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.
HP has now completed its $1.2 billion acquisition of Palm, and have confirmed that they plan to get stuck into their lovely webOS mobile operating system and slap it in new tablet computers and netbooks.
With Apple’s Steve Jobs set to take the stage at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2010 at 6pm today, the web is ablaze with rumours about what shiny new tech is set to be revealed.
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.
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.
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.
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”.
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