Tag: TABLET

In today's new world economic order, China's supposed to be the one providing us with cheap products, and India's supposed to be the guy we call when said cheap products break down. Now, though, the mighty subcontinent has decided to throw its hat into the low-cost manufacturing ring with the release of a new $35 tablet. According to Human Resource Development Minister Kapil Sibal, the ...

In the visually illustrious world of Hayao Miyazaki, anything goes. Children fly, parents turn into pigs, and shadows cook udon. One thing that doesn't exist in his fantasy land, though, is the iPad. It's a well known fact that Miyazaki is a staunch anti-techie. He owns no computer, DVD player or cell phone, and proudly communicates via handwritten letters whenever he feels the need to express ...

Apparently, Research in Motion (RIM) isn't satisfied to stand pat in the smartphone market. According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, RIM is testing a touchscreen BlackBerry prototype that has a slide-out keyboard and will run the yet-to-be-released BlackBerry OS 6. Users would be able to swipe and pinch the screen, and the device would also have a universal search bar for users to ...

There's no denying the hype around the iPad, but, apparently, humans aren't the only mammals who are intrigued by Apple's tablet. According to a press release (PDF) from Speak Dolphin, a bottlenose dolphin named Merlin recently learned to communicate using the iPad. Merlin, who resides at a research center in Puerto Aventuras, Mexico, is shown an object, like a ball or plastic duck. Then, trainer ...

Soon, Australian travelers will have a new way to kill time while on a plane. According to The Next Web, Jetstar, a budget Aussie airline, will be offering an iPad rental service later this month to passengers on select flights that are longer than 90 minutes. For just $8.40 (A$10), passengers can bypass lame romantic comedies and SkyMall magazine for a selection of e-books, movies and games ...

A sub-$100 tablet could soon become a reality. According to PC World, One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) hopes to develop a working prototype of its XO-3 tablet by the end of this year, and to debut the device at CES 2011 in January -- two years sooner than expected. OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte says the tablet will take the best parts of the iPad, Kindle and a laptop, wrapping them into a package ...

Verizon Wireless has apparently decided to get in the tablet game, with a little help from Google. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Verizon chief executive Lowell McAdam confirmed that his company was collaborating on a new tablet with Google, though he was noticeably light on the deets. McAdam simply told the Journal,"We're looking at all the things Google has in its archives that ...

Now that Apple has jumped into the tablet arena, everyone else is clamoring to capitalize on the new found attention being garnered by the form factor. We already know that HP has one in the works, and Microsoft has been teasing us with the drool-inducing Courier for months now. Even Dell and Nokia are getting in on the slate craze, and we spent some hands on time at CES with many lower profile ...

Apple may have made a big splash with the iPad this weekend, but HP wasn't about to sit quietly on the sidelines and let the Cupertino boys hog the spotlight. We first caught a glimpse of the HP Slate at CES, and the manufacturer (with a little help from Adobe) has yet to pass up a chance to take pot-shots at Apple's netpad-light, over-sized iPhone, toy-tablet device. The latest comes in the ...

Share User reviews of the iPad have started to emerge, and, contrary to what many expected, they're generally pretty positive. While initial impressions run the gamut from pleasantly surprised to downright effusive, the overarching theme seems to be the same: the iPad is just different. Occupying a strange space between laptop and e-reader, the iPad, as the Houston Chronicle's Bob "Dr. Mac" ...

Foamy-mouthed fanboys (and everyone attempting to save print) are one step closer to getting their greasy paws on the "magical and revolutionary" iPad this morning, as Apple has finally opened up pre-orders this morning. Those who camped out in front of their iMacs this morning, buying fingers twitching above the imaginary buttons on their Magic Mouse, will get the tablet device delivered to ...

Share We briefly mentioned Microsoft's Courier tablet concept back in September, but more details about the would-be iPad-killer have finally leaked. While the design seem to have moved into a less "pie-in-the-sky" direction, the demo videos and mock-ups are still quite impressive. We now know that the dual-screened electronic journal will be less than an inch thick, and that each screen ...

The Apple iPad is just around the corner and it's time for developers to start showing off their wares. In particular, magazines and newspapers are lining up to unveil ideas about how we'll interact with "print" content in the 21st century. We've already gotten a look at the iPad specific version of the New York Times, and now Wired is demoing its new tablet app as well. It might not be a ...

Share It's only been a couple of weeks since Steve Jobs revealed the iPad to the world and the naysayers are crawling out of the woodwork. But it's not a bunch of nerds that are criticizing the new tablet's features. Rather, it's scientists who say the iPad could be hazardous to your health. According to Live Science, the iPad's design (and that of some other mobile devices) encourages users ...

Though the Chromium OS team (the open source side of Google's Chrome OS project) posted these mockups on January 25 (it took until now for the blogosphere to take notice). One thing is clear, though: Chrome OS has the iPad in its sights. The concept images and video show what a multi-touch enabled Chrome OS might look like. While there is nothing truly Earth-shattering about the images, the ...