Tag Archives: tablets

Tablet ‘confirmation’ comments were misconstrued

A few days ago we heard that Nokia were planning on releasing tablets and hybrid devices. The comments were made by Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila who was quoted to have said that “Tablets are an important [market], so that is being looked into, and there will be different hybrids, different form factors in the future.” [...]

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Windows 8 tablets on x86 platform coming this year, WoA alternatives to be available in 2013

If you consider yourself one of the many people who are currently longing for your very own Windows 8 tablet PC (a proper one, that is), then you want to keep your eyes peeled for what’s going to happen by September-October of this year. Because according to a report on the Chinese site DigiTimes, that [...]

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Mozilla plans to roll out new web-based OS with Boot to Gecko

Soon, Google’s Chrome OS won’t be the only web-based OS in town. If things go according to plan, Mozilla is set to launch its own web-based OS for handheld and other mobile devices with the help of HTML5. Mozilla plans on doing this through a project called “Boot to Gecko” (B2G) which they announced today [...]

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Home run for ARM: 50+ tablets based on ARM CPU this year

Netbooks were the turf of Intel with it’s energy efficient Atom processor beating out the competition. This year, ARM is stepping up to the plate to be the star of the tablet market. A lot of the slate tablets coming out are going to be using ARM CPUs for their internals. It’s a reasonable choice [...]

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