What madness is this? Windows? In my iPad? It’s more common than you think – or at least it could be, if you jailbreak your tablet and download Quasar from the Cydia store. Read more
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I’ve spent the last couple of weeks using RIM’s seemingly ill-fated PlayBook, to see just how ill-fated it actually is. At just £169, with new software, a raft of new apps and all the right accessories, can it finally be seen as a viable tablet alternative to the new iPad? I’m at the end of the journey now, so I need to make a decision… Read more
It’s no secret that Amazon’s Kindle Fire has been selling well in the States. It’s one of the few Android-powered tablet to have struck the perfect balance of content, power and price, and it’s been hugely successful because of that. But you may not have realised just how successful until now. Is there any point in any other manufacturers even bothering? Read more
For a while now, we’ve been wondering if Apple has plans on merging its MacBook line with the iPad. The only downside of Apple’s tablet is that typing at length a bit of a chore, so a converged solution – akin to the Asus Transformer Prime – makes sense, right? Wrong. It’s not going to happen as long as CEO Tim Cook’s in charge… Read more
We’ve long been calling Asus the only company capable of troubling Apple in the tablet market. It’s exactly why Google’s rumoured to be chatting with Asus about a Nexus tablet. But that might not be necessary if the new Transformer Pad 300 lives up to its promise: Is this the best iPad rival ever made? Read more
I’m on a one-man mission to find out if the BlackBerry PlayBook can act as a reasonable replacement to the new iPad, for the benefit of anyone who suddenly wants to join the tablet brigade but doesn’t want to spend their life savings. Today’s test: can the £169 PlayBook keep up with the iPad in terms of multimedia? Read on to find out. Read more
We’ve been here before. Ever since the original iPad launched in 2010, rumours of a smaller, 7 or 8-inch model have filled every corner of the web. It wasn’t true then, but is it true now? The market’s completely different now, which is exactly why fresh gossip has arisen from China. Is the iPad Mini just around the corner? Read more
Want a Windows 8 tablet but don’t want to wait? Or weighing up a new iPad but worried about how friendly it’ll play with your Windows PC? We’ve got a solution for you: Splashtop has just released an app that lets you run the full version of Windows 8 for tablets on the iPad. Read on past the jump for the full details. Read more