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ViewSonic ViewPad 10pi and 10e plus dual-SIM ViewPhone 3 debut

Chris Davies, Jan 10th 2012 Discuss [1]

ViewSonic has unveiled a pair of new 10-inch tablets, along with a smartphone, at CES today, including a dual-boot Android and Windows model along with dual-SIM support. The ViewSonic ViewPad 10pi runs both Windows 7 and Android 2.3 on an Intel Oak Trail Z670 processor, serving both OSes up on a 1280 x 800 IPS touchscreen. Read The Full Story

ViewSonic ViewPad E70 brings ICS on a sub-$170 budget

Chris Davies, Jan 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

ViewSonic has announced a new Ice Cream Sandwich tablet, the ViewPad E70, a 7-inch budget slate running Android 4.0 on a 1GHz processor. Packing 4GB of storage - plus a microSD card slot - and an HDMI output, the ViewPad E70 also has a front-facing camera and WiFi connectivity. Read The Full Story

Lenovo YOGA multitouch Win8 notebook has 360 folding screen

Chris Davies, Jan 10th 2012 Discuss [5]

Lenovo's easel-style IdeaCentre A720 all-in-one isn't the only extra-flexible touchscreen PC from the company at CES; the Lenovo YOGA is a notebook with a patented 360-degree hinge that allows it to fold all the way back around. The 13.3-inch 1600 x 900 multitouch machine can be used as a laptop, as a tablet or stood up on a desk or table, while inside Windows 8 runs on Intel Core processors. Read The Full Story

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NVIDIA embraces Ice Cream Sandwich with the Transformer Prime

Chris Burns, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [2]

In a fully green-lit environment on the first full day of CES 2012, NVIDIA's Jen-Hsng Huang outlined their 2012 focus, and all was quad-core. The event began with Huang speaking about how they'd be moving through Tablets, a secret additional feature of Tegra 3, and vehicle integration. As tablets are, as evidence shows, the quickest selling device category in mobile history, so too will NVIDIA continue to concentrate on the category for their hero devices. Read The Full Story

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Live at NVIDIA CES 2012 Press Event

Cory Gunther, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Okay folks, who is ready for some NVIDIA quad-core news? We are live at the NVIDIA Conference at CES 2012 and are ready to speed through some quad-core goodness. The show is about to kick off and if you've been following along with recent mobile news NVIDIA is set to make a huge splash this year. We'll be seeing all kinds of superphone level smartphones and tablets. Read The Full Story

Board of Awesomeness couples Win8 tab, Kinect and deathwish

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [1]

A prototype Windows 8 tablet, a Kinect sensor bar and an electric skateboard: not exactly your typical gaming setup nor, indeed, your average method of transportation, but actually the handiwork of Chaotic Moon. Dubbed the "Board of Awesomeness", the battery-powered 'board can move at up to 34mph, relying on a combination of video, speech and gesture recognition, localization data, accelerometer data, and other information to react to the rider. Read The Full Story

CES Live

Pantech Element hands-on

Chris Burns, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [1]

This week we've gotten the opportunity to check out AT&T's waterproof dunk into LTE with the Pantech Element, a device that acts as a one-two punch with a smartphone by the name of Pantech Burst, both of them offered as part of AT&T's LTE come-up in 2012. This device is a lovely 8-inch tablet made to feel smooth in your hands, has a 1.5 GHz dual-core processor under the hood, and is running Android 3.2 Honeycomb at the launch. Read The Full Story

ASUS Eee Pad MeMO ME370T tablet resurrects the stylus

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012

ASUS has officially launched the Eee Pad MeMO ME370T, a 7-inch 1280 x 800 resolution IPS Android 4.0 tablet with a capacitive stylus for note-taking duties. Built around a Qualcomm 8260 1.2GHz dual-core processor, the MeMO has WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and a 5-megapixel camera with autofocus and 1080p Full HD video recording on the back, along with a 1.2-megapixel front cam.

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ASUS Transformer Prime TF700T revealed with 1080p display

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [43]

ASUS’ Transformer Prime may only have gone on sale a short time ago, but the company has already prepared a new model, the Transformer Prime TF700T, with a 1080p-capable display. Set to take on Acer’s teased Iconia Tab A700 shown yesterday, the Prime TF700T has a 1020 x 1200 Super IPS+ display with Gorilla Glass, along with some changes to the front camera and some of the wireless performance.

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Smartphones and Tablets to get USB 3.0 ports by end of 2012

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [0]

Compact USB 3.0 ports should arrive on smartphones and tablets by the end of 2012, the organization behind USB standards has insisted, promising significantly reduced data transfer speeds. Expected rates are in the region of 100 MB/s, the USB Implementers Forum told PC World, lower than the raw throughput of the USB 3.0 standard because such speeds would demand simply too much power. Read The Full Story

Vizio VTAB3010 10-inch tablet revealed

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [1]

Vizio has revealed a new tablet at CES 2012, a 10-inch slate with squared-off good looks and the promise of no small amount of power. Details on the Vizio VTAB3010 are still scant, beyond the screen size and the fact that it has WiFi, but we do know that it has front and rear cameras - the latter packing a flash, too. Read The Full Story

CES Live

Toshiba Excite X10 Hands-on

Chris Davies, Jan 9th 2012 Discuss [4]

Toshiba announced yesterday that the super-skinny AT200 tablet would be headed to the US mid-Q1 as the Excite X10, and we wasted no time in grabbing some more play with the 0.3-inch slate. First shown at IFA 2011 a few months back, the Excite X10 is just as appealing today: crisp edges, lashings of brushed aluminum and a great 10.1-inch 1280 x 800 IPS display add up to a tablet that feels as good in the hand as the on-screen graphics look.