The Eee PC 1015PED is one of several new 10 inch netbooks Asus launched late this summer. It doesn’t have an HD display or high performance graphics like the upcoming Asus Eee PC 1015PN, and it doesn’t have a dual core processor like the Eee PC 1015PEM. What it does have is an identical case […]
September 2010
China Telecom to offer Lifepad A800 Android tablet
China Telecom is reportedly preparing to offer a new Android tablet called the Lifepad A800. It was first previewed earlier this year. the tablet has a 7 inch, 800 x 600 pixel resistive touchscreen display, a Freescale i.MX515 processor, and runs Google Android 2.1. As you’d expect from any tablet coming from a wireless provider, […]
Compaq Airlife 100 Android powered netbook heads to Chile
The Compaq Airlife 100 may have made its debut at the Consumer Electronics Show in Vegas in January, but it has yet to land on retail shelves in the US. The device is one of the first so-called smartbooks to hit the market. It has a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor and runs Google’s Android operating […]
DisplaySearch: Overall portable PC sales on the upswing
DisplaySearch released new numbers today suggesting that netbook sales may be dipping, iPad sales are doing well, and overall portable PC sales including tablets, ultraportable computers, and other notebooks are doing quite well. The research firm notes that 9 inch and smaller netbooks have all-but disappeared from the market, which should be apparent to pretty […]
Acer isn’t giving up on netbooks anytime soon
There’s been a lot of talk over the last few months about whether there’s a future for netbooks or whether the iPad and other tablets will kill the tiny portable notebook market. I personally believe there’s room for both product categories — there are some things that are always going to be easier to do […]
Chromium OS on the iPad: touch input works, Flash doesn’t
Yesterday we saw the first image of Chromium OS (a pre-release version of Google Chrome OS) running on the Apple iPad. Today we have the first video. Both come courtesy of Hexxeh, a hacker who has been compiling builds of Chromium OS from Google’s source code for just about as long as Google has been […]
Nationite introduces Rocktab 7 inch Android tablet
Nationite is launching a new 7 inch tablet with a 600MHz Rockchip RK2808 processor, an 800 x 480 pixel resistive touchscreen display and Google Android 1.5. If that doesn’t sound too exciting, it’s because for the most part it isn’t. But there are a few things that make the Rocktab stand out a bit. First, […]
UK retailer Next offering a ÂŁ180 Android tablet
Don’t feel like shelling out big bucks for a Samsung Galaxy Tab? There are plenty of cheap Android tablets from companies you’ve never heard of. And while for the most part you get what you pay for, at least your wallet won’t feel all that much lighter after you plunk down the cash on a […]
It’s (almost) official: HP’s WebOS tablet will be named PalmPad
Despite early evidence that Research in Motion’s upcoming tablet would bear the awkward moniker of “BlackPad,” this week the company announced a device with a slightly better name: BlackBerry PlayBook. I’m still not sure why you’d use the word play when describing a device that you want to promote as a tablet professionals can use […]
Google Chrome OS ported to the Apple iPad
We’ve seen hackers install Google Android on the iPhone, so it it any surprise that someone decided to cram Google’s upcoming Chrome Operating System onto an iPad? That’s exactly what one hacker named Hexxeh has done. Hexxeh is probably best known as one of the first people to compile early builds of Google Chrome OS […]