15:22 Jonney Shih on stage talking about gaming…hold you horses for a few minutes!   We’ve just been handed the images of the devices. (Thanks Netbooknews)   15:32 Still waiting for that tablet ‘news.’  The 12” Eee Pad looks rather huge. Comes with a docking station apparently. 10 hours battery life (It’s going to be heavy!) Press release is available See scans of press pack in previous post. 15:43 Still waiting. The Garmin A10 smartphone is now on the screen so we should be up next. 15:47 Here […]

     15:22 Jonney Shih on stage talking about gaming…hold you horses for a few minutes!   We’ve just been handed the images of the devices. (Thanks Netbooknews)   15:32 Still waiting for that tablet ‘news.’  The 12 inch Eee Pad looks rather huge. Comes with a docking station apparently. 10 hours battery life (It’s going to be heavy!) Press release is available See scans of press pack in previous post. 15:43 Still waiting. The Garmin A10 smartphone is now on the screen so we should be up next. 15:47 […]

Is is really that hard for a product designer to sit down and think about what sort of computing experience a product is going to provide a customer? Thanks in part to devices like the Joojoo [Portal page] and the iPad [Portal page], slate mania is officially underway. Everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon, and those that do — with Windows based devices — are going to fail in a big way. Why? Because the companies creating these products can’t accept one simple fact: Windows computers require a usable […]

This could get confusing. We’ve just picked up the press release for the Asus conference and there are three different tablet devices being launched here. Eee Tablet sounds like an e-book reader. The Eee Pad is coming in two flavors. 12 inch with a CULV CPU and Windows 7 Home Premium and 10 inch with Windows 7 embedded. More details and pics during the press conference.

MSI, the maker of some fairly well regarded netbooks, is going to be bringing the “Wind Pad 100 inch slate to market. The keyboardless 10 inch capacitive touch unit will be powered by the Atom Z530 CPU and will have HDMI out, presumably for 720p video output to an HDTV. The MSI product manager says that the MSI Wind Pad 100 will be available “later this year inch for $499, according to Engadget. Sadly, the device will be running Windows 7 with an ugly tack-on touch interface which is sure […]

The tablet featured first in the press conference but there were no product announcements. We’ve actually left the event to head on out to the ASUS press conference. The tablet has the “ability to allow is to enjoy nearly all the content that we would like to enjoy on a computer today” says Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, who went on to talk up the potential market for tablets, his excitement and of course, the Tegra 2. Surprisingly, he then said “have patience” and went on to explain that devices […]

The tablet featured first in the press conference but there were no product announcements. We’ve actually left the event to head on out to the ASUS press conference. The tablet has the “ability to allow is to enjoy nearly all the content that we would like to enjoy on a computer today inch says Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO of Nvidia, who went on to talk up the potential market for tablets, his excitement and of course, the Tegra 2. Surprisingly, he then said “have patience inch and went on to explain […]

Our pal Jenn over at Pocketables.net already has her hands on the refreshed Sony VAIO P [Portal page]. Though the US Sony Style site doesn’t even have the new VAIO P for sale yet, Jenn has plenty of detailed images for your perusal. She’s also taken the older Sony VAIO P [Portal page] and put it face to face with the new one in a comparison photo-shoot.