There’s going to be an avalanche of tablets being announced at this year’s CES 2011 Show, and first to come tumbling down the mountain is Asus, who have just announced no less than four new tablets.
Running on Windows and Android tablets, the tablets come with displays ranging in size from 7 to 12 inches, with prices starting at a modest $399 and soaring up to $1099.
The HP Slate 500 has put on its tie and jacket and is ready to strut out into the rough and tumble of the business world.
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Videos of the as yet unreleased HP Slate have started to circulate, and the latest eight-minute ‘hands on’ video even comes with one of the dreaded ‘unboxing videos.’
Unlike Microsoft’s much-desired Courier project, Toshiba’s twin screen concept laptop has actually made the jump into the real world, with the innovative Libretto W100 twin screen device now available for order in the US.
If you’ve been keeping your beady eye fixed on Dell’s Android-powered Streak tablet, the good news is that you’ll be able to pick one up for free from the Carphone Warehouse.
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.
UK network provider Three has announced that it will be offering dedicated data plans for the Apple iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G from the 28th May.
Three claim that their data plans are the “best value out there”, and they’ll be serving up SIM-only data plans on a one-month rolling contract for the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G.
The UK is set to get the Dell Streak Android mini-tablet next month, with O2 being the first network provider to get their paws on the wee fella.
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If you’re not happy with your netbook and the keyboard-less lines of the tablet form aren’t exciting your wallet regions, then Acer are hoping that their tablet/netbook two-in-one hybrid will do the job for you.
Their new Aspire Timeline 1825PT can perform as a regular netbook with a proper QWERTY keypad and touchpad, but with a deft swivel of the 11.6 inch 1366 x 768 HD screen you’re holding a tablet (albeit a rather tubby one). Magic!
After a lively, five-way bidding war a few weeks ago, Hewlett-Packard emerged victorious, scooping up struggling mobile phone maestros Palm for $1.2bn.
Although Palm’s Pre and Pixi handsets had been picking up positive reviews, the real jewel in the crown for HP was the handset maker’s webOS operating system.
Narrated by a manly voice normally heard in cinemas extolling the virtues of the latest Hollywood blockbuster, Apple’s new TV advert for their iPad tablet device has hit the web.
“What is iPad?” rhetorically quizzes Mr Gruff Voice.
We can’t say that we’re feeling particularly tempted to join the high-fivin’ Apple queues for the iPad, and research from one British market research company suggests that we’re not alone.
Mike Stevens, Director of Telecoms Media and Technology at Simpson Carpenter says that the iPad “won’t become a mass market computer in the UK”.
Apple has posted up prices for iPad accessories to go with the (ahem) “magical and revolutionary” iPad, which are also now available for pre-order.
We’ve no idea who makes this swishy looking tablet, but Adobe have been showing off a prototype Android device at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco that can do things that the iPad can’t/won’t.
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