tablets

Xoom 2 family of Motorola to carry LTE

Published on: 29th September, 2011

Additional details have been brought related to Motorola’s Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 ME. Both devices are about 9.3mm thick but do not necessarily sacrifice features, Engadget claims. They are Android 3.2 devices and have LTE-based 4G. Five-megapixel cameras also equip both members of the Xoom family. However, both devices might miss this year entirely. [...]

Android 3.1 live much faster on Motorola Xoom

Published on: 16th May, 2011

As promised, Google and Motorola have pushed out the new Android 3.1 to Motorola’s Xoom. The operating system has been only superficially intended to bring new features, but now it is said to be significantly faster. As CrunchGear showed after an early check, the operating system allows applications to load faster, transitions are faster, while [...]

Android 3.0 tablet of Toshiba to be delayed to summer

Published on: 16th May, 2011

The forthcoming Android 3.0 tablet of Toshiba presented at CES and scheduled to be delivered for shipping in June seems to have been delayed. Ken Chan, business notebooks chief of Toshiba UK, told RegHardware that the company’s 10-inch tablet would come during the summer. Chan did not give any reasons for this delay, even if [...]

BlackBerry PlayBook finally gets video chat and Facebook

Published on: 12th May, 2011

As a part of its BlackBerry World introduction, Research in Motion made public detailed plans of providing two major applications in order to improve the feature set of the BlackBerry PlayBook. RIM’s tablet will finally get an official Video Chat application, which will allow owners to make two way calls between other users of PlayBooks [...]

News Corp executive confirmed tablet-focused news source

Published on: 24th November, 2010

James Murdoch, head of Asia-Europe division of News Corp, confirmed the existence of the long-rumored tablet news source of the company. The son of the founder Rupert Murdoch, at a conference with a Spanish investor, said that Daily Planet (codename of the outlet) would be soon detailed. Details were not given except that it would [...]

PlayBook versus iPad video posted by RIM, demonstrates Flash slowdowns

Published on: 23rd November, 2010

Research in Motion has recently posted a video pitting its BlackBerry PlayBook against Apple’s iPad in a browsing test. The newer dual-core ARM Cortex-A9 processor of its tablet gave it an edge when loading most of the pages and especially those mainly dependent on JavaScript as well as more complex code, such as the ACID3 [...]

LifeTouch tablet Android-based introduced by NEC

Published on: 17th November, 2010

The Japanese company NEC announced the launch of its LifeTouch tablet. This will be a seven-inch tablet with an 800×480 resolution and will use Android 2.1. NEC says that it will combine the functionality of a PC and a cellphone. The device is intended mainly for corporate users and has a four-way direction pad. The [...]

Sony hints at PlayStation phone, possible tablet

Published on: 8th November, 2010

During a call discussing the latest results, Sony seriously hinted that it was developing a PlayStation phone. The company did not mention the device itself, but said that the Network Services group, which handles computers as well as the PlayStation brand, would deliver the hardware. The PlayStation division, Sony Computer Entertainment, would be moved into [...]

Microsoft’s revenue hits a record 25 percent, but is overtaken by Apple

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Microsoft announced a record in revenue for the summer quarter by reaching $16.2 billion. The figure is a 25 percent jump compared to last year and was supported by unbound Windows 7 sales accompanied by Office 2010 and the Xbox 360. Without giving numbers, the company sold 38 percent more console games than last summer, [...]

Sharp leaves PC business and focuses on Android tablets

Published on: 31st October, 2010

Sharp has announced that it would stop developing and manufacturing desktop and notebook PCs. The Japanese company has had some innovative designs like netbooks and the Mebius notebook, with touchscreen input replacing the traditional trackpad, all of them well received by the public. However, Sharp is determined to focus on eBooks and tablets and considers [...]

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