I wrote recently about the challenges facing Windows 8 tablets, looking at factors such the x86/ARM split. New reports suggest that user confusion and pricing issues might be the real problems facing Microsoft’s 2012 tablet strategy.
The Transformer Pad TF300T has launched in Australia with a starting price of $499, which is only a couple of hundred dollars less than its highly rated big brother, the Transformer Prime. ASUS has sacrificed a few things to squeeze it into the sub-$500 category, but the Transformer Pad still has plenty to brag about.
I know you came here looking for a keyboard case, but my honest opinion is that if you do any serious typing with your iPad, you should get the Apple Bluetooth keyboard, along with a separate case to protect your tablet. If, however, you have your heart set on buying a keyboard/case hybrid for your iPad, then I suggest waiting a month and ordering a Logitech Ultrathin Keyboard Cover. It’s the best of all the lousy keyboard cases out there.
Despite a couple of years of competition, Android tablets haven’t made the kind of impact into iPad sales and adoption that their manufacturers would have hoped. This year will see the re-emergence of Windows tablets. Can they topple Apple at the tablet game?
Brightness ratings and contrast ratio make for lovely tech spec reading when you’re shopping for a new device. But neither tells you how usable a display will actually be in everyday ambient light situations. So DisplayMate put some of the more popular options to the test.
This year’s iPad has a very pretty retina display, but it came at a cost: a massive battery that in turn makes for a thicker tablet. Apparently, though, the original plan was to use a newer display technology that would have made the screen thinner and the battery lighter. So what happened?
The new iPad might have a gorgeous retina display, but a test from AnandTech shows that its predecessor gets better battery life.
A slide supposedly leaked from an HP presentation revealing our first look at what might be HP’s first Windows 8 tablet. If you believe the slide obtained by Neowin the HP Slate 8 will be a 10.1-inch, 9.2mm thick, 1.5-pound tablet — in other words it has a slightly bigger screen but a slimmer body than the iPad.
We learned back in February that Virgin Australia would be trialling the Samsung Galaxy Tab as an in-flight entertainment option, and that only business class passengers would be in the first round of testing. But it turns out the trial is even more restricted than that: it’s only running for a single week. Fortunately, there’s better news ahead.
