May 26

Shanzai shocker! VIA processors in $100 Android tablets later this year

Posted in: Android, android tablet, AndroidTablet, GoogleAndroid, slate, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, tablets, Today's Chili

Brace for a storm of craptablets: this week, Taiwanese semiconductor firm VIA said its processors will appear in a new slate of cheap Android tablets destined for the US in the second half of this year. Speaking to Bloomberg, VIA marketing head Richard Brown said the company’s Chinese customers will ship around five tablets, that they’ll appear at $100 to $150 price points, and that “the tablet market has been legitimized by Apple” — that last likely in an attempt to make Bloomberg utter the words “VIA” and “iPad” in the same breath. (It worked.) Mind you, the iPad certainly isn’t the be-all, end-all of tablet computing, but we wouldn’t expect to get a legitimate iPad killer for $100, either. We think we said it best in April: you get what you pay for.

Shanzai shocker! VIA processors in $100 Android tablets later this year originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 26 May 2010 11:36:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 25

Marvell shows off 10-inch Android tablet at Netbook Summit

Posted in: Android, android tablet, AndroidTablet, arm, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, tablets, Today's Chili

Unfortunately, we don’t know much about this new Marvell powered tablet, but we couldn’t resist sharing our impressions of the very svelte 10-inch device. We only got a few minutes to play around with the slate at the Netbook Summit, but we can tell you that it has a brushed metal back and there’s an opening on the front for a camera. As for the internals, it’s based on Marvell’s Moby reference design, which uses its Snapdragon-class Armada 610 processor, and will run Android 2.1 Eclair. The rest will be up to whatever Marvell customer is bringing this bad boy to market — the Marvell executive that let us catch a glance at the device wouldn’t turn it on as he feared we may see the mystery customer’s logo. We told you we didn’t know much, but from what we saw today it sure looks promising. Now, if only we felt Android was ready Google would give us a tablet-ready version of Android…

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Marvell shows off 10-inch Android tablet at Netbook Summit originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 May 2010 16:37:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 25

No, we didn’t get an Enso zenPad

Posted in: android tablet, AndroidTablet, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, Today's Chili

Hey folks, it’s just come to our attention that Enso — a French startup that received notoriety for selling vaporware tablets — has been using Engadget’s good name to convince irate customers that its product actually exists. We gave Enso the benefit of the doubt at first, but let’s put things in perspective: we have not received an zenPad tablet, and in fact, we no longer expect to. Enso has now promised us a review unit on five separate occasions beginning in early April, and missed each deadline it set for itself. We do not endorse the supposed product, and we’d appreciate it if you pay no attention when company founders tell you otherwise — or set up fake review websites, for that matter. That’s just not cool.

No, we didn’t get an Enso zenPad originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 May 2010 11:11:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 24

Intel to announce dedicated tablet silicon at Computex

Posted in: intel, intel atom, IntelAtom, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, tablets, Today's Chili

During this morning’s press conference on the new Core i3, i5 and i7 ULV processors, Intel PC Client Group Vice President Mooly Eden revealed that Chipzilla will launch that special “tablet solution” we had heard about at Computex next week. No details were given on this “dedicated silicon for the tablet space,” but we can assume that it’s going to fall into the Atom line up. Whether it will be an extension of the Moorestown family or just be an outgrowth of the Pineview platform found in netbooks and nettops remains to be seen, but you can bet on us listening up for more info when we’re live from Taipei next week. Hit the link below if you want to hear this guy spill the beans.

Intel to announce dedicated tablet silicon at Computex originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 24 May 2010 11:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 21

ExoPC prototype gets handled on video, looks downright delightful

Posted in: hands-on, prototype, slate, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, Today's Chili, video, windows 7, Windows7

To say we’ve been waiting “awhile” for the ExoPC to fully emerge from under its veil and begin shipping to the world at large would be a startling understatement, but it looks like the holding period is just… about… over. We’re personally getting some one-on-one time in the coming days once we touch down in Taipei for this year’s Computex expo, but in the meantime, those who fancy machine translation (or who learned far too much during those high school French courses) can dig into an overview from the folks over at Blogue de Geek, who were recently able to sit down with a prototype version of the Windows 7 slate and give it a nice once-over. By and large, they were duly impressed with what they saw, noting that video playback was flawless (thanks, Broadcom!) and that bootup was shockingly quick considering that a full-on desktop OS is included. Hit that source link to get a taste (or just past the break for a video), and be sure to keep it locked here next week for continued coverage.

Update: Looks like the final product name will simply be “slate” and there will be four models to choose from: 32GB WiFi, 32GB WiFi + 3G / GPS, 64GB WiFi and 64GB WiFi + 3G / GPS.

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ExoPC prototype gets handled on video, looks downright delightful originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 21 May 2010 13:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 17

Kakai morphs into Kno, aims to school you at D8 conference

Posted in: education, Linux, netbook, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, Today's Chili

We’ve already seen one prestigious institution reject the Kindle DX, but that’s not to say there’s no room for someone else’s digital textbook in the classroom. Kakai, an undercover startup that we heard whispered about back in April, is slowly but surely removing their own veil. Now, the company has decided to go by Kno (short for knowledge, dude), and will make its public debut at the D8 conference next month. All we’ve heard so far is that the company’s first product will be a Linux-based “foldable double-screened device, [which is] designed to feel like a mix of laptop and textbook.” It’ll be both portable and gesture-based, and as you’d likely imagine, will be aimed directly at the education market. We’re also told that the endeavor will include “robust software and a seamless website to deliver course material, allowing for note-taking and offering other audio and video capabilities,” and while that’s all a bit difficult to simply envision without a stiff cup of java to stimulate the imagination, we’ll be taking an up close and personal look in just a few days when we head out to California for Walt and Kara’s annual shindig.

Kakai morphs into Kno, aims to school you at D8 conference originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 May 2010 11:53:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 17

Tablet PC shocker! Fujitsu LifeBook T730 official, smaller version of T900

Posted in: CoreI5, intel, netbook, PC, tablet pc, TabletPc, Today's Chili
It’s good to have options, right? And, bam! Just like that, Fujitsu announces a little something called the LifeBook T730. Sporting the same Intel Core i5-520M, i5-540M, or i7-620M CPU available on the LifeBook T900, this bad boy packs up to 8GB RAM, 320GB HDD (or 128GBSSD with encryption), Bluetooth, HDMI output, pen input (with optional capacitive multitouch), and a Super-Multi DVD writer into a comparatively svelte, 12.1-inch LED backlit package. Prices start at a Rockefeller-esque $1,869 and move skyward ever-so-quickly depending on your needs and budget.

Tablet PC shocker! Fujitsu LifeBook T730 official, smaller version of T900 originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 17 May 2010 10:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 14

How would you change Fusion Garage’s JooJoo?

Posted in: Features, flash, HowWouldYouChange, HWYC, slate, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, Today's Chili

Alright, so we gave you the opportunity to rant and rave on Apple’s iPad last week, and it’s only fitting that Fusion Garage’s much-anticipated JooJoo go next. To date, it’s pretty safe to say that quite a bit less (we’re understating things here, obviously) JooJoo tablets have been sold than the aforesaid iPad, but that’s not to say none of you have one. On the off-chance that you actually are the proud owner of a JooJoo, we couldn’t be more eager to hear how you’d tweak things if given the golden opportunity. Would you make the screen a touch smaller? Alter the exterior design in any way? Swap the CPU or GPU? Toss on a different operating system? Force it to use iTunes like only a true sadist would? Go on, the floor’s yours — throw down your best advice in comments below.

How would you change Fusion Garage’s JooJoo? originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 14 May 2010 22:26:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 13

iiView slates M1Touch Windows 7 tablet for release later this month

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Never given much thought to owning something with an iiView label on it? Think again, vaquero. Teased here beside two of Apple’s most well-known cash cows, the M1Touch packs a rather delicious list of specifications. Behind the 10.1 multitouch display (1,024 x 600) is a 1.66GHz Atom N450 processor, 2GB of RAM, a 250GB hard drive, integrated webcam, USB socket, 4-in-1 card reader and an inbuilt accelerometer. She’s running Windows 7 Home Premium and should last around three hours (sad, we know) on a full charge, with pricing set for just over $500 when converted to Greenbacks. Further details are few and far between, but given that it’s expected to ship by the end of May, we suspect we’ll know more as Computex kicks off in Taiwan.

iiView slates M1Touch Windows 7 tablet for release later this month originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 May 2010 05:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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May 13

‘What is iPad?’ spot deviates little from the days of Newton (video)

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It’s far from unusual to see Apple ripping off others when it comes to spots, and the same is true in reverse. But copying itself? Head on past the break to catch the similarities between Cupertino’s freshest iPad commercial and an eerily familiar Newton ad from yesteryear — something tells us the former will make a somewhat more indelible mark on the world than the latter, though.

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‘What is iPad?’ spot deviates little from the days of Newton (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 13 May 2010 01:51:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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