Digital Tablets and E-Readers

Here’s a little bit of fun for the weekend. You might notice that the home button at the bottom of the Galaxy Tab above is labeled “Porn”. In case you’re wondering, it’s not some special button that will take you to see stuff that your mom would frown at; rather it seems that Romanian for “start” [...]

A combination of localization and ill-considered abbreviation has seemingly left the Romanian version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab with a “Porn” button, though the only risque picture it’ll show you is whatever you’ve set as the desktop wallpaper.  Mobilissimo spotted the oddly named control on a Romanian-language version of the Galaxy Tab, where “Home” has [...]

LG and Android were all set to become quite familiar bedfellows this year, with 10 Google OS smartphones in the pipeline and a tablet due before then end of 2010. However, their slate device, which has been tipped as “better… Tech Digest

If what we’re looking at is really and truly a legitimate T-Mobile slide, then we’ve got practically the last part of the Galaxy Tab puzzle — that ever-elusive price point — as it states the slate will charm your wallet out of $ 399. That’d be a bit of a disappointment if true, as that’s [...]

If what we’re looking at is really and truly a legitimate T-Mobile slide, then we’ve got practically the last part of the Galaxy Tab puzzle — that ever-elusive price point — as it states the slate will charm your wallet out of $399. That’d be a bit of a disappointment if true, as that’s the [...]

Another Windows-based tablet is about to enter the market, this time from a UK based company Zoostorm called the SL8. Specs-wise, the device sports an 11.6-inch 1366 x 768 LCD display, an Intel Atom N450 processor, a 2GB RAM, a 32GB SSD, 3G (optional), WiFi, Bluetooth, 2x USB ports, an mini HDMI port and runs [...]

Notion Ink has been promising us details on the content partnerships lined up for their Adam slate, and the first of those deals has just been made public.  LongBox Digital will be providing their digital comic system for Adam, which will allow browsing their catalog – with a rather slick animated UI which you can [...]

Microsoft’s Windows 7 might function on a tablet device, but there is still one rather important point of differentiation – it wasn’t built from ground up to play nice with finger input, and that means the user experience won’t be as seamless as say, iOS. Well, this might actually lead Microsoft to come up with [...]

It’s no secret that Microsoft has a slight tablet, err Slate PC problem on its hands: Windows 7 certainly works on a “pad,” but the user interface isn’t meant for strictly finger input. The makeshift solution has been, of course, for its partners to create software skins of their own — see HP TouchSmart UI, [...]

Whether Microsoft will release touchscreen tablets that run on Windows Phone 7, as was reported earlier today, is still uncertain, but Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer speaking at an event in London told an audience that we should be seeing a Windows 7 tablet by the holidays. Microsoft’s foray into the consumer-centric tablet market will place [...]