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A 7in touchscreen tablet PC running Android 2.2. The Streak 2 will dwarf the current 5in model.

T-mobile said it will be priced below existing tablets but didn’t reveal an exact figure – nor did it say when the Streak will go on sale.

The tablet runs an nVidia dual-core processor and has an SD Card slot to permit storage of as much as 32GB.

Research In Motion (RIM) announced their latest offering, the Blackberry PlayBook. The tablet which RIM CEO, Mike Lazaridis described as “the first professional tablet” has a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 multi-touch screen, a dual-core 1GHz processor, 1GB RAM and either 16GB or 32GB onboard storage capacity.

The PlayBook sports a 3MP front facing camera and a 5MP rear camera. It has got a microUSB jack, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and an HDMI port. No word on when it will be available and at how much, but it looks quite promising.

The Lifebook T900 is an ultra-versatile lightweight tablet PC for the professional user.

With the Intel Core i7 processor, intelligent performance meets ultimate mobility. When tearned with Genuine Windows 7 Professional, you’ll be able to stay connected, stay productive and stay in touch.

When the Lifebook T900 multi-touch you can either work with your fingers or with the patented multifunctional pen.

BlackBerry creator Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled its answer to Apple’s iPad: the BlackBerry PlayBook.

The PlayBook is a 7in touchscreen device and is designed to be paired with an existing BlackBerry handset. Its operating system, BlackBerry Tablet OS, was developed by QNX, a company that was recently acquired by RIM. QNX has a lot of expertise in building operating systems for embedded devices, particularly in-car infotainment systems.

The new OS was designed specifically for the PlayBook, which RIM says helps to avoid the difficulties that come from taking a smartphone operating system to a larger form factor, hich Apple did when it took the iOS from its iPhone and iPod Touch devices to the iPad. Read the rest of this entry »

MSI launched two Tablets in its new Wind Pad range at Computex in Taipei, and they couldn’t be further apart if the company had tried. Both are lOin devices with capacitive touchscreens, but that’s just about where the similarities end.
The Wind Pad 100 runs Windows 7 Starter and has an ultra-low powered 1,66GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor at its heart. Combined with 2GB of memory and Intel’s GMA 3150 graphics chipset, this means Windows 7 runs very slowly. After using the 100 and watching MSI’s PR team demonstrate it, we can’t say we were that impressed.

The most cringe-worthy aspect of the demonstration involved MSI’s Easy Face log-on system, wherein the poor PR representative spent 45 seconds trying to contort her face into the frontward-facing camera so the machine could recognize her. The lOin display has the same 1,024×600 resolution as most netbooks, but MSI’s Wind Ul touch interface makes more efficient use of the space when compared with standard Windows 7. Read the rest of this entry »

Panasonic announced the latest model of its Toughbook series, the H1 Field. The new Panasonic Toughbook H1 Field gets the optional Qualcomm Gobi2000 mobile broadband technology allowing multi carriers connectivity, the IP65 and MIL-STD-810G certification, Smartcard, RFID and barcode readers, making the device highly mobile and productive in extreme conditions.

The Toughbook H1 Field is powered by a 1.86 Ghz Intel Atom Z540 processor and supports six hours of battery life complemented by twin hot-swappable batteries, a 10.4′ dual-touch display for both tablet and touch screen use, 2 GB RAM and a 64GB SSD. The device will be available worldwide in March 2010, for an estimated price of $3,379.

Wacom have announced their latest Cintiq combination LCD display and graphics tablet.  The Wacom Cintiq 21UX has a full 21.3-inch 1600 x 1200 4:3 LCD display and an active digitizer that recognizes 2048 levels of pressure.  They’ve also thrown plenty of hardware controls at the tablet; the Cintiq 21UX has eight programmable shortcut buttons on either side of the display, together with a touch-strip on either side of the rear bezel.

Toggle buttons allow you to control up to four different features with each touch-strip, via the round control on the front.  That way you can cycle through multiple brush settings all with one hand, while actually using the stylus with the other. Read the rest of this entry »

Gigabyte released a new 10.1-inch (1,366 x 768) touchscreen tablet PC which offers a choice of the N450 or N470 Intel Atom processors.

Two versions of the T1000 will be offered, the T1000X with a 4-cell, 4,500mAh battery and the T1000P with a 6-cell, 7,650mAh battery.  Both netbooks will have 1GB of RAM, a 250GB HDD and Intel GMA 3150 graphics, along with WiFi b/g/n, 10/100 ethernet and Bluetooth 2.1+EDR.

Ports include two USB 2.0, an eSATA/USB combo, audio in/out, VGA, ExpressCard and a multiformat memory card reader; there’s also a 1.3-megapixel webcam, microphone and 1.5W stereo speakers.

The M780 convertible tablet computer was introduced and will be available at $1,799. The tablet is powered by an Intel Core i7-620M 2.66GHz processor, up to 8GB of DDR3 RAM, a 7200RPM 320GB HDD.

The 12.1-inch machine is equipped with  a 1200 x 800 TruBright LED backlit, a HDMI out, 2X USB ports, microphone, webcam, Bluetooth 2.1, Wi-Fi, a Ultra SlimBay DVD-SuperMulti drive (+/-R double layer) and runs on Windows 7 Pro OS.

ASUS has just announced their newest multi-touch tablet PC called the Eee PC T101MT. Aimed specifically at students and professionals, the tablet boasts a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 LED backlight/resistive multi-touch panel, an Intel Atom N450 processor, up to 2GB RAM, a 320GB hard drive, a 0.3MP webcam, WiFi, Bluetooth, 3x USB ports, a 6.5-hour battery and Windows 7 OS. Pricing and availability are still unknown at the moment.