Tablets

Asus slips out $150 7-inch MeMO Pad

There was an abundance of cheap tech garbage at CES 2013, so finding a well-priced tablet amongst the stalls pandering for your attention was…

Windows RT rightfully jailbroken

Windows RT was jailbroken earlier this week and now unsigned (read: mostly illegal) ARM applications can run on the maligned OS. Microsoft then hilariously…

Microsoft Surface Windows 8 Pro hands on review

Microsoft isn’t ready to talk about the exact launch date for the Surface Windows 8 Pro, as the Windows 8 version of Surface is…

Kobo Arc review: a good value 7-inch tablet

It’s a brand better known for producing budget alternatives to original E-Ink-based Kindleet al, but can the all-new Arc tablet take the fight higher…

Best Gadgets of 2012

We gadget lovers can be a fickle bunch, as we drum our fingers for yearly updates of our favourite toys. Toys that we demand…

The top 4 alternatives to the iPad

An iPad is great, but it shouldn’t be the only tablet you’re looking at buying. 2012 has seen a few worthy competitors enter the…

Microsoft Surface review: prepare for disappointment

Two things instantly irk me with Microsoft’s Surface, Windows RT version, the exceedingly sexy tablet/laptop/whatever. Firstly, the viewing angle when used as a laptop…

RIM changes PlayBook app sideloading story

Sideloading apps? Not on our PlayBook, said RIM. The “chaotic cesspool” of the Android Market and piracy concerns caused Alec Saunders, Developer Relations VP…

The new iPad — more of the same, twice as tasty [Review]

With little other than a display revamp, the new iPad is a little brighter, crisper and heavier. But is it equally as loveable? Retina…

New iPad Wi-Fi issue: Apple takes action

Your iPad 3 overheating? It’s become a “very real problem” according to several reports and as the complaints mount up, it seems that the…

Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 devices pushed back, Android 4.0 blamed

Whoa there doggie. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 series, which was penciled in for March UK release, has been pushed back to the end…

HCL launches two great new budget tablets, starts at US$160

Budget tablets are a dime a dozen these days, but it’s interesting to watch companies push them into new market segments. With the rise…

Previewed: Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1

Samsung did well with its range of tablets, and continues to do well as it pumps out slightly upgraded iterations of its hardware. The…

Rumour-mill: Google to launch a US$149 Nexus Tablet

Google CEO Eric Schmidt leaked it. A senior employee at an anonymous supply chain has all but confirmed it and now it seems that…

PlayBook to receive BlackBerry 10 says RIM

“When it’s ready” the BlackBerry PlayBook will get BB10 OS, says RIM. Rob Orr, RIM’s vice president of product management says, “We’ve said publicly…

We’re working on a tablet: Nokia design bigwig Marko Ahtisaari

We wrote about a possible Nokia/Microsoft Windows 8 tablet earlier this week. Now it seems Nokia’s troops are confirming that a tablet will be…

A 10-inch Windows 8 tablet from Nokia? Stranger things have happened

Time for a short story about a 10-inch Windows 8 tablet from Nokia and Microsoft courtesy of “upstream component suppliers.” Come the final quarter…

The Vodafone Smart Tab 10: have we seen it all before?

Ah man, the sense the excitement in the Vodafone boardroom when its latest product was unveiled must have been palpable. A tablet! And a…

The Child Pad slate serves up delicious Ice Cream Sandwich for kids

Ah, children. With their sticky fingers and quietly inquisitive minds, are tablets the ideal platform for these precious little bundles of noise? Archos thinks…

The people’s tablet — The Netsurfer Touch

The Netsurfer Touch is a R2000, 7-inch tablet running Android 2.2 (commonly known as Froyo). It’s the first of its kind really; a proudly…

Tegra 3 GPU delivers console-level gaming to your mobile device

Tablet and mobile gaming, the final frontier. Can mobile gaming surpass consoles with the Tegra 3 GPU? Nvidia hopes so, and with the advent…

Samsung unleashes the Galaxy Note 10.1 tablet

Prepare for another MWC baby. The original Samsung Galaxy Note holds a special place in my heart. So to hear about the Galaxy Note…

PadFone formally unwrapped at MWC: Behold the tablet-frankenphone

First revealed back in May of last year, Asus’s phone-tablet hybrid, the PadFone, has been officially introduced in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. At…

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