010Tags:

There have been many rumors about a so called “Google” tablet, which the company denies. Well Adobe showcased some of their apps on a cool looking new unnamed tablet (maybe the Google tablet?) at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. The apps ran amazingly smooth and quick, and if the whole user experience on this tablet is as smooth as the demo it might start eating into some of the iPad sales.

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HP Slate handled; chunky, slow, unimpressive

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Published: April 19, 2010Tags:

The HP Slate has found its way into the hands of Conecti.ca and they’ve done a small mini-review. The verdict is that it’s basically a hacked up netbook running on Windows 7 with a different theme overlay. Basically this isn’t an iPad killer, but if your expectation is just to have a netbook with a touchscreen and no keyboard, then this is it.

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JooJoo to feature Nvidia Ion and Atom N270 processor

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Published: March 12, 2010Tags: , ,

The JooJoo tablet is going to be coming to market here in a few weeks, and before this could happen it had to be approved by the FCC. Luckily they took alot of good pictures of their teardown and put them on their website for us to see. Apparently the JooJoo is going to feature an Nvidia Ion GPU (first generation) along with an N270 processor. This means it should be able to handle most HD video, but that battery life might not be all that great (try 2-4 hours).

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Google Tablet to take on iPad?

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Published: February 2, 2010Tags:
Google Tablet to take on iPad?

Well it looks like Google may be getting into the tablet game soon as well. There are several interesting tablet concept videos and mockups that were posted today on the Chrome OS development blog. This video shows a tablet that is much larger than the iPad, but can also function as a sort of desktop-replacement with it’s large size and capabilities.

There were also several mockup images that were released today which show some of the tablet’s possible capabilities.

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via Techcrunch

Asus Eee Pad tablet pc to launch in June

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Published: January 20, 2010Tags:
Asus Eee Pad tablet pc to launch in June

Remember the rumored Asus Eee Pad we told you about, well some more information has surfaced on it. It’s going to feature a 10.1″ capacitive multitouch display (preferably running Windows 7) but possibly a Linux variation, have Nvidia Tegra graphics (most likely not the new version) and will be officially unveiled at Computex in June. It will also be manufactured by Pegratron technology if that interests you.

With Nvidia Tegra inside this tablet it will be able to handle 1080p graphics with ease and will probably include (hopefully) an HDMI out plug.

The high point of this tablet is its price, which is going to be less than $500. We’ll be looking forward to the debut in June.

via digitimes

Lenovo Ideapad U1 Hybrid netbook/tablet

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Published: January 12, 2010Tags: ,
Lenovo Ideapad U1 Hybrid netbook/tablet

The Lenovo Ideapad U1 introduced at CES this year is one of the most unique netbooks ever. It appears to be a normal Ideapad netbook with all of the usual specs, but the 11.6″ display can be removed and used as a stand-alone tablet.

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When the display is plugged into the keyboard it uses an Intel CULV processor, but when removed the display uses a built-in Qualcomm 1GHz Snapdragon processor and has built-in 3G as well. Here are the specs:

  • Intel CULV processor
  • 4GB RAM (512MB in the tablet)
  • 128GB SSD (16GB SSD inside tablet)
  • eSATA, vga, HDMI, usb x 2, 1.3mp webcam
  • Windows 7 (custom Linux in tablet mode)

The battery life is around 8 hours in netbook mode and around 5 hours for tablet mode, but this is with 3G turned on. The whole setup weighs 3.7 lbs which isn’t too bad for two devices in one.

You can see in the last video that the custom Linux Skylight UI is very nice and responsive. It also supports multitouch, but the software isn’t quite ready for release yet. They should have all of the kinks ironed out by the time it’s officially released on June 1st for $999.

Hands on videos at end of post:
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via engadget

Microsoft unveils “HP slate” tablet at CES 2010

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Published: January 7, 2010Tags:
Microsoft unveils “HP slate” tablet at CES 2010

It looks like Microsoft has beaten Apple to the punch and unveiled their new tablet pc at CES today. This isn’t the dual screen “courier” but just a normal looking tablet pc.

Steve Ballmer introduced the tablet on stage and showed it doing a few things including running a Kindle e-reader app and playing Frogger. It runs Windows 7 and is multitouch, more details later on.

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via engadget