It seems like we’ve been talking about ‘smart’ devices and ‘smart’ books forever but what exactly have we got to choose from now? There’s hardly a single ‘smart’ device in the market apart from the Apple iPad; which is probably the reason for all the delays. I’ve written about this before. Two delays to report today come from very high profile devices. The first is a delay to the Skylight, the ‘first ARM-based smartbook’ from Lenovo. Announced in Jan and said to be available through AT&T in the U.S. in […]

Engadget have looked into a pre-ordering delay on the Enso zenPad (a version of a device from a company called Smits) and have found some strange goings on. If you’ve ordered the zenPad, check out the article at Engadget. If you haven’t ordered the zenPad, we advise to wait until things are cleared up. Source: Engadget

Chippy, JKK and Sascha cover news about the iPad, the JooJoo, ICD Gemini, Hanvon Tablet, HP Slate and other consumer and mobile internet devices.

Chippy, JKK and Sascha cover news about the iPad, the JooJoo, ICD Gemini, Hanvon Tablet, HP Slate and other consumer and mobile internet devices.

We’ve acquired an an official PDF which confirms specification details for the ICD Gemini 11.6 inch Android Tablet. Engadget outed the details a few days ago so now we know the specs are real, we’ve added them all to our product database. Many seem to have missed the fact that the Tegra 2 powered device will be vastly more powerful than the iPad. 2-3 times more processing power (it’s a dual-core optimised Cortex CPU as opposed to the single-core version in the iPad) which means super-fast web rendering times and/or […]

This could be a long article or a short article because my 8-day old Son, Nicklas is sleeping and who knows when he’ll wake up. Everything I do at the moment has to be flexible, portable and completed in multiple short bursts. Many of you Dads out there will know what I mean and many of you will have tried, like me, to slip a little bit of ‘work’ into the quiet periods. When you’ve got a studio full of mobile computers to choose from it’s interesting see see what […]

EviGroup have released some more information on their upcoming Paddle which is an evolution of the 10 inch Atom-based ‘Pad’ Tablet PC. New images show slightly improved design although we already know that the main improvements are internal with an SSD option and improved battery life. Software has also been improved with ‘Scale’ offering a way to navigate locally stored content. All hardware has now been finalised which full specs and availability coming soon. Base system looks to be Windows 7 Home Premium and pricing has already been announced. It […]

At last a bit of ultra mobile PC news to talk about. The last three days were swamped with consumer ‘pad’ news and UMPCPortal feels like it’s been abandoned. (Note: Having a son 7 days ago doesn’t help with my availability right now either so bear with us if news takes a little longer than usual) HP Slate Full specs, comparison and information now in the database The HP Slate news has been around for a while but apart from a few viral videos and a presentation by Microsoft which […]