Panasonic Toughpad A1 Reaches the FCC, Could Live Longer Than its User (Video)
Panasonic Toughpad A1 is one of those rugged tablets that you can take with you to the highest mountain or deepest sea and still escape rash climates alive. This device is a 10 inch ruggedized slate that was unveiled in November last year and since it has been under the radar. Now it has reached [...]
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Two Hands On With Toshiba’s Massive 13-Inch Excite Tablet
Apps not built for tablets, such as Facebook’s Android app, look especially bad on the Toshiba Excite 13. Also, take a gander at the blemish in the middle of the screen. Photo: Peter McCollough/Wired Android isn’t ready for a 13.3-inch tablet. But this isn’t stopping Toshiba, which thinks the world is ready for a tablet [...]
Microsoft’s SmartGlass to bring phone, tablet, Xbox together
Microsoft doesn’t like the way your phone, tablet and Xbox play right now, so it’s created SmartGlass — and it intends to bring all your devices closer. The new feature will connect all of your devices together in an effort to enhance the way you play video games or watch programming on your Xbox. In [...]
Samsung, Amazon emerge as Apple’s only tablet rivals… but barely
More than 100 media tablets were unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in January 2011 as the industry struggled to respond to Apple’s iPad. The company’s tablet burst onto the scene less than a year earlier, and Apple’s rivals saw a tremendous opportunity in the revival of the consumer tablet market. Few success stories emerged, however, [...]
Lenovo shows off Windows 8 ThinkPad tablet
(Credit: screenshot by Lance Whitney/CNET) Lenovo has pulled the curtains back on a new Windows 8 ThinkPad tablet. Demoed at Computex today for Engadget, the new ThinkPad tablet sports a 10.1-inch screen with a resolution of 1366×768 pixels. Two Webcams are on board: an 8-megapixel version on the back and a 2-megapixel version on the [...]
Miiverse, Dual Tablet Support Coming to Nintendo Wii U
LOS ANGELESWhile games were the focus of Nintendo’s Tuesday press conference here, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime highlighted a few non-gaming features and titles coming to the Wii U. Nintendo showed off the Wii U’s potential for asymmetric gameplay with one Wii U Gamepad and several Wiimotes, but Fils-Aime also announced during the presentation [...]
Turn your iPad into a music studio with Rockmate. Win promo codes to download the app for free (Contest-Video)
Rockmate is probably one of the best apps you can have on your iPad if you are interested in making music. The new version 1.1 is packed with some awesome new features like: microphone, Retina graphics, new sharing options, new drum kits and new keyboard kits. Feeling a little shy? With Rockmate you can invite your friends [...]
Computex 2012: Toshiba Showcases Windows 8 Convertible Tablet Concepts
Also present at Computex 2012 Taipei, Toshiba showed the world its original formats of Windows 8 devices. These include mostly hybrid devices and convertible tablets, like the ones pictured below. No specs, release dates or other similar details were revealed, but the folks of The Verge got some quality time with those prototypes. One of [...]
Computex 2012: ViewSonic VCD22 is a 22 Inch Tablet/Monitor With Android 4.0 (Video)
There was a time in the past when modular phones and devices like the ASUS PadFone seemed weird. Well, this year at Computex “weird” becomes normal, since tons of unusual device formats were showcased. From tablets that are also laptops with sliding keyboards to All in one PCs that are tablets, everything is new, heavy [...]
Xbox SmartGlass Officially Announced at E3 2012, Bringing Xbox Integration to Tablets/Smartphones
Microsoft just made some interesting announcements at E3 2012, including the one of the Xbox Music, a rebranded Zune and the Xbox SmartGlass. This is a companion app for tablets and smartphones, that will bring the Xbox experience to the mobile devices. People compare Microsoft’s offering with Apple’s AirPlay or Nintendo’s Wii U, but it’s [...]
Microsoft's SmartGlass to bring phone, tablet, Xbox together
Microsoft doesn’t like the way your phone, tablet and Xbox play right now, so it’s created SmartGlass — and it intends to bring all your devices closer. The new feature will connect all of your devices together in an effort to enhance the way you play video games or watch programming on your Xbox. In [...]
