Intel’s Windows 8 tablet specs omit some important details
Intel has been showing off prototypes of a 10-inch Windows 8 tablet since their keynote at CES in early January. As widely hyped at that show, the Intel vision of a Windows 8 tablet includes the new “Clover Trail” flavor of Atom processor. Last night in Beijing, according to Brooke Crothers at Cnet, Intel released a “long list of specifications” for new Windows 8 tablets. It is not clear if the specs constitute a reference design or minimum hardware requirements, ...
RIM to give out BlackBerry OS 10 dev prototypes in early May
RIM is preparing a new OS – called BlackBerry 10 – to replace the two current OSes that it uses (BB OS 7 on phones and Tablet OS on the PlayBook). The BB OS 10 will launch late this year, but app developers can look forward to playing with it sooner – 2000 developer prototypes running a version of the OS will be given to the attendees of the BlackBerry Jam conference taking place in early May. RIMs VP of ...
Windows 8 tablet freezes in Microsoft keynote demo
Convergence 2012 You’ve got to hand it to Kirill Tatarinov, the head of Microsoft’s ERP division. The Russian Rocket was cool as a cucumber on Monday when a demo of the Windows 8 Metro UI running on a touch-screen tablet crashed and burned during the opening keynote of Convergence 2012. Microsoft is indeed making big, bold bets with the upcoming release of Windows 8, which Microsoft touts as the first operating system to run across multiple devices – from phones ...
Novero Solana Laptop/Tablet Hybrid
The Novero Solana is a combination of a laptop and a tablet. The combo gadget features a 9.7-inch twirling touchscreen display with a 1024×768 pixel resolution and a full size physical keyboard.
Intel chieftain outlines broad tablet, smartphone blitz
Intel CEO Paul Otellini sees his company moving into all levels of the tablet and handset markets, from Android and Windows 8 fondleslabs to smartphones, feature phones, and what he dubbed “value phones”. “Our intention is to participate broadly in all three of those markets,” stated Otellini, referring to handsets, tablets, and Intel’s bread-and-butter PC and server business. He made his comments when talking with reporters and analysts after Intel released its record-breaking financial results on Thursday.
Toshiba Protege M930 Convertible Windows 8 Tablet
The new Toshiba Protege M930 convertible Windows 8 tablet has a 13.3-inch LCD display with a 1280 x 800 pixels resolution. Weighing at only 4 pounds, the tablet PC is powered by an Intel i5 Core processor with a 4GB of RAM and a 256GB of solid say drive (SSD).
Lenovo Classmate+ Laptop
The new Lenovo Classmate+ is available as an ordinary laptop or as a touchscreen convertible tablet with a stylus for handwritten input. The Lenovo Classmate+ features a 1.6Ghz Intel Atom N2600 processor with up to 2GB DDR3 memory, up to 320GB hard drive or up to 32GB solid say drive storage, a 2.0-megapixel webcam, a trio of USB 2.0 ports, VGA and an optional HDMI port.
Negroponte plans tablet airdrops to teach children to read
Open Mobile Summit Nicholas Negroponte, the brains behind the One Laptop Per Child initiative, is detailing a new plan to inspire the world’s poorest kids to teach themselves to read using tablet computers. The design for the tablet is simple. At its heart is a solar powered battery, built into the back of the tablet which can be charged on a windowsill and then clipped onto the screen to activate the device. In some cases power can also come from ...
Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus unveiled by Samsung
Samsung Friday announced the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus tablet, an update that is lighter and more powerful than the original Galaxy Tab, and runs a 1.2GHz dual core processor. Samsung stated the new Plus version 3.2 of Android, also known as Honeycomb. The original Galaxy Tab, announced in September 2010, ran Android 2.2 and then 2.3 starting in May 2011. [ Also on InfoWorld: A first look at Amazon Kindle Fire tablet. | And check out the tablet deathmatch: Galaxy ...
Google’s blitz of new features
If you are looking to ditch your catalog subscriptions, check out Google Catalogs. Catalogs is a free app for tablet devices that lets you browse a number of catalogs from categories such as fashion and apparel, beauty, jewelry, home, kids, and gifts. And it lets you interact with the content. Using your tablet device, you can zoom in to see products up close, tap on tags to learn more about an item, view pic albums and videos, find products in ...
