Tag: Tablet
ASUS planning quad-core Tegra 3 tablets?
Not much to go on here, but DigiTimes are reporting that ASUS may be about to blow the tablet competition out of the water by throwing up a handful of slates powered by quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 chipsets. Built around…
APP OF THE DAY: 4oD Channel 4 catch-up TV (iPad)
Channel 4's TV catch-up service, 4oD, is now available on the iPad. Squeezing select shows from Channel 4, E4 and More4 into a touch-friendly interface, programmes will be available to be streamed to the tablet for 30 days after they…
Amazon Kindle Tablet hitting shops by the end of the year?
Amazon's long-rumoured tablet device may be breaking its cover in the very near future, should the latest round of rumours be believed. The device is now expected to touch down in the second half of this year, with a…
Nokia patiently ponders tablet strategy to set itself apart
Nokia boss Stephen Elop is keen to not just be another brick in the tablet wall, according to comments he made to Finnish TV network YLE: "There are now over 200 different tablets on the marketplace, only one of…
Sony plans to launch two Android-powered tablets
By the end of the year, we will have not one but two Sony-branded tablets to choose from. The devices, codenamed S1 and S2, will run on Google's Android operating system. Sony's entry into the tablet market is no…
Extortionate tablet roaming costs revealed: iPad 2 and Galaxy Tab users beware
Planning on taking your iPad 2 or Samsung Galaxy Tab on holiday with you this year? Well you might want to think twice about turning on any 3G roaming features while you're abroad, as a new Which? study has…
Five reasons why RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook isn't flying off the shelves
RIM's iPad battling BlackBerry PlayBook tablet went on sale in the US yesterday. But rather than having droves of the BlackBerry faithful scrambling into stores to pick it up, reports are of a far more muted launch day. Reuters…
REVIEW: Motorola XOOM Honeycomb tablet
The Motorola XOOM is a fairly tricky device to review. On the one hand, you have a high-spec tablet device that's packed full of enough features to really give the Apple's iPad a run for its money. On the other hand, as the first tablet to hit the market with the Honeycomb OS, it's very much a guinea pig for Google's newly-focussed tablet assault with Android. As a result, it's just as much a critique of the OS (which Motorola likely had very little input with) as it is the device itself, and in many respects can therefore act as a glimpse as to what to expect from Android tablets in the future. Is the XOOM's hardware/OS combo enough to topple Apple's "magical" slate?
Toshiba prep the insectile ANT Honeycomb tablet
Well, honeycombs are made by bumblebees, and they're insects too, so I guess that's some sort of link, but apart from that, I'm lost as to why Toshiba have chosen to name their latest tablet range, packing Google's Honeycomb OS,…
Windows 8 to get September unveiling
With the Honeycomb tablet onslaught growing by the day, Microsoft's tablet offerings are looking more and more irrelevant. That may soon change however, if the latest rumours surrounding the release of Windows 8 prove true. Microsoft have announced that their…