Shipment figures have been released for the last quarter of 2011 revealing a healthy year’s business for Apple’s iPad,with global sales doubling, but with the haunting spectre of accelerating Android tablet sales.
There’s been much discussion about what kind of technology is best for students, with conflicting opinions arguing over the likes of the iPad and education-targeted machines like the Lenovo X130e.
While we’ve taken a keen interest in the debate, we have to admit we’d forgotten all about Google’s Chromebooks as a tool for classrooms- yet it seems they are quietly gaining (some) traction in US schools.
Aiming directly at the ThinkPad business market is the new Asus B23E ultraportable laptop, the B23E, served up in a rather splendidly austere, none-more-black finish.
Served up in 2GB and 4GB flavours, the diminutive Walkman B170 devices from Sony weigh in at just 28 grams, but still have enough juice to keep you rocking through 18 hours of listening on a full charge.
ASUS has just announced the upcoming release of an updated version of the Eee Pad Transformer Prime, the TF700T.
Now here’s a really handy new tool for the Amazon Kindle eReader – a sweet little plug-in that lets users easily transfer PC files and documents to their devices.
Last year, Amazon’s Kindle eReader was the runaway must-have Christmas gift, and Amazon look to have scored another hit with its cheaper successor, first announced in October 2011.
Released in time for the festive rush, the new Kindle shaves £60 off the price of the original and makes up a much smaller and lighter package.
Lenovo have announced a new laptop designed to take the rough and tumble of the classroom in the shape of the ThinkPad X130e 11.6-inch ultraportable.
HTC has started sending out updates to its Flyer 32GB WIFI/3G tablet, upgrading the operating system to Android Honeycomb 3.2.
We’ve always been rather keen on HTC’s under-appreciated tablet Flyer, and were very much taken with its solid build, compact size and novel note taking stylus.
We’re really excited by the new ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime – a tablet that converts into a netbook – and an enthusiastic video review has been posted up showing off its shiny, shiny features.
With Christmas looming perilously close, the panic is already setting in for folks looking to buy their loved ones shiny new gadgets.
With laptops being on more than a few Santa lists, here’s three top choices, compiled from the esteemed folks at What Laptop Tablet & Smartphone.
Compared to the avalanche of audio products for the iOS platform, there’s been some pretty slim pickings for Android users, but now high-end earphone dons Klipsch have entered the market with a rather lovely looking in-ear set.
Launching in the US on Saturday – but with no UK release scheduled - early reviews of Amazon’s ground breaking new $200 Kindle Fire tablet have been coming in, with most critics impressed at the abilities of the budget Android-powered package.
The hugely powerful Eee Pad Transformer Prime is readying itself for release, packing a beefy, ‘blazing fast’ quad-core Tegra mobile chip and a sleek add-on keyboard which turns it into a neat netbook.
Ready and willing to take your weedy iPad around the back of the bike sheds to give it a good duffing up are Panasonic’s new mean Toughbook Android tablets, the 10-inch A1 and the 7-inch B1.
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