Sharp is showing off its 5.5 inch and 10.8 inch Galapagos tablets at CES this week. Both tablets run a highly customized version of Google Android with a heavy focus on eBooks, magazines, comic books, and other digital media, although there’s also a web browser. Unfortunately the WiFi wasn’t working at the Sharp booth, so […]
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Acer unveils convertible tablet/notebook with detachable keyboard
Acer is showing off a mockup of an upcoming convertible Windows tablet which takes an interesting approach to the question of what to do with the keyboard when you’re not using it. Instead of a slide-out keyboard, or a swiveling keyboard, Laptop Magazine reports that this computer has a detachable keyboard. The idea is that […]
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Coby shows off new Android, Windows tablets
Coby is showing off a handful of new tablets at CES this week, and while normally I’d caution that Coby has a tendency to show off computers at CES that may or may not ever make it to market, the company already offers two Android tablets in the US under its Kyros tablet brand. So […]
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Hands-on with the OCOSMOS line of handheld gaming computers
OCOSMOS has been showing off a gaming handheld computer with a 5 inch display called the OCS1 for a few months, but it turns out that the first version we saw — with a slide-out keyboard, is aimed at the Korean market. The company has several other 5 inch models, which will likely be aimed […]
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MSI shows off tablet design concepts
MSI is showing off four tablets at CES this week, including two that are purely concept devices which may never see the light of day, and two tablets which are likely to come to market eventually… but which are clearly only in the prototype stages at this point. One rather unusual prototype (pictured above) is […]
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Closer look at the MSI U270 AMD Zacate notebook
MSI started showing off its new U270 laptop with an AMD Zacate chip last week in Taiwan. But instead of flying out to Taiwan to see the laptop, I waited until I could check it out at CES in Vegas. It’s a nice looking machine, although the touchpad is noticeably small, and the computer has […]
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Hanvon introduces HPad A116 Android tablet
Hanvon is showing off a new line of Android tablets with solid build quality and an interesting user interface with a heavy focus on digital media. The Hanvon HPad A116 features a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel capacitive touch TFT display, a 1GHz ARM Cotex A8 processor, and Android 2.2 or 2.3. The tablet […]
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First look at the Acer ICONIA Tab A500 Android tablet
The Acer ICONIA Tab A500 is an Android tablet with a 10.1 inch display, NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, and support for Verizon’s 4G LTE network. I stopped by the NVIDIA booth to check out the tablet, and found that it handled high performance 3D graphics like a champ, making the A500 an excellent […]
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Hands-on with the BlackBerry Playbook
I got my first chance to play with RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook today, and I have to say… it’s nice. While the world may need another tablet-specific operating system like it needs a hole in the head (does the world have a head?) the PlayBook UI is nice and while not 100% intuitive, you can learn […]
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Hands-on with the OpenPeak tablet
OpenPeak is showing off its upcoming tablet with an Intel Atom Moorestown processor. The demo units at CES are all running Google Android 2.2 and have 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel capacitive touchscreen displays, but OpenPeak says the specs are subject to change. For instance, the tablet could easily run MeeGo or use a […]