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MEA…As Tablets Shift to Tier 2 Vendors

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

Microsoft Committed to Surface

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

Panasonic Completes 7″ Toughpad Range With Android

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

Cypress’ Controller Enables Slim Huawei Tablet

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

4G Arrives on Asus’ Padfone Series

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

Dell Goes OLED on World’s Thinnest Tablet

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

Asus…And Expandable Tablet Storage

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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

Intel Highlights Android Reference and Core-M Hybrids

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

HP Minimises Storage to Lower Cost

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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

Nvidia Accidentally Confirms HTC Nexus

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

Lenovo’s Yoga Tablet Updates Add a Projector

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A new line of tablets, including updates to last year’s Yoga Tablet, have been shown off by Lenovo. As well as Stand, Hold and Tilt modes, the Yoga Tablet 2 adds a ‘Hang’ mode, …

Tags:Embedded Pico Projectors| Lenovo| Mobile Display Monitor| tablets| Vol 21 - Issue 40| Volume 21

Tesco Cancels Hudl Smartphone

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Tesco’s Hudl tablet was wildly popular last year, but the company has cancelled plans for a 4G smartphone under the same brand. Since the phone, apparently capable of challenging the Galaxy S5, was first …

Tags:Mobile Display Monitor| Smartphones| tablets| Tesco| Vol 21 - Issue 37| Volume 21