Analysts and experts of some major platform companies, including the popular opinion of the so called white box market (haven primarily for desktop PCs as against “white book market” which is mainly on laptops), seem to point to an up trend in tablet shipments worldwide this year. This means tablet sellers are anticipating a major [...]

Also from Lenovo’s presser ahead of CES 2012, the company announced its next generation tablet powered by Android Ice Cream Sandwich. The IdeaPad S2 is a 10-inch slate in which at just 8.5mm thin and 1.1lbs light – it’s said to be thinner than its predecessor and is one of the lightest 10-incher tablets available [...]

Looking for the cheapest tablets in town wouldn’t be a challenge if you’ve already learned about the local brand, TORQUE. Yes, TORQUE is one among those handset makers we’ve known here in the Philippines to offer inexpensive lines of smartphone, and now the company has entered into the tablet space which undoubtedly has a potential [...]

Remember last year’s $35 slate unveiled in India and was touted as the world’s cheapest on its category? Well, it’ now official and the tablet is called Aakash. And as we initially learned, this tablet is a project of the Indian government to address the need of a low-cost tablet computer for students. It turned [...]

Listing all Android tablets available in the country, there’s no question HTC Flyer will top in the pricing metric. HTC’s first ever tablet is finally here in the Philippines, so you guys should see this in your favorite gizmo stores in the coming days. And if you’ve been eyeing this slate since it popped up [...]

The Philippines just celebrated the 150th birth anniversary of the country’s national hero, Dr. Jose Rizal. The Rizal Tablet, aka e-Rizal i-Tablet Part of the celebration is the formal debut of a new tablet designed to commemorate the life and works of Rizal. The slate, labeled as Rizal Tablet, also known as e-Rizal i-Tablet, is [...]

Aiming to grow the number of internet users in the Philippines, Smart Communications launched recently a low-cost 7-inch tablet device called ZTE V9. ZTE V9 Tablet Powered by Android 2.2 (Froyo) OS, the ZTE V9 is bundled with the telco’s wireless broadband service, Smartbro. Initially being offered for prepaid subscription, Smart says subscribers have an [...]

Oh, some tidbits of the iPad 2 release here in the Philippines continue buzzing the web. I was actually informed by a friend of mine last Saturday when the first report came in to verify if the news is legit or not. But since I had limited web access in the province while having my [...]

Okay. So I sat in front of my computer table early this morning and have this tip from a reliable source of mine whom I trust ‘coz he is actually working for HP Philippines. I got a word that the HP Slate 500 is already here in the Philippines and will be launched officially showcased (see [...]

ASUS in an announcement today just made the Eee Pad Transformer TF101 tablet official. ASUS Eee Pad Transformer The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer is one of the tablet devices unveiled ahead of CES early this year from the Taiwan-based company. Featuring a 10.1-inch IPS (in-plane switching) panel display, powered by a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 [...]

The Canadian Telco, Research In Motion (RIM), finally announced the availability together with the official price of the much-anticipated BlackBerry PlayBook. The PlayBook is the company’s first tablet set to retail comes April 19th in more than 20,000 sales outlets in the US and Canada. The BlackBerry PlayBook with Wi-Fi will come in three models, [...]

Oh, boy. This could be a huge surprise, really! If Samsung just introduced only the Galaxy Tab 10.1 at the recent MWC, then that’s probably because the company don’t want us to know they have something more to bet in the competition. Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 Just today in the on-going International CTIA Wireless event [...]