Intel has began shipping its first Oak Trail chip, the Atom Z670, and gave a preview of its next-generation Cedar Trail platform. The more tablet-ready processor, first unveiled a year ago, is due to reach its first shipping devices in May. Most of the first batch will include Windows-based tablets like the ASUS Eee Slider […]
Acer today debuts the Acer Iconia Tab A500 in the United States and announces that it is available for pre-order online exclusively from Best Buy. The Acer Iconia Tab A500 is the company’s first 10.1-inch tablet running Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) for North America. The 10.1-inch capacitive touch-screen tablet delivers has a resolution 1280×800 TFT WXGA […]
Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Holt on Friday drew attention by claiming to know Microsoft was accelerating its attempts to compete in tablets. Following a briefing with Microsoft executives, he now believed Windows 8 on ARM chips could reach the market as soon as the end of 2011 or the start of 2012. The acceleration could […]
LG at the eve of Mobile World Congress released details on the Optimus 3D. The Android-basedunit will have dual-core 1GHz TI OMAP4 chip that not only enables the stereoscopic 3D recording . The graphics core is touted as twice as fast as the “nearest competitor” and has four times as many video decoders. The unit […]
ViewSonic Europe on Friday kicked off its Mobile World Congress presentation by introducing a dual-SIM Android phone, the V350, and a dual-boot, 10-inch ViewPad 10Pro. The former has a 3.5-inch touchscreen and uses Android 2.2. It can answer calls coming to either SIM card’s phone number at the same time and is geared the most […]
Momentum behind tablet (slate) PC shipments is growing, with a Y/Y increase of nearly 200% to 55.7 million units expected in 2011, according to the DisplaySearch Quarterly Mobile PC Shipment and Forecast Report. Though growth rates will slow over the forecast period, the slate PC share of the overall mobile PC market, which also includes […]
Lenovo and NEC on Thursday confirmed a rumored deal to merge their PC businesses in Japan. The resulting NEC Lenovo Japan Group will be the largest single computer maker in the country and will see the two work together on not just developing computers but on future tablets. Both companies will keep using their brand […]
Motorola during its fiscal results call confirmed some of its launch strategy for tablets beyond the Xoom to try allay growing fears about the timing. The company now expects to have a seven-inch Android tablet in the second half of 2011. Although not providing details on this smaller screen, company chief Sanjay Jha also confirmed […]
Lenovo has had created a group dedicated to making phones and tablets. The section will be there to provide a ‘clear focus’ on the category for senior level executives, the company’s Think group lead Peter Hortensius said. Most of the products coming out of the group in the US will involve tablets, likely including the […]
Intel today confirmed that it has started up a dedicated network and tablet group in a likely attempt to counter the iPad and other products based on ARM chips. The group will be led by the leader of the company’s embedded chip and communications team, Doug Davis. It should help “sharpen our focus [at Intel]” […]
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