Ultrabooks are thin and light portable computers with solid state disks and the latest Intel processors. Right now they’re premium laptops with prices ranging from $899 to nearly $1500. But Intel is hoping that within the next year or two ultrabooks could account for as much as 40 percent of all laptop sales — and […]
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B&N NOOK Tablet is the fastest-selling NOOK to date
Barnes & Noble has been offering digital media devices under the NOOK brand for a few years. That includes NOOK eBook reader with E Ink displays and the NOOK Color and NOOK Tablet color Android tablets. But the company says the NOOK Tablet which launched in November is the fastest-selling device in the NOOK family so far. […]
Asus Eee Pad Transformer review roundup
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the most powerful Android tablet to date. It’s the first device to include a 1.3 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor with high performance graphics. It has 1GB of RAM, a 10.1 inch Super IPS+ 1280 x 800 pixel display, and a new high-quality camera. Like the original […]
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich ported to x86 chips
About two weeks after Google released the source code for Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich the folks at the Android-x86 project have released the first build for x86 chips. That’s pretty impressive, considering Google has only released the source for devices with ARM-based processors such as the Samsung Galaxy Nexus smartphone. Google is reportedly […]
Gigabyte T1132 notebook, tablet, desktop hybrid at the FCC
The Gigabyte Booktop 1132 is a computer designed for anyone that can’t choose between a laptop, a tablet, or a desktop. It aims to be all three. You can use the computer as a standard laptop, twist the screen and fold it back over the keyboard for use as a tablet, or close the lid […]
It’s (sort of) official: Acer will launch a quad-core tablet next year
Over the past few weeks we’ve seen plenty of evidence that Acer was planning to launch at least one tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. Now Acer president Jim Wong has confirmed as much in an interview with T3. Unfortunately, that’s all he was willing to confirm. So we don’t have any new details about the […]
Archos Arnova A9 G2 stops by the FCC
The Arnova 9 G2 is an Android tablet with a 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel IPS display. It supports 5-point multitouch input, runs Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread and has a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A8 single core CPU. The tablet showed up recently on the Arnova website, but there’s no word on a price or release date. […]
RIM responds to DingleBerry root for the BlackBerry PlayBook
A team of independent developers say they’ve managed to root their BlackBerry PlayBook tablets, gaining access to escalated device privileges and accessing settings that would not otherwise be available. They plan to release a tool called DingleBerry to the public soon, which would allow anyone to root a PlayBook. But in order to figure out […]
Cisco to offer larger, smaller Cius tablets in 2012
The Cisco Cius tablet which launched this year is an Android tablet with an Intel Atom processor and a heavy emphasis on business. There’s an optional dock that lets you turn the tablet into an office phone, for instance. Right now Cisco offers a model with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, but […]
Gigabyte T1006 Cedar Trail netbook hits the FCC
Gigabyte has been producing convertible tablet-style netbooks for a few years. At first glance they look like any other netbook, if a bit bulkier. But the displays are attached to the base of the computer with a swivel rather than two hinges. This lets you rotate the screen 180 degrees and fold it down over […]