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  Freescale has unveiled an innovative smartbook design that aims to give users the liberty to use it as a touch-only tablet or with an additional dock, get a full-fledged QWERTY keyboard. Freescale says the design is intended for second generation smartbooks with price of or less than $200. Internally, the smartbook will make use [...]

Except its name, Asus Eee Pad was completely shrouded in mystery when we heard of it couple of weeks back. Now, Netbooknews has heard from its sources that Nvidia Tegra will power the Taiwanese’ tablet offering. It’s not clear which Tegra platform will find the place but since it is rumored to go on sale [...]

  It’s not only Apple who wants to taste the tablet pie. New reports have emerged claiming both Dell and Asus working on their respective tablet devices. While we have seen Dell’s prototype (known as Streak) in action, there’s not a single trace of Asus’ offering except that it will be known as Eee Pad. [...]

  You gotta love the analysts. If they didn’t tell us their “insights and analysis” about a company, we wouldn’t have got so many rumors to write on. An analyst at Oppenheimer has put his hand up to share something he got from his supply-chain contacts. According to his sources, Apple is trying to stock [...]

  Fusion Garage’s CEO, Chandra Rathakrishnan today offered his side of story and alongside launched the device, renamed as Joo Joo (it’s funny and weird!). Chandra claimed that TechCrunch was not involved in any of the Joo Joo’s (then CrunchPad) software or hardware development and will fight in the court if any lawsuit is filed. [...]

  I know you’re bored of hearing Apple tablet rumors time and again but this one probably holds more weight than the rumors we’ve heard in the past. The source this time is the latest episode of Diggnation where the hosts, Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht talk to Hodgman (guy who plays PC in I’m [...]

  The great Apple tablet rumor has sprung back again. This time it comes from Taiwan where Digitimes cites sources from component makers. Apparently, according to them the rumored tablet PC will be launched in the second half of next year because Cupertino giant planning to integrate an OLED display. The 9.7-inch OLED panel will [...]

  Contrary to the speculation which we’ve been hearing, Techcrunch’s Arrington has revealed that the CrunchPad is still under development. The revelation came at the Gillmor Gang videocast where Arrington said that “CrunchPad is steamrolling” and that “they’re working on UI” to make it perfect. As for the price, Arrington maintained that its CrunchPad will [...]

  Michael Arrington’s CrunchPad gave hopes for a decent looking (and functioning) tablet on the cheap but according to Silicon Alley Insider that hope looks quite bleak. They’ve heard from several sources that CrunchPad is delayed or dead due to increasing expenses. CrunchPad was first supposed to hit the retail shelves in mid-2009 but with [...]

  Dell has added another portable device to its rugged range. This time it’s a 12.1-inch Tablet PC claiming to be the slimmest and the smallest convertible tablet in the industry. The Latitude XT2 XFR is compliant with MIL-810G standards while its compression sealed and rugged I/O doors, LCD and keyboard offer IP54 level of [...]

  Acer will be transforming its 1810T netbook into a compact tablet PC. Macles who generally reports on unreleased Acer products did the job again by revealing 1820P, 1810T’s tablet incarnation. Specs of the tablet is similar to 1810T except for the fact that it has a swiveling touchscreen, a place to hide the stylus [...]

  It’s Apple Tablet rumor time. Few industry sources indicated Digitimes that Foxconn Electronics have been handed out the prestigious order for churning out Apple’s Tablet PC. Foxconn is expected to deliver at least 300,000-400,000 units in the first quarter of 2010. The sources also claim Apple will pitch the device more towards e-book readers [...]

Microsoft’s new pet project known as Courier has been uncovered. It’s a tablet-cum-booklet device that is said to be in the late prototype stages where Microsoft is busy etching out the UI. Courier features two touchscreen displays about 7-inches each with multi-touch support, an iPhone like home button, a camera, wireless inductive charging and LED [...]

  Toshiba at the IFA pulled off a surprise by unveiling a touchscreen tablet. The tablet known as JournE features a 7-inch display (800×480) and runs on an ARM-based processor with Windows CE 6.0 Pro handling the OS duty. The tablet is capable to output 1080p HD content via the included HDMI port or can [...]

  Here’s one more report that aligns with the previous rumors we have heard so far about Apple’s Tablet PC. An anonymous veteran analyst who has seen the prototype expects it to be announced in September with a retail launch in November for a price range of $700-$800. The analyst was also impressed by the [...]