If you’ve been following the WePad news today, you’ll see that the WePad has been officially announced. I could recap for you, but you can find a great summary of the device in our product database: Neofonie WePad product page specs, details, links and more Once you get caught up on the ins and outs of the device, I’d like to point your attention to the following video demonstration of the interface, courtesy of Netbooknews.com: I don’t keep it a secret that I absolutely hate widgetized user interfaces. This demo […]

Thanks to GottaBeMobile for spotting this deal over at LogicBuy. You can use the coupon code on the LogicBuy page to save $200 on the IdeaPad S10-3t multitouch convertible. Check the specs (top end model): Intel Atom N450 CPU @ 1.83GHz 2GB of DDR2 RAM Windows 7 Home Premium 250GB HDD 4-cell battery WiFi G/N 10.1 inch capacitive multitouch screen If you are interested in this deal, make haste, it’s only good until April 19th, or the first 150 uses! Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t — full specs and details in our […]

Count me as one of the people who said “It’ll never happen inch when first hearing about Opera submitting it’s Opera Mini browser, designed for the iPhone, to the Apple App Store. Despite the fact that I really wanted Opera Mini to make it through, it just seemed like there was no way, based on Apple’s previous behavior, that this browser would make it though. There are “alternative inch browsers in the App Store, however they are really just reskined versions of Safari. Opera Mini, on the other hand, is […]

As promised in our extended coverage of the WePad launch event, here are the first hands-on videos from our podcast partner over at NetbookNews, Sascha Pallenberg who was at the WePad launch event today. The videos appear in the German article over at Netbooknews.de: WePad erstes “Hands On” und ein paar Eindruecke Sascha seems quite unimpressed with the event saying that there was only one device available and that was only running a demo slideshow. The WePad wasn’t really available to test! First demo versions are planned to do the […]

It seems like ‘Pad’ Fever has hit Berlin today as WePad ride on the wave with their WePad product. Sascha from (Netbooknews, Meet:Mobility) was there and we’ve been tracking news coming out of the press conference. Note: Our tracking page for the WePad is here. Updating as the conference happens….. Adobe partnership. Flash and AIR will be available. Joint venture between 4titoo und Neofonie. Siemens, Intel and Adobe partners. Chippy: ExpoPC will use the same hardware. Pegtron we believe. The WePad will support full HD playback. [Sounds like there’s a […]

It should come as no surprise to anyone that Google is working on a tablet but even so, I can’t contain my enthusiasm for this news. Why? Because it’s Google and Android together in the MID/Pad/CID/Tablet space and that means that they’re actively thinking about getting Android, their apps AND THE MARKETPLACE on to other platforms. Marketplace is critical for seeding development and further interest in the sector. There has been a lot of talk about ChromeOS being the choice for pads, MIDs and smart-books but I don’t see it […]

Update: All press conference info in a blog post here. The mysteries of the Neofonie WePad tablet [information, article] will be revealed in just a short while. Android, X86, Marketplace, AIR, battery life, etc, etc, etc. All those questions will be answered later today by Meet:Mobility partner in crime, Sascha over at Netbooknews. I’ll be staying in touch with him monitoring his German and English content and summarizing here later. Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis Journalist, author, Android-interested) is also there and as someone who sent back his iPad, I’m interested to […]

It was already known that Archos would bet the farm on a new range of Android Tablets this summer and so we’ve been anxiously awaiting the first leaks. And here they are. Archos Lounge (translation) are reporting (source: ITNews) that the Archos 8 Family will be available by the end of summer. The range will run from 3 inch to 10 inch, will be Cortex A8-based (Ti OMAP as with the current Archos 5 Internet Tablet) and will……oh I so want to just copy the whole article from Archos Lounge […]