UPDATE: The Asus Eee Slate will cost a whopping $999-$1099 (£640-£700) , and is on sale this month!
Asus has also announced a whopping great sofa-targeted tablet, a 12.1″ 1280×800 multi touch tablet. The Asus Eee Slate EP 121 is sporting an Intel i5 processor and is running Windows 7. It has full Flash support, and a 2.0MP webcam.
Steve Ballmer, Microsoft’s commander in chief, says we’ll definitely see a Windows tablet by Christmas, ready to tackle the iPad, Android tablets and even the BlackBerry PlayBook. Which do you want stuffed in your stocking this December?
Rumour has it HP has leaked to its employees that a web OS tablet will be arriving in Q1 2011, before March next year. Which leaves two more HP tablets on the horizon, with two more operating systems.
It’s been a long, tiring Friday morning as we lurch towards the weekend. Help keep yourself awake as the clock ticks down with our bite-sized news burst. It’s your Lunchtime Lowdown..
The Apple Tablet isn’t official yet. But already Apple’s next-gen dream machine is facing up to some stiff competition, as the world’s biggest gadget purveyors line up their own take on the much-vaunted iTablet. Everyone from HP to Foxconn has one in the locker. If Apple wants to sit at the top of the tablet table, these are the finger-friendly delights it’ll need to beat.
On 27 January, Steve Jobs will clamber onto the stage at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco and show off Apple’s “latest creation.” So what is it? An Apple tablet? An iSlate? A Mac tablet? Or even a new incarnation of the iPhone? Follow our ultimate rumour guide to the so-called Apple Slate and we’ll try and piece all those juicy morsels together.
Those whopping TVs and super-speedy PCs might have turned heads at CES. But there were plenty of futuristic flights of fancy helping us see just what life will be like in 2020, or even sooner. There was the official arrival of Sony Transferjet, the insanity of Asus Waveface and some nifty work with augmented reality. So, here’s our pick of the top five new technologies seen in Las Vegas.
