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Sluggish tablet sales leading to Taiwanese factory layoffs?

Brad Linder — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 20:30:46 +0000

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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Did RIM just cancel the BlackBerry PlayBook?

Brad Linder — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:07:10 +0000

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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BlackBerry PlayBook orders reduced due to low demand

Brad Linder — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:00:58 +0000

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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Mystery Quanta tablet shows up at the FCC

Brad Linder — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:41:22 +0000

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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BlackPad (BlackBerry Tablet) to run $499?

Brad Linder — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:42:24 +0000

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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Quanta and 3M developing touchscreens for finger, stylus input

Brad Linder — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 17:19:06 +0000

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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Intel shows off Atom powered tablets with MeeGo Linux

Brad Linder — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:19:25 +0000

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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Quanta showcases WiMAX netbook

Brad Linder — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:57:31 +0000

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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Quanta QW6 netbook arrives at the FCC

Brad Linder — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:23:19 +0000

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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Quanta convertible tablet hits the FCC – probably a Classmate PC

Brad Linder — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:21:43 +0000

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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Goodbye bezel? PC makers working on borderless screens

Brad Linder — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:41:58 +0000

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 to...

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Mystery Marvell EBOX is tiny, runs Ubuntu, 1080p video

Brad Linder — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:16:23 +0000

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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Quanta unveils Snapdragon powered, super-thin Android smartbook

Lee — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:30:46 +0000

There's plenty of non-Intel news going around lately. This time, it's Quanta with a new smartbook which marries Qualcomm's 1GHz Snapdragon processor with Google's Android OS. The demo video reveals 3 USB 2.0 ports, a mini-HDMI connector, microSD reader, and combination microphone/headphone jack. The battery looks to be fairly small - perhaps a 3-cell - and it doesn't appear as...

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HP may be working on new 10.1 inch, 11.6 inch notebooks

Brad Linder — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:49:17 +0000

Word on the street may be that Acer and Asus aren't planning on launching any new mini-laptops until 2010, but HP may be another stories. DigiTimes reports that Taiwanese computer maker Inventec has been tapped to work on an updated 10.1 inch netbook for HP. There are no details about the new model, but it's schedueld to begin production at...

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Industry bits: Asus layoffs, Quanta gains traction in netbooks

Brad Linder — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:07:50 +0000

Here are a few stories I came across this weekend about the companies that make our beloved mini-laptops. Asus to layoff up to 500 employees Earlier this year Asus announced plans to layoff several hundred workers as part of an effort to save money and restructure the business. While those layoffs were delayed a bit, DigiTimes reports that by the...

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