Tag: multitouch

10 Inch Tablet Convertible Netbooks Compared – Viliv S10 Wins

Posted by ts On 07.03.2010

source – netbooked.net

Sascha from Netbooknews takes a look at the latest generation of 10-inch Pinetrail tablet convertible netbooks, the Gigabyte T1000, Lenovo IdeaPad S10-3t and the Viliv S10 Blade. All pretty much unique in their own way, with their own strong points but when it comes to looks, size and weight, the Viliv S10 Blade is clearly ahead of the other two.

Both the T1000 and S10 have 1366 x 768 displays. The S10-3t and T100 are available with Atom N470 processors, the S10 has either an Atom Z530 or Z550 processor. No accelerometers on any of them. S10 has a resistive 3-point display vs capacitive 2-point on the S10-3t (don’t know if T1000 is resistive or capacitive). With a decent configuration the S10 will be the most expensive.

Video below:

Viliv S10 Blade Tablet Netbook

Posted by ts On 06.03.2010

source – netbooked.net

Chippy from UMPC Portal has got in an early production sample of the upcoming Viliv S10 Blade convertible tablet netbook which sports a 10.1” 1366 x 768 display with resistive multi-touch. His particular model came with the Atom Z530 (1.66GHz) processor. Underneath reveals a removable li-poly battery supposedly good for up to 10 hours and an access panel for the 1.8” storage device.

The touch screen gets a workout as Chippy tests out 3 point touch, handwriting, virtual key typing and zooming in out and of webpages whilst pointing out the lack of palm rejection. It’s not looking too much different in terms of functionality and speed from my ASUS Eee PC T91MT.

The Viliv S10 Blade will be priced at $699 and should be available to preorder from Dynamism very soon. All the configurations are available to check out. Video below:

Archos 7 cheap tablet previewed during CeBIT 2010

Posted by ts On 06.03.2010

source – alltouchtablet.com author – G

As promised, Archos has launched at Cebit his so called home tablets, Archos 7 and Archos 8, which distinctive price characteristics that puts them in the affordable range. Of course there ware compromises to be made, so some of you could be disappointed because they perform pretty slow (cheap CPUs), but it all depends on how you balance price and performance in your own value system.

Archos 7 Home Tablet is a 7 inch 800×480 screen tablet, running Android powered by 600MHz ARM9-based Rockchip 2808CPU and 128MB RAM. It is incredibly thin (0.5 inch) and lightweight (0.8 lbs) and, when talking about the connectivity, Archos 7 comes with Wi-Fi and USB connections, thus making it appropriate for web-surfing, watching videos from Youtube or from a flash drive or external HDD. There’s no 3G but you can live without that.

Archos 7 looks like a real tablet: cheap and multimedia oriented

The resistive touch screen responds very well, a light pressure being adequate for the tablet to work properly. In addition, the quite huge keyboard makes typing really easy, so you can use the tablet for taking notes or composing emails very well.

Other features offered by the Archos 7 are the build in stereo speakers offering a good sound quality for this type of gadget, 2 GB flash memory, microSD support, video out connector and the most import is that it has a 7 hours battery life for video playing and 44 hours for listening to music. There’s even an integrated desk stand that comes up from the back and allows you to use the Archos 7 on a table just like a digital photo frame.

After all, we found the quality-price ratio really attractive, considering that the price of Archos 7 Home Tablet is expected to raise to $179 for the 2GB version and around $250 for the 8GB model. Both version should be available in a few months and hopefully we can do a hands on review with them by that time.

Source: Jkkmobile, Crunchgear

Entourage eDGe review – 9.7 inch eInk screen and 10.1 color LCD, powered by Android OS

Posted by ts On 05.03.2010

source – alltouchtablet.com author – John Pope

Entourage eDGe: nice to get as a gift

Covering CES 2010 early this year I was surprised by the amount of dual screen netbooks and hybrid devices small producers tried to push into market to see customer’s reaction. Entrourage eDGe is one such product featuring a dual screen design, one 9.7 inch eInk screen and 10.1 color LCD, both powered by Android OS and an 1.2 GHz CPU.
Laptopmag is the first to post an early review of the Entourage eDGe and shared their opinions with all of us, so here’s what you can expect from this nice concept. Even if 1.2 GHz seems a lot for a mobile CPU, in practice the device is overall slower than the Motorola Droid, which has a 550 MHz CPU. Also things are not getting too far with the battery life, which is not helped by the Power Management software that seems not to be able to close the screen once you fold the device.

The nice part is the ability to focus attention on just one screen by folding the Entourage eDGe back on back and flip the device to face the screen you want. Unfortunately the resistive touchscreen layer on the LCD screen is hard to press some times and has shallow viewing angles, while the eInk screen can be used with a special stylus made for the digitized screen that allows the user to take notes on the eBooks he reads. The only problem is that a page with annotations takes 4 seconds to turn.

The virtual keyboard is not that responsive but gets the job done

Even if it uses Android, Entourage eDGe doesn’t have access to Android Market so there aren’t many apps you can install and the book library only has 250.000 books and I’m not talking about bestsellers here. Add to that over one million of Google Books and I guess you can be satisfied, but no newspapers and magazines are available.
For now the 499 $ dual screen tablet is a nice concept but there’s much to be improved and hopefully there will be a second generation of Entourage eDGe.

read entire article with video review at alltouchtablet.com

Panasonic ToughBook C1 Convertible Tablet PC preview and hands on

Posted by ts On 04.03.2010

source –alltouchtablet.com author: G
With tradition in building rugged PCs (they claim to make them since 1993), Panasonic introduces the newest member of the ToughBook family, the Panasonic ToughBook C1 Convertible Tablet PC. And it isn’t just the newest ToughBook, it is also named the world’s lightest 12.1-inch convertible tablet PC.

The new C1 Convertible Tablet PC from Panasonic seams to address especially to medical field, but not only. When projected it, Panasonic considered the case in which you have to carry your tablet PC all day long, so he made it really lightweight – 3.2 lbs (with one battery)/ 3.7 lbs (with two batteries). An other aspect considered by Panasonic was the solidity, therefor the C1 is rugged enough as if you accidentally drop it or spill something on it will not be damaged. Having a magnesium alloy case, a spill resistant keyboard, it was designed to resist at 30” operating drop (to base only), 26 sides 12” drop (non-operating), 225 lb pressurized vibration and 6 ounces spills.

Even if it is a Tablet PC, please don’t think it performs like the other convertible tablets. It was designed to perform as a desktop computer. Its Intel Core i5-520 processor (2.54 GHz), 250 GB shock-mounted flex-connect hard drive with quick-realeas and the 2GB RAM (DDR3-800) with possibility to expand to 6GB, make the Panasonic ToughBook C1 a tablet for business, not for home use.
In addition to these the C1 also offers a battery life that allows you to use it for a long period of time (5 hours with one battery and all work day long if you use two batteries) and you can hot-swap either of the battery while the tablet is running. Talking about the connectivity we found that the standard model comes with Wireless (b/g/n) technology and Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and optional it can be equipped with Gobi 2000 mobile broadband from Qualcommwhich allows you to connect to any of the major network carriers and provides GPS location services.

Panasonic ToughBook C1 is not just a high performance, lightweight convertible Tablet. Being designed for business fields like sales, FMCG or medicine it was mandatory for it to be very easy to carry, that’s why it has an ergonomic strap and dome hand support on the button and because it is expected to be used also in direct sunlight, Panasonic fitted the C1 Tablet with an anti-glare treated display. For those strict business environments there are security feature like a fingerprint reader and SmartCard reader.

read on entire post with video and more pictures at alltouchtablet.com

Hanvon TouchPad BC10C and BA10E hands-on

Posted by ts On 03.03.2010

source – engadget.com By Ross Miller

Remind us to send a thank-you note to Hanvon for taking a break from cranking out e-readers to work on some of the best tablets we’ve seen at CeBIT yet — much more advanced that what was shown by the company back in September. While the TouchPad BC10C and BA10E didn’t have any special software running on top of Windows 7 Home Premium, both of their 10.1-inch, capacitive multitouch displays were extremely responsive. The BA10E was the more aesthetically-pleasing of the duo, with a smooth grey bezel and a thin, lightweight body that was cool to the touch. If you hadn’t guessed already, that beauty comes at a cost to processing speed, with just a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor inside. (Although the official specs list Windows XP and stylus input, as you can see in the video it was clearly using Windows 7 and multitouch — the Atom CPU might also be an error, but the rep on hand couldn’t say.) The BC10C, while bulkier, boasts an Intel Celeron chip — a little more power, but we can’t help but wonder how battery life would suffer. Hanvon told us these babies would run for about 500 euros, with release date currently unknown. You know the drill: gallery below, and video after the break.

read on entire article with more photos form the hands-on and video at engadget.com

ASUS DR-900 e-reader hands-on

Posted by ts On 03.03.2010

source – engadget.com By Joanna Stern

After weeks of hearing about the DR-900 (or DR-950) e-reader, you had to know that we’d sprint (okay, walk at a brisk pace) over to ASUS’ booth to finally handle the touchscreen device in person. The 9-inch ebook reader was quite light in hand, and though we didn’t have Amazon’s Kindle DX with us, it appeared very comparable in size. As far as the reading experience goes, the preloaded text-based PDFs looked crisp on the 1024 x 768 display and as per usual the e-ink display took about a second or two to refresh. Unfortunately, here’s where we tell you that the former touch experience was less than stellar — we had to press quite hard to select the homescreen icons and light finger taps didn’t register when we tried to type “engadget” into the address bar. We got the hang of having to press firmly, but we’re happy there are the up and down arrows on the right edge for alternate navigation. Perhaps it will all be fixed up once it heads into production, though we don’t have details on when that will be. What we do know is that there’s a just lovely hands-on video for you after the break.

read on entire article with tons of pictures at engadget.com

ASUS makes DR-900 e-reader official

Posted by ts On 02.03.2010

source – engadget.com By Vladislav Savov

We’ve spent all our time hearing about a DR-950, but today at CeBIT ASUS has trotted out a DR-900 as its first 9-inch ebook reader. It doesn’t appear manifestly different from what we’ve heard and seenalready, with WiFi connectivity augmented with a 3G option, and a battery life rated to last a pretty radical 10,000 pages on a single charge. The interface on show clearly invites touch interaction, and we can fill in a few gaps with what we know of the DR-950, namely a 1024 x 768 resolution on a Sipix panel, 4GB of integrated storage, 3.5mm headphone jack, and support for PDF, TXT, MP3 and ePUB files. We’ll be tracking down an official price and release date shortly, as well as smudging a few fingerprints on these before the day is through.

Gigabyte T1000 takes a new twist on life with Atom N470 and a multitouch display

Posted by ts On 02.03.2010

source – engadget.com By Joanna Stern

Ever get the feeling that what you see on paper just isn’t going to be as good in person? That’s sort of how we felt today when we stopped by Gigabyte’s CeBIT booth to get a look at its newly announced T1000 netvertible. On the spec front the T1000 has everything we could possibly want in a netbook — a new 1.83GHz Atom N470, 2GB of RAM, a chiclet keyboard and a 1366 x 768-resolution multitouch display — but in our few minutes of use things were far from rainbows and butterflies. The resistive touch panel required a pretty firm press, and when in slate mode there’s no buttons (or accelerometer) for rotating the device. While we liked the chiclet keyboard, we’ll never understand why Gigabyte has kept the two mouse buttons on the sides of the touchpad. We realize that we may be jumping to conclusions too quickly here, so we’ll let you decide for yourselves with the help of a short video after the break.

read entire post with more images at engadget.com

HP 2740p, the new Elitebook

Posted by ts On 01.03.2010

source –alltouchtablet.com author – John Pope

Untill yesterday, the 2740p was just a mysterious convertible tablet from HP, but now that it was presented to the press, I know what’s all about it and will share that info with you.

The HP 2740p is part of the Elitebook series and is a premium convertible tablet PC, with magnesium alloy rugged case and is compliant with military grade MIL-STD 810G standard for vibration, dust, humidity, altitude and temperature resistance plus has a chemically-strengthened glass display panel.

Live shot of HP Elitebook 2740p

From the loops of it HP Elitebook 2740p doesn’t look like a road warrior, but once you get your hands on it you get the feeling of strength and quality build. It’s what you would expect from atablet starting at 1599$, but you’ll definitely want to beef up the standard configuration with a normal voltage Core i7 CPU (default is Core i5), add some RAM, up to 8 GB, add a 320 GB hard drive, or 160 GB SSD, add another expansion battery or travel base that adds some expansion ports.

HP 2740p is really a nice tablet to have

You can even pick up a better screen specially build for outdoor use. Both options are capacitive screens, offer multi touch and pen input and offer 1280 x 800 pixels resolution. Connectivity options are also top notch: WiFi 802.11n, Bluetooth 2.1, EVDO/HSDPA and even GPS. The whole package is 1.25 x 11.42 x 8.35 inches and weighs from 3.8lbs with the 6 cell battery that’s good for up to 5 hours of use (so expect 3 t0 3.5 hours with it). You can add another slim battery that’s attached at the bottom of the laptop which increases overall thickness by a few millimeters and also adds another 6 hours to the original 5 hours estimate. There’s even a LED on the screen that’s used to illuminate the keyboard.

HP 2740p can look like a laptop

If you’re crazy about connections you can add an Ultra-Slim Expansion Base that supports DispalyPort, an eSata port and includes a DVD+/-RW drive for 299$ but I bet you could live without those if you have a fully loaded desktop at home. Even if it weights 3.8 lbs it doesn’t seem that heavy, at least compared to the Lenovo X201T we’ve presented earlier. Below there’s a hands on video from Slashgear:

Source: Engadget, Ubergizmo

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