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Toshiba Folio 100 Android tablet breaks cover

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 16:01

What do you get if you take a Toshiba AC100 Android powered netbook, add a touchscreen display and remove the keyboard? Apparently what you get is the Toshiba Folio 100, an Android Tablet that’s seeing the first light of day at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin this week. Although we’ve been hearing rumors about the tablet for a few weeks, this is the first time we’ve gotten a chance to see the thing up-close-and-personal, assuming you consider looking at ...

10.1-Inch Toshiba Folio 100 Tablet Hands On – IFA 2010

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:30

Update: Toshiba tweeted that the Folio 100 will be arriving in EMEA in Q4 priced at 329 pounds (inc. VAT) Here’s our hands on with Toshiba’s Folio 100 Tegra 2, Android 10.1-inch tablet – the tablet version of the Toshiba…

Samsung Galaxy Tab at IFA 2010

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:52

This is Samsung’s new 799€ Android tablet. Comes with a glass capacitive 7″ LCD touch screen, a back facing and front facing camera, 1080p video playback support on the HDMI output of the Docking Station connector (codecs and bitrates specifics are to be confirmed). It’s quite compact for a 7″ tablet and it’s quite light at 380 grams. Here are the full specs of this Samsung tablet: Network: 2.5G (GSM/ GPRS/ EDGE) : 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 MHz 3G (HSUPA ...

Toshiba AC-100 ARM Tegra2 Powered Android Laptop

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:52

This is probably so far the coolest looking ARM Powered laptop to be released broadly on the market. The first ARM Cortex A9 based laptop. Runs an optimized Android OS with custom web browser from Opera Mobile and I am guessing, the full Chrome browser for ARM may be able to run on this eventually as well. This laptop is being released right now for around 299€ or $299 with WiFi and a bit more for the version with built-in 3G modem.

Philips GoGear Connect Android Media Player

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:50

Philips is launching this new Android based media player.

Skyfire submits iPhone browser for App Store approval, we wait for the Flash to hit the fan

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:44

There was a time when Skyfire on Windows Mobile meant full Flash all the time. The 2.0 version on Android reigned that in a bit, really only supporting Flash video and little else, something Android 2.2 users no longer need to worry about. iOS users, however, do still spend their days ruing websites with such content, and so that's the market Skyfire is targeting next. The company has submitted a version of the browser for App Store approval, transcoding Flash video such that the phone ...

Toshiba Folio-100 Android Tablet at IFA 2010

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:37

This is Toshiba’s new 10.1″ capacitive Tegra2 powered Android tablet.

Samsung Confirms Honeycomb Will Follow Gingerbread in Android Name-Game [Android]

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:34

Not just confirming the Honeycomb name, Samsung's head of product planning commented that "the next platform we'll be using [on the Galaxy Tab] will be Gingerbread. Depending on our international partners, we'll be working to upgrade from Froyo to Gingerbread." More »

Koreanisches 7-Zoll Identity Tab kommt nach Europa und in die USA

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:30

Erst vor einigen Tagen berichteten wir über das Android-Tablet mit 7-Zoll-Multitouch-Display namens Identity Tab von Enspert. Das aus Korea stammende Tablet sieht Samsung‘s Galaxy Tab verdammt ähnlich, da die technischen Eckdaten nahezu identisch sind, zum Beispiel ein und der selbe 1 GHz Snapdragon Prozessor sowie Android im operativen Betrieb. Der einzige Unterschieden zum Galaxy Tab? Es ist in Korea bereits für umgerechnet 250 US-Dollar erhältlich. Laut dem koreanischen Hersteller ...

Toshiba Places, content on all screens

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:29

A synchronized cloud based content browsing and streaming system that works across set-top-box, laptops both ARM powered and Intel powered, and on Toshiba’s new Tegra2 based Android laptops and tablets.

Samsung's 55-inch C9000 LCD and its amazing Touch Remote control land at IFA

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:29

That's not a PMP wirelessly mirroring the TV's dipslay. It's a Samsung remote control that first blew us away at CES in January when Samsung's ultra-thin LCD 9000 series TV was first announced. So why revisit it? Well, for starters... look at it! It's a 3-inch touchsreen remote control in its production form that's now shipping with the LED backlit 200Hz (not 240Hz, it's Europe remember) Samsung C9000 -- a TV measuring just 7.98-mm thick with a 55-inch diagonal. The remote control ...

A Quick Look at Samsung's Galaxy Tab Shows It's a Lot Better Than I Expected [Tablets]

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:26

A limited look at the Galaxy Tab showed me all I needed to see: this thing is great. I'm no fan of Samsung phones, and worried it would feel cheap, with TouchWiz an albatross around Android's neck. I was wrong. More »

Sharp shows off mobile prototype with 3D screen, 3D camera, and 3D output

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:15

We've seen enough home theater 3D already to be well and sick of it, but mobile 3D is still an upcoming sector, one which Sharp seems to be making a bid for. It's showing off a mobile device prototype (it looks like it could be your friendly neighborhood carrier's next Android handset) with a glasses-free 3D parallax screen (akin to the tech used in the Nintendo 3DS), a 3D camera around back, and 3D output over HDMI. The result isn't stellar -- just because a mobile device is shooting ...

7-Inch Samsung Galaxy Tab Tablet Hands On – IFA 2010

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 13:56

Okay we’ve got our hands on video of the 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab Android tablet up ow. This is definitely the most impressive tablet package we have seen so far, but still early days at IFA. Roland shows us around…

Video: Samsung Galaxy Tab 7-Zoll-Tablet mit ARM Cortex-A9 im Hands-on auf der IFA 2010

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 13:49

Bei Samsung am Stand war heute fast soviel los wie bei einem gewissen Anbieter mit Apfel-Logo. Der Grund ist natürlich das neue Samsung Galaxy Tab mit dem die Koreaner dem Platzhirsch Apple iPad die Hölle heiß machen wollen. Nachdem das Gerät heute morgen offiziell erstmals präsentiert wurde, wissen wir, dass statt eines AMOLED-Displays “nur” ein ordentliches LCD zum Einsatz kommt. Wie sich das mit einem 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 Prozessor ausgerüstete Samsung Galaxy Tab, das es in ...

Video: Toshiba Folio 100 10-Zoll-Tablet mit Nvidia Tegra 2 & Android 2.2 im Hands-on

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 13:35

Während Gott und die Welt sich von Samsung über das Galaxy Tab informieren ließen, habe ich mir bei Toshiba bereits das neue Toshiba Folio 100 10-Zoll-Tablet mit Google Android 2.2 auf Basis der Nvidia Tegra 2 Plattform näher ansehen können. Das Gerät hat einen kapazitiven Touchscreen, der mit 1024×600 Pixeln auflöst und mit einem kapazitiven Touch-Layer aufwartet. Die hier gezeigte Variante hat 16 GB Flash-Speicher und N-WLAN sowie natürlich auch UMTS (auch wenn ich im Video ...

Samsung launches Galaxy Tab Android tablet

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 13:33

The long-anticipated Samsung Galaxy Tab is now official. Samsung unveiled the 7 inch Android tablet at a press conference in Berlin today. There’s still no official word on pricing, but we do know that it will start shipping in Europe in September, with Korean, US, and other Asian ship dates set to follow. Some sites are reporting that the tablet will run a whopping 799 Euros, but I suspect this is the unsubsidized price. The Galaxy Tab will likely be much cheaper if you purchase ...

Toshiba's Folio 100 with Android and Tegra 2 spied in the IFA wilds

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 13:31

That Folio 100 (alias Smart Pad) from Toshiba we'd been hearing about? Yep, totally real, and totally Tegra 2-powered -- a theme that we think is going to be pretty popular among tablet makers this season. We caught a handful of Folio 100s firmly affixed to a wall at IFA today, showing 10.1-inch multitouch LCD displays paired with a remixed version of Android 2.1, a handful of capacitive buttons, a front-facing 1.3 megapixel camera, 16GB of on-board storage, and not much else -- there's ...

Toshiba Folio 100 Tablet Debuts – IFA 2010

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 13:19

Update: Engadget has a few more pictures in. Nothing new to add though right now. As expected Toshiba’s Folio 100 tablet has made it’s debut at IFA 2010. This is basically the tablet version of the AC100 smartbook with…

7-Inch Korean Identity Tab Tablet May Arrive in Europe and US

Published: Thu, 09/02/2010 - 13:08

Remember the Galaxy Tab wannabe Identity Tab 7-inch Android tablet announced a couple of days ago? The one looking like the Galaxy Tab with similar specs – a 1GHz snapdragon processor, Android version unknown), 8GB memory, HDMI, GPS, Accelerometer,…