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Toshiba Thrive Has All the Right Connections

22. July 2011 | by Jonas

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Toshiba Thrive Has All the Right Connections

Whenever folks talk about a tablet being a “laptop replacement,” this seems quite ridiculous.  Most folks have tons of data on a flash drive, and yet their tablet has no port to accept it.  No, those skinny tablets are all about good looks, and fall flat on their face when it is time to get [...]

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Toshiba Thrive To Ship Next Month

2. June 2011 | by Jonas

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Toshiba Thrive To Ship Next Month

Toshiba has a good reputation for high quality notebooks and netbooks, so it is with anticipation that their entry into the tablet space is drawing some attention.  Their new product, the Toshiba Thrive, will be shipping in July. The specs look good: Android 3.1 Tegra 2 processor 10.1″ display, 1280 x 800 8 GB, 16 GB and 32 GB available WiFi Bluetooth Front [...]

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Acer Iconia Tab A500

8. April 2011 | by Jonas

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Acer Iconia Tab A500

Acer has been looking to get into the tablet space after sales of netbooks, well, dropped faster than a rock.  Best Buy is selling iPads like hotcakes, but would be just as happy to sell another brand or two as well.  So, a partnership is born! The Acer Iconia Tab looks quite similar to the Motorola [...]

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Acer Iconia Tab

27. March 2011 | by Jonas

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Acer is poised to jump into the tablet area with both feet.  No literally, if we count one foot as Android, and the other as Windows.  Both will come under the name of Iconia Tab. The Acer Iconia Tab W500 will come with Windows 7 Home Premium.  It has an AMD Brazos C-50 chip, a 32 [...]

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer

27. March 2011 | by Jonas

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer

Conjuring up thoughts of Transformers: More than Meets the Eye is the latest combo tablet/netbook device from the folks at Asus.  Taking a new approach than a netvertible is the Asus Eee Pad Transformer. The idea is that it can function independently as a tablet device.  When it comes time to do some serious work, than [...]

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NEC Life Touch Note

17. February 2011 | by Jonas

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NEC Life Touch Note

It is starting to look like we have come full circle.  When netbooks were introduced, that 7″ Asus that ran Linux started this current generation off.  Before that, we had machines such as the Toshiba Libretto, and those pocketable models from Psion. Oh, and does anyone remember the Sharp Zaurus? Fans of such devices have [...]

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G-Slate Tablet

3. February 2011 | by Jonas

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G-Slate Tablet

The tablet space was bound to get more crowded this year with the sales that the iPad experienced last year.  Second tier mobile carrier, T-Mobile, lost out of the Apple product space has scrapped together some platforms before to compete; let us not forget that they were the first ones with an Android phone.  Coming [...]

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer

10. January 2011 | by Jonas

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer

Asus was showing off their Eee Pad Transformer at CES 2011.  It is another example of an Android 3.0 tablet device, that uses the upcoming Honeycomb OS that is designed specifically for the tablet space. Using an Android OS means that they can utilize the Nvidia Tegra 2 processor.  It has a 10.2″ touchscreen.  However, the [...]

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