November 20th, 2009 4:56 PM | by Christen da Costa
7-inches isn’t enough to get me excited (that sounds so wrong), but the Camangi WebStation ain’t looking to shabby. The touchscreen, which has an 800×480 resolution, looks to be capacitive based on how sensitive it is, and according to the presenter in the video that’s a glass surface (hello fingerprints). Currently the tablet like computer is running Android OS 1.5, while the remaining specs include WiFi b/g, 2 megapixel camera, microSD card slot, a second VGA webcam and a USB port.
There’s no official word on the release date, but word on the street is that it’ll carry a price tag of about $400. For now, I’ll hold off on purchasing anything Android, but based on my limited experience with Motorola’s Droid it’s a super solid OS. And as previously mentioned, 7-inches is still a bit small for my taste, but for those of you looking for an oversized media player, here you go.
So remember just yesterday, when I was getting all poingy happy about the half e-reader / half netbook hybrid? Well, I think I may have just beat that level of awesome but in a totally different direction. Today I’m talking about the Kohjinsha PA, a combination netbook and tablet PC.
No, seriously–this sucker has a 4.8″ WSVGA touchscreen, 1.33GHz Atom CPU, 512 meg of RAM and a 32 GB SDD. The battery is slated to run for 7.5 hours, and it even comes with an SD slot and a 1.3 MP webcam, all in a netsurfing portable tablet PC.
I am profoundly impressed by this, even though my chances of ever using such a device are so slim as to approach zero. I draw like a cat with a pen in its mouth after ingesting large quantities of peyote, so a tablet PC to me is almost less than useless. But still, I’m impressed–and the price is pretty impressive too.
If you want one of these bad boys, you’ll have to shell out a whopping $758 in Japan. Preorders are going on, and the prices range between $867 and $921.
Gateway has become a pretty small gang member in the laptop turf wars, but that doesn’t mean the company is devoid of leaks and what I dare say is anticipation. There’s no official word as of yet, but according to a tipster this is their soon to be announced tablet PC, called the EC18T. Specs wise were looking at an 11.6-inch LCD, Intel Core2 Duo processor, up to 4GB of DDR3 RAM, Mobile Intel GS45 Express graphics chipset, and either Windows 7 Basic or Premium. …Continue reading: Gadget Leak: Gateway’s EC18T Tablet PC
HP has a coupon deal for the HP TouchSmart tx2z 12.1-inch Tablet Notebook (model FR239AV). To get the discount, makes sure to add the following items to your setup after starting with the Base Configuration of $799.99.
Is this truly the splash page for the impending Macbook Touch? No one knows for sure but there are a few hints to indicate otherwise. The URL string lists Apple.com as opposed to Apple.com/macbooktouch. The ‘T’ in touch looks a bit odd, as if its a smaller font then the rest of the letters. Lastly, the source cites no source for the photo leading me to believe that it is shameless self promotion.
Word on the street is that Apple will hold a press conference on Wednesday, September 9th. Historically speaking the Cupertino company has announced new iPods around this time, so if you’ve got expectations for a touchscreen laptop, now called the ‘iPad‘ by many a bloggers, you can probably forget it. I’d also expect to hear more news on the rumored ‘Cocktail‘ music project, which should add many ’social’ features to iTunes amongst other things. Perhaps we’ll also see the debut of that newly minted commercial.
Will the real Macbook Tablet please stand up? So we’ve heard rumors that Apple’s tablet computer will have a ‘Home’ button just like the iPhone. But smack dab in the center’s edge, far from a set of gripping hands as depicted by this supposedly leaked picture, I don’t think so. But hey, who knows, maybe Apple knows something we don’t and if you’re resting the device on your lap it might make some sense. And what’s up with the screen’s border. It just doesn’t seem like Apple to have such an unfinished looking product, but maybe this is a prototype version.
Of note, an Engadget commenter noticed that the exact same screen image, which is the intro for Leopard OS X, can easily be pulled off Google Image, which doesn’t exactly lend a whole lot of credence to the leak.
Today a new Apple patent emerged to address the issues associated with disconnecting a hard drive or USB drive before it has been officially unmounted from the system’s OS. You’ve probably had this experience when you’ve unplugged your external hard drive from your computer before ‘ejecting’ it and a warning window has popped up stating that some data may have been lost or corrupted. In my experience losing data is rare, but possible nonetheless as the computer may still be writing to the drive and physically unmounting it could disrupt the data transfer. In fact, some of you might have even had this warning after officially ejecting the drive since data can still be transferred seconds after the procedure is initiated.
To address this problem Apple’s latest patent suggests a touch sensitive system that detects a touch or impending touch and prepares the drive for dismount. Although this plays fair and well with hard drives and USB flash drive, perhaps this is a better indication of things to come from Apple, such as a removable touchscreen, or should I say rumored Apple Tablet computer. This makes sense if they consider a setup much like the Touch Book, where the keyboard can be removed from the screen and might contain more hard drive space or other data sensitive operations. Yeah, I’m going out on a limb, but since we’re all anxiously waiting for a touchscreen Macbook, why the hell not?
Summary: A portable device configured for engaging to a host system can be operable to generate a signal when the device is touched by a user or when the portable device detects an impending touch by the user. Responsive to the signal, the host system automatically initiates one or more operations related to disengaging the portable device from the host system. In some aspects, the portable device can be electrically, optically, electromechanically and/or mechanically engaged and/or disengaged to a host system.
These features allow a user to disconnect the portable device from the host system more quickly, and also prevents data corruption due to failure of the user to follow proper procedures.
News to me, but Bridgestone doesn’t just make tires. Nope, in fact it looks like they’ve been in the e-paper game for sometime now and earlier this week they announced a refreshed version of their e-paper device. This iteration combines their previous e-paper technology (electronic powder and granular material) with a Wacom tablet and color filter. Other major improvements of this version over the first is a significantly improved refresh rate from 10 seconds to .8 seconds, which should result in smooth, streak free graphics and images.
We first heard about the Crunchpad January 2009. Now, and ironically, the company that is known for getting the scoop has been scooped. Last night a handful of pictures detailing the latest iteration of the Crunchpad were leaked to the blogosphere. Soon after Crunchgear, the gadget arm of Techcrunch conceded and posted more pics since the ‘cat was out of the bag’. Now Arrington, the man behind the curtain has written a post dedicated to the Crunchpad discussing its genesis and more importantly the cost to build the machine, $250. Techcrunch hasn’t said if the machine will come to market, but at the end of the day, and as I commented on another blog, the Crunchpad is an oversized MID, which for some will either hate it or love it. So to be clear, don’t expect it to be a data entry machine or a full blown email device. No, the Crunchpad will be for you and your friends to huddle around and watch stupid YouTube clips of kids falling on their faces or glancing at your email.
HP has a coupon deal for the HP TouchSmart tx2z 12.1-inch Tablet Notebook (model FR239AV). To get the discount, makes sure to add the following items to your setup after starting with the Base Configuration of $799.99.
