HP Slate not targeted for consumers

HP Personal System Group VP, Todd Bradley said yesterday that the HP Slate would be an enterprise focused device and would run Microsoft OS.

HP has registered the trademark PalmPad and the company will be releasing two different products – one enterprise focused running Windows 7 OS and another consumer focused running Palm WebOS.

Mirabyte FrontFace makes everything so finger-friendly

Mirabyte FrontFace has developed a UI called FrontFace that suddenly makes everything on Windows finger-friendly. After you have this nifty app running, you won’t have to take the stylus out of its silo to select objects on the screen.

The app though is not out yet, but the preview version should be out soon.

HP Slate clone already out

HP Slate 500 is not even out yet, but that has not stopped the crazy Chinese manufactures to churn-out its clone. The clone has been spotted wearing a bright red suit and is equipped with a 10-inch HD display (1366×768) and powered by an Atom N450 1.66GHz processor.

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Core i5-powered HP TM2 now available

Slates like iPad have been getting tremendous amount of attention. However, convertible tablets are still yet to take off. HP, the leader of PC suppliers, wants its TouchSmart TM2 to make a comeback and is now offering it with a new chip – Core i5-430UM that runs at 1.2GHz clock speed and sports a cache memory of 3MB.

TM2 comes equipped with a good 4GB RAM and if that is not enough for you, you can increase it to even more spacious 8GB RAM. Other specs include – 12.1-inch 1280×800 display, 320/500/640GB HDD, DirectX 11-capable discrete card, multicard reader, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Ethernet, webcam and a 6-cell battery. Prices start at 830 dollars for the base model

Toshiba prepping Android and Windows 7 Tablets

Toshiba has had a considerable impact on the way that the mobile computing has evolved. To celebrate its 25 years of laptops, it launched three new products – Portege R700, Libretto W100 and AC100 Cloud Companion. They are all great, but the AC100 intrigues us the most as it looks like a normal netbook, but uses ARM-9 processor and runs Android OS.

Toshiba is also said to be readying tablets that run Android and Windows 7 tablets. Managing director of Toshiba Australia, Mark Whittard, showed-off a prototype tablet at the press conference that the Toshiba is currently working on. But, he was stubborn on not to leak the specs. Luckily, he did mention that one of the tablets will be surfacing in the Sep-Oct 2010 time-frame.

Swype SIP may come to Windows 7

According to Gizmodo, Microsoft is working in collaboration with the Swype SIP developer to integrate their amazing text input technology in the Windows 7 OS. Swype is available for Android OS and several OEMs have started bundling their smartphones with the Swype OS pre-installed.

The input methods currently available on the Windows 7 get the job done, but text input is painfully slow. Swype would surely speed up the text-entry process

PalmPad

Looks like the HP’s webOS tablet will be called PalmPad. At least that is what appears from the filing done by HP. Earlier, the tablet was being called as “Hurricane”, but PalmPad makes much more sense. So, now we have Palm Pad, iPad, WePad, EeePad. Gee, sure is original naming scheme around here.

Getac V100 Rugged Tablet PC

Getac has unveiled a revamped rugged V100 convertible tablet, powered by the Core i7 1.2GHz processor. This makes it the fastest dual-core processor on a rugged tablet (obviously much, much faster than any netbook).

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Gigabyte Touchnote T1000P surfaces on Amazon Germany

Gigabyte T1000P is finally available for order on Amazon for a price of 600 Euros. There is also an UMTS version that goes for 800 Euros. The price is too much for a device which has the specs of a typical netbook and comes with no bundled operating system. However, you do get a nice 7650mAh capacity 6-cell battery and a slightly more powerful Atom N470 processor.

Specs – 10.1-inch 1024×600 pixel display, Atom N480 1.83GHz processor, GMA 3150 chipset, 250GB HDD, 1GB RAM, 3x USB 2.0 ports, 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, SD card reader and 1.3MP webcam. Weighs 1.48kg and comes with a 1y warranty

Haier X220P knocks the FCC’s HQ

Haier, a Chinese electronics manufacture is soon going to release a convertible tablets with netbook-innards. This tablet, known as the X220P is powered by an Atom processor and features a 10.1-inch touchscreen (1024×600), 802.11n Wi-Fi and 3G.

The convertible weighs less than 3 pounds and will come with either Windows XP or Linux. This is extremely weird as the company did not go for the Windows 7 Home Premium version that comes with a host of touchscreen enhancements and utilities. There is no information on its price or availability.

Commentary: Finally a competitor for the Asus Eee T101MT convertible netbook