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There are numerous apps and games for mobile devices that are targeted towards children, but never before has there been a tablet that is specifically tailored to younger kids…until now. Take a look at the OLPC XO 3.0. This green bumpy looking tablet is a little thicker and larger than other competitive tablets, but it is fairly light and easy to handle (the bumps provide added grips).
This tablet isn’t as high powered as some other tablets, but it is for children and it is specifically built for low power locations, outdoor use, and has a much lower price tag. Let’s take a look at the overall specs and features of this new child-friendly tablet! +Continue Reading
Senseg has had their tactile display technology (E-Sense) out in public for all to see, but has yet to launch it on any devices. However, now they are poised to launch their amazing tech on tablets within the next year. It does sound like a long time, but it is shorter than their longer ranged view of 24 months. CNET had the chance to test this new display.
Imagine touching the glass and feeling wood, stone, sandpaper, or a brush. Toshiba is working hard to bring this to you in the form of a film that can be attached to any surface, whether the front or the back of a phone or even a rounded surface. They presented their New Sensation UI Solution at the Embedded Systems Expo (ESEC). Toshiba will release an SDK as well. +Continue Reading
Publishers of magazines were elated thinking of selling their wares on iPad in 2010, but as we turn the page of the calendar and face this year, they are singing slightly off key. Their optimism has boiled dry. While they are still eager, there is a strong vein of skepticism that carries over to Amazon’s tablet(rumored to be called Kindle Fire). Mostly it is due to how Apple managed the negotiations with the publishers. Apple played the dictator to start and nearly lost everyone. It is no surprise now that publishers are a bit reticent in the next big deal.
There are currently only three of the largest magazine publishers on board with Amazon as it faces releasing its own iPad knockoff. The digital sales deals are between Amazon and Hearst, Conde Nast, and Meredith. They will be allowed the rights to sell their publications on the Amazon tablet. +Continue Reading
Apple is going to have a bite taken out of their pie-shaped tablet by a newspaper giant. The Tribune Company, based in Chicago, owns many dailies, such as The Baltimore Sun, The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Tribune. They also have twenty-three TV stations. Now they have made the decision to snatch a piece of the action from the Tablet industry.
Tribune will give subscribers the opportunity to obtain their own touchscreen tablet, which will run a customized Android. The main piece of software showcased will be one that displays the tablet owner’s hometown paper. This news was leaked by more than six employees of the company, on the condition of anonymity.
The plans are a little murky still, but it is possible they will offer the tablets either for free or for a small fee, but to people who subscribe for a longer period to one of their papers. Rumor has it, from five employees who were supposedly briefed on the project, that there might even be a connection plan with a cellular company to provide wireless connectivity. +Continue Reading
Surfing the Internet today, brought us a premiere: a Romanian tablet called Evolio Neura. It comes fully equipped with a 1 GHz Dual Core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, which makes it extremely attractive.
The Neura also comes with wonderful graphics that supports Full HD technology; the screen measures 9.7 inches and it features multi-touch capacity.
The platform happens to be Android and it’s completely open to any Android-based application. The downside is that it’s Android 2.2 Froyo, a little bit outdated OS for the tablets, but the producer promises a Honeycomb update in September. It comes with a 16 GB flash memory by default, but it can be upgraded to 32 GB.
In comparison to other available tablets, the Neura offers the most connectivity options. +Continue Reading
No one’s quite sure what Amazon is up to, but the bets are on the release of two full tablets. It is quite possible we will see the shipping of more than 1 million tablet PC’s from Amazon.com in September, which launches it into first place as the largest supplier of tablets that are not iPads. In addition, Amazon is rumored to be ordering 2 million touch-panel displays between August and September.
This certainly comes as a huge surprise. Amazon has no indication on their site of preparing any kind of tablet product, Rather, they have invested their energies into the promotion and sales of their e-readers, the Kindle and Kindle 2.
If Coyote and Hollywood (the code names for the anticipated tablets) are real, they would both have Nvidia brains. BGR tech site suggested the dual-core Tegra 2 would provide the backbone to the Coyote tablet. Meanwhile, Hollywood would be the bigger brother, with a quadcore T30 Kal-El CPU. In effect, it would run 5 times faster than the Coyote. These are still just rumors, of course. +Continue Reading
HTC EVO View 4G is the 4G version of the recently announced HTC Flyer Tablet which was featured last month during MWC. Sprint announced HTC EVO View 4G same time with the announcement of HTC EVO 3D at the same time. It is a 7-inch tablet equipped with the 2.3 version of Android Gingerbread OS, but is not going to be an untouched version of Gingerbread. On top of that there will be HTC’s famous Sense UI which will be of course optimized specially for tablets. Still it might not be a good idea for HTC to release such a highly capable tablet with an older version of Android when the market is going to be flooded with Honeycomb tablets at the same time. We can hope that the Sense UI will make up some of the shortcomings of the older OS as HTC has decided to stick with Gingerbread.
The HTC EVO View 4G packs a 1.5 GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon single core processor supported by a sufficient 1 GB of RAM. Gingerbread will run smooth with this system and multitasking should do more than it is used to do. +Continue Reading
