We’ve been teased by a video clip of Dell boss Michael Dell strutting around with a pre-production Dell Mini 5 tablet, but with the release date looming, the company are prepping their promotional material for what seems set to be called the ‘Dell Streak’.
Keen to show those beastly Flash-hating rotters at Apple just how useful the technology is for tablets and netbooks, Adobe has knocked out a promo videos showing off its capabilities.
We guess we’ll be seeing a lot more of this as Apple unleash their enormous advertising budget to persuade us about the joys of their latest product, the iPad.
Their first iPad TV commercial debuted during a break in the 82nd Annual Academy Awards and serves up a 30 second demo showing the tablet device doing its thing.
Anyone who spends time on the move knows how handy it is to be able to tether your netbook/laptop/tablet-based computing device to your phone to enjoy some internet connectivity on a bigger screen.
The iPad – a delightfully mobile device if we ever saw one – looks to be just the sort of thing that would be perfect for hooking up to your iPhone.
After all, they’re made by the same people, so all the inter-connectivity and seamless interoperability has got to be just a click away, no?
Apple has announced that the iPad will be launching in the US on Saturday April 3rd, and mustard keen punters and high-fiving fanboys will be able to start slapping down the cash for the Jesus tablet from next week.
It looks like there may be delays ahead for Apple’s iPad, with a ‘manufacturing bottleneck’ said to be pushing the launch date into April.
It’s had a bit of a tricky birth, but the JooJoo internet tablet looks set to start shipping soon in the States.
Formerly known as the CrunchPad , the $499 JooJoo features a 12.1″ multi-touch capacitive display, with an iPad-thumping resolution of 1366 x 768, plus a front-facing camera and support for Flash content. Take that iPad!
Clearly hoping to scoop up some of that frenzied iPad buzz, UK company X2 Computing has launched their own “iTablet” range of Windows/Linux-based tablet PCs.
Described as coming “hot on the heels of Apple’s latest product launch,” X2 claims “the iTablet will revolutionise the way that Windows users can access and use data on the move”.
We’ve always been rather keen on the Wacom Intuos range of graphic tablets, so our joy ascended to new levels when the company updated their range with a shiny new “Intuos4 Wireless” tablet.
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Michael Dell, Lord King Emperor of all things Dell, was hunted down by the TechCrunch team who persuaded him to slip them a glimpse of the eagerly awaited Dell Mini 5 tablet.
Looking well chuffed and cheery as he scuttled en route to the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Supreme Being Dell gave the camera crew a quick peek of the Android-powered device, swishing through four home screens with gay abandon.
It’s still under development and not expected out until the second half of this year, but Lenovo ’s U1 Tablet/PC Hybrid has already got us a lot more excited than Apple’s frankly underwhelming iPad offering.
Showcased at CES earlier this month, the tablet packs everything you’d need from a fully functioning tablet PC – touchscreen, full multitasking, automatic screen orientation, 3G, Wi-Fi, onboard camera etc, but comes with a very clever twist: it can clip into a special shell to become a full Windows 7 laptop with a proper keyboard.
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Steve Jobs has unveiled the eagerly awaited new tablet device – known as the iPad – and our first impressions is that it looks just like a large iPhone with its 9.7″ screen – but not as pretty.
The body is chunkier than we expected for an Apple product, with a large bezel surrounding the screen.
The Apple launch event is underway and it’s as weird as ever. We went to one of their launches and it was the only place we’ve ever been where we heard people applauding a memory upgrade.
Apple website watchers can look forward to the reappearance of the ridiculous ‘back soon’ yellow sticky tonight as Apple ramps up the hype-o-meter to eleven with the expected announcement of their new Slate/iPad/iTablet/iSlate/iWhatever computer.
With speculation about Apple’s soon-to-be-announced new product sending fanboys and tech bloggers into squeaky orgasms of expectant delight, McGraw-Hill’s CEO appears to have coughed up some details about the forthcoming ‘Messiah Tablet.’
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