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The Gaming Tablet with Physical Buttons

29 August 2012 Marco Attard Laptops, Tablets, eReaders
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The Gaming Tablet with Physical Buttons

Games on a tablet are all well and good, but some customers might prefer buttons-- enter Archos and the GamePad, a 7-inch Android 4.0 tablet with physical controls as well as a touchscreen.

It runs on a dual-core 1.5GHz processor and a Mali 400mp quad-core GPU, and storage comes through 8GB internal and microSD card slot.

In addition to x2 analog sticks and a full set of buttons, Archos provides "automatic game recognition and mapping tools" to ensure the controls are compatible with most (if Continue reading...

Samsung Win 8 Tablet at IFA 2012

29 August 2012 Marco Attard Laptops, Tablets, eReaders
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Samsung Win 8 Tablet at IFA 2012

"Ready to be smart?" Samsung asks in a Facebook with the picture of a mysterious device it will reveal at IFA 2012-- a tablet-laptop hybrid running on Windows 8.

What exactly will this Samsung offering be? Most probably (if not certainly) it is a finalised version of the Series 5 tablet prototype first seen at Computex 2012.

The Computex prototype is similar to other hybrid devices from the likes of Acer and Asus-- a transforming tablet with an 11-inch display and an attachable keyboard. It also Continue reading...

Lenovo Intros Win 8 Tablet

14 August 2012 Marco Attard Laptops, Tablets, eReaders
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Lenovo Intros Win 8 Tablet

Lenovo announces a replacement for the current Android-powered ThinkPad Tablet with the ThinkPad Tablet 2-- a Windows 8 device for both enterprise and consumer use.

It has a 10.1-inch 1366x768 IPS display handling both touch and stylus (via optional pen accessory) input and runs on Windows 8 Pro. Ports include full-size USB 2.0, mini-HDMI, combination mic/headphone jack and MicroSD, while connectivity comes through wifi and Bluetooth.

The front-facing 2MP camera is paired with a built-in mic array Continue reading...

Nvidia and Lenovo Team Up in Win RT?

14 August 2012 Marco Attard Laptops, Tablets, eReaders
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Nvidia and Lenovo Team Up in Win RT?

While Lenovo already has a number of consumer Windows 8 devices waiting to hit the market, the Wall Street Journal reports the company also has a consumer tablet running Windows RT on an Nvidia Tegra processor.

What kind of tablet? One with a "keyboard that flips around," the WSJ says.

ABC News confirms the WSJ report and claims the Nvidia-powered Lenovo tablet is a Windows RT version of the "flexible" IdeaPad Yoga, an ultrabook-tablet hybrid first seen CES 2012.

The Tegra-powered Yoga joins Continue reading...

Acer to Microsoft: "Think Twice" About Surface!

08 August 2012 Marco Attard Laptops, Tablets, eReaders
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Acer to Microsoft:

That Microsoft upset its OEM partners by producing a tablet by itself is not really news-- so what Acer CEO J.T. Wang tells the Financial Times about the Surface only provides further confirmation.

Wang believes the Surfaces will be "negative for the worldwide ecosystem" causing other vendors to "take a negative reaction." He nearly begs Microsoft to "...think it over... please think twice."

"If Microsoft is going to do hardware business, what should we do? Should we still rely on Microsoft, or Continue reading...

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