Coby at IFA

We are familiar with Coby MID7024. Coby has a big booth at the IFA and tabletblog had a chance to view it and report on it. Coby is known to produce budget tablets. IFA displays 7, 8 and 10- inch tablets ranging from 139 € to 399 €. Software wise these tablets are not up [...]

Pocketbook A10 tablet

No tablet is created equal. Pocketbook A10 is just a tad different. Made for reading ebooks, the A10 is shaped for long comfortable holding. The back of this Pocketbook is soft rubber. TFT screen has 4:3 ratio and 1024 x 768 resolution. Take a look at some of these Pocketbook A10 pictures in detail. The Pocketbook [...]

Fujitsu Arrows Tab F-01D in US

Last week we had a glimpse of a waterproof Fujitsu Arrows Tab F-01D in Japan. This Arrows Tab F-01D works as a 3G tablet on the Japanese Docomo Xi network. Well, it seems that we may have a chance to get this 10-inch Honeycomb tablet right here in United States. Fujitsu has applied for FCC [...]

New Toshiba Android Tablet

Toshiba Thrive is a budget tablet for a good price. It’s running Honeycomb Android 3.1 OS and it has all necessary ports and removable battery. It’s not the prettiest tool in the shed mind you, but for price of $399 it sells well. J&R offers Toshiba 10.1-inch 8GB Thrive Tabletfor $399. IFA had leaked a newest [...]

Special Samsung N510 Edition in HOT Red color

At IFA 2009, Samsung exhibited their special edition of the 11.6-inch Samsung N510 netbook. It will making its presence in Korea soon. Nothing is currently known if it will be available outside of Korea.

It has an eye catchy red color lid accompanied with curvy lines. No change in specs for this red beauty.

• Intel Atom N270 processor
• 1GB RAM
• 160GB hard disk
• ION LE chipset
• 1.3MP webcam
• 5200mAh battery
• Windows XP Home

Sharp PC-Z1 MID/Smartbook – Not that impressive after all – Quick Look

At the IFA, Sharp unveiled a small Smartbook that is much smaller than the regular netbooks that we usually see in the market. The Sharp PC-Z1 is very small, even more compact than the now obsolete, EEE 701. Not only its dimensions are smaller than the EEE 701, but it’s much lighter too (just 400gm).

Hardware-wise, the Sharp PC-Z1 does not has good keyboard. Well, you cannot have a compact device with touch-type-able keyboard. Can you? Moving ahead, the screen is great. It packs a lot of pixels (1024×600) into its 5-inch display, which is at par with the Fujitsu U810/U1010 that was released a couple of years back. However, unlike Fujitsu, this does not run Vista or Windows XP. In fact, it cannot even run one even if you wish to as it is not an x86 device.

Ubuntu is there to save us, but given the unpleasant fact that it took 10 seconds just to launch Firefox, it is disheartening for many of us. Openoffice writer took 40 seconds to load! So, although you will be able to enjoy great battery life (Sharp claims 10 hours), you will have to adapt yourself to slow performance.

It will be on sale in Japan later this month for the price of 350 Euros.

Commentary: From the looks of it, I’m sure, it is gratifying, but once you start using the device, it is then you realize the mistake you did when buying such a slow piece of hardware. I confess, I’ll call this device a pass