It looks like the Asus Eee PC 1018P is coming to America… eventually. The 10 inch netbook was introduced at CeBIT in Germany earlier this year, and today the folks at Wireless Goodness spotted a filing for the netbook at the Federal Communications Commission web site. The Asus Eee PC 1018P comes with a 10.1 […]
May 2010
Tablet news roundup: HTC tablet for social networking, Chinese tablets galore
I have a feeling we’re going to be buried in tablets soon, with Computex just around the corner. But in advance of the trade show, here are a few of the latest tablet-related stories from around the web: HTC is working on a tablet targeted at women interested in being able to use social networking […]
Goodbye Skylight OS: Lenovo Skylight and U1 Hybrid to use Google Android
First the good news: Lenovo realized that nobody wants to use a custom Linux-based user interface with virtually no third party apps on the company’s upcoming Skylight smartbook and Lenovo IdeaPad U1 Hybrid tablet/laptop device. So Lenovo is killing the Skylight OS project and will instead use Google Android on those two devices. Now the […]
Asus UL20FT with next-gen ULV processor coming soon
Asus reportedly plans to update its 12.1 inch Asus UL20a notebook by swapping out the Core 2 Duo SU7300 processor for Intel’s latest ULV chipset. Details are a bit scarce at the moment, but SemiAccurate reports that the new model will be dubbed the Asus UL20FT and that it will be available with a choice […]
Apple iPad goes on sale internationally
The iPad is now officially an international phenomenon. The Apple tablet went on sale in various locations around the world today, including the UK, Japan, France, Germany, and Italy. Interestingly, the iPad seems to be doing quite well in Japan, a country that’s historically been known for favoring electronics from local manufacturers. You could probably […]
Sony files for patent on dual screen laptop/eBook reader
After playing around with a dual-screen concept device from MSI earlier this year, I wasn’t 100% sold on the idea of a tablet that serves double duty as a laptop by letting you turn one display into a keyboard. On-screen keyboards just aren’t as easy to use as physical keyboards, I figured. But it turns […]
What those $100 VIA tablets might look like
You know how chip-maker VIA recently promised that tablets could start hitting the US and other countries this year for about $100 to $150? The company has put out a gallery showing just what some of those tablets based on VIA’s WonderMedia PRIZM SmartTouch platform could look like. A number of these concepts look ind […]
Gigabye M1125: 11.6 inch convertible tablet with Intel Core i-series processor
Gigabyte is set to launch an 11.6 inch convertible tablet at Computex next week. The company is no stranger to thin and light convertible tablets. The Gigbayte M912 8.9 inch convertible tablet-style netbook was launched way back in 2008. And Gigabyte followed it up with a few 10 inch models. Now Gigabyte is upping upping […]
Samsung N230 netbook is slightly more stylish than the N210
Samsung is starting to show off a new 10 inch netbook called the Samsung N230. Under the hood, the netbook is virtually identical to the Samsung N210 and N220 models that launched earlier this year. It has a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor, 1G of RAM, a 160GB hard drive and runs Windows 7 Starter […]
Acer Aspire One 533 with DDR3 memory coming soon
Acer is reportedly preparing to launch a new 10 inch netbook with support for Intel’s new Atom N455 and N475 processors. The biggest change is that these chips can accept DDR3 memory while all of Acer’s existing netbooks are stuck with plain ole DDR2 RAM. The folks at Macles note that the upcoming Acer Aspire […]