I definitely will love your opinion on the image you see below (that is not mine, anyway) but that is not what we intend to discuss in this narrative. The exciting bit is that Samsung is readying its own tablet, which Samsung calls a slate PC and the product should be available in the second quarter of this year.
I run out of fingers when counting the amount of tablets arriving this year and the Samsung slate news does not do me any good in this regard.
Worried that your Microsoft Zune HD player does not play the XNA Game Studio 4.0 titles? I am confused whether you will like it or not but, there is already a Zune HD 2 Player in the works and that might be the hand-held to play all those nifty titles. Yes, your favorite media player ‘might’ soon turn obsolete as there are rumors doing rounds about the arrival of the next generation of Microsoft HD media players.
Since these are all rumors, we are confused about what to trust but, what is worth mentioning is that the Zune HD2 will be closer to the iPod touch at least in terms of size, as per speculations.
Sony is in the mood to take a noticeable advantage in the Console supremacy war as it yesterday roped in six major studios to offer HD movies and now, the ‘ghostly’ PlayStation Move which is a Wii-mote like motion control unit with game support, has also been announced at the GDC.
The gaming world has long spoken about the arrival of this motion controller and Sony never revealed anything concrete about it but now, the silence has finally been broken at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
The Tablet war is getting more intense by the day and it is no hidden fact that the Apple iPad will have to face some stiff competition from the likes of HP and now ‘even’ Dell with its Mini 5 Tablet dream project. The iPad will find it difficult to hold its share in the marketplace like it did with the iPhone because of the competition, and the Dell Mini 5 will also have a number of factors which make it competitive.
The primal one is the presence of Android Market applications which will help the Dell Mini 5 to offer apps such as the Amazon Kindle e-reader and viewer for Amazon’s video services.
After lots of waiting – agonizing for some of the more dedicated fans of Apple – the official launch date for their newest product, the iPad, has been revealed – the device is launching in the US on April 3, and the 3G model will be released some time later during the month.
Asus is pretty confident about the success of its future product, the Eee Pad, and it believes that the Apple iPad offers nothing which the Asus branded tablet cannot achieve. The Asus systems business group VP Eric Chen also endorses the belief that the iPad is nothing but a ‘big iPhone’ and as per him, the iPad will not be able to hold its market share like the iPhone, as better tablets will soon be on offer from various competitors.
This bit of information comes across as a breath of fresh air for Apple iPad freaks who had sullen faces after an AP endorsed report claiming a delayed launch of the Apple Tablet. Those faces need to cheer up as the Apple inventory is absolutely on track and the scheduled release this month will see no changes being made.
The AP report mentioned that Apple will either have to cut down on the number of units released to 300,000 in March and not a million or else the entire launch will have to be delayed as a Taiwan-based supplier of Apple products was facing production woes.
We are trying all that we can to woo our Indian readers with latest tech updates through out the day but today, we are not being rewarded as all India is Googling is “Sachin Tendulkar”. In some parts of the world you may be reading this name for the very first time but in India, this human being is ‘almost God’ if not God.
Sachin Tendulkar took apart the South African bowling attack in Gwalior today, becoming the first man in the history of the sport to score 200 runs in an ODI game.
The world has waited patiently enough to read this and albeit an unconfirmed prediction, it still feels good to know that the US pre-orders for the WiFi version of the Apple iPad may happen as early as February 25th. It is only the WiFi version of the Apple tablet that does not require a long time contract, which is why we can probably trust the Appadvice floated rumor. Whether Apple is ready with minor applications hailing from the iPod and iPhone territory is another query we need to look into before getting too excited.
Flashback: How did Microsoft ensure that it was not violating the EU antitrust laws in reference to the browsers? The answer lies atop in the Windows 7 Ballot Screen mandated by the EU, something Microsoft had to do to get Windows 7 going in Europe. EU believed that a user needed to know that he had options just in case the Internet Explorer wasn’t something he preferred and the solution wasn’t a browser d-load. Instead, Microsoft had to take the onus to develop a screen that informed about the relevant options (now dubbed the ballot screen).
