According to a news report this week tablets are more popular than ever before and according to another one they will be gone from the world in 5 years time. So which one should be believed? The Good News Analysts IDC have reported that in the first quarter of this year the sale of tablets has boomed. The figures show a growth of more than 142% over the same 3 months last year. In fact, more tablets were sold in the first quarter of 2013 than in the entire first half of 2012. Of all the tablets sold so far this year almost 40% of them...
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It was bound to happen, wasn’t it? A tablet you control with the power of your mind was always going to appear at some point. That doesn’t stop it sounding incredibly exciting. The people behind it are from Samsung, and they expect their mind-controlled tablet to revolutionise the way we interact with our digital devices. So how does it work? Well, first of all you need to put on a rather stylish cap which is covered in EEG monitoring electrodes. They then need to concentrate on a blinking icon to make things happen. Insoo Kim is a...
If you are in Africa or planning to go there anytime soon then maybe you will be tempted to try out the new African smartphone and tablet. These are the first products of this type which have been designed by an African company and it will be interesting to see how successful they are. The phone and tablet are made in China but they have been designed by Verone Mankou from the Congo. They are to be released under the VMK name and the price is going to be the equivalent of £105 for the phone and £185 for the tablet. There is also an intention...
A few weeks ago we spoke about Breffo’s new SpiderPodium tablet and at the time mentioned we would be getting our hands on one soon. That day has come and we are ready to field test the SpiderPodium tablet with the new iPad. Read our review below, we promise the spidery nature of the legs isn’t creepy in the slightest! Appearance Like a spider it comes with eight multi-jointed legs which spread out from a central body. This means you can wrap it around your tablet with ease whilst using any remaining legs to create a platform....
Do you remember Breffo, the creators of the Spiderpodium? Well, according to the companies spokesperson they’ve sold 100,000s of these grippy little devices all over the world! This success has prompted them to expand their eight legged empire to include a brand new Spiderpodium for tablets. Spiderpodium – Only bigger This hip new tablet holder resembles a spider (without the hairy legs) which can be arranged in a number of different ways to display you tablet standing up or laying flat in portrait or landscape mode. Here’s a...
The competitiveness in the tablet market is at an all time high at the moment which is great news for the consumer. If you’ve been considering a budget model here’s another tablet you should add to your list: the Lenovo IdeaPad A1 tablet. Lenovo has been one of the most overlooked players in the tablet game because they have been pretty quiet since the...
Finally, Harry Potter fans can download ebook versions of their favorite series from J.K. Rowling’s new website Pottermore. J.K. Rowling, via the Pottermore site, announced Tuesday that it will be the only place where people can buy all seven English language versions of the Harry Potter ebooks. Both Barnes & Noble and Amazon are promoting the offering, but users will be directed to Pottermore in order to make purchases. Although redirecting to another site may seem like a drag for Amazon and Barnes & Noble, it will make...
Apple has just announced the company’s latest (and best, of course) tablet offering, the new iPad, just a few hours ago in Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, California. Just like what countless rumors say, the new iPad tablet comes with a 9.7 inch high definition Retina touch screen display that has a whopping 2048 x 1536 resolution. That’s one million pixels more than an HDTV! For a screen as big as 10 inches, that’s too much, just the way we like it. “Today we’re launching the new iPad, and...
Research in Motion (RIM), the makers of BlackBerry smartphones, has finally got to see the fruits of its hard work as its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet outscores the Apple iPad in Best Buy Canada and its sister chain Future Shop. The BlackBerry PlayBook, which has been regarded to as a tablet joke by many, has managed to outsell the market leader last week, although the exact figures have not been released to the public yet. It is still unclear what factor or factors that have triggered this jump in sales, but the late February release of...
In a move to further widen the scope of its second-generation Tab series, Samsung has announced its new offering, the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. The Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 is based on the same PLS TFT touch screen and 1 GHz dual core processor seen in the company’s recently announced Galaxy Tab 2 7.0. “Samsung introduces its first line-up of tablets for 2012 with the launch of the GALAXY Tab 2 series, expanding the choice of tablets to customers,” said Samsung in its release. “The GALAXY Tab 2 series includes a 7-inch version...