Posted on 01 June 2011
Looking like the same industrial design as the Iconia A500, this is Acer’s Meego Tablet. Full credit to @ndeviltv and @ngde_live More coming soon. I’ll be reporting on this over at Meegonews. Update: Videos, screen grabs and thoughts on the article.
Posted on 01 June 2011
It’s a crossover point when Intel demonstrate a mobile operating system that grew on ARM devices, on their i86 platform and that’s what happened yesterday. I played around with an image from the Intel pressroom and here’s the Medfield tablet running Honeycomb. Looks like 7 inch to me and designed for Android 2.x rather than 3.x (See buttons.) Interestingly, most of the PR around Medfield talks about tablets and not smartphones. I wonder if the smartphone focus will come later in the year? IDF perhaps. Original image is here. In […]
Posted on 01 June 2011
A year ago, Intel teased us with a reference design build on top of a PineTrail CPU. Canoe Lake was a stunning looking netbook but alas, only a reference design. This year though, that could change. Malata are offering it up to their customers. As you can see though, Malata will build it with the new Cedar Trail platform using the N2600 and N2800 CPU parts. The price, weight, timescale and finer specification details are still unknown but we’ll be tracking this and bringing you the latest soon. Expect a […]
Posted on 01 June 2011
The Z-01 APU was announced yesterday in a blog and press release but AMD have just demonstrated it on stage at Computex. It looks like they’ve re-named the low-power C-50 part they’ve already talked about, a variant of which I believe is already in the Acer Iconia W500 Tablet so don’t get too excited as we’re talking about a 5.9W TDP here, not an ARM-architecture competitor just yet. It lines up nicely besides Oaktrail as a platform that can enable a good Windows tablet experience. Interestingly, AMD accepted that Windows […]