Tablet
Ainol Novo 7 Tablets Coming Soon
Ainol has announced that its Ainol Novo 7 Aurora II and Ainol Novo 7 Elf II will be available from the end of May. The two 7-inch tablets feature 1024 x 600 resolution displays and run on a dual-core ARM Cortex A9 CPU clocked at 1.5GHz. Both boast a decent 1GB RAM and 8GB onboard [...]
Ramos W17 Pro – Preview
The Ramos W17 Pro is a new budget Android 4 Ice Cream Sandwich slate which runs on a dualcore 1.5GHz Cortex-A9 CPU, alongside a Mali-400 GPU, and brings a 7-inch 1024 x 600 multitouch display. W17 Pro ships with a very decent 1GB DDR3 RAM and 16GB of built-in storage. The Ramos W17 Pro offers [...]
Samsung Dual Display Business Tablet
Samsung’s broad range of smartphones, phablets and tablets could soon be joined by a new form factor – a dual screen tablet. A recently unveiled patent shows Samsung may be planning to extend its 7-inch Galaxy Tab series with a device similar to the dual-display Sony Tablet P, with a hinge linking the two panels, [...]
Toshiba Excite 10 Launches
Toshiba recently announced its new Excite range of Ice Cream Sandwich tablets, available in 7-inch, 10-inch, and super-sized 13-inch formats. Toshiba Excite 10.1-Inch 16 GB Tablet with Wi-Fi and 1.20 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 CPU is now on sale for $450, a reduction from the original price cited by Toshiba. The 32GB and 64GB versions [...]
WikiPad – first gaming tablet
Gaikai usually competes with OnLive in the cloud gaming sphere, but has now announced that it is teaming up with WikiPad to priduce the world’s first tablet specifically geared towards gaming. At CES this January the WikiPad was on show as a concept design of an Android slate designed to work in synergy with a [...]
Panasonic BizPad hack-proof tablets
Mocana, a mobile security firm, has confirmed that Panasonic will include its FIPS-certified Android anti-malware on its upcoming range of tablets. The Mocana VeloDAR Encryption software will come pre-installed on the 7- and 10-inch Panasonic BizPad tablets. VeloDAR aims to enhance Android data encryption capability, helping the Andorid platform become better fitted for sensitive and [...]
Nokia New Tablets
At the end of 2011 Nokia’s CEO said that Nokia had ‘no exact plan’ for entering the tablet market. Then Nokia’s VP acknowledged in March that a tablet would be a good inclusion in the Nokia family of products, but he stressed the need to differentiate any Nokia slate from the competition. In an interview [...]
Kinle Fire Makes Up Half Of US Tablets
The Amazon Kindle Fire is now the most popular Android tablet, with new comScore research showing that 54% of tablets owned are Kindle Fires. The stats were valid at the end of February. The second most popular tablet is the Samsung Galaxy Tab duo of 7- and 10-inch slates, although the Galaxy Tab share of [...]
Asus Transformer Pad 300 – Review
It’s already a year since the original Asus Transformer launched, with its revolutionary keyboard dock and since then the quad-core revolution has arrived. The new Transformer Pad 300, or TF300, offers improved specs, Android 4 ICS, and all for $379. This is the specced-down version of the Transformer Prime, aimed at the $400 price bracket, [...]
Acer Iconia A100 Gets ICS Update
The Acer Iconia Tab A100 just got a whole lot more attractive with an Android Ice Cream Sandwich update. The 7-inch slate runs an NVidia Tagra 2 dual-core CPU with a robust 1GB RAM supporting it. The 8GB onboard storage is expandable via the microSDHC card slot by further 32GB, and WiFi-n is supported. The [...]
