Lenovo IdeaTab Lynx Windows 8 Tablet Review
Microsoft’s Surface Pro has been out just over a month now, but with its $899 base price, it’s at the high-end of what a lot of consumers are willing to fork over for a Windows 8-equipped tablet, and that’s not even factoring in the $120+ keyboard option. Thankfully, the market is getting a few more [...]
How Microsoft’s Surface tablet was born
Microsoft’s Surface tablet. (Credit: Microsoft) Microsoft faced a few key challenges in developing its Surface tablet, according to team leader Panos Panay. In an interview with the Verge, Panay offered some tidbits detailing the tricky evolution of Surface. The Surface team’s general manager said that Microsoft had two goals in mind for Surface RT, code-named [...]
ASUS VivoTab Smart review: a good, inexpensive tablet for Windows fans
We’ve been rather busy cranking out reviews lately, and we’ve got all the usual PC makers to thank. Similar to how we spent 2011 reviewing various Android tablets, we’re now facing an onslaught of laptop / tablet hybrids, most of them running full Windows 8 and chugging along on low-powered Clover Trail processors promising epic [...]
Work on Surface Tablet Will Help Partners, Microsoft Says
Microsoft’s work on the Surface tablet will benefit – not alienate – its hardware partners, according to Peter S. Klein, Microsoft’s chief financial officer. “As technology evolves … the ability to work closely between the boundaries between hardware and software allows us to innovate in ways in which we couldn’t before,” Klein said today at [...]
Windows 8 tablet alternatives to Microsoft's Surface Pro
Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet with the Windows 8 OS is due to ship on Feb. 9, starting at $899. The tablet will have a 10.6-inch screen and come in models with 64GB and 128GB of storage. Surface Pro’s early reviews have been mixed, and there are many Windows 8 alternatives already available from Samsung, Acer, [...]
Windows 8 tablet alternatives to Microsoft’s Surface Pro
Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet with the Windows 8 OS is due to ship on Feb. 9, starting at $899. The tablet will have a 10.6-inch screen and come in models with 64GB and 128GB of storage. Surface Pro’s early reviews have been mixed, and there are many Windows 8 alternatives already available from Samsung, Acer, [...]
CES 2013: What to Expect From the Tablets Area – HTC Quattro, New Galaxy Tabs, Galaxy Note 7.0 and More!
CES 2013 starts on January 8th 2013 in Las Vegas and it will bring us the highest end devices of the moment, that will get official unveilings courtesy of the greatest device makers out there. We here at Tablet News deal with tablets, so that’s what we’ll focus on in the following lines. These are [...]
ThinkPad Celebrates 20 Years, Announces Windows 8 ThinkPad Tablet 2
1992 was a big year. Bill Clinton was elected president. Prince Charles and Diana separated. And the first ThinkPad laptop was released by IBM. Twenty years have passed now and a lot has changed. But in the world of technology, the ThinkPad brand is still kicking. And to celebrate its birthday Lenovo, which acquired the [...]
Lenovo reportedly readying convertible Windows RT tablet
When Microsoft announced its Surface tablet running Windows RT, it was reported that NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 chip would be powering the tablet. Now NVIDIA looks to have signed a deal with Lenovo that will see the Chinese manufacturer making use of the same silicon, according to sources speaking to the Wall Street Journal. Not [...]
Lenovo’s first Windows 8 Pro tablet set for October release
Lenovo Announces New ThinkPad Tablet 2 for Windows 8 Debuts premier table built for professionals and designed for life RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. – AUGUST 9, 2012: Lenovo today unveiled its first tablet specifically designed for Windows 8, the ThinkPad Tablet 2. The multi-use tablet boasts differentiators that matter, including an optional digitizer and pen [...]
Lenovo tips ThinkPad tablet for October
MORRISVILLE, N.C., Aug. 9 (UPI) — Chinese computer maker Lenovo has announced its ThinkPad Tablet 2, a Windows 8 slate with optional pen input, will be in U.S. stores in October. To be released at the time of the launch of Windows 8, the Lenovo tablet will run on an Intel Atom processor and a [...]
iPad dominates tablet market in China
San Francisco, CA, United States (4E) – Only two years since Apple’s iPad debuted in China and it already owns close to 73 percent of the country’s tablet market. Research firm Analyses International concluded that there was an increase of 63 percent in tablet sales in the second quarter this year compared to last year. [...]
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