HP Slate: To Be Released Sometime this Year
The video features the new HP Slate product. It’s essentially a promotional video by HP. This is the product that was briefly demonstrated by Steve Ballmer at CES 2010. They make it sound like they spent a lot of time researching user experience. They believe this is the one, ultimate device that everyone will use [...]
Ballmer introduces HP Tablet PC at CES
Well, he did it. After some anticipation, Steve Ballmer introduced the HP Tablet at CES 2010. And it was a let down because it was not the Microsoft Courier Tablet/Notepad some of us have been hoping for. The HP device was essentially a slab/slate PC running Windows 7 with touch controls. Ballmer didn’t go into [...]
Apple’s New Tablet To Be Baptized iSlate? Let’s Dig A Little Deeper
Nice scoop by MacRumors, which reportedly retrieved historical evidence that Apple has acquired the domain name islate.com back in 2007. Apparently, the Cupertino company registered the domain through brand protection firm Mark Monitor to conceal the fact that the domain name is theirs, as usual, but was briefly listed as the owner at some point [...]
Apple “iSlate” is beginning to sound catchy
For those who have not heard, the Apple Tablet may actually be called the “Slate” or “iSlate.” This is courtesy of a possible slip-of-the-tongue by Bill Keller from the New York Times. He may either not have known his speech was being video-taped or was just careless. In any case, the word “Slate” is used near the 8:30 [...]
Stantum multitouch Slate PC hands-on
Stantum Japan has recently released a “Slate” PC showing some really impressive touch capabilities. According to the video, it uses a ditigal resistive touch screen to offer multitouch tracking of all 10 fingers. Pressure sentitive features allow different pen/brush thickness based on pressure. The screen is super sensitive such that the demo shows off the [...]
Why all other tablets will fail when the Apple Tablet is released
With all the rumors surrounding the release of Apple’s Tablet (or Slate), there have been an onslaught (or the beginnings of one) where it seems every laptop or hardware maker appears to be producing some kind of a tablet computer. These things range from pretty good to piece of $#@# not worth spending a minute to [...]
Tablet PC vs. Table Device
I would like to make a (hopefully) clear difference between a Tablet PC and a Tablet Device. A Tablet PC is one that is inexorably tied to or has it’s roots firmly in the “traditional” computer operating system. So, essentially, a Tablet PC is a PC that has some special touch capabilities and may or [...]
Will the Apple Tablet be bigger than the iPhone or iPod?
As everyone eagerly anticipates the release of the Apple Tablet, one question is what impact will it have, especially compared to the level of success the iPhone and the iPod have had. Will the Tablet be a failed experiment or will it usher in a new age of digital print as well as easier access [...]