The Novero Solana is a 10 inch netbook with an Intel Atom N600 Cedar Trail processor and Windows 7 operating system. But what makes it unusual is that it can also function as a touchscreen tablet. What makes it even more unusual is that it doesn’t have a swivel like an old-school tablet. Instead, you simply […]
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Pixel Qi sunlight readable displays at CES 2012
Pixel Qi makes LCD displays that can be viewed outdoors in direct sunlight using nothing but ambient light. In full color LCD mode they still look better outdoors than a typical screen, but you can also cut the backlight entirely and use the screens in a high-contrast, nearly black and white mode that uses as […]
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QOOQ is a kitchen-friendly, splash-proof tablet
The QOOQ French Digital Cookbook is a tablet designed for use in the kitchen. It has a water-resistant design and a case that can be wiped clean with a cloth if you get water, oil, or other food on the screen while looking up a recipe. It also has four feet with rubbery grips on […]
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ZTE shows off a 7 inch, 720p tablet with Tegra 3
Chinese device maker ZTE has been promising to enter the North American phone and tablet market for a while, but so far hasn’t made much of a splash in the States. So I’m not going to hold my breath waiting for this sleek new 7 inch ZTE tablet to come to the US. But it’d […]
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eFun introduces 7 to 10 inch Android 4.0 tablets for $149 and up
eFun is rolling out a new line of inexpensive Nextbook tablets with Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich with prices as low as $149. For that price what you gt is the Nextbook Premium 7, a tablet with a 1 GHz ARM Rockchip RK2918 Cortex-A8 single core processor and a 7 inch, 800 x 480 […]
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Ectacto Jetbook Color eReader already available in Russia
The Ectacto JetBook is one of the first eBook readers with a color E Ink display. Basically it has a standard E Ink display with a filter on top which adds color without using much more energy than a grayscale E Ink screen. In other words, battery life is measured in weeks rather than hours. […]
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Next-gen Samsung Chromebook ditches Atom for Celeron
Samsung is updating its Series 5 Chromebook by swapping out the Intel Atom N570 dual core processor for a faster (but still hardly top-of-the-line) Intel Celeron processor. The new Chromebook will still have a 16GB solid state disk and Chrome OS operating system, which means that basically the laptop will run nothing but a web […]
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Kupa X11 tablet getting Windows 8 update later this year
The Kupa X11 is a Windows tablet with a 10 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom Z670 Oak Trail processor, and up to 10 hours of battery life. What sets the X11 apart from most entry-level Windows tablets is that it has a capacitive touchscren for finger input and an active […]
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NEC dual-screen tablet going international this summer
The NEC Cloud Communicator dual-screen Android tablet made its first appearance in the US during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. But while the tablet went on sale in Japan last summer, it’s not yet available outside of that country. But the dual screen tablet has come a long way since I saw it last year. […]
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Rockchip Android 4.0 tablets at CES 2012 – video
Chinese chip maker Rockchip promised to bring more than 30 tablets to the Consumer Electronics Show, and while I didn’t do a complete tablet count, the Rockchip booth was choc full of tablets and handheld devices including phones and media players. The big news is that a number of tablets using the company’s latest 1.2 […]