Tag Archive for 'tablet'
BenQ will be officially presenting its MID Companion Device at CES 2008, hoping to rekindle any waning interest in the UMPC ultraportable tablet format with its pocketable internet browsing handheld. Based on Intel’s Menlow platform, and fully wirelessly capable thanks to both WiFi and 3.5G cellular broadband, the MID uses a Linux OS rather than [...]
Not much in the way of details, but plenty in the way of sexy, this new video shows a MID device - a smaller version of the UMPC - branded Lenovo, complete with a prominent numeric keypad and slick UI that Chippy over at UMPC News believes might be Adobe’s AIR.
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So someone combined the patent from the iMac dock thing that was all over the place yesterday, and then the rumored MacBook Touch and they came up with this rendition of the MacBook Touch or Mac Tablet.
Art Lebedev, known mostly for their oft delayed OLED keyboard, has another keyboard concept, and this one is even more genius, and might even be cheaper to produce. Sure, the OLED keys on their Optimus keyboard are cool, but imagine a keyboard you could hang on the wall because its displaying art when not in [...]
So over the holidays Apple had an employee party where they had some fans of theirs that are in the music business come and perform. Not a big deal right? Wrong, the interesting part comes in the method of payment they were offered for performing.
Apparently Apple is getting into bed with Intel again this time hoping to make some noticeably smaller computing offspring. In fact the rumor is that Apple is going to be making use of the Silverthorne mobile processor and the other parts of the platform surrounding it.
It’s for a Reliability Engineer (sounds like quality assurance from the description). But the interesting parts are that it’s for Multi-Touch technologies, and that the person would be working with both the Mac and the iPod Teams.
Someone called this thing a UMPC, but with a Core Duo processor and a 12.1-inch screen, it’s far from it. The screen has an XGA resolution, an active digitizer, and a resistive touchscreen.
Well, for now it’s the world’s thinnest tablet, it’s also supposedly the world’s lightest tablet to come to market at under 4 pounds. The best part, Dell with be taking orders and shipping the product by the end of the year.
So, there have been rumors going around, all of which purported to come from reputable sources, all of them pointing to some sort of an ultra portable. From the sounds of combining all the rumors, it will be about 12-13 inches in size, and a bit thinner than the current MacBook, and it will have [...]
