The HP TouchSmart TM2 is the update to the TX2, and is the firm’s first consumer-focused convertible notebook PC loaded with multi-touch technology and encased in a sophisticated aluminum design with engraved illustration. With the convertible tm2, customers can choose the product configuration and input method that is most comfortable and natural, whether on [...]

       
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                  The Chinese company Hanvon, known as Hanwang in China, is the largest ebook reader manufacturer in China.  They are reportedly the founder of the national patented Chinese Handwriting Recognition Technology and a leading company in intelligent pattern recognition technology.
They have introduced their revolutionary Hanvon Touchpad which consists of an ultra thin 10.1-inch [...]

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         Notion Ink’s Adam Tablet PC of Bangalore-based EAFT Technologies and Hyderabad-based Notion Ink has generated enormous buzz on tech websites. This Android “smartpad” is considered to be a big contender against the iPad.  It is a new type of hand-held, multi-tasking media device.
It is to be based on a NVIDIA Tegra T20 [...]

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Originally known as the CrunchPad, the touchscreen tablet that inventor Michael Arrington and Fusion Garage were jointly working on, is now officially called the JooJoo, and is now owned by the Singapore-based company, Fusion Garage.  JooJoo has been said to be what African’s use for the word “magical.”
This s a thin, lightweight, [...]

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        With this product there are more rumors than facts, but I guess that’s how all these slate devices are brought to life. The Asus Eee Pad is a slate tablet PC device. Don’t confuse the Asus Eee Pad with the Asus Eee Reader / Asus Eee Book, that is a different device.
Here [...]

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Hearst Corporation, Skiff,LLC, and Sprint are offering this new and innovated Skiff Reader.  It will be the first e-reader optimized for newspaper and magazine content.  It is a sleek, thin, flexible, durable, easy to use, state-of-the-art device. It has a 11.5″ touchscreen, with a resolution of 1600 x 1200 pixels, it features the [...]

Recently there has been talk of Nintendo announcing a new hand held console, dubbed the DS2 for now, at next months GDC or more likely at this years E3.
What does this have to do with Apple?  Well, the DS does have a touch screen and Steve Jobs has been making comments about the iPhone and [...]

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Plastic Logic debuted its Que proReader at the January 7, 2010, Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.  It was quite a spectacular hit with the software industry, and also gave hope to the declining newspaper industry.  It is getting ready to hit the market in April.
Plastic Logic’s, Chief Executive Richard Archuleta believes that [...]

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               The Qualcomm Mirasol is a display screen much like a e-ink display screen. Qualcomm Mirasol Team said it is ready to begin selling screen. Qualcomm said they wont be manufacturing E-Readers themselves, but are working to supply OEM partners who want an alternative to e-ink and LCD technologies. Mirasol’s technolgy, with its [...]

Quoting unnamed industry insiders, LA Times reports that E-books sold via the iPad’s iBook store will be wrapped with FairPlay DRM to the publishers that want it, though there’s some question about who will and won’t be using the world’s “most popular” form of DRM, some publishers like publisher O’Reilly Media, have publicly stated their [...]

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Innovative Converged Devices (ICD) has entered the market with their mobile internet device (MID) with the straightforward name, Ultra.  ICD has created the device, in cooperation with Nvidia, Moto and Verizon.
ICD Ultra is one of the smallesr gadgets to hit the market.  It has a 7-inch touchscreen display that uses resistive technology, with [...]

Microsoft recently unveiled their new Windows Phone 7 series platform.  Here’s a short preview of its interface
As you can see, the UI is very reminiscent of the Zune HD interface.  Also Ars-Technica’s Peter Bright reports
“Taking a page from Palm’s book, Windows Phone is connected with the cloud. The contacts list is no mere list of [...]