It looks like Acer is hedging its bets in the consumer tablet space. The company is currently selling a 10 inch Acer Iconia Tab A500 tablet with Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Now it looks like Acer will add an Iconia M500 MeeGo tablet to the mix later this year. While the company’s Android tablet is […]
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AMD makes the low power Z-Series Desna chip official
AMD has officially unveiled a new low power chip called the AMD Z-01. This is the same “Desna” chip that we first heard about in a leaked product roadmap a few days ago, and it’s AMD’s solution for tablets and other low power mobile devices. The AMD Z-01 features a 1 GHz dual core CPU […]
MSI unveils WindPad Enjoy 7, 10 inch Android tablets
Somehow I missed this yesterday when I noted that MSI had unveiled a new 7 inch Android tablet, but it looks like the company is introducing a whole new line of Android tablets under the WindPad Enjoy name. The Enjoy tablets appear to be positioned as cheaper alternatives to the MSI WindPad 100A. That tablet has a […]
MSI rolls out next-gen Wind Box nettops
MSI is unveiling a new line of small form factor desktop computers packing the latest Intel and AMD chips. The MSI Wind Box DC540 features an Intel Atom Cedar Trail-D processor, while the latest Wind Box DC100 comes with a 1.6 GHz AMD E-350 processor and Radeon HD 6310 graphics. The company is also unveiling a […]
Lenovo shows a 10 inch netbook with MeeGo Linux and an Atom N435 chip
Intel hasn’t made any formal announcements about a 1.33 GHz Atom N435 processor, but it seems to be the chip of choice for netbook makers showcasing MeeGo Linux. The Asus Eee PC X101 netbook which was unveiled yesterday packs an N435 chip. And now the folks at Netbook NEws spotted a new version of Lenovo’s […]
Intel shows off Android tablets with Intel inside
Intel execs promised the company would show off ten tablets with Intel Atom processors running Google Android at Computex, and it looks like the chip maker has followed through on that promise. Engadget spotted about a dozen Android tablets at the Intel booth at the Taiwanese trade show this week. The good news is that […]
German WeTab tablet shrinks down to 10.1 inches
The WeTab is a German tablet running a custom operating system based on MeeGo Linux with support for Linux and Android apps. The original WeTab featured an 11.6 inch, 1366 Â x 768 pixel display and 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 processor. But there’s a new version on display at Computex this week with a new […]
ECS wants to turn your smartphone into a tablet
Asus isn’t the only company looking at ways to let you use a smartphone as a tablet. The Asus PadFone consists of an Android smartphone that functions as the brains of a tablet when you slot the phone into a tablet shell. But ECS is showing off a prototype of a tablet shell that could […]
SanDisk launches new SSD storage for tablets, notebooks, phones
SanDisk is launching several new flash storage modules for notebooks and mobile devices. First up is the company’s new U100 SSD with read speeds up to 450MB/sec and write speeds up to 340MB/sec. The U100 is a SATA III card designed for thin notebooks and mobile devices. It will come in a number of different […]
MSI WindPad 120W tablet features Cedar Trail chip, Windows 7
MSI is showing off a new 10 inch tablet running Windows 7. No, it’s not the MSI WindPad 110W with an AMD Fusion processor. It’s the new WindPad 120W with a 1.86 GHz Intel Atom Cedar Trail chip. The tablet has a capacitive touchscreen display, support for GPS and 3G connectivity, and features Intel’s WiDi […]