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MSI Tegra tablet coming 2H 2010 for $500

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jan 28th 2010 No Comments

msi tegra tablet We’d question the timing of announcing tablet plans so close to Apple’s iPad launch, but with mixed reactions to the Cupertino slate perhaps there’s room for rivals to sneak in. MSI’s sales director, Sambora Chen, has confirmed that they too have a 10-inch touchscreen slate in the works, which will arrive in the second half of 2010 priced at around $500.

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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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Apple iPad official

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 27th 2010 2 Comments

Apple have unveiled the iPad, their long-awaited and much-rumored tablet. A half-inch thick slate, the iPad has a 9.7-inch LCD IPS 1024 x 768 display with multitouch, , WiFi 802.11n and – optionally – integrated 3G, the iPad is based on a new 1GHz Apple A4 of the company’s own design. Onboard storage ranges from 16GB to 64GB, and the whole thing runs the iPhone OS with a new, custom UI. Best of all, pricing will start at $499 when the Apple iPad begins shipping in around 60 days time, with $130 on top for adding integrated 3G. More details after the cut.

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SlashGear’s Apple liveblog underway!

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 27th 2010 No Comments

It’s January 27th 2010 and SlashGear is outside the Yerba Buena Center – looking pretty darn resplendent in its paint-spattered decor – waiting to bring you all the news from Apple’s latest media event. Biggest expectation today is a new iPad tablet; we’ve supposedly seen shots of the display and shots of the casing, now all we need is Steve Jobs to take to the stage and make it official.

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The liveblog is already running, so join us over at http://live.slashgear.com/ for our blow-by-blow live coverage!

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Apple tablet casing leaks?

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 27th 2010 No Comments

There’s a little over an hour until Apple’s Steve Jobs takes to the stage to – we’re presuming – announce the new Apple tablet, but to tide you over how about some purported leaked images of the slate’s casing. Briefly showing up on a Chinese messageboard, and then promptly deleted, these shots show an indecently thin chassis together with several cut-outs and notches presumably for charging, buttons and headphones.

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Apple granted patent on iChat and tablet tech ahead of expected tablet launch

By Shane McGlaun on Wednesday, Jan 27th 2010 No Comments

The world is anxiously waiting for the Apple event to kick off and the anticipation is that Apple will finally reveal its long rumored tablet to the world. Word is coming in ahead of the launch of the tablet officially that Apple has been granted important patents on tech used in iChat and the tablet expected to launch today.

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New Apple Tablet photo adds iPhone for scale

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 27th 2010 No Comments

After the first batch of supposedly leaked live Apple tablet images earlier on today, along comes a second purported to show the imminent touchscreen device cavorting with an iPhone. The same tipster sent the heavily-masked image to Engadget, though we’re thinking this new shot is slightly out of proportion given the apparent aspect of the display.

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Apple Tablet hype continues: Calacanis “beta tester” says 2-3hr battery

By Chris Davies on Wednesday, Jan 27th 2010 No Comments

With the Apple event kicking off in a matter of hours and – all things expected – the iPad tablet issue finally put to rest, do we have time for a few more quick rumors? Jason Calacanis, a guy with a pretty solid tech reputation, has been tweeting about his hands-on experience as an Apple tablet beta-tester; Calacanis claims to have been playing with the tablet for two weeks now, that it has an integrated HDTV tuner and PVR, wireless keyboard and monitor connectivity, front and rear camera functionality and integrated 3G with support for both Verizon and AT&T. Unfortunately there’s also a sting in the tail: the apparent battery life of the tablet.

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SlashGear’s Apple iPad tablet liveblog: Wednesday January 27th at 10am PST

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jan 26th 2010 No Comments

As you may have noticed, the world has gone slightly Apple iPad tablet crazy these past few weeks, and we’re building up to an event that potentially overshadows the original iPhone launch. SlashGear will be attending Apple’s “Come see our latest creation” press event tomorrow, Wednesday January 27th, and we’ll be running our usual liveblog to bring you all the news as it’s announced.

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The event is due to begin at 10am PST on January 27th; that’s 1pm EST and 6pm GMT. We’ll be using our homegrown liveblog system over at http://live.slashgear.com/, complete with automatic page refreshes so that you can sit back, relax and enjoy the stream of news.

Thomson PoMMeS media tablet hits FCC with Apple wordplay

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jan 26th 2010 No Comments

Ah, those comical French and their whimsical word-play. Fresh to the FCC this week is the Thomson PoMMeS tablet, “pommes” of course being French for “apple”, an 8-inch WVGA touchscreen slate seemingly intended for online TV consumption, VoIP, web-browsing and other generally internet related tasks.

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