The more prominent of these devices, including the Galaxy Tab and a Dell Android
tablet prototype shown off at Oracle OpenWorld, feature screens measuring 7 inches - which may become something of a sweet spot for future tablets.
Not exact matches
The Tactile Layer panel from Tactus Technology promises to offer just that in a deformable surface, which was demonstrated earlier this month in a
prototype Google Android
tablet made by Touch Revolution at the Society for Information Display's Display Week 2012
show in Boston.
If you include a Windows RT
prototype shown off by Toshiba and a Snapdragon S4 - powered reference
tablet from Qualcomm, that brings the total up to 3 ARM - powered Windows 8
tablets — a far cry from the huge number of product wins that Intel is touting.
Samsung must have put the Galaxy Tab 8.9 on Nutrisystem, because the
prototype the company
showed off at CTIA is a thin
tablet — a very thin
tablet.
At Lenovo's Tech World conference in San Francisco last week, the company
showed off Folio, a fully - functional
prototype with flexible screen that allows it to transform from a smartphone - sized mobile device to a larger
tablet.
Dell
showed off a
prototype of a 7 - inch
tablet PC running Google Android at Oracle OpenWorld.
NVIDIA Today
showed off a
prototype tablet that is built around its latest Tegra 3 quad core processor at the ongoing CES event.
Texas Instruments is
showing off a new
tablet prototype running Windows RT at Computex in Taipei.
A Lenovo ThinkPad Windows 8
tablet has
shown up for certification at the FCC bearing a resemblance to the
prototype model
shown off at Computex Taipei.
In the month of January at the Consumer Electronics
Show in Las Vegas, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer exhibited a
prototype HP
tablet powered by Windows 7 and assured that more such products are in the pipeline.
But this week it
showed up at the FCC website as the Lenovo IdeaTab S2110A... not to be confused with the IdeaTab S2110
prototype tablet with an Intel Medfield processor.
Lenovo has just revealed most of the details on the ThinkPad
Tablet 2, a 9.8mm - thick Windows 8 Pro tablet first shown earlier this year in prototype form whose details we published rec
Tablet 2, a 9.8mm - thick Windows 8 Pro
tablet first shown earlier this year in prototype form whose details we published rec
tablet first
shown earlier this year in
prototype form whose details we published recently.
10:37: Now he's
showing a
prototype of a Motorola
tablet running Android.
Android creator Andy Rubin indicated that Honeycomb is optimized for
tablets when he demonstrated a Motorola
tablet prototype running Android 3.0 at the D: Dive into Mobile
show Dec. 6.
Google is
showing off an early build of their Android 3.0 software, which appears to be heavily optimized for
tablets (including the Motorola
prototype it's running on) and has been given a cloudy release window of «next year.»
On
show at the company's booth at Mobile World Congress, Nvidia has
shown off a quad - core
tablet prototype that runs 1440p video content running on a 2560x1600 panel, as well as a modified PS3 game with over 300 characters battling it out on screen at the same time.
Acer
showed off a
prototype tablet device and an e-reader at a press conference in Beijing on Thursday, setting the stage for the company to push into new mobile product segments.
Rubin
showed off Android 3.0, aka «Honeycomb,» on a
prototype Motorola
tablet — and promptly threw the nascent Android
tablet market into further confusion.
The
prototype ruggedized Android
Tablet from Mobile Tout Terrain shown in the video below and in the gallery here is not certified for the sort of environment we're seeing in north - east Japan right now but it's certainly more rugged than your average tablet or ultra-mobile PC (
Tablet from Mobile Tout Terrain
shown in the video below and in the gallery here is not certified for the sort of environment we're seeing in north - east Japan right now but it's certainly more rugged than your average
tablet or ultra-mobile PC (
tablet or ultra-mobile PC (UMPC.)
Some of the top PC makers including Dell, Hewlett - Packard and Asus
showed off multimedia
tablet prototypes with different screen sizes at the Consumer Electronics
Show earlier this month.
Although promises were made and
prototypes were
shown, we're yet to see an Android - based
tablet capable of getting near the iPad's Retina Display even with seven months gone after the new Apple slate's release.
We first got word that Lenovo would lend its ThinkPad brand to new Windows 8
tablets back at Computex Taipei in June, where Intel was
showing off a
prototype design with a Clover Trail processor.
Also at the
show was a
Prototype Nvidia
Tablet, the tablet was mysteriously absent on the 2nd day of Google I / O rumors were that Google asked them to take it off the show floor as they wanted to focus to remain on phones... too much
Tablet, the
tablet was mysteriously absent on the 2nd day of Google I / O rumors were that Google asked them to take it off the show floor as they wanted to focus to remain on phones... too much
tablet was mysteriously absent on the 2nd day of Google I / O rumors were that Google asked them to take it off the
show floor as they wanted to focus to remain on phones... too much press!
We weren't allowed to use the
prototype ourselves, but it may be closer to an actual product than we previously thought — a ThinkPad
tablet has
shown up for certification at the FCC looking remarkably similar to the reference model.
I had a chance to stop by NVIDIA's headquarters recently, where the Tegra team
showed me a couple super-early
prototype Android
tablets powered by the company's new Tegra2 multi-core processors.
The company
showed off a
prototype Android
tablet that activated the physical buttons as soon as the virtual keyboard appeared, automatically.
Lenovo, on the other hand, has actually created functioning
prototypes of a foldable
tablet which was brought to several trade
shows in past years.