SlashGear:
Remember Archos’ triumphant announcement last month that the Archos 9 PC Tablet was finally arriving on store shelves? Well, that joy looks to have been seriously premature; while the Archos 9 may have gone up for order on October 22nd – priced at £449.99 ($748) or thereabouts – it’s not expected to ship for another few we (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
Oh, iTablet. When will you ever come out? At this point, it might be better for Apple if it was never released and the company keeps leading everyone, including shareholders, around. But according to DigiTimes, the Apple Tablet is real and was delayed until the second half of 2010 so that it could use a 9.7-inch LG OLED scr (Read More)
SlashGear:
Nine out of ten blurry-cam operators agree, a diet of caffeine and Twinkies is best for getting those sneaky shots that make you so popular among tech blogs. Someone has sent CrunchGear a deliriously wonky photo of what’s said to be an e-reader from a company with no track record in the tablet or ebook reader segment.The d (Read More)
Tablet-Guru.com:
The first Nseries device to use the Maemo operating system was the N800 Internet Tablet, which I still have. The N900 is the first Maemo-powered Nseries device to have a built-in SIM card slot and cellular phone capabilities (ignoring VOIP, of course), and according to a Maemo representative at an N900 meetup last night, it (Read More)
SlashGear:
Maemo – as on the Nokia N900 – is still more of a geek’s paradise than a consumer-ready platform, so we hope the development team responsible for it will be working hard over the next couple of years. That’s because the Maemo marketing team have let slip that, as of 2012, Maemo will replace Symbian as the OS for Nokia’s en (Read More)
Engadget:
Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.There is a sleek new Wi-Fi tablet on the market that is only 0.9 inches thick, gets months of battery life from four AAA batteries and is so durable that its manufacturer encourages users to regularly step on it. After all, it's a scale -- t (Read More)
SlashGear:
It’s been a rainstorm of Archos 5 Internet Tablet newness over at UMPC Portal today, with our friend Steve Paine taking delivery not only of the Archos 5 Mini Dock but the latest firmware which has also released today, v1.3.07. Together they’ve taken the Android-based Archos 5 even closer into MID status: USB host support (Read More)
Mashable!:
Adobe’s AIR platform has been a major boon to bringing Internet applications to the desktop across all of the major operating systems. TweetDeck, Seesmic, and an array of other popular social apps run on the platform.While AIR has been around since 2007, it’s never received an update like this one. Today, Adobe announced (Read More)
Engadget:
It's well established by now that the Kohjinsha PA series tablet is one peculiar creature. It has the internals and OS of a netbook, with a 1.33GHz Atom CPU and Windows XP Home, the 4.8-inch display of a portable MID, and the convertible capabilities of an internet tablet, while its price (around $770) seems to imply it per (Read More)
SlashGear:
Room in your heart (and on your end-table) for another Android tablet? Non-Japanese geeks need not apply, but sometime between April and September next year NTT will push out this 7-inch touchscreen Android slate. The Hikari iFrame is being positioned as one part digital photo frame and one part web tablet, with WiFi for (Read More)
SlashGear:
While we’ve been waiting for integrated 3G and carrier subsidies to bring the cost of the Archos 5 Android Internet Tablet down, if you’ve some developer skills and some time to kill there’s another way to get a cheap deal. Archos have announced a deal whereby developers can – eventually – get an Archos 5 for just €1; all (Read More)
SlashGear:
You can usually rely on the FCC to provide not only pre-announcement shots of upcoming gadgets, but internal images that give modders a good idea of how the final device might be tweaked into something far more useful. The Archos 9 PC Tablet has already been well fondled in real life – we grabbed one back in September – bu (Read More)
SlashGear:
Apple’s ongoing tablet plans may be shrouded in mystery, but we keep getting snippets of potential from various patent applications from the company. Latest to be unearthed documents digital ink recognition using a pen-aware system, which tracks full handwritten phrases rather than merely individual strokes. Apple call it (Read More)
Tablet-Guru.com:
The Mozilla team just announced a new version of ‘Fennec’, which is also known as Firefox for Maemo. The new version, Beta 5, includes several updates, listed below. I’ve tried Fennec on various Maemo devices, including the N800, N810, and now the N900, and this version is the first that I would consider even remotely usabl (Read More)
Crunch Gear:
Short Version: After a handful of rapid-fire firmware updates, the Android-infused Archos 5 Internet Tablet has turned out to be quite a compelling device. The snappy web browser, marathon battery life, and nearly endless list of features and functions make Archos’ latest couch companion a worthwhile option if you’re shoppi (Read More)