Archive for the ‘Tablet Computing’ Category

To answer a burning question in the minds of so many potential consumers of Apple’s forthcoming iPad tablet, an intrepid emailer by the name of Jezper Söderlund (a well-known trance DJ/producer) worked up the courage to email Apple CEO Steve Jobs the one question many enthusiasts and potential general customers who already own iPhones the [...]

The Apple iPad will be up for pre-order on March 12th, with the Wi-Fi-only versions going up first and launching in the US on April 3rd. Versions for Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK will launch in late April along with 3G-equipped versions for the US.
Statement from Apple CEO Steve [...]

It’s the holy grail: A Dell Mini 5 without the cell phone. An iPod touch killer that can tackle the iPad. It’s something that lets you pair a dumbphone with Bluetooth, and have an iPhone killer.
At least, that’s what the bullet points represent. Either way, it’s the Archos 5 Internet Tablet.
While it started shipping last [...]

Screenshots from the latest build of the iPhone SDK indicate that Apple will integrate video calling into a future version of the iPhone. With this latest discovery, it’s assumed that the next forthcoming model will feature a front-facing camera to facilitate two-way video calling.
On the other hand, it’s possible that the feature may not [...]

Nokia and Intel have jointly announced that both companies will be partnering together to merge the respective Moblin and Maemo Linux distributions to create MeeGo.
While Nokia has seen success with Maemo on its lineup of Internet Tablets in the N800 and the N810 along with the popular N900, intel had yet to gain any traction [...]

Apple has sent out press invites for an event scheduled to be held on January 27th.
The event is expected to herald the debut of the long shrouded in secrecy Apple Tablet/iSlate/MacTablet, with further announcements detailing specialized content from major print publications.

Graphics chipset developer Nvidia has formally announced the forthcoming launch of the Tegra 2 platform, the successor to the Tegra system on a chip solution currently found in the Microsoft Zune HD portable media player.
The Tegra 2 platform will consist of 2 ARM Cortex A9 cores and one ARM 7 core for applications, separate HD [...]

Some in the media saw a big, black screen and declared the DreamScreen as “HP’s iTablet rival.”
They were very, very wrong. But, we take a look at what HP really built with the DreamScreen… and they do have something worthwhile here.
Let’s get the misconceptions out of the way first. The DreamScreen is not a tablet. [...]