Tablet
PlayStation On Your PlayBook
More good news for Blackberry PlayBook owners – a dogged developer from the Crackberry forums have successfully coded a PlayStation emulator for the cut-priced tablet allowing you to play a myriad of 1994 games on the 7-inch tablet. The release of this PlayStation emulator is still in beta mode, so not all games are guaranteed [...]
Gemini Devices JoyTab Tablets – Preview
UK-based Gemini Devices is introducing its line of JoyTab tablets, entry-level slates available in 7-, 8-, and 10-inch form factors and priced at $190, $220, and $300 respectively, at least in equivalent dollars. The JoyTab 7 is, surprise surprise, the 7-incher and runs on a monocore 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 CPU, with a dual Mali-400 [...]
Phillips Launching ICS Tablets In China
Dutch electronics manufacturer Philips is to enter the Android market with a line of 7-inch Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablets. Phillips’ first steps in the tablet world will be aimed at the Chinese market. An interesting development is the choice of a low-voltage MIPS processor instead of the more usual ARM-based chip. Although 99% of [...]
Ematic eGlide Prism – Preview
The Ematic eGlide Prism is a 7-inch tablet running Android 4 ICS. While it can play HD video at 2160p, its native resolution is a bit on the low side at 800 x 480 pixels. Inside eGlide Prism is a 1GHz CPU paired with 512MB RAM. Now that sort of CPU-RAM team is just about [...]
Samsung Espresso – Leaked Snaps Of Next-gen Tablet
Leaked shots suggest a new tablet series from Samsung may be in the pipeline, possibly to be released this summer. The new tablet goes by the name of Espresso tablet, and will be made available in 7-inch and 10-inch form factors, and as yet little is known about what the tablets will add to the [...]
Intel StudyBook Tablet – Preview
Intel has unveiled a tablet geared towards students – the Intel StudyBook , resilient enough to be able the withstand fingerpaint, and which can run either Android or Windows 7. The internal spec sheet features various low-end components, which should make the StudyBook more affordable for hard-up schools, and more expendable for the ype of [...]
Sprint Offers Decent ZTE Optik At Just $99
Sprint is now offering the ZTE Optik Android tablet at $99 on a two-year contract. ZTE Optik has a multi-touch capacitive 7-inch display and 1.2GHz dual-core CPU included, as is a healthy 1GB RAM and 16GB of onboard storage. That storage is expandable via the microSD card slot, and the ZTE Optik will run the [...]
Galaxy Tab 2 Rocks Tablet World
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 has finally launched in the USA. And it’s the sort of deal that restores people’s faith in the progress of civilzation. The Galaxy Tab 2 was unveiled at Barcelona’s Mobile World Conference in late February, but until now pricing info was withheld. The Samung Galaxy Tab 2 will launch in [...]
Motorola Xoom 2 – Review
As the Motorola Xoom 2 reaches market, the competition is beginning to evolve into quad-core hardware, such as the Asus Transformer Prime, which is still stealing headlines as the Android tablet to beat. And Apple’s souped-up version of the iPad is taking the lion’s share of the safe money. The test unit features 16GB storage [...]
RIM Backtracks On Ending Sideloading
There was disappointment amongst Blackberry Playbook owners after a RIM executive declared the company intended to discontinue Android app side-loading on the firesale tablet. Now the same exec, Alec Saunders, has declared that side-loading will be supported indefinitely on Playbook OS and BB10, with RIM modifying the feature to keep pirates at bay. Side-loading is [...]
