Yesterday, Creative announced the launch of two tablet PCs among a lineup of products that aimed to put them back in the portable media game. In general terms, the Android based tablets didn’t offer anything too spectacular, but where they really excel is in the wireless audio department with the latest technology ensuring that ripped music sounds as good as it did on the original media and full surround sound offered from just two speakers. Today is the turn of Viewsonic to announce their own lineup of proposed tablet PCs and the...
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It seems, at the moment, that nobody truly wants to take Apple on at creating the most popular high budget touch screen tablet PC and instead they’re turning their attention to budget alternatives. Budget is fine as long as they’ve got some of the features to back it up. Dixons has announced that it will release two Android based tablets by manufacturer Advent just in time for the Christmas rush. Dixons Group, which owns Currys and PC World, has said that they expect tablet PCs to take the computer industry by storm and they...
Many in the tech world have been waiting for the release of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in the hope that it will prove to be a real contender for the crown that the Apple iPad essentially created. Nobody really knows why they need a tablet PC that has fewer functions than the average smartphone and yet everybody seemingly wants one. Unfortunately, while the waves have been good regarding the features that are set to be crammed into the Samsung Galaxy, the news is definitely bad when it comes to pricing. Bearing in mind the highest spec iPad...
A variety of manufacturers have outed themselves, saying that they will create an iPad competing tablet but very few companies have actually managed to produce the goods. You can’t count the likes of the Next tablet as being a competitor to the iPad because it simply doesn’t stack up in terms of specification. It is, at best, a budget tablet PC costing less than £200 and with some pretty major issues especially regarding its lack of multi-touch. The Samsung Galaxy Tab looks as though it will be the nearest rival for the iPad...
Following the news that Next were to release their own tablet PC with a price tag of just £180 (it is quite limited in its functions, though, so don’t get too excited) it seems that even this will have its own competitor in the shape of the Disgo Tablet 6000. There’s not a whole lot of information available except that it will be a 7 inch tablet. We don’t know whether it will be multi-touch (which the Next tablet isn’t making it low spec indeed) and we don’t know whether the Disgo will improve on the rather...
Since Apple released the iPad there’s been a number of companies and manufacturers throw their hats into the ring and declare themselves a part of the big tablet PC war but if you were to choose the next big name to announce a new release you probably wouldn’t guess at high street chain Next. You might have plumped for Facebook getting in on the action following the rumours surrounding the Facebook phone. You might have even said Amazon because they’re seemingly trying to get a piece of pretty much every pie going. Heck,...
As soon as Apple launched its iPad a few months back, Steve Jobs lit a very slow burning fuse on what would inevitably become the tablet PC wars. Perhaps other manufacturers looked at the touch screen tablet and believed that consumers would not react to something that offered very few functions over and above the average smartphone but in a slightly larger package and without actual phone calling capabilities. Or, maybe, Apple just managed to steal a serious march on their opponents. Either way, it has taken a while but the likes of Samsung...
Talk about building the hype – the Samsung Galaxy Tab was only really officially announced at IFA last week and yet we’re already getting more than a little impatient for some actual hard details. We don’t want much, Samsung, but we’d quite like a little more than “coming soon” and we definitely want more than some wild stab in the dark regarding a release price. However, with that hard information seriously lacking, we’re happy to go with the rumours for now so the Samsung Galaxy Tab looks likely...
The Apple iPad seemingly came out of nowhere and for no real, discernable reason it stole the hearts and money of the masses. In reality, it offers little more functionality than a decent smartphone but without the actual phone settings and it didn’t have the power of a standard laptop. Take away the touch screen, the Apple branding, and the app store and it was a poor netbook for twice the price of a decent one. And yet, somehow, it became one of the biggest tech phenomenon we’ve seen in some years so it was only a matter...
Not all of us have been lucky enough to enjoy the benefits of owning an iPad, unless we work for Leicester council of course in which case we’ve been given one to aid us in our daily duties. There’s also a chance that your 5 year old kid who is unlikely to be able to read this article fully has been given one by their school to make life easier for everybody. Cedars School of Excellence (sounds like the school in X-Men) in Greenock, Scotland, has made the unique move to give every one of its 105 pupils an Apple iPad so that...