April 22 will be the release date for this latest offering from ASUS in the US. Although pricing hasn’t been confirmed by the company, several retailers are taking preorders for $399 with 32GB storage. The 10.1″ tablet was shown at the Mobile World Congress show in late February, but no release date or prices [...]
Known as a phone manufacturer, Pantech has jumped into the tablet business with the Element. The eight-inch tablet was shown at CES 2012 last week. With it’s size, the tablet aims to hit a spot between slightly too small seven inch screens, and (to many) slightly too large to easily handle ten inch screen tablets. With 1024 [...]
Coby Electronics is generally known for selling lower end tablets, with a reduced feature set. Many of it’s devices achieve lower prices by having resistive screens, small amounts of memory and storage, lack of GPS, etc. But now the company has announced it will unveil a line of Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tablets at the Consumer [...]
The first tablet available with android’s latest operating system, Ice Cream Sandwich, comes from a China-based manufacturer, MIPS Technologies. The Novo 7 runs on a 1GHZ Ingenic JZ4770 processor, with a seven-inch capacitive screen. And before you think “it’s just a a cheap knockoff”, this device has Google CTS certification. Andy Rubin, Google’s senior VP of Mobile, [...]
A Turkish company, Ardic, has come up with quite a unique idea. While most companies are trending towards smaller tablets, Ardic decided to go in the opposite direction. The result is a 65-inch tablet. Now, it really isn’t a separate tablet, to be honest. What the company has done, is connect a ten-inch tablet to [...]
Panasonic is going to release two ruggedized tablets, the ten inch A1 and the seven inch B1. Both tablets are designed for work in extreme conditions encountered in construction, aviation, and the military. The specifications are equal to most android tablets on the market today, with a dual-core 1.2GHZ processor, 1GB ram, and dual cameras [...]
Amazon released it’s Kindle Fire tablet on 9/28, and the most important feature it has is it’s price. Expected before it’s debut to sell for $250, instead it will retail for only $199. Amazon is able to have such a low price by keeping the hardware to a minimum. No camera, GPS, HDMI out, sd [...]
The new Kindle Fire is up on Amazon’s site for preorders@$199. Availability is to be November 15th. The 7″ tablet has 8GB storage, a dual=core processor, and a mini-usb port. Free cloud storage for Amazon content is included, but not known is if there will be a limit to that storage. The browser is a [...]
Adding to it’s lineup of tablets, Toshiba announced a 7 inch model, Thrive 7″. Expected to go on sale in December, the device will have the highest resolution of any 7 inch tablet at 1280×800. This is only seen on larger 10 inch screens now. According to people who have seen preproduction units, it has [...]
Samsung debuted it’s Series 7 700T Windows 7 tablet recently. It is notable for several features. First, the screen is 11.6 inches, with a resolution of 1366×768. Next is the processor. Instead of an Atom chip, that is usually seen in tablets, this has an I5 chip running at 1.6GHZ. Memory is 4GB, and it [...]
