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 [...]
Continue reading...2. June 2011 | by Jonas
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 [...]
Continue reading...24. May 2011 | by Jonas
The lines keep blurring in the portable device space, and now one more blur is rumored. Android gear typically is run on ARM based processors, and Intel Atoms run Windows as their OS, and occasionally Linux. This is why the plan for Windows 8 to run on ARM chips is a big deal and a [...]
Continue reading...8. April 2011 | by Jonas
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 [...]
Continue reading...27. March 2011 | by Jonas
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 [...]
Continue reading...6. February 2011 | by Jonas
Well, the folks at Motorola need to check out the competition, because the Xoom may be the best product, but quite simply, pricing it higher than an iPad is simply ridiculous. The Motorola Xoom is one of a new breed of Android tablets. You know, the OS that Google developed, is Linux based, and essentially free. [...]
Continue reading...3. February 2011 | by Jonas
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 [...]
Continue reading...12. January 2011 | by Jonas
What Acer lacks in innovation, they totally make up for in the sheer number of models that they come out with. Leaving no niche of the portable market unfilled, they have plans to launch two Android tablets in the coming months. They had reportedly put the Android tablet plans on hold last year as they [...]
Continue reading...10. January 2011 | by Jonas
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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22. July 2011 | by Jonas
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