Tim Cook Says iPad Mini Is Not A 7-Inch Tablet
Apple’s Steve Jobs had been ardently opposed to the idea of creating a mini tablet with a 7-inch display. While some are deeming the iPad mini as a departure from this philosophy, Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook has rebuffed such critics, categorically stating that iPad mini is not a 7-inch tablet.
Images Of Google’s Upcoming Nexus Tablet Allegedly Leaked
There have been many rumors regarding a Google Nexus tablet. In fact, recently some very clear hints of the 7-inch tablet surfaced on a benchmarking site, showing off Asus as the vendor of the hardware of this tablet. And now, yet more hints show that Asus may be the one crowned with the creation of this Google tablet.
Google May Launch A 7-inch Tablet This Year
The niche market of 7-inch tablet had been unexplored until Amazon released Kindle Fire and it took the world by quite a storm, at least for a few weeks after it’s release. It’s overall sales too could be bested only by Apple. This success made all tablet vendors realize that 7-inch tablet market is a lucrative and no less important avenue. So while we had earlier heard that Apple is working on a similar sized tablet, we now have been told by analysts from DisplaySearch that Google is also in the process of developing a 7-inch tablet.
Kindle Fire, Nook Tablet, Responsible for 7 Inch Tablet Demand?
Kindle Fire just won’t stop growing. And even if that’s very good news for Amazon, we are hearing reports of people being actually worried that they will be left out in the cold with no Fire to heat up their living rooms for Christmas. One solution is that they reconsider and go out to buy a Barnes&Noble Nook Tablet instead. Nooks have been doing great as well, feeding the apparently growing need for 7-inch tablets of the population.
Tablet Review: Toshiba Thrive 7-inch tablet
Toshiba’s 7-inch tablet, Thrive is quite a treat. If you want a nifty, little tablet rather than a 10-inch one and are really looking for an awesome display with perfect touch responsiveness, this may be your thing. Of course you have to be an Android fan to tool the Android 3.2 Honeycomb installed on it. The price, too, may seem a little high compared to the other options in the market.
Kindle Fire Offers Poor Usability Experience, Says Study
According to a recent study carried by the notable usability expert, Jakob Neilsen, the usability experience of Kindle Fire is not quite good. According to Neilsen, the screen size makes accurate tapping quite difficult while the response to the tapping is also quite slow. Moreover, the lack of standard buttons such as home, volume control etc makes it annoying for a user.
PanDigital 72-70FW 7-Inch Cheapest Tablet In Amazon
PanDigital 72-70FW 7-Inch is the Cheapest Tablet In Amazon. The PanImage Multimedia tablet changes the way you access the web, access email, check social networks and curl up with a good book. With instant access to the Barnes and Noble PanImage Color Multimedia Tablet lets you read and carry hundreds of books, magazines, and newspapers with you wherever you go.
BlackBerry PlayBook With Wi-Fi Coming To Sprint
BlackBerry PlayBook headed to Sprint and Sprint Marketing Director Gerald Evans revealed on his personal blog earlier today that the WiFi-only, 16GB version of the tablet will be hitting Sprint stores on Sunday, June 5th for the usual $499.99. Sprint has stated in the past that a 4G WiMAX enabled BlackBerry PlayBook would join their network in the Summer and if Sprint embraces the Wi-Fi only PlayBook this weekend that is a good first step towards a 4G version for the near future…………
HTC Flyer Goes On Sales At Best Buy On May 22nd for $500
The HTC Flyer’s wifi-only version is set to go on sale the 22nd at Best Buy locations around the country, but an internal memo was recently leaked that prompts Best Buy employees to go ahead and begin selling the tablet if they have it in stock.
NEC LifeTouch W Dual-Screen Android Tablet
NEC’s dual-screen LifeTouch W tablet shipping in Japan this June and this new tablet is powered by an ARM Cortex A8 CPU, comes with 384MB Of RAM, 1GB of ROM, Wi-Fi, USB, SDHC, Bluetooth and comes with two 7-inch SVGA touchscreen……..
Acer Postpones Iconia Tab A100 Launch
Acer postpones Iconia Tab A100 launch to second half of the year and the company informed its Honeycomb-sporting, Tegra 2-powered slate will not be arriving, as had been expected, right around now, but will in fact make its debut in the second half of 2011…………
BlackBerry PlayBook Coming To UK
RIM is launching the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in the UK on June 16th and you’ll have to pay up £400 (16GB), £480 (32GB), or £560 (64GB) for your slate. The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is a first for the BlackBerry line of mobile devices and features a 1 GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of system RAM, flash-based storage, Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR, and of course the brand new QNX-based BlackBerry Tablet OS that has desktop like multi-tasking and natively supports Adobe Air, Adobe Flash Player 10.1 and HTML 5……………
Viewsonic ViewPad 7x Android Tablet
ViewSonic brand of ViewPad tablets will soon feature a 7-inch Android 3.0 clad model by the name ViewSonic ViewPad 7x and will weigh 380 grams and sport a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 chip, dual cameras, a HDMI port and HSPA+ support, which makes it a capable device, worthy of testing the Honeycomb waters in 7-inch format………..
Cisco Cius Tablet Joining AT&T
Cisco Cius android tablet is bringing its high-def corporate communications skills to AT&T and AT&T Foundry division will make business-friendly apps for the device.AT&T will be bringing out the tablet on their 4G network in Fall and for hardware specifications the 7-inch Cius will features dual cameras (one front and one rear), 32GB of built-in storage and also an HSPA+ compliant radio along with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth support……….
BeBook Live Tablet
BeBook Live tablet delivers the goods for Froyo diehards and has a seven-inch multitouch color screen, a 2MP front facing camera, 1080p HDMI out, Flash support, and 4GB of built-in memory. Powered by Android 2.2, which will no doubt feel downright antiquated when it launches in June for $279…….
