Archos has unveiled its 3rd generation Android tablets with its new G9 series, which includes the 8-inch 80 G9 with 1024 x 768 pixel resolution and the 10.1-inch 101 G9 with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution. Powered by a dual-core OMAP 4 processor (1.5GHz ARM Cortex A9) and running Android 3.1 (Honeycomb), the G9 series [...]
The tablet market has suddenly become a very crowded space: Huawei unveiled its 7-inch MediaPad yesterday, Hewlett-Packard has begun taking orders for its TouchPad, Research In Motion has shipped 500,000 PlayBooks and Panasonic is preparing to come to market with an Android-based Toughbook, to name just a few. All of these devices take aim at Apple’s iPad, [...]
You remember the Sony S1 and S2 tablets, right? One looks like a folded back magazine while the other takes on a clamshell form factor. Just last week, the two tablets had cleared the FCC, which revealed the S1 to come in four variations and the S2 to come with AT&T HSPA+ support. Now, a [...]
Cocoon has brought their Grid-It organizational system to tablet sleeves. There is a 7″ Grid-It Wrap that fits Samsung Galaxy Tab, Nook, Nook Color, Kindle WiFi/3G, Sony Daily Edition, and most 7″ tablets. There’s also a Grid-It Wrap for iPads. The Grid-It Wrap is a neoprene sleeve that protects your device as you carry it [...]
The iPad has yet to transform the publishing world as many expected it would, but some healthy competition from Android tablets should help to keep that process in motion. Zinio‘s reader app is now available on select Android 2.2, 2.3, and all 3.0 tablets, bringing Esquire, National Geographic, and 20,000 other magazine titles to the [...]
According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, Intel will be bringing out the guns at the Taiwanese computer trade show later this month – Computex. Intel, which hasn’t been as predominant as ARM at events with mobile computers, will be changing their game plan this year. ARM has been sitting comfortably on the mobile [...]
Onkyo today announced that they will launch a couple of Windows 7 tablets in Japan next month. The 11.6-inch 1366 x 728 TW317A7PH and the 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 TW117A7PH come equipped with a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 CPU, a 2GB of RAM, WI-Fi, Bluetooth and the Microsoft Windows 7 Business OS. The 11.6-inch model [...]
Sony has just announced a pair of Honeycomb tablets, but — wait, wait, these ones are actually different. Yes, Sony has set itself apart from the crowd of Android slates by focusing on unique form factor and its Qriocity media suite. They have their own names but are both underneath a new “Sony Tablet” brand, [...]
Medgadget editor Dan Buckland, a medical student at Harvard, is looking for a perfect educational tablet… I spent some time in the last couple of days trying out some of the new tablets that have recently came out. I will be starting my 3rd year of medical school this summer and am looking for a [...]
Though Steve Jobs says the iPad offers the best way to surf the web, a recent survey from Google’s AdMob says more people are using tablets for gaming. Survey Results: What this means In addition to the results above, the survey found that 82% of tablet owners are using their tablets at home, 62% at [...]