Toshiba's Excite 13 tablet (Image: Toshiba/Supplied)
The iPad may be facing some more competition with Android with today’s announcement by Toshiba to launch three brand new tablets in 13.3-inch, 10.1-inch and 7.7-inch display sizes, all running with a quad-core processor and on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
What happens when you double the size of the Galaxy Note? Well, you get another tablet. Samsung has introduced the Galaxy Note 10.1 – and yes, like the smartphone (almost-tablet at 5-inches) of the Galaxy Note, it will include a stylus.
Lenovo has announced that a brand new tablet – the Idea Tab S2. A 10-inch tablet and running on a custom skin (as you can tell from the image), everyone else will have to wait as China gets its now – a big gamble and could possibly a mistake in the crowded field of tablets.
One Laptop Per Child – the initiative that is trying to produce a cheap computer for those in developing areas – has revealed the XO 3.0 tablet, and a brand new design in comparison to the concept design announced beforehand.
Windows 8 could come as soon as the third quarter of this year, with a report claiming (citing anonymous sources) that both Acer and Lenovo are set to launch their own tablet running the OS and a new Intel platform.
We got a question from the Holiday Gift Guide asking when Ice Cream Sandwich will be coming to the Galaxy S II. I answered maybe next year – and turns out I was right. Samsung has now confirmed that it will bring the update to users next year, in addition to users who have the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet.
So, Samsung’s attempt to make the Christmas shopping season is getting slimmer and slimmer with the Australian High Court extending the for its ban until next Friday. So, if you’re planning to get this tablet – you can send all your fury to Apple.
The tablet that is in the middle of a patent war between Apple and Samsung – The Galaxy Tab 10.1 (Image: Samsung)
UPDATED: Apple’s injunction against Samsung has been overturned by the Federal Court of Australia, meaning that the South Korean electronics company can now sell their Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia.
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime – the tablet that Acer and Lenovo are trying to compete against. (Image: ASUS/Supplied)
A new report is claiming that Acer and Lenovo are ready to launch their quad-core tablets in the first quarter of next year in order to compete against ASUS’ quad-core tablet offering, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime; and Samsung.
Your number two tablet – the HP TouchPad (Image: HP)
Yes, turns out HP is the new second-place winner in the tablet market, beating Samsiung with a small margin. This is according to a new NPD report for US non-iPad tablets sales between January and October, which saw 1.2 million non-iPad tablets sold.
Less than a year when it launched the XOOM tablet, Motorola has announced that it will launch two new successors. It has announced the XOOM 2 and the XOOM 2 Media Edition tablets. The UK and Ireland will be getting the new tablets in mid-November.
Maybe it was the wrong time to announce another 7-inch tablet, given the Amazon announcement, but Toshiba persevered. The company has announced that they will be releasing a 7-inch tablet, known as the Toshiba Tablet (AT1S0) and will run on the latest update to Honeycomb, Android 3.2.
The Motorola XOOM came out at CES this year as one of the hyped tablets of the year, especially since it was seen as the Honeycomb tablet that could compete with the iPad hardware wise. Now its rival Android makers also getting their tablets out, does the Motorola XOOM stand out from the crowd of many Android tablets? The most important question, however, should be: is this an iPad competitor or not?
Turns out, Samsung isn’t the only company that is getting screwed by Apple. Motorola is too, with a recent court filing in a German court revealing that Apple is using the same argument it is using against Samsung – it looks the same as the iPad.
IdeaPad Tablet K1 (Image: Supplied)
Lenovo is bringing out three new tablets this year – the IdeaPad Tablet K1, IdeaPad Tablet P1 and ThinkPad Tablet – all running Android 3.1 and all trying to compete against the onslaught of other Android tablets and the popular Apple iPad 2.