Tablet Crunch

The Pakistani Air Force doesn't believe in wasting time, personal, or capacity.  So in a super secret Air Force complex where jet fighters and weapons systems are produced, how about we add a 7 inch, Android 2.3 tablet to the production line. The PACPAD is a tablet that brings together Pakistani engineering and Chinese hardware and ...

LG has issued a press release of their hot new wide screen Android tablet, the LG Optimus Vu, well ahead of Mobile World Congress that will kick off on Feb. 27th.  This tablet has a unique wide screen design that delivers a 4x3 aspect ration, 1024x768 res on a 5 inch IPS LDC display.  The ...

No sooner are tablets starting to ramp up with the Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) upgrade, do we get news that Google is ready to bring us Android 5.0 (Jelly Bean).  The Android 4.0 OS was suppose to bring unity, efficiency, and destroy fragmentation throughout the tablet and smartphone world.  But what we've seen mostly ...

Acer started pushing out Android 4.0, Ice Cream Sandwich, updates to the Iconia tablet on Friday.  The updates are being delivered over the air starting first in the United States, and the full update worldwide will be completed by next Friday. And so it begins! More and more tablets are starting to upgrade their OS with the ...

The 7 inch tablet market space if filling up fast with hot new tablets.  And one of those that are garnishing some attention is the Idolian TurboTab Z. The folks at Idolian just announced that the TurboTab Z has received an upgrade to the Android 4.0 (ICS) OS.  Best of all, for those of you looking ...

The folks on the CyanogenMod team have been hard at work to bring the HP TouchPad back from the grave.  Well, I shouldn't really say that because as I recall, the TouchPad became the best selling tablet for a brief period after HP originally wrote it off and dropped the price down to only $99 - ...

Have you ever been frustrated over your battery dying on your iPad or Android tablet? Sure, the battery life can be impressive to most users. But rest assured, there are some fire ways you help conserve the juice on your precious tablets. Different tablet pc's have different battery life:  If your tablet is an Acer Iconia A100 ...

Wanna know the future of personal computing? Take one look at the chart below! And after you pick your jaw up off the floor, realize that what you're looking at is the outlook for tablet pc growth through 2015. That's right folks, it's now 2012 (as if I really had to say that...) - so what we are ...

This is the type of story that you are always excited to see pop up.  In Cameroon, Africa, a 24 year old engineer named Arthur Zang invented the CardioTab, a touchscreen tablet that allows patients in remote areas of Africa to undergo heart examinations such as the ECG.  Once the exam is performed, the results ...

Here's a great deal for you tablet lovers.  How about a hot new Windows 7 based tablet for only $499.  This puppy is 10.1 inches, has 802.11n WiFi, bluetooth 2.1, a 1.3MP front-facing camera, stereo speakers, 2 USB ports, a microSD card slot, and a SIM card slot. Oh, and hit has a 3 cell ...

A German court has dealt a serious blow to Apple today.  The state court in Duesseldorf said on Thursday there were "clear differences" between the Galaxy Tab 10.1N and the iPad, thus releasing the ban and allowing the Galaxy Tab 10.N to be sold in country.  After being previously banned by the German courts because ...

Just like its close cousin the Tablet P 3G, the Tablet S will be getting a much needed upgrade to 3G.  But will it be enough to bring the Tablet S Android tablet out of the bowels of the tablet market?  Sony sure hopes so!  The Tablet S has yet to gain any substantial traction ...

Sony is getting ready to take a stab at reviving the Tablet P by adding 3G to the mix.   The dual screen, fold out tablet has yet to gain any substantial traction with customers.  This may be partly attributed to the fact that it was only capable of WiFi connectivity.  After all, folks who are ...

Remember when the TouchPad was declared dead and HP started hemroghing the tablets from their warehouse?  And remember during that blitz when a few of the TouchPad's were released with an Android build (see video below in case you forgot).  Well it seems that HP, as a good will gesture and an example of the ...

Here's something I wasn't expecting to read today.  It looks like Apple has found itself in a copyright dispute in China over the name "iPad".  Yeah, that's a pretty big name to be in a copyright dispute over. According to Chinese firm Proview Technology, Apple is violating copyright laws by using the name "iPad" in the ...

And here we go again.  Another Craptablet is poured into the marketplace.  Except this time it has it's origins in the UK and not the U.S.  Toshiba just released another 10.1 inch tablet called the AT200 into the UK market.  First, this tablet is being sold with Android 3.2 (Honeycomb).  Second, the Toshiba AT200 is ...

First, let me do the standard news article that I'm accustomed to.  Then, afterwards, see why I'm calling this a "Craptablet".  Fujitsu is trying to build an inroad into the enterprise with their new Stylistic M350/CA2 Android tablet.  At least that's what they are wishing for, according to their press release announcing the new Android ...

First we got a tablet for the kitchen - Qooq Android tablet (pronounced “cook) that is designed specifically for the kitchen.  So if there's a tablet for the kitchen, then why not have a tablet for other parts of the house, like say... the tub?  Ask and you shall receive my friends.  The Pantech Element, which is ...

As if Samsung doesn't already have enough mediocre Android tablets on the market already, why not throw a 7.7 inch in the mix.  Introducing the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Android tablet.  Let me tell you straight up though, this thing is already at a huge disadvantage because it's running what is now considered an outdated ...

As the tablet market surges ahead, Microsoft is being left WAY behind by both the iPad and even Android tablets.  In fact, it's not even close.  But wait... I keep hearing about the Windows 8 tablets that are suppose to be the saving grace of Microsoft in the tablet game.  And supposedly these hot new Windows ...