HP discontinued the TouchPad tablet less than two months after launching it, due to poor sales figures. Now it looks like the BlackBerry PlayBook may be on a similar deathwatch, as Research in Motion offers promotion after promotion in an effort to convince people to buy the 7 inch tablet. We haven’t seen any major Android tablet makers exit the…

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Update: RIM says it’s not killing the PlayBook and that the company remains “committed to the tablet market.”  Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook is a nice looking little tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a speedy 1 GHz TI OMAP4 dual core processor. In fact, Amazon apparently liked the design enough that it contracted with Quanta,…

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Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet isn’t selling very well. While the company had hoped to ship at least 4 million tablets this year, it appears that fewer than 800 thousand BlackBerry tablets were shipped in the first half of 2011, and it’s not clear how many of those are still sitting on store shelves (instead of in customers’ hands). The company…

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Quanta Computers is an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) in Taiwan, so you don’t typically see computers sold under the Quanta brand name. Instead major PC makers contract with Quanta to build devices which are sold under different names. But every now and then, an upcoming device makes it as far as the FCC web site still wearing its Quanta branding….

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Just in case you had any doubts that Apple has set the tone for virtually every tablet-style device launched in 2010, there’s a rumor going around that the upcoming BlackBerry tablet will have a $499 price tag. That’s the same price as the base model of Apple’s iPad. Oh yeah, and the BlackBerry tablet will likely be called the BlackPad……

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While it’s not a hard and fast rule, I’ve gotten kind of used to the fact that most tablets, smartphones, and other devices with touchscreen displays released over the past few years come in one of two varieties. Either you have a touchscreen that recognizes finger input (capacitive), or stylus input (resistive). You rarely get both (although resistive displays which…

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While a lot of the tablets we’ve seen introduced in 2010 have been powered by ARM-based processors, Intel wants in on the action — and the company is showing off a ton of tablets at Computex. That includes machines from Hanvon, Malta, Wistron, FIC, and others. What’s interesting is that we’re not just talking about Windows tablets anymore. There was…

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Nicole from Netbook News got a chance to check out a netbook prototype from a subsidiary of Quanta at the WiMAX Forum in Taipei recently. The defining feature of this laptop is probably the fact that it has a built in WiMAX modem, which means you can connect to 4G mobile broadband networks without a USB dongle. But the thing…

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Taiwanese OEM Quanta is apparently working on a netbook called the QW6. There’s not much information about it at the moment, but odds are this machine will be released under a different brand name, as Quanta doesn’t sell PCs directly to consumers. But the company does manufacturer notebooks for big name PC makers. According to an FCC listing, uncovered by…

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Taiwanese PC maker Quanta produces computers that are sold by companies ranging from Apple to Lenovo. And that’s why I have no idea what brand name we’ll eventually see on this convertible tablet that popped up at the FCC web site this week. But as Wireless Goodness notes, it appears that the tablet has 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and measures about the…

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[/caption] If there’s one thing I’ve learned in my time writing about computers, it’s that people love to complain about notebooks and tablets with unusually large bezels around the screen. On some systems, such as the Asus Eee PC 701, the bezel makes sense, since the only way to provide a reasonably large keyboard with a 7 inch screen is…

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As I was wandering past Marvell’s exhibit at CES this weekend, I spotted an incredibly tiny PC called the EBOX connected to a big screen LCD. The display showed that the computer was running Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala and that it could handle 1080p HD video playback. When I asked if there was a spec sheet, I was told it’s…

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