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Digitalrise X9 iSlate Video Review

Sunday, February 21, 2010

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If you really need a tablet with multitouch right now, there’s the Digitalrise X9, which we reported about last month. Nowadays Digitalrise is calling their X9 tablet the iSlate with confidence. The 10.2-inch device gives you a true multitouch experience, with finger pinching. The $790 price already includes 3G, GPS and even a webcam. You [...]

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X2 iTablet Challenges Apple iPad

Friday, February 5, 2010

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Ahead of the Apple iPad launch, X2 has released the Windows 7 iTablet. Yes, a non-Apple iTablet and it is available in many sizes from 10.2 inches to 12.1 inches. It is powered by a 1.6 GHz processor and employs a hard-disk storage giving this baby a 35mm thickness, which is really thick. In exchange [...]

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iPad to Directly Compete W/ Archos 9 Tablet?

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

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All right, we weren’t too impressed with the Apple iPad specs–no multitasking, no webcam, no Flash–but then when the $499 price was announced, we were almost willing to overlook the downside of the Apple tablet. Apple is just genius. One of the worst product releases by the company in recent memory, the iPad still manages [...]

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COWON W2 or Why We Don’t Need MIDs

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

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That’s not to say the Apple iPad Tablet will be a sales failure, in relative terms of course, but from what I can see, COWON isn’t taking this MID (mobile Internet device) or Tablet business seriously. The COWON W2 just doesn’t cut it, if you ask me, even if it can run Windows 7 as [...]

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DigitalRise S1 Slate to Kill Unborn Apple iSlate

Friday, January 22, 2010

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Even before the Apple Tablet can come out of its womb, famous iPhone clone maker DigitalRise releases the S1 Slate, a cheaper tablet compared to their multitouch X9. It’s a 10.2-inch Tablet PC with WiFi, 3G, GPS, webcam, an Intel Atom processor, Intel GMA 950 GPU with a USB port, VGA connector and 4-in-1 card. It [...]

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BenQ S6 Windows XP MID now Cheaper

Thursday, January 14, 2010

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With all the Windows 7 tablets coming out, what’s an XP MID gonna do? Why, get cheaper of course. When the BenQ S6 MID was announced it was going for $420 or thereabouts. But that was last year. This year you can buy one online for $50 cheaper. That’s not a lot as price drops [...]

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Hanvon 10.1-inch Windows 7 Tablet demoed at CES

Sunday, January 10, 2010

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Hanvon might not be a familiar name to most of you folks out there, but they’ve made a pretty good account of themselves over at CES this year with their own tablet PC offering. Showcased in the video above, the Hanvon tablet comes with a 10.1-inch multi-touch capable touchscreen, Intel Atom Z530 processor, GMA 500 [...]

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Pegatron Slate PC w/ Windows 7

Friday, January 8, 2010

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We’re quite interested at how Pegatron is coming along in terms of OEM manufacturing arm of Asustek (yes, the Eee PC Asustek) is keen on making a brand name of itself beginning with the AQUIC netbook. That one didn’t catch too much attention so maybe a tablet would. Enter the Pegatron Slate, an 11.6-inch touchscreen [...]

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COWON W2 MID Surfaces with Windows 7

Friday, January 8, 2010

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It seemed so long ago when we found out COWON was coming out with a MID powered by Intel Atom processor. Dubbed the COWON W2, we have yet to see what it looks like. Thanks to our friends at Dapreview, we now know the W2 isn’t a looker as far as MIDs are concerened. It’s [...]

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Viliv N5 and S10 at CES

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

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Two very interesting products in the UMPC and MID categories from Viliv are going to show next year at CES. The Viliv N5 is a clamshell device with a 4.8-inch 1024 x 600 screen (look at that resolution!). It will have 3G, WiFi and GPS. The Viliv S10 “Blade” convertible netbook is going to make [...]

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