The tablets of CES 2012
We were expecting an explosion of new tablets at CES, and the conference certainly didn't disappoint. Unlike last year, where we saw an array of iPad competitors — at iPad prices — this year's crop was predominantly aimed at lower price points, but that didn't stop manufacturers from differentiating with higher-resolution displays, glasses-free 3D, and special gaming-focused devices. We've collected all of the tablet news from CES for you right here, just one tap away.
A special thanks to Borrow Lenses, who provided us with cameras and lenses for the week!
CES 2012
Toshiba Portege M930: a Windows 7 tablet with a keyboard and rotating screen (hands-on)
You've been dying for an Asus Eee Pad Slider running Windows 7, right? Hiding amongst the hoards of ultrabooks on display at the Microsoft booth at CES 2012, is your answer: the Toshiba Portege M930. Oddly, Toshiba hasn't announced this tablet / laptop hybrid and doesn't even have it on display at its booth, but the rotating tablet seems pretty far along, considering it has a real name and the unit on display was working quite well.
You'll want to check the video below for how the screen...
CES 2012
BlackBerry PlayBook gets 'Cut The Rope' at CES 2012 (hands-on)
Cut The Rope is the latest big title game to gain compatibility with the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. Microsoft launched an HTML5 version of the fun puzzle game during its CES 2012 press conference just a few days ago, but Om Nom the little green gobbler is also making its way to QNX. RIM is displaying the game quite prominently in its own booth on the show floor, and it's still the same challenging but delightful experience. Performance seemed fine on the PlayBook hardware — but then again...
Android
Panasonic ToughPad A1 hands-on (video)
We finally got to check out the elusive Panasonic ToughPad A1 in person today, and can confirm that it laughs in the face of water damage. The tablet feels unsurprisingly sturdy, and we particularly liked the matte display designed for outdoor viewing. It didn't do much to impress on the software side, though, running Honeycomb at a pretty slow pace. The Panasonic representatives pointed out that the tablet's target end users in enterprise and the military are unlikely to have much interest...
Android
Archos G9 tablets with Android 4.0 (hands-on video)
Archos' 101 G9 and 80 G9 tablets don't have Ice Cream Sandwich just yet (and won't really qualify as high-end tablets even when they do), but they're scheduled to be updated in the first week of February, and we got to take a look at one of the tablets running the new operating system. When it arrives, Android 4.0 will be virtually unmolested on the G9 tablets — the music and video apps are customized a bit, and there are a couple of developer options left in the menus, but for the most...
Android
Gadmei T863 and E8-3D glasses-free 3D Android 4.0 tablets: hands-on
We just dropped by Gadmei's booth at CES, where they're showing a couple of tablets with glasses-free 3D technology — the T863 and E8-3D. There are a few visual differences, but the tablets are nearly identical in terms of hardware. Both feature Android 4.0.3 on top of a 1GHz Cortex A9 processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage, and a 5000mAh battery. Alongside this, you'll get a 0.3MP webcam, an optional 2MP rear shooter, microSD slot, and micro USB and mini HDMI ports. The chief difference lies in...
Android
Snapdragon S4 Liquid development tablet and 'Desert Winds' hands-on
Here's one dual-core slate you won't find in stores: Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Liquid Mobile Development Platform, or MDP for short. We already told you about the raw specs a couple of months ago — including a Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 "Krait" chip with Adreno 225 graphics, integrated LTE, two 13-megapixel cameras and a 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768 screen, and now, Android 4.0 — but today we got our hands on the tablet and tried out Desert Winds.
We'd previously seen our buxom warrior woman traverse...
CES 2012
Acer Iconia Tab A510 puts a quad-core Tegra 3 behind Android 4.0 (hands-on)
Just as with the original Acer Iconia A500, Nvidia is the first to publicly show off its followup: the Acer Iconia Tab A510. The chipmaker is obviously interested in showing off the power of the quad-core Tegra 3 processor inside, clocked at 1.3GHz. In that regard, Ice Cream Sandwich seemed to run quite smoothly and a couple games we tried performed well. Of course, the A510's predecessor also managed to look good with Nvidia's handpicked games but didn't really stand up to long-term use —...
CES 2012
Velocity Micro Cruz T507 and T510 Android 4.0 tablets: hands-on impressions
Velocity Micro recently announced two new Ice Cream Sandwich Android tablets as part of its CES lineup, and today we were able to spend some time with them. Unfortunately we weren't able to take any photographs, but they did leave us with some strong impressions. The Cruz T507 and T510 are essentially the same beast under the hood: a 1.2GHz Cortex A8 processor, discrete ARM Mali 400MHz 3D graphics acceleration, 512MB of RAM, and 8GB of internal storage. Both feature front- and rear-facing...
'Skyrim' on Eee Pad Transformer Prime demo video
Nvidia's Jen-Hsun Huang dedicated a portion of his CES 2012 presentation this week to playing a game of Skyrim on an Eee Pad Transformer Prime. The Tegra 3-powered tablet was running a specially optimized version of Splashtop, dubbed Splashtop THD, which allows you to interact with your Windows PC on Android tablets with Tegra hardware under the hood. It's not a complicated setup, you just run the requisite apps on the PC and tablet, and it gives you access to the full breadth of Windows...
Mobile
Toshiba 21:9 phone and tablet prototypes hands-on
We were just able to take a close-up look at three Toshiba prototypes — two tablets and a 5.1-inch phone with a 21:9 aspect ratio. The two tablets, one 7.7-inch and the other 13.3, don't present any big surprises, but they're light and thin, with rounded corners and a textured back. More exciting is the phone, which demonstrates an elongated aspect ratio that allows the large-screened device to still fit in a pocket. Unlike the tablets, the phone has a brushed-aluminum back and sharper...
WikiPad pitches glasses-free 3D and Ice Cream Sandwich for less than $250: hands on (update)
WikiPad has made a splash at this year's CES with its WikiPad:3D — an 8-inch glasses-free 3D tablet running Android 4.0.3. It's being built by Gadmei, with the software build being named "Gadmei ICS," and the developer kit (as shown in the gallery below) is strikingly similar to the T863 we saw a couple of days ago. In practice, the tablet's slick and responsive, and though the final specs are undecided it's currently powered by a single-core 1.2GHz processor with 2GB RAM and 8GB storage,...
Intel Windows 8 tablet with Clover Trail first hands-on pictures
Here's your first look at a tablet running Intel's 32nm Clover Trail processor and Windows 8! Unfortunately, precious little is known about this tablet since it was teased last night at the Intel keynote beyond the fact that it has Intel's new 32 nanometer chipset inside and tablets like this are destined to take on ARM-based devices head-on. Intel is keeping this tablet under glass but we managed to get a good look at the ports, which consist of a single USB port, HDMI-out, an SD card slot,...
Microsoft
Exclusive: Windows 8 pre-beta hands-on video and pictures
Microsoft is well on its way to providing a public beta copy of Windows 8, and we got an early hands-on with a pre-beta version of the operating system today. Windows 8 build 8175 is on show at CES 2012, and Microsoft is demonstrating some of the latest features to the crowd of attendees. The most recent build includes a new touch gesture to close Metro apps from view, some keyboard and mouse improvements, and the new video/music Metro app players.
Microsoft also confirmed some recently...
Intel announces reference tablet with sliding keyboard
Intel just announced a new reference design for a tablet with a display that slides along the keyboard and folds onto it to work in either laptop or tablet mode. It looks a bit like the sliders from Sony and the Samsung Sliding PC 7. The tablets will run on Ivy Bridge silicon — probably including the integrated graphics — and have built-in NFC, which was shown this morning. Intel demoed some games with the ability to use your phone as a remote control, and the processor's ability to eat...
CES 2012
Intel teases Windows 8 tablet with 32nm Clover Trail SoC
What's this? Intel just pulled out another device on stage, a Windows 8 slate, and says it's running on a 32nm SoC but didn't specify Medfield. Thankfully, a little bird (and a PR representative) tell us it's Clover Trail. Sorry, folks, that's really all we know right now.
Razer Project Fiona gaming tablet hands-on video and pictures
We saw Razer's Core i7 winged gaming tablet under glass just over an hour ago, but here's Project Fiona in the flesh! We just got our hands on the prototype machine, and it's a pretty interesting piece of kit, to say the least. The 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 capacitive touchscreen is glossy but very crisp, and it definitely plays games: Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine looked glorious on the display. The fixed (not detachable) controls feel pretty good, with nice tension on the depressible...
CES 2012
Lenovo IdeaPad K2110: an Intel Medfield tablet with Android 4.0 (hands-on)
Intel has a prototype Lenovo tablet on display in its CES 2012 booth running atop the company's all-new Medfield processor. The IdeaTab K2110 is the second device we've spotted running the lower-powered, Atom-based processor for mobile devices — the first being the reference design phone we spotted earlier today. Though the rep pointed out that it's beta hardware, the 10.1-inch slate is just 8.9-mm thick and runs Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It has front- and rear-facing cameras, a SIM...
CES 2012
Viewsonic ViewPad E70 (with Android 4.0), ViewPad 10pi, ViewPad 10e hands-on pictures
Viewsonic's tablets haven't always impressed in terms of performance, but the company's committed to building cheap tablets for those that don't want to drop $499 on an iPad. We got to play with its latest models at CES, including the brand-new, $169, Ice Cream Sandwich-running ViewPad E70. The E70 has a 1GHz processor and a 7-inch, 800 x 600 display, and other than the fact that it's running Android 4.0 there's really nothing notable about the device. It was seriously slow and low-res, but...
BlackBerry
BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0: hands-on impressions, pictures, and video
RIM formally announced PlayBook OS 2.0 yesterday, and I met with the product's senior marketing manager Jeff Gadway to check out all the features in the new operating system. Version 2.0 finally brings a native mail client to the BlackBerry tablet, along with calendar and contact apps. RIM also made some general aesthetic changes, and added a bulked-up version of BlackBerry Bridge and an eerily familiar "reading view" feature in the browser.
This is the most polished version of the...
CES 2012
Texas Instruments to demo Windows 8 ARM tablet at CES 2012
Texas Instruments is showing off a Windows 8 ARM tablet at CES 2012 this week. Powered by the OMAP4470 processor and Windows 8, the unnamed tablet is expected to make an appearance at TI's CES booth. The firm previously refused to show off its Windows 8 ARM work at BUILD last year, keeping its reference design tablet behind glass, running the dual-core 1GHz OMAP4430.
The OMAP4470 dual-core 1.7GHz processor will power this latest tablet, offering an early look at Windows 8 ARM performance....
CES 2012
Bambook Sunflower and Kyobo e-readers remind us the Mirasol dream isn't reality yet; hands-on
We have to admit it, we're still holding out hope that we will see a display the combines the readability of e-ink with the speed, clarity, and color of an IPS LCD display. Mirasol, theoretically, could achieve that dream yet no matter how hard we wish, it never seems to pass into the usable range, much less into the platonic ideal in our heads. Still, we don't want to take our disappointment out on the Kyobo e-reader or the Bambook Sunflower e-reader, two virtually identical tablets that...
Mobile
MasterImage glasses-free 3D tablet and smartphone displays (hands-on)
MasterImage 3D recently announced that it would be demonstrating two new glasses-free 3D displays at CES, and we just had our first look. The company is working on two displays — a 720p 4.3-inch display, and a 10.1-inch tablet display with a 1920 x 1200 resolution — and it says its new cell-matrix parallax barrier technology provides brighter images, better image quality, and wider viewing angles. Based on our first look, the technology is certainly promising: the 3D image is brighter,...
Android
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime running Android 4.0 (hands-on video)
Jen-Hsun Huang got the clearance from Google to announce that the Android 4.0 update for the Transformer Prime will be rolling out a little ahead of schedule, namely today. In celebration of this momentous occasion, we got to grips with the Asus tablet, running the fresher and tastier Ice Cream Sandwich software, for a little hands-on time. This is the older Transformer Prime, not the brand new TF700T model (we enjoyed a separate hands-on session with the very latest Prime variant), but we...
Nvidia's Tegra 3 Windows 8 reference tablet up close
We're already pretty familiar with one of the tablets Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang demonstrated on the CES 2012 stage, but the other one appears to be brand-new: the Tegra 3 Windows 8 reference platform, a hefty touchscreen tablet. We're afraid we didn't get to touch, and Nvidia won't tell us what (other than a Tegra 3 SoC) is inside. According to reps, the internals are all up to Microsoft. See what it looks like in the gallery below.
Mobile
Asus Eee Pad MeMO ME370T confirmed with quad-core Tegra 3, for $249
We got our hands on the Asus Eee Pad MeMO ME370T earlier today, and Nvidia just confirmed its price and chipset: the 7-inch Android tablet sports a 1280 x 800 resolution and a quad-core Tegra 3 SoC (not a Qualcomm SoC as previously thought). The best part? It'll only set you back $249.
CES 2012
Android 4.0 ICS will be available for Transformer Prime today
Jen-Hsun Huang just announced at the Nvidia event at CES that Android 4.0 will be available today for the Transformer Prime, rather than Friday as previously planned. The Tegra 3 successor to the company's detachable-keyboard tablet has been waiting for an update to Google's latest OS since it's release in December. It's only a few days early, but a pleasant surprise nonetheless.
Update: Video!
Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga: a Windows 8 laptop that bends backwards into a tablet (hands-on video)
Lenovo has indeed saved the best for last here at CES 2012. After days of interminable laptop announcements, the company has one more to share: the 13.3-inch IdeaPad Yoga, which opens like a normal laptop but can then flip backwards to become a tablet. Yes, it's as crazy as it sounds, and even better it's running Windows 8. This is the sort of thing that is really best seen in video, so I suggest you scroll on down as soon as possible, but what I can tell you is that the .6-inch thick laptop...
CES 2012
Pantech Element hands-on pictures and video
The waterproof Pantech Element is an 8-inch tablet with LTE on AT&T. We're just back with a brief hands-on with the device where we copiously doused it with water with no ill effects. Though it's only running Android 3.2, Pantech tells us it will be upgradable to Android 4.0 sometime in the future. It features a 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon processor and something Pantech called "Enhanced Haptic feedback" using a piezo motor.
The Element is fully waterproof, not just water resistant, good down...
Mobile
Asus Transformer Prime TF700T hands-on
Asus' new Transformer Prime TF700T Android 4.0 tablet was just introduced, and we've got hands-on photos. It's a variant of the Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet, and the most significant upgrade here is a move to a 1920 x 1200 resolution, which looks quite sharp and bright. The rear cover design has also been altered to allow for better GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth performance. It's an incredibly light and thin tablet — the prototype feels mostly like plastic, as opposed to the aluminum we're...
CES 2012
Asus Padfone hands-on (update)
Remember the Asus Padfone, that tablet with the Android 4.0 smartphone that docks inside? We just got our hands on the latest prototype at CES 2012, and here's what it looks like up close. Both the hardware and software are pretty rough around the edges — and the prototypes are a little hollow right now — but that's definitely Android 4.0 under the hood, and we spotted that Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 chip in the settings screen before we were politely asked to put the device down....
Pantech Element for AT&T LTE now official
Sitting in a glass tank of water is a nice touch. The inexpensive, waterproof Pantech Element Android tablet was just announced at the AT&T developer summit. Not much of a surprise, given it popped up at an AT&T store earlier this week. The tablet features an 8-inch XGA display, 1.5GHz dual-core Snapdragon S3 processor, and can handle 100Mbps download and 50Mbps upload. It has a unique motor for vibration that apparently hasn't yet been used on a tablet. You can get both the Element and the...
Android
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 announced for Verizon (hands-on pictures and video)
Though Samsung already represents the 7-inch tablet class in the US with the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus on T-Mobile, it's the Galaxy Tab 7.7 we've really been wanting — it's just hard to argue with a 1280 x 800 Super AMOLED Plus display in a 7.9mm-thick shell. That dream is realized today on the news that Verizon is picking up an LTE-enabled version of the device, and amazingly, it's not even a tenth of a millimeter thicker than its non-LTE European cousin. It's got a 1.4GHz dual-core processor,...
Mobile
Asus Eee Pad MeMO ME370T hands-on (update)
We just got our hands on Asus' Eee Pad MeMO ME370T — a 7-inch capacitive touchscreen tablet with a 1280 x 800 resolution, 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm 8260 processor, 1GB RAM, and Android 4.0. It's not the thinnest tablet out there, but it felt fairly small in the hands and it's definitely lightweight. Performance is also snappy, and we didn't notice any lag moving in and out of applications.
Update: It turns out that just like with the Asus Padfone, the company's not quite done tweaking the...
Android
Samsung Galaxy Note announced for AT&T (hands-on pictures and video)
AT&T has just announced that it'll be bringing the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note to the United States, a beastly half-phone, half-tablet that spans the divide between two white-hot product segments. The feature list should sound familiar: it's in many ways the same Galaxy Note already available in Europe, featuring a 1280 x 800 Super AMOLED display, 8-megapixel primary and 2-megapixel secondary cameras, and the so-called "S Pen," a stylus integrated into the rear that can be used to register...
CES 2012
Vizio M-Series tablet first hands-on!
We just spent some time with the Vizio M-Series tablet. It's nice and thin, with three speakers and Vizio's custom Android skin on top of Honeycomb. Vizio's not saying what processor it's using because it's not announced yet, but performance on this early unit felt snappy enough. There's the requisite IR blaster on top for control of all your home theater gear, and the screen tech "similar to IPS," but something else — IPS is a trademark and VIzio is using a different supplier. We were told...
Android
Asus Transformer Prime TF700T official with 1920 x 1200 res and new design to improve GPS
Asus is today introducing the TF700T, a new variant of its Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet, whose major upgrade is a move to a 1920 x 1200 resolution. That makes two Android tablets moving to a 1080p res at CES 2012, following Acer's unveiling of the Iconia Tab A700 yesterday.
The new Transformer Prime isn't sacrificing quality for quantity with its move to a much higher pixel density — its display is still made of the SuperIPS+ stuff that impressed us so much when reviewing the TF201....
LePan officially introduces budget Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich tablets this week
LePan's not exactly a widely known brand name in the tablet market, but it has several Android devices that may be worth checking out at CES this year — the most noteworhty of which is its flagship LePan III. LePan's giving a first look at the tablet this week; it's running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and is powered by a dual-core TI OMAP 4460 processor running at 1.5GHz with 1GB of RAM. Other specs include 8GB of storage, an SD slot, Bluetooth 4.0, a 5-megapixel camera on the back, and...
Microsoft
Gigabyte intros T1006M convertible tablet and S1081 slate, both with Cedar Trail chips
Gigabyte's bringing its A-game to CES, assuming Atom is its name: Intel's new Cedar Trail family of Atom processors features in both the new T1006M convertible tablet and S1081 slate. Both run Windows 7, the former a 10.1-inch netbook with a swiveling 1366 x 768 screen, with USB 3.0 and an antenna for cellular data, while the latter has a 500GB hard drive, USB 3.0, Bluetooth 4.0, HDMI and VGA ports and even an optical trackpad inside its tablet frame. The company's also bringing some of its...
Qooq culinary tablet: recipes and videos in a kitchen-safe enclosure (hands-on video)
The Qooq (pronounced "cook") culinary tablet is a slate designed specifically for the kitchen. The device has a heat- and water-resistant enclosure with a kickstand around back, as well as an SD card slot, Ethernet port, USB port, and headphone jack under a protective cover. Its 10.1-inch display has a 1024 x 600 resolution, which runs atop a 1GHz Cortex A9 dual-core processor.
The OS is a customized version of Linux with a heavy emphasis on cooking; it's essentially a souped-up digital...
Toshiba Excite X10 coming to the US in the first quarter of 2012 for $529.99 (hands-on)
Toshiba's Excite isn't exactly brand new — it was unveiled at IFA and then released in Japan as the Regza AT7000 — but it is finally coming to America. The very thin, .3-inch thick / 1.2-pound tablet will be coming to the US sometime in the middle of the first quarter of the year, Toshiba says. And while it will launch with Honeycomb 3.2, it will be upgradeable to Ice Cream Sandwich very soon after. The tablet has much of the same specs as the one announced overseas, including a 10.1-inch...
Lenovo K2 10-inch tablet with Android 4.0 hands-on pictures and video
We're just back from taking a look at Lenovo's K2 10-inch tablet running Android 4.0. It's a 10.1-inch tablet with a Tegra 3 processor, 2GB of RAM, and a fingerprint scanner on the back, where a camera and LED flash also reside. The tablet should be heading to China first and no word yet whether or not it will be coming to the US. In the scrum here at CES we were only able to spend a few minutes with it, but as you can see in the video below The IdeaPad D2 may able to live up to its...
Lenovo IdeaTab S2: a 10.1-inch, dual-core Android 4.0 tablet with keyboard dock attachment
Asus's Transformer tablets are getting some competition at CES, folks: Lenovo has just unveiled its own 10-inch tablet with a detachable keyboard dock for extra battery life, and on its own, it's just a third of an inch thick and weighs 1.1 pounds. Unfortunately, the new IdeaTab S2 isn't a quad-core rig like the Transformer Prime, but it will have Android 4.0 out of the box, running on Qualcomm's latest dual-core Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 processor. Lenovo says that it'll run its Mondrian UI...
Lenovo IdeaPad U310 / U410 ultrabooks: next-gen Intel processors in colored cases coming in May (hands-on)
And you thought it wasn't possible for Lenovo to announce another ultrabook. While the more business minded got the ThinkPad T430u last week, Lenovo's also announcing plans at CES 2012 for its updated U Series ultrabook — the 13.3-inch U310 and 14-inch U410. An update to the IdeaPad U300s, the U310 and U410 have similar all-aluminum book-cover styling, chiclet keyboards (still with no backlight), and thin bodies (.7 and .83, respectively). Beyond the new colored lids and the addition of an...
CES 2012
Lenovo debuts IdeaPad S200 and S206 netbooks with new Atom processors (hands-on)
Dell might be leaving netbooks behind, but Lenovo's not of the same mind. Joining the flood of its new laptops is the Lenovo S200 and S206, which are some of the first netbooks to be powered by Intel's Cedar Trail Atom processors. Sure, Lenovo also has the new Cedar Trail-powered IdeaPad S110, but these have 11.6-inch with 1366 x 768 resolution displays. Other than that these have fairly run of the mill specs, including up to 2GB of DDR3 SDRAM and up to 500GB (7,200 rpm) hard drives. The S200...
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Hybrid preview: hands-on impressions, video, and pictures
We told you we'd track down Lenovo's dual-OS, dual-processor ThinkPad X1 Hybrid when we got to Vegas, and that's exactly what we've done. Design-wise, the ThinkPad X1 Hybrid looks exactly like the original X1 — it's literally indescribable from the previous save for the X1 Hybrid logo on the screen bezel. However, the Lenovo Instant Media Mode widget on the Windows 7 desktop is where things start to look different. Select the Home in that widget and the dual-core 1.2GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon...
Acer Iconia Tab A700 video preview and specs: 1080p display, Android 4.0, quad-core Tegra 3
Acer tried to keep the name under wraps, but we found it on the device itself: the title of the company's all-new quad-core tablet is the Iconia Tab A700. It's the same super-specced device we saw leak out a week ago, meaning 1920 x 1200 resolution, quad-core Tegra 3 processor clocked at 1.3GHz, and Ice Cream Sandwich as the shipping OS. The A700 is expected to ship in the second quarter of 2012.
The new slate will come with Bluetooth support, a microSD card slot, HDMI port, and a few of A...
Microsoft
Acer teases quad-core Iconia Tab with 1080p display
Acer gave us a quick look at its next-generation Iconia Tab tablet today, during the company's press conference at CES. Acer's Campbell Kan held up the tablet, revealed that it has a 1080p display and a quad-core processor, and then quickly whisked it away, saying only "isn't it cool?" We're pretty sure we're looking at the Iconia Tab A700, which we saw pictures of a few weeks ago, but we'll be trying to track down the mysterious tablet for a closer look.
OLPC XO 3.0 tablet preview: impressions, video, and pictures
There are going to be hundreds of tablets here at CES 2012, but the OLPC XO 3.0 isn't just any tablet. It's a tablet for children, and again, not just any children, but children living in some of the poorest parts of the world. Like its XO laptop, OLPC has built an educational tablet for use in low-power locations. It's been designed for outdoor use (a PixelQi outdoor readable display, a solar panel lid, and all) and has some different software options (Android and its own Sugar OS). Of...
CES 2012
Asus Windows 8 ARM tablet for late 2012, 3G Transformer Prime in March
Asus will release a Windows 8 ARM-based tablet this year, but it might be a little later than we previously thought. That's what Netbook News heard out of a pre-CES 2012 press event in Taipei, where head of the Eee division Samson Hu pegged the device for a release at the end of 2012. The company should also have two new tablets to show off at CES, likely a 7-inch device along with a new 10-inch model. Hu also confirmed a March release date for the 3G-equipped variant of the Transformer...
MasterImage 3D prepares glasses-free 3D tablet and 720p smartphone displays for CES
MasterImage 3D thinks it knows exactly what you need: more 3D. The company has announced that it is going to be demonstrating two cell-matrix parallax barrier (read: glasses-free) 3D displays at CES 2012. First up is a 4.3-inch display with a 720p screen resolution that's made for smartphones. That might just sound like the Evo 3D and its headache-inducing display, but remember, that one was only qHD (960 x 540). The company will also be showing off a 10.1-inch tablet display with the same 3D...
