The future-splosion known as Computex is underway in Taipai, Taiwan this week and in the interest of not inundating Techland with post after post about every single tablet, netbook, and other bits of technological wonderment, I thought I’d include everything in a daily roundup for those of you interested in this kind of stuff. …
Tablets
OLPC Foundation to Launch $100 Student Tablet
Aiming to hit the magic $100 price point that’s been the goal of the One Laptop Per Child Foundation since the inception of its earliest student-friendly “XO” portable computers, Nicholas Negroponte is planning to take things into the tablet realm over the coming months.
Originally announced last year for a scheduled launch in …
Acer Unveils 7-inch Android Tablet, 6-inch E-book Reader, ‘Stream’ Phone
Looks like Acer has jumped into both the e-book reader and Android tablet arenas with the announcement of its 6-inch LumiRead and an unnamed 7-inch Android tablet.
The LumiRead e-book reader has a QWERTY keyboard similar to Amazon’s Kindle, 2GB of onboard storage expandable via microSD cards, both Wi-Fi and 3G, and book downloads …
Dell’s 5-inch ‘Streak’ Tablet to UK in June, US Late Summer
The unfortunately-named Dell “Streak” will go on sale in the UK next week, with a US release to follow later this summer. The 5-inch Android tablet hovers in a netherworld between larger-screen smartphones and high-resolution tablets. It’s capable of conventional phone calls and 3G data access via O2’s network.
The full list …
HP: No WebOS on Netbooks, Slate by October
Though HP has confirmed that it’ll load Palm’s webOS on tablet PCs and even printers, Monty Wong of HP Taiwan has said that the company’s netbooks will not be running the mobile-friendly operating system “since netbooks are more similar in functions with traditional computers,” according to DigiTimes.
Also, the HP Slate that
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Nvidia 9-inch Android Tablet Features Tegra 2, Dual Core CPU
Well hello there, Nvidia tablet prototype. You’re looking chipper. My, that’s a nice dual-core ARM Cortex A9 processor you have and, oh dear, you’ve got Tegra 2 graphics? A whole gigabyte of RAM? Webcam? Two USB ports?
Here’s a hands-on demo video of the tablet in …
MSI to Show Slatebook in June?
MSI, you know you can’t name something a “slatebook,” right? It’s either a slate or a notebook! Aw, what the hell. Do whatever you want. Crazy kids.
DigiTimes is reporting that MSI “will showcase a tablet PC, the MSI Slatebook, based on Intel’s mobile internet device (MID) platform at Computex 2010,” the collective
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New Intel Atom Z600 CPUs Coming to Tablets and Phones
Intel’s Atom CPUs have been all over the netbook space but the processor manufacturer wants in on the lucrative smartphone and tablet arenas as well. With the introduction of the Z600 series of Atom CPUs, Intel is promising processor speeds up to 1.9GHz for tablets and 1.5GHz for smartphones while maintaining long battery life and the …
Prototype Android Tablets Run Full Flash and Adobe AIR
If the iPad’s lack of Flash support has kept you from shelling out the $500+ to join the whole tablet movement but you’re still intrigued by the idea nonetheless, you may want to check out the prototype Android tablets that Adobe has been showing off at the Web 2.0 Expo recently.
Perhaps most impressive, aside from being able to …
Sony Dash Personal Internet Viewer Now Available for $200
Sony’s going the Chumby route (remember Chumby?) with its Dash Personal Internet Viewer. At $200 it’s a tad on the expensive side, but you get a big 7-inch 800×480 touch screen and over 1,000 apps to choose from. Oh and speaking of those apps, they’re actually Chumby apps. UPDATE: While the device uses Chumby apps, it’s also got …
Asus Eee Pad Coming in July?
Netbook trailblazer Asus is apparently planning to officially reveal its own tablet in early June at the Computex trade show in Taipei. According to DigiTimes, the actual launch will come sometime in the third quarter, “which sources from component makers revealed will be late July.”
The tablet will supposedly run Android and …
Eric Schmidt: Chrome OS Devices To Be Disposable, Cost Under $400
Google’s Chrome OS will be here this year and in a recent interview, Google CEO Eric Schmidt explained that Chrome devices will be “completely disposable,” meaning that if you lose one you won’t lose any of your data, and should be priced similarly to netbooks—between $300 and $400.
The entire interview can be found here. …