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.
Marvell, the chipmaker, has showcased its version of the tablet at the Future of Publishing Summit that got underway at NY City. The Marvell prototype may be seen as a reference design for a 10.1-inch Android-based color tablet , and is expected that companies would push the design as a base to make their own devices. If things work out as planned, guys at Marvell would love to see tablets based on this design to go on sale by the end of this year.
China has brought to the fore an innovation that has all in it to take on the front runners in the tablet space. The new Hanvon Touchpad BC10C comes across as a multi-touch Windows 7 device that boasts of all properties that could make a top class notebook look silly.
The JooJoo tablet has got a new stylish user interface just ahead of a launch schedule. What we have been looking at till now has been a plain UI, but thinks are definitely changing as the run up to the launch is happening fast. The new improved JooJoo comes trendy with customizable wallpaper. The most significant aspect bout the enhancement is that the JooJoo tablet now comes with a single-touch UI for a virtual mouse pointer and dual-touch for scrolling. The color too has changed from black to a lighter champagne hue.
Toshiba has announced that it is developing tablets of its own in the same category that has been established by the iPad. This is not surprising considering that after Apple’s iPad announcement, every gadget company out there want to bring out tablet devices to get a piece of thepie. Now ARM is also announcing that they are expecting upto 50 tablets based on their processors this year alone. Toshiba’s US notebook lead, Jeff Barney indicates they would have a line of devices to be ready later this year or in early 2011.
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.
After the iPad, every gadget company out there will be coming out with tablet devices. The Dell Mini 5 Android MID has been in the works for sometimes and Dell’s “tablet head” Neeraj Choubay has now outed a few more details about it.
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iPad has made the tablets popular and here is a US arrival confirmed for yet another Tablet this time from Fujitsu. Dubbed the Fujitsu T900, this tablet comes with a basic Intel Core i5-520M configuration which runs at 2.4 GHZ. For the ones seeking better performance from the T900, Fujitsu does give the option of upgrading the tablet with 2.53GHz Core i5 or a 2.66GHz Core i7. Other than the processor, the details include 2GB of RAM and a 160 GB hard drive for the basic model.
Google has hit the nail on its head hogging up some limelight for its future super gadget, the Google Chrome OS based tablet, at a time when the world wasn’t talking anything other than the iPad. Steve Jobs must have swallowed a bitter pill when Glen Murphy, Google Chrome’s designer, posted the mock-up images of the Chrome OS tablet on Google’s official Chromium site.
Agreed that the Chrome OS tablet is in the works while the Apple iPad is far better as a finished product with its features gone public, Apple can still not afford to take Google lightly.
Tablet PCs are in. More so, following the arrival of the Apple iPad! Though the iPad is promising to be on the shopping list of all you enthusiasts out there, there are other technology innovators too who are waiting in the wings with their new tablets. One major is Micro-Star International (or MSI as we know it). MSI is all set to roll out its new Nvidia Tegra-based tablet PC in the second half of 2010.
