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Notion Ink Adam: Flash, iPad comparison & App Competition

By Chris Davies, Ewdison Then and Vincent Nguyen on Monday, Feb 8th 2010 12 Comments

One of the most exciting products from CES 2010 last month was Notion Ink’s Adam tablet, the Android-based slate using the latest-gen NVIDIA Tegra chipset and Pixel Qi’s innovative low-power display. The company had brought along a prototype they could exclusively show us, and now they’ve sent over renders of what’s likely to be the final Adam design complete with some mockups of a SlashGear digital magazine. And, since Apple’s long-awaited entrant to the tablet arena – the iPad – has since made its debut, we also asked Notion Ink just how Adam holds up to the new competition.

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iPad Hands-on Gallery and Video

By Vincent Nguyen on Wednesday, Jan 27th 2010 2 Comments

What can we say: it feels even thinner in the metal than it looks in the photos. We’ve just had a hands-on play with the Apple iPad and it’s mighty impressive. Speed and screen quality aren’t in short supply, with the tablet – that, thanks to all that metal and glass, has a reasonable heft to it – whipping through the customized iPhone OS.

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Palm Pre Plus Review for Verizon Wireless

By Vincent Nguyen on Wednesday, Jan 20th 2010 No Comments

Palm had plenty to live up to at CES 2010, having done a reasonable job of rejuvenating their business the previous year with the surprise introduction of the Palm Pre. This time around they rolled out a more incremental update, the Palm Pre Plus and Palm Pixi Plus, both headed to Verizon Wireless’ network. We’ve had the former on the SlashGear test bench; check out our review after the cut.

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Apple “Come See Our Latest Creation” press event confirmed for January 27th!

By Vincent Nguyen on Monday, Jan 18th 2010 1 Comment

The day we’ve been waiting for is drawing near, and as expected Apple is holding a “special event” on Wednesday, January 27th at 10am PST.

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Jawbone ICON Bluetooth Headset Review

By Vincent Nguyen on Sunday, Jan 17th 2010 1 Comment

Aliph’s last premium Bluetooth headset, the Jawbone PRIME, hit the market back in April 2009 with a mixture of decent sound quality and distinctive looks, and quickly grabbed a place as our favorite mainstream hands-free kit. Now the company is back with a new, smaller version, the Aliph Jawbone ICON; check out our review after the cut.

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Notion Ink Adam hands-on

By Vincent Nguyen and Chris Davies on Saturday, Jan 9th 2010 7 Comments

We first told you about Notion Ink and their Adam tablet back in December, and since then they’ve captured plenty of attention at CES 2010 for including NVIDIA’s new Tegra 2 chipset and being the first use of a Pixel Qi display. We caught up with Notion Ink, company founder Rohan Shravan and the Adam prototype today for an extended discussion, not only about the hardware but exclusively about the company’s plans and expectations for content and usage models. Check out our exclusive photos and never-before-seen video after the cut.

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Verizon ICD Ultra LTE tablet hands-on

By Vincent Nguyen on Thursday, Jan 7th 2010 No Comments

After showing you the T-Mobile ICD Vega tablet in action earlier on, did you really think we’d leave you hanging for its 7-inch LTE Ultra counterpart that Verizon announced a short while ago? SlashGear sat down with the carrier at their exclusive LTE Innovation Center at CES 2010 earlier today to see the ICD Android slate – which uses NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset and a Motorola LTE radio – in action.

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T-Mobile Vega Android tablet hands-on

By Vincent Nguyen on Thursday, Jan 7th 2010 No Comments

Earlier today T-Mobile and ICD announced their intention to put a 15-inch Vega tablet into every UK household that would pay for one, and we promised to sit down with the two companies for a hands-on play. The Android-based Vega uses the Tegra 250 chipset that we now know as the NVIDIA Tegra 2, and T-Mobile are targeting the slate specifically at the “Mom” segment whom, they hope, will readily adopt it as the linchpin of their family lives.

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Motorola Backflip hands-on

By Vincent Nguyen on Wednesday, Jan 6th 2010 No Comments

We hardly waited until Motorola had finished announcing their third Android smartphone, the Motorola Backflip, before heading up to have a play with the handset ourselves, and we have to say we’re in two minds about it. Motorola’s concept is certainly interesting: the nature of the hinge means you can use it as a desk clock and widget station without, say, the dock the DROID demands, but there have been payoffs in the keyboard hardware that we’re note sure are worth it.

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Video demo after the cut

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Google Nexus One hands-on

By Vincent Nguyen on Tuesday, Jan 5th 2010 1 Comment

After all the leaks, speculation and premature sightings, the Google Nexus One feels pretty familiar by now. Still, going by the amount of interest in the Android 2.1 smartphone there’s obviously a fair few people out there who want Google’s “official device”, freshly announced this morning in Mountain View. Read on for our first impressions with the Nexus One hardware and software.

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