We’ve been watching the development of eviGroup’s Wallet MID with no small amount of interest; after all, while Android-based touchscreen handhelds seem ten a penny lately, it’s still quite rare for them to have a release date attached. Nowhere Else’s Stagueve is conveniently in France to stop by the eviGroup offices and have a play with the prototype; check out his hands-on video and some first-impressions after the cut.
Wacom may have only made their new Bamboo tablet range official yesterday, but eagle-eyed early adopters have been picking them up in stores for over a week now. BestTabletReview have been putting the Bamboo Pen & Touch Fun – which has both an active digitizer stylus for precise control and artwork, and a multitouch layer for recognizing finger-touch and gestures – through its paces, compared to Wacom’s well-considered Graphite tablet.
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Archos have confirmed that their Archos 9 Internet Tablet will go on sale come October 22nd, with pricing starting from $499. Speaking at the IDF 2009 conference this week, the company surprised many who had expected the 9-inch touchscreen slate to retail for several hundred dollars more than that.
Wacom have finally got around to officially announcing [pdf link] their Bamboo Touch multitouch tablet, a week after at least one person was able to pick one up from their local Best Buy. The Wacom Bamboo Touch is one of the company’s second generation of the Bamboo line, which also includes the Bamboo Pen & Touch, which responds both to a pen stylus (for accuracy) as well as fingers. The tablet automatically switches between the two modes, depending on whether the user has touched the surface with their finger or if the stylus nib is near.
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We may well laugh about Apple addicts and their long-queueing ways, but when a survey finds more than a fifth of those asked would happily pay between $500 and $700 for an Apple tablet, sight-unseen, you have to admire the company's hype machine. Analysts RBC Capital Markets asked 3,100 people whether they were interested in buying the tablet, and 21-percent said yes; that contrasts to 9-percent of people asked in April 2007 whether they'd be interested in an iPhone, in a similar survey prior to the smartphone's launch.
TabletKiosk is one of those names we’ve not heard for a while, but the touchscreen-centric firm is back with three new Intel Atom based slates. The TabletKiosk eo a7330D UMPC and eo TufTab a7230XD are both 7-inch ultraportables with dual-type active/passive digitizers, meaning you can use either your finger or a more accurate stylus, while the Sahara NetSlate a230T is a 12.1-inch entry-level Tablet PC.
Having heard the rumors earlier this week about Microsoft’s supposed tablet project, imagine our surprise to see this, the Microsoft Courier. Gizmodo grabbed the details on the dual-touchscreen tablet, which folds along its center spine and can be used with either a pen stylus for handwriting recognition or with fingertips complete with multitouch gestures. Each panel is believed to be roughly 7-inches, and the whole project is apparently in “late prototype” stage of development.
Video demo after the cut
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If there's one thing capitalism has taught us, it's that competition is usually good for prices. Newegg have just joined Dynamism in offering the Viliv X70 UMPC, the 7-inch Korean touchscreen tablet, which you'd expect to mean prices were pushed down. Unfortunately Newegg don't seem to have got that memo; their prices are actually a little more expensive than the existing offers.
The Microsoft “Project Pink” smartphone and personal tablet rumors have had a reboot this week, with both 9to5Mac and ZDNet’s Mary Jo Foley each commenting on what snippets of insider news they’ve heard. According to the normally Mac-centric site, Microsoft will be showing off two versions of their Pink self-branded smartphone, codenamed “Turtle” and “Pure”, with the former having a squared-circle shape and the latter being a more traditional candybar format. Each will have a slide-out QWERTY keyboard and be manufactured by Sharp.
Wacom’s upcoming Bamboo Touch multitouch tablet has not only been spotted in the wild, but prematurely bought, unboxed and reviewed, all with no official word from Wacom themselves. Meanwhile, Wacom’s corporate site has confirmed that [pdf link] they’ve begun mass production of a Windows 7 compatible multitouch panels for notebooks, which can be combined with the company’s pen sensor.
Video unboxing and review after the cut
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