Charbax from ARMDevices spotted something I missed at CES last week: A 7 inch netbook with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip from NEC. The little guy has a full QWERTY keyboard as well as special keys for Android functions such as Hme, Back, and Menu. The screen also features a resistive touch panel. That said, […]
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Hands-on with the Pocket Edge dual screen eBook reader
I got my first chance to check out the Entourage Pocket Edge eBook reader at CES last week. Like the original Edge, the Pocket version is too large to actually fit in a pocket and features two screens: an E Ink display and a full color LCD screen. But the Pocket Edge is smaller, with […]
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Hannspree showcases three new Android tablets
Like pretty much every other company on-hand at CES last week, Hannspree had a few tablets to show off. I didn’t get a chance to check them out in person, but the folks at Notebook Italia got the scoop on the new 7 and 10 inch models from Hannspree. The first 10 inch model will […]
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Up close with the new Viliv X7 Android, X70 Windows slates
I got a chance to heck out some of the new tablets Viliv introduced last week at CES. The X70 is Windows 7 Slate is an update model of the current X70, with fewer buttons and a shiny new Intel Atom Oak Trail processor (which means it won’t be available for purchase for a little […]
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BlackBerry PlayBook to launch without native messaging apps
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry platform is probably best known for the way it handles email and messaging. But at launch, the BlackBerry PlayBook 7 inch tablet won’t have a native email, BlackBerry Messenger, or Calendar app. Instead, it will rely on something called BlackBerry Bridge which synchronizes data for those apps with a BlackBerry phone […]
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Asus Eee PC 1015B: 10 inch netbook with AMD Fusion
When I spotted the Eee PC 1215B laptop at the Asus booth this weekend I had no idea that the AMD Zacate-powered machine had a little brother. But the folks at Notebook Italia dug up some info on a related model called the Asus Eee PC 1015B. The 1015B has a 10.1 inch, 1024 x […]
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Hands-on with the Asus Eee Pad MeMo
The Eee Pad MeMo is the smallest of the tablets introduced by Asus at CES this year, with a 7 inch screen. But while it doesn’t have a detachable or slide-out keyboard, the MeMo is an interesting little machine it its own right. First of all, it has a high resolution 1024 x 600 pixel […]
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Hands-on with the Asus Eee Slate EP121 Windows tablet
The Eee Slate EP121 is the largest tablet Asus introduced at CES this year. It’s also the most powerful, with a 1.33GHz Intel Core i5-U470 CPU and 4GB of RAM, and the only one to run Windows — or Windows 7 Home Premium to be exact. The computer also has a capacitive multitouch display and […]
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Netbook Navigator unveils 3 new tablets at CES
Netbook Navigator’s first foray into the tablet market was a mixed bag at best. With an unresponsive resistive touchscreen display and less than 2.5 hours of battery life, the Netbook Navigator Nav9 wasn’t exactly an iPad killer on the hardware front. On the other hand, you can’t run Microsoft Office on an iPad. But the […]
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Coby’s latest netbook visits CES
While Coby’s booth at CES was choc full of tablets this year, netbooks were harder to find. For the past two years, Coby has shown up to CES with roughly a gazillion mini-laptops, but this year I spotted just one: The Coby NBPC1029. And I have to say, it’s the most attractive netbook I’ve seen […]