The Notion Ink Adam tablet with a Pixel Qi display hasn't hit the streets yet. But if you find the wait unbearable, take heart. A company called Innoversal showed off a 10 inch Windows tablet with a Pixel Qi 3Qi display at Computex yesterday. The Innoversal Lattice is powered by a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N450 processor. It has a 10.1 inch touchscreen display with 1024 x 600 pixels. Because it is a
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MEET KNO DUAL SCREEN TABLET AIMED AT STUDENTS
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Kakai has just launched its Kno dual screen tablet which weighs 5.5 pounds and sports two 14 inch IPS LCD displays. The tablet is aimed at students. It isn't quite thin or light, but it may still be a better alternative to heavy text books. The Kno tablet has a low power NVIDIA Tegra chipset. It runs a custom Linux based operating system and will reportedly be able to work with Microsoft Office
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The New Kno Tablet
Diposting oleh fatih on Rabu, 02 Juni 2010
On Wednesday at D: All Things Digital another tablet made an appearance. This tablet is going to be targeted mainly at students and should be launched at the end of the year. It is being called the Kno. The Kno is a touch-based device running on a Linux operating system. It is comprised of 14-inch dual screens with each screen featuring 1440 x 900 IPS display. It weighs about 5.5 pounds and has up to 6 to 8 hours of battery life. This amount of battery life may seem impossible for a dual screened tablet, but the CEO of Kno, Osman Rashid, said that each screen will have their own battery pack.
The Web-based operating system that the Kno will run on has been specifically designed around the use of touch. Rashid said, "We are not going to try to retrofit something, we are going to build it from scratch."
Kno is based in Santa Clara, California. It has 90 employees that have been working on the Kno tablet for about a year now.
As I said before, Rashid is targeting the Kno at students. He doesn’t feel that it will replace a laptop, but that it is a much more portable device to bring to class. He said, "We believe the laptop is becoming the new desktop," he said. "It is going to stay in your dorm or in your home. This is all you need to carry around."
Kno has not yet settled on a price for the tablet, but they are certain that they want it to cost well under $1,000. It will be interesting to see more details about the Kno as its release date draws nearer.
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VILIV X10 ANDROID TABLET HAS AN HD DISPLAY
Diposting oleh fatih on Selasa, 01 Juni 2010
The Viliv X10 that has just been unveiled is an Android tablet with an HD display. It's 10.1 inch touchscreen display has 1366 x 768 pixels instead of the 1024 x 600 pixels found on most tablet displays.Several 10 inch Windows netbooks on the market have HD displays, but users often complain that they are too sharp. Reading web pages on a small screen with a high resolution may give you headaches
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INTEL UNVEILS CANOE LAKE ULTRA THIN NETBOOK CONCEPT
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At the ongoing Computex trade show Intel unveiled a line of low power processors for tablets, netbooks and smartphones. The chipmaker also unveiled a reference design for building ultra thin netbooks that will rely on passive cooling methods instead of noisy fans. The new reference design dubbed Intel's Canoe Lake platform will make it possible to design netbooks that are as thin as 14mm (about
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LG UX10 WINDOWS 7 TABLET PROTOTYPE
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Microsoft showed off an LG tablet prototype at Computex yesterday. Called LG UX10, the machine sports a 10.1 inch capacitive touchscreen display. It is powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor and runs Windows 7 Home Premium. The LG UX10 also has 1GB of DDR2 RAM, a 120GB hard drive, WiFi 802.11b/g/n, a micro-HDMI output, 1.3 mega pixel webcam and an SD card slot. It weighs around 1.9 pounds.
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Netbook or iPad: Which Do You Prefer?
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CNET decided to ask its readers which they prefer: an iPad or a Netbook. According to the results, those who favorite netbooks did so for practical reasons, while those who preferred an iPad cited media-viewing capabilities and other novelties. Netbooks seemed to be the most favored. As the article points out iPads are newer and aren't exactly like traditional computers. So, whether or not the match-up is fair, is questionable.
However, most people are probably going to own either, but not both. Due to their size and ease of carrying, both are handy for travel or working on the go. And as CNET points out, neither one is exactly a laptop and neither one is exactly a smartphone. When the results were tallied, CNET posted some of the pros for each device. Here's a quick look at what all they found.
Netbooks:
Netbooks were seen as "cheap" and "simple" compared to their Apple counterparts. As one participant said, "...while the iPad is interesting, I don't see it filling a need for cheap, simple computers, which can do everything."
Netbooks were also popular because the offer full keyboards and the ability to multi-task. A more tech-savvy reader stated that "app restrictions" at Apple make the iPad less open than a Windows-loaded netbook. One musician stated that USB and more driver support makes the netbook more appealing for him, and some readers would choose the netbook just because they are PC loyalists.
iPads:
On the other side of the not-quite-a-phone, not-quite-a-computer device debate, some say the virtual keyboard works fine and that features like predictive spell-checking and 45-degree angle tilt help them type faster than they would on a regular keyboard. Some stated that maps are easier to follow on the iPad screen, and other insisted the iPad is better for travel due to its lighter weight and ease-of-use when looking for entertainment.
Many people cited various app-related pros for the Apple device and some say people just haven't given the iPad a try yet. As one reader put it, "...The iPad is different from a Netbook. Neither are appropriate for real computer work, but for using the Internet, mail, games, and/or light computing, the iPad is the better choice."
For more information on which device CNET readers prefer, check out iPad or Netbook?
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