Latest Tablets Opinion

• 17 May 2013

• Opinion: New tablet boots Ubuntu Linux, Android, and Windows 8

  We've seen several Linux tablets emerge over the past year or so, but examples with triple-boot capabilities are much less common.

• 24 April 2013

• Opinion: Mind-controlled tablets are real; no, you can't have one yet

  In recent of years, touch control technology has completely changed the way we interact with our electronics. And you can't forget about voice-command systems and motion-based controllers like the Leap Motion and Kinect. Samsung, along with researchers at the University of Texas, are onto what could be the next step forward--controlling a tablet with our minds.

• 15 April 2013

• Opinion: All PCs great and small: how competition and collaboration is driving tech innovation

  A strange set of competitive and interdependent business relationships is driving innovation in PCs, laptops, smartphones and tablets. And for the consumer that's mostly good news.

• 20 February 2013

• Opinion: Surface Pro: Microsoft asks PC makers to try something new

  Microsoft's new tablet the Surface Pro has more in common with your laptop than your iPad. And that's the point.

• 29 January 2013

• Opinion: Network not work: life without internet

  Could you live without the internet? We certainly can't, and it seems even Google is beginning to rethink its online-only approach with its ARM-powered Chromebook laptops.

• 19 December 2012

• Opinion: 2012: the year Microsoft ran out of ideas

  2012 was the year in which Microsoft finally ran out ideas, Google resorted to paying for tablet customers, and wireless speeds increased.

• 26 November 2012

• Opinion: Surface RT: ARM'd, but not dangerous

  Windows Phone's where's-my-app theme is echoed by the Surface RT, making it unlikely that Microsoft has the power to steal market share from tablet heavyweights Google and Apple just yet.

• 19 November 2012

• Opinion: Why the Surface RT has to work as a proper 'PC'

  Is the idea of a single device to do everything desirable, or even possible? The Surface RT says 'yes'... the Kindle Fire HD 'no'.

• 30 October 2012

• Opinion: Ding, dong, Wintel witch is dead!

  Could it be that the Wintel duopoly of Microsoft’s Windows plus Intel’s processors, a partnership that had the personal-computer industry in a stranglehold through most of the past two decades, is dead?

• 27 October 2012

• Opinion: Would Steve Jobs have allowed Apple to launch the iPad mini?

  Steve Jobs was extremely outspoken and dismissive in his opinions of seven-inch tablets back in 2010. If he were around today, would Apple still have launched the iPad mini?

• 02 October 2012

• Opinion: Chips off a new block

  Time was when the processor wars raged between Intel and AMD. New skirmishes are now breaking out in the smartphone and tablet mobile world, with Intel determined to make its presence known by doggedly reducing the size and power requirements of the ageing PC chip architecture.

• 24 September 2012

• Opinion: Successful but boring: why Windows 8 needs to be like iPhone 5

  The level of interest engendered in the launch of the evolutionary iPhone 5 is staggering. Meanwhile Microsoft would love to see similar interest in Windows 8: a product that is less of a revolution than you might imagine.

• 25 August 2012

• Opinion: Sorry Apple, but I was rooting for Samsung

  Shock horror. Apple fanboy admits he wanted Samsung to win in court.

• 02 August 2012

• Opinion: Google's dreams of electric sheep

  For the past two years, the iPad has ruled the tablet PC roost. That status quo is about to change, though, with Google determined to claw its way to some market share – not to mention mindshare – of this key category. And it now has the means to do so, with the £159 Nexus 7.

• 10 July 2012

• Opinion: Three blocks SIM-only Pay Monthly account from use with iPad

  When my Three Pay Monthly SIM stopped working with my iPad, I decided to investigate. It transpires that although the Terms & Conditions hadn't changed, the way I could use my SIM had.

• 28 May 2012

• Opinion: Wanted: more and faster storage

  As computing tech all around us steadily shrinks in size, our need for more outboard storage expands. You can fit only so much expensive flash storage into a phone, tablet or even a laptop.

• 23 April 2012

• Opinion: Google Android: freephone toll

  Google is a benevolent provider of free goodies, but it pays to keep up your defences when using its products - particularly Android.

• 30 March 2012

• Opinion: Why can't you give a Kindle book as a gift?

  The Kindle has revolutionised the humble book, so it's odd that such a basic facility as sending an eBook as a gift remains unavailable.

• 22 March 2012

• Opinion: Portable computing: Welcome to the future

  Tablets, ultrabooks, Windows 8... the portable connected computer of the future is here. And it's brilliant for watching the telly.

• 16 March 2012

• Opinion: It's true: iPads are starting to replace business PCs

  Business interest in the iPad is increasing, as Android slips and Dell, HP, and RIM are irrelevant.

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