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by Raverstead
The Blackberry Classic smartphone (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 41) is now available for pre-order in the UK. It is listed for £290 ($455). The world’s thinnest tablet – Dell‘s Venue 8 7000 (Display …
Tags:BlackBerry| Dell| HTC| India| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| Samsung| Smartphones| tablets| toshiba| Vol 21 - Issue 48| Wearables
by Super User
Various firms have confirmed Android 5.0 (Lollipop) will be arriving on their devices soon. The OS will be available on HTC’s One and One M8; Motorola’s Moto G (2013 and 2014, Moto X (2013 …
Tags:Android| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21
by Super User
There was a 2% fall in tablet shipments in MEA between Q1’14 and Q2’14, according to IDC. As well as the expected fall due to the traditionally slow summer season and Ramadan, shipments were …
Tags:IDC| Large Display Monitor| MEA (Middle East & Africa)| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 36| Volume 21
by Super User
Microsoft wasted no time recently in countering a claim by Taiwan’s Digitimes that the company was ‘likely to terminate the [Surface] product line’. A blog post by Surface general manager Brian Hall (http://tinyurl.com/kc7fxr9) showed …
Tags:Microsoft| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21
by Super User
Panasonic’s 7″ Toughpad range has been completed, with a new Android 4.4.4 model – the Toughpad FZ-B2 – joining existing Windows units. A fanless tablet, the Fz-B2 is IP65-compliant, meets the MIL-STD-810G standard and …
Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Panasonic| Rugged Displays| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 43| Volume 21
by Super User
The Mediapad X1 is Huawei’s 7″ tablet: the world’s thinnest, the company claims, at 7.18mm. USA-based Cypress Semiconductor says that the thin body is partly enabled by its Truetouch Gen5 TMA568 capacitive touchscreen controller. …
Tags:Back Panel| Huawei| Large Display Monitor| tablets| Touch Controllers| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21
by Super User
The PF451CL is a 4.5″ addition to Asus’ Padfone line-up – a range of smartphones that can dock into a larger chassis to power a tablet. In the case of the PF451CL (aka Padfone …
Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21
by Super User
The ‘world’s thinnest tablet’, the Dell Venue 8 7000, has been announced at the Intel Developer Forum- using an OLED display. The 6mm-thick product has an 8.4″ OLED screen, with 2560 x 1600 resolution …
Tags:3D Acquisition| Dell| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21
by Super User
Asus’ latest Transformer Book hybrid tablet, the T200, features user-upgradable storage in the keyboard dock. Owners can undo a panel on the base of the device to add a 1TB HDD, in addition to …
Tags:Asus| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21
by Super User
At its recent Developer Forum, Intel showed off an Android reference design programme, intended to simplify the development of Intel-based Android tablets. OEMs will be able to choose from a set of components or …
Tags:Convertible PCs| Intel| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21
by Super User
The HP Stream 7 and Stream 8 are new 7″ and 8″ tablet PCs with full cloud connectivity. While local storage is minimal (32GB, expandable with micro-SD), each has access to 1TB of Microsoft …
Tags:Cloud Computing| HP Inc| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21
by Super User
The Nexus 9 tablet will be built by HTC, Nvidia has accidentally revealed. HTC’s involvement was rumoured earlier this year (Display Monitor Vol 21 No 26). A paper filed with the US International Trade …
Tags:HTC| Mobile Display Monitor| Nvidia| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21
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