The tsunami of tablets continues, as another Android-powered challenger looks to take on Apple’s iPad, this time a shiny 10″ number from Viewsonic, christened the ViewPad 100.
Everyone knows it’s been coming, but Samsung has now officially ripped away the velvet curtain surrounding its iPad rival, the 7-inch Android based Samsung Galaxy Tab.
Viewsonic has grabbed a megaphone, jumped up on its soapbox made from old monitors and barked out the news to the denizens of Blighty, “Hear Ye! The ViewPad 7 is coming your way!”
Hurtling along so fast that if you blink you’ll miss a detail or two, this new new teaser video from Samsung gives a fleeting glimpse into their new Galaxy Tab Android powered tablet.
Apple has knocked out another of their slick adverts, this time bestowing fresh superlatives in its iPad device, only for a parody version to appear within hours of its release.
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Buckling under Apple’s relentless puritanical mission to keep their products free of titillation, Playboy magazine has agreed to remove all saucy content from its iPad app.
Apple has just punted out iOS 4.0.2 for iPhone and iOS 3.2.2 for iPad updates to patch up a recently uncovered security flaw in Safari.
We don’t often find ourselves agreeing with the TaxPayers’ Alliance, but plans by councillors at Leicester City Council to award themselves a nice, new, top of the range Apple iPad each really is something else.
We used to love our old Toshiba Libretto 50, and to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Toshiba’s laptop business, the company has unveiled a dual-screen Windows 7 laptop, the Libretto W100.
Apple has announced that a new update of their proprietary digital media player application, iTunes, is now available for download.
The latest version comes with iBooks support for the iPhone and iPod touch (withPDF syncing) plus home screen folder organisation, and nippier backups on iOS 4 devices.
Apple fans hooked up with all the company’s latest shiny gadgets will be disappointed to learn that the new micro-SIM cards are not interchangeable – so anyone hoping to swap SIM cards between their new iPhone 4 and iPad is going to be out of luck.
So, the Apple iPad has been out in the UK for several days now, launched with the most ghastly whoopin’, high fivin’, clappin’ and cheerin’ celebration of luxury consumer item spending you’ll ever see in the UK.
I’m not fond of standing in queues being flesh-pressed by over-excited, squawking, cult-like Apple employees, so instead took time out to have a more sedate hands-on with Apple’s exciting new product over a weekend.
Keen to cut themselves a slice of the rapidly expanding iPad/tablet pie is ASUS, who have just shown off prototypes of their new Eee Pad tablet range.
Reader, I bought one.
I’d been waiting for weeks. Hearing the news that sales had gone so well in the States that they’d be launched late here came as an almost physical blow. Taken in by the hype? Yes, like a child is by Christmas.
And lo, when the morning came there I was with hundreds of other goons waiting at half seven for the Westfield Apple Store to open so I could buy one with the money saved up from doing extra shifts.
Apple is set to smother the High Streets of Britain with iPads on its launch day on Friday, with UK High street stores Currys, Dixons and PC World set to be stocking the device at 139 of their outlets.
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