The Windows 7 HP Slate 500, will be the first true business tablet to ship, considering the Android-powered Cisco Cius and the Avaya Desktop Video Device are video conferencing devices and the BlackBerry PlayBook is still months away from release. The Slate is just a vanilla Windows 7 Professional device with practically no 3rd party [...]
The Iconia Tab A500 is well stocked with additional features, including GPS, a 5-megapixel back-facing camera with an LED flash, a 2-megapixel front-facing camera, microSD card slot to expand the memory capacity, headphone jack, as well as micro-HDMI, USB and micro-USB ports. Ships with Android OS 3.0 (Honeycomb) with several proprietary apps, along with a [...]
Asus has a fresh take on the oft-maligned Windows tablet in the fast-running Eee Slate EP121, a touch-screen slate coupled with its own Bluetooth keyboard. The Asus Eee Slate EP121 pushes the boundaries of what we expect from Win 7 tablets by casting itself as a high-design, high-powered system and thanks to a fast Intel [...]
The tablet wars are building, petty disputes that will soon lead to bloodshed. Products will be launched into battle only to be gunned down straight out of their boxes, crying for their fabricators as bigger, faster, better slates step over the stricken chassis of their predecessors, running on to their own brief bits of glory. [...]
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 aims for the sweet spot between the embarrassingly big iPad 2 and the Galaxy Tab, which looks like a phone on steroids. With a dual-core processor and a surprisingly light weight, it could be the perfectly sized tablet. It’s early days for Honeycomb, but i’ve seen the new OS in [...]
The Motorola Xoom is the first slate that’s powered by Android 3.0, an OS built from the ground up with larger screens in mind. Motorola has attempted to futureproof the device by offering a free hardware upgrade down the road which will give the tablet access to Big Red’s 4G LTE network. Of course, all [...]
