Acer has been speculated for some time now to be preparing an 8 inch tablet with Windows 8 and now it has come through with the product. The device is the Acer Iconia W3,...
Tablet PCs are growing exponentially lately so it seems that 2014 or 2015 will be the year that slates finally beat PCs, when it comes to sales. The NPD Displaysearch projections for sales of tablet and notebooks are shown in the graph below. PC sales are now at around 350 million units and will stay in that area for a few more years, while tablets...
Today’s big Microsoft event came and with it arrived the Xbox One, the brand new console made by the American giant. A rival to the PS4, unveiled just a month or two ago, this device brings interesting novelty, as shown below. As far as design goes, the square-ish black box styling is back with a look that may feel more like a set top box than...
We’re used to seeing colourful and crazy ads related to Surface tablets, ones with breakdancing and other nifty feats. Well, this time we’re dealing with a more serious ad, one that’s focused on the productivity features of the Surface slates. Microsoft has come under fire lately for not revealing all the cool features of the Surface...
Turkish Prime Minster Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has recently been tasked with selecting either Apple or Google to provide the Turkish government with 10.6 million tablets. The minister is on a tour in USA trying to make that decision. The iPads or Android slates will be used in the latest Turkish education project. I must also mention that Erdogan also...
“Hello sir, here’s your complimentary golden iPad” is what you may be hearing if you visit Dubai now. Dubai’s Burj Al Arab hotel, probably the most elegant hotel in the world has just unveiled its latest luxury accessory: the 24 carat gold iPad. Once you check in and pay a few months’ salary for a night, you’ll be...
Big Lots is the retailer chosen to sell the new Polaroid 7 inch Android tablet with the price tag of $100. This is a dual core model with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and it’s pictured in the flyer below. The device is called Polaroid PMID720 and it comes with 1 GB of RAM, a microSD card slot, HDMI output, but the disappointing part is the resolution:...
Many people were expecting to see a new Nexus tablet at Google I/O 2013 and also a new Android release, but that didn’t happen. However, leaks have shown us what to expect from the future devices and software. The slide below was quickly shown during I/O and it includes a tablet that’s a tad different from the usual Nexus 7. If you look...
As you probably know already, here at Tablet News we’ve reviewed a bunch of Evolio, E-Boda and Allview tablets, all of them slates from Romania. Well, the latter two have already unveiled quad core slates that we’re testing right now, while the first brand has only launched such a device today. Said device is the Evolio Quadra, pictured...
After some speculations regarding Barnes & Noble, its direction and involvement with Microsoft, it’s time for a leaked memo to make the rounds. The memo comes from inside the company and details a future update that will bring some interesting features to the B&N e-readers. A web browser, email and updated app store will come to the Nook...
We’ve heard about tablets for kids, but tablets for really young children haven’t been so much lately. Archos has a tablet for kids and there are several other smaller brands approaching this, but now here’s a new one: Kiano Kid Pad 7. This is marketed as a slate for kids ages 2 to 6 years. Kid Pad 7 packs a 7 inch 800 x 480 pixels...
