More Tablets Opinion

  • 18 May 2011

  • Opinion: Android 3.1 Update Coming in June to Tablets

    The first major update to Google's Honeycomb platform, Android 3.1, was announced last week at the Google I/O developer event, and it's slowly rolling out as an over-the-air update to mobile broadband-connected Motorola Xoom tablets. When announced, Google was vague about when we could expect Android 3.1 on other Honeycomb tablets, but today saw update details flying across the Web for both the Acer Iconia A500 and the Asus EeePad Transformer.

  • 17 May 2011

  • Opinion: HP Outlook Gloomy: Can Tablets, WebOS Turn Things Around

    HP cut its forecast for the year by a billion dollars, and HP CEO Leo Apotheker issued a gloom and doom memo warning staff that times are tough. With consumer demand for PCs, and business demand for tech services down, can HP get back on track with the TouchPad tablet and its gamble to put WebOS on PCs?

  • 16 May 2011

  • Opinion: Simple Hack Brings Hulu to Motorola Xoom

    No matter what brand you have, tablets are pretty cool. They're pretty useful for not only mobile-style gaming, but productivity such as checking e-mails. One really beneficial use that some tablets are still lacking however are TV or movie-streaming apps, such as Hulu.

  • 13 May 2011

  • Opinion: Tablets Aren't Necessarily Cannibalising Laptop Sales

    Earlier this week, my PCWorld colleague Tony Bradley brought you the news that tablets purchasers are abandoning their laptops in favor of their new devices, according to a study from Nielsen.

  • 09 May 2011

  • Opinion: Scalper Blamed for iPad 2 Buyer Violence in China

    A Chinese man says violence that broke out at a Beijing Apple Store on Saturday resulted from a scalper cutting into a line of customers waiting to buy the iPad 2.

  • Opinion: Conde Nast Reportedly Plans iPad Magazine Subscriptions

    Publisher Conde Nast may start selling in-app subscriptions via Apple's iPad as soon as next week according to the New York Post.

  • 04 May 2011

  • Opinion: RIM and Microsoft Alliance: Who Wins?

    Microsoft stands to gain from the alliance, but it's hard to see what value is there for RIM.

  • Opinion: Amazon Tablet In 2011? Now We're Talking

    The world of tablets is about to get very interesting.

  • 02 May 2011

  • Opinion: RIM Unveils Video Chat App for PlayBook

    The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, launched last month by RIM has been relatively successful thus far despite being almost universally slammed as being an incomplete work in progress in initial reviews. Well, one of the missing features will soon be added when the Video Chat app becomes available.

  • 29 April 2011

  • Opinion: Why You Should Stop Worrying and Let End Users Have iPads

    When employees have technology they like, they'll make themselves productive in ways you never dreamed. So let them have their iPads and Android tablets.

  • 20 April 2011

  • Opinion: Fit for purpose

    Who would deny that the hottest topic in consumer electronics right now is the tablet PC? And since there’s only one tablet PC onsale that – in my opinion, anyway – fulfils the description ‘fit for purpose’, we must inevitably turn toward the iPad.

  • 06 April 2011

  • Opinion: Have the Motorola Xoom and Atrix flopped already?

    It's only been a few weeks since Motorola's top-of-the-range Xoom Android tablet and Atrix smartphone went on sale in the US, and analysts are already asserting the Xoom and Atrix are duds.

  • Opinion: What happened to Windows 7 tablets?

    Dell's Windows 7 tablet may not be ready until September at the earliest.

  • 21 March 2011

  • Opinion: Tablet tumbleweed

    It must be a sign of either indolence or incompetence in the computer industry that there’s so much vapourware these days. To explain, here’s a précis of the computer revolution that has hit the trade over the past 12 months

  • Opinion: Will 2011 be the year of the iPad 2?

    At the beginning of March Apple announced its second tablet. What caught many people off guard was that the iPad 2 was not ‘coming in three months’ or ‘coming this summer’, but coming ready or not – almost immediately, in fact.

  • 16 March 2011

  • Opinion: The 'post-PC world'. More PCs please

    At the iPad 2 launch (you may have noticed it), Steve Jobs used the phrase “post-PC world”, suggesting that Apple’s second-generation Tablet means the PC is no longer central to our lives.

  • 23 February 2011

  • Opinion: There's something in the air

    This year’s Mobile World Congress show in February was noticeable for being about the clamour to become the ‘other’ triumphant tablet alongside the Apple iPad. It was also the first tradeshow at which smartphones officially reigned supreme.

  • 07 January 2011

  • Opinion: In praise of the digital world

    A new year has begun, and it’s fair to say that one device more than any other ruled the roost over the past 12 months. The Apple iPad outdid even the iPhone in terms of speed of adoption. Not only that, but the interest in devices of the iPad’s ilk meant that dozens of tablet PCs were hastily produced and a whole new market was born.

  • 18 November 2010

  • Opinion: Opinion: An iPad for everyone, they're just not all iPads

    Apple's iPad is a success. The speed with which Apple flogged a million units of its sugar-coated 9.7in tablet PC was unprecedented, and anyone who's visited a US hotel recently will have thrilled at the site of business titans hanging around the lobby to get online. (Note to hoteliers: the iPad has no ethernet port. Give the rooms wireless.)

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