Posted on 02 February 2010
More than the actual product itself, I was excited for Apple’s iPad unveiling because I was waiting for them to show the world their innovative solution to input on a large keyboard-less device. I was very surprised to find that they didn’t offer anything innovative. Instead, the iPad uses a simple iPhone style keyboard (albeit [...]
Tags: apple, apple ipad, input, keyboard, on screen keyboard, osk, slate
Posted on 01 February 2010
We had a brief view of a Viewsonic tablet at CES but it wasnt this one. This article shows a 1024×800, 8.9″ touchscreen running on Tegra2. The $440 price doesnt include any 3G and we wonder; is this a Google Android build or a base Open-Source Android build. There’s a huge difference. See the full [...]
Posted on 01 February 2010
Meet:Mobility Podcast 41 is now available. Recorded on 1st Feb 2010, JKK, Sascha and Chippy talk around the iPad and other mobile computing news including the Aspire ONE 532H, Archos 7, Dell Mini5, iPad, ExoPC, NetbookNavigator, Firefox for N900 and Adobe Flash.
Tags: ipad, MID, netbook, smartbook, tablet, umpc
Posted on 01 February 2010
Fee-fi-fo-fum. ICD announced that it was working on several Android slates back in November with screen sizes of 7, 11, or up to 15.6 inches. The Vega is the name of their largest 15.6” model and we’ve actually seen this slate in photos and on video before, but it never really hit me how enormous [...]
Tags: icd, icd vega
Posted on 01 February 2010
In addition to the S10 Blade [Portal page], N5 [Portal page], and the P3, Viliv quietly showed the HD5 PMP at CES 2010. Viliv claims that it will be able to play back 1080p content, even with the .mkv container, which is nice because .mkv supports stuff like multiple audio tracks and subtitles. While the [...]
Tags: pmp, viliv, viliv hd5