Velocity Micro's Android Tablet Family Announced, Starting $150

If you’ve been following the whole cheap Android tablet thing since CES, you’ll probably remember a slate that came out of nowhere unexpected: the Cruz Tablet. Well now there’s an official press release and it turns out that “Cruz” is actually the name of their whole Android tablet lineup. This lineup, starting at a price of $149, seems very promising so let’s take a closer look with a hands-on video and spec sheet. 

Brandon Davenport Jun 13, 2010 Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Me Follow Us Gadgets, Tablets

Dell Streak Review

At Jun 13, 2010

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“Like any tablet, the Streak is destined to be a niche product; those who fall within that niche, though, will find themselves using a device with plenty of promise and plenty to recommend it” — Chris Davies, Slashgear

Slashgear has gotten a hands-on with the new Dell streak, and by the looks of it, its a pretty solid device. The Dell Streak is probably the most niche product in the market right now, and Dell shows no signs of regret. Will it be successful? Maybe this review will help you decide - Read more

Quanta Redvale's MeeGo infused Moorestown powered slate

It may not be that MeeGo infused Moorestown powered slate from Wistron, but what you’re looking at here is Quanta Redvale’s equivalent, and we’ve got to say… it looks well, brilliant. Clearly Intel saw something in this little gem as it was featured during their keynote, however, having said that it could’ve just been some form of parental biased. After all, Intel is one half of MeeGo’s legal guardianship. Nevertheless, if you’re the least bit curious to learn more about this device (and lets face it, we know you are) you’re going to have to mosey on past the break, but trust us when we say “it’ll be worth it.”

Wistron W1-Tablet found in display booth, due to run MeeGo on a Moorestown chipset

So it may not be in its final official build yet, but that hasn’t stopped the folks from Wistron creating the W1-Tablet. Interestingly enough this bad boy actually does run a build of MeeGo, however, something that’s piqued our interest substantially is that its rumoured to run on Intel’s Moorestown chipset — you know, the one that was due to be released in the recently scrapped LG-GW990. Whilst this device hasn’t been released to the public yet, expect to see some more footage of it over the next couple of days (especially tomorrow since it’ll be featured at the Ultra-Mobility event). In the meantime we’ve got a video of it after the break.

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LG shows they can make a Windows 7 tablet too with the UX10

At Jun 1, 2010

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LG shows they can make a Windows 7 tablet too with the UX10

So, the HP slate may be dead, but Microsoft’s next big Windows 7 tablet looks to be the LG UX10. Boasting a 10.1-inch LED display, an Intel Atom Z530 CPU, 1GB of RAM, a 1.3-megapixel front facing camera, an SD card slot, 802.11b/g/n WiFi, and micro HDMI out — this thing should be more than enough to wow those who so desperately wanted an HP slate. – Read More



Intel 'Oak Trail' wants to claim your tablet PCs in 2011

You don’t have to look very far to see that the tablet market is exploding, which is why it comes to no surprise that Intel’s decided to hop into yet another market. Behold Intel’s latest processing platform ‘Oak Trail.’ Don’t go thinking that Oak Trail is a sibling of Pine Trail (although that argument could be made) instead think of them as a more powerful Moorestown chipset. Actually, if we really wanted to get technical we’d say something along the lines of: “Oak Trail — Intel’s latest SoC platform — differs from Pine Trail because of added Lincroft and Whitney Point integration, ergo support for Windows 7, MeeGo, and Chrome OS.” Besides all that nerdery, Intel’s latest fanless platform is currently boasting 1080p HDMI support, longer battery life and the added ability of “thinner and innovative form factors” — that’s all pretty impressive if we say so ourselves. Just don’t go getting all excited yet, because these things aren’t due to ship until the first quarter of 2011. Press release after the break. 

ASUS Eee Pad line gets official, runs Windows 7 in the process

Today’s shaping up to be a wild one down in the depths of Computex 2010 as ASUS has unwrapped its latest line (well first line) of Eee Pads. When they ship — which currently isn’t planned until the first quarter of 2011 — ASUS’ Eee Pads will come in both 10 and 12-inch variants. The latter size has piqued our interest substantially, especially since its running Intel’s Core 2 Duo CULV processor. Their currently claiming that you’ll be able to get about 10-hours of battery life from the 12-inch model — however, running Windows 7 we’re still slightly sceptical on that little tid bit. Oh, if you’re not fond of the “1-foot” slate, as we’ve mentioned there’s a slightly smaller 10-inch model [featured above] — sadly all we know at this point is that it runs Windows Embedded Compact 7, a la Windows CE.

If you’re still not sold on the ASUS Eee Pad think of them as laptops sans a keyboard (similar to the recently scrapped Lenovo U1 Hybrid or even an iPad in Apple’s docking station, but less ridiculous). Ranging from $399 - $499 you’ll be able to pick one of these up as we’ve already mentioned, early next year (sigh). Video and press release after the break.