Phone, Tablet, and keyboard combined into the 3 in 1 ASUS PadFone. Living the Dream! Yes I want this. This device was announced last year, but no one could seem to get their hands on it. Until today. The core of this 3 part system is an high end Android smartphone. Sporting a 4.3-inch AMOLED display, a Qualcomm dual-core processor, running Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0), Bluetooth, a 8-megapixel camera,… Read More
Tablets will be like calculators when I was a kid. But it wont be an iPad Late last year when the Kindle Fire came out, pundits were saying, ‘oh this is going to be an iPad killer’ To which most of us in tech with 1/2 a clue basically ignored them and instead asked who was going to win this new market and how long will it be till Apple looks… Read More
The $35 tablet from India is real. Called the AAKASH Last month I said it would believe it when I see a sub $50 tablet, well know I’ve seen it from VentureBeat. It costs around $45 to build, but with a $10 discount from the government, we have a $35 tablet. Now this is just for India keep in mind and targeted for some of… Read More
Asus Eee Pad, the first Tablet that can actually offer more then the iPad I cannot count how many tablets have come out saying they are better then the ipad this way or that way, all bullocks of course. However, now we have and offering from ASUS that at least appears as a viable competitor. The ASUS Eee Pad. Strange name I know, but a very straight forward offering.… Read More
You cannot do email, calendar etc on the new RIM playbook without a blackberry phone. What? Just to be clear, I have not played with the RIM Playbook for more then a few min and that was a beta model. It seemed pretty good for a beta back then and I was looking forward to seeing how it will do when finally released to the market… Then I read this on… Read More
The WebOS TouchPad is Great! And I dont Care! I want an iPad2 We have the first look at the HP TouchPad running WebOS and from what I heard (no I was not there) it’s great! Snappy! Well designed! Great Multitasking! Works seamlessly with the new Pre 3 and other WebOS phones! … I dont care. We not ‘ME’; I’m actually dieing to get my hands on one… Read More
Video: Flash on the new Samsung Galaxy Android Tablet Here you go. I think the demo says it all. Flash running on the new Samsung Galaxy Tab tablet. Yes, the great tablet war is alive and well.… Read More
Remember the JooJoo tablet? its still a player, just not fully playing Remember back in the day when TC’s Micheal Arrington had an idea for a simple tablet that he can operate from his couch to do basic things; mostly around web browsing? (read ipad) Then the he and the group he was working with had a falling out? And then they tried to do it on… Read More
The HP Slate dies. 2 major players killed in the Tablet War in one day! Wow. Just read in Techcrunch, ( ta for the tip @thekenyeung ) that HP is killing the slate. At least in its current format. There is a possibility it can come back running WebOS. But till we know for sure, its dead. So who is left? Google. I have not heard much on the gSlate,… Read More
HP Slate specs leaked. The Great Tablet War goes to round 2 A challenger appears!! The Great Tablet War continues. Apple was the first major player on the field and completely destroyed all competitors to the point that we cannot even remember their names… But that dominance will only hold for so long. On Engadget (who else) we have a leak of the new HP Slate. And… Read More
Googles new Tablet is the first counterstrike to Apples opening shot We pick up in the war after the CrunchPad came and went, various ‘tablets’ from other manufactures have taken up position on the field. Apples iPad is the first heavy into battle, and with great surprise, not to much effect. The general reception to the iPad has been even at best. Now comes Googles tablet,… Read More
Why Im not going to buy the Apple iPad. Yet The apple iPad is finally out. And it’s pretty much what we expected; a really big and hyper powered iPhone/iPod. Anyway, all in all, that’s ok. So why am I not buying one? Well it’s because I already have an iPhone. Now, if I was a big iPhone game player, we would be having a… Read More
Whatever the apple tablet iPad or iSlate will be called, iTablet may already be taken I have not had much time for writing and this will be a really quick post, but I fell pretty sure that whatever the Apple slate or iPad will be called, it will not be the iTablet because there is already one. At CES I saw an iTablet (and I will post the images up… Read More
iSlate vs GTablet vs Curiour vs iTablets. Calm before the CES storm The storm clouds over CES in Las Vegas have been gathering as the Apple, Google, Microsoft and the loosely unified free states prepare for war. Even though we know Apple will not make their announcement till Jan 26, they will leaks bits and bobs to counter the other slate warriors from having the field TOO… Read More
The Camangi Android Slate (Tablet) hits the scene This is not a full review of the Camangi since I do not have it in my hands, but this is a perfect example, of the slew of Android Slates that I expect to see coming out this year. This slate is listed at $400 bucks, and based on the specs, its basically a big… Read More
Apples iSlate and the Googles Gslate appear. #slatewar The great (slate) Tablet war moves to the next stage as expected. The first player on the scene the JooJoo, which used to be known as the CrunchPad, was the first to enter the battleground. I expect to see it again this coming week at the #CES show in Las Vegas, but already they are… Read More