This tablet device has been seen a few times at various expo’s over the last three months but it’s one that still doesn’t have solid specifications, pricing and availability info attached to it. We’ll be trying to track the C-motech Mangrove down at CES next week.

This tablet device has been seen a few times at various expo’s over the last three months but it’s one that still doesn’t have solid specifications, pricing and availability info attached to it. We’ll be trying to track the C-motech Mangrove down at CES next week.

The starting point for a mobile internet device design is to look at the processing platforms available in the market. I’ve spent the last few days researching and reviewing the ARM-based CPUs and platforms and put together a full report that you can find over at UMPCPortal.

Interesting tablet thoughts from John Gruber of Daring Fireball.  Having researched the ultra mobile PC market for over three years I’m of the opinion that this space is for multiple niche products and not a multi-million selling success story but if there’s one company that can prove me wrong,  it’s Apple. I have a thousand questions about The Tablet’s design. What size is it? There’s a big difference between, say, 7- and 10-inch displays. How do you type on it? With all your fingers, like a laptop keyboard? Or like […]

Smarthouse reports: An Android based device which is set to be shown privately to core HTC customers at the CES Show is set to incorporate new Qualcomm processors, touch technology and new software from Adobe. It makes complte sense for HTC to be exploring this potential. They have all the right relationships, design skills and positioning to make a good job of it. Questions still remain about what the best size/format/capability for such a ‘tablet’ is but maybe that’s somethign we shouldn’t worry about. If so many consumer devices are […]