RIM Confirms There Are No Battery Issues With The PlayBook

We posted a blog on Tuesday that an analyst was stating that RIM's PlayBook will be delayed due to battery issues.  Well, seems that RIM is squashing that analyst's statement.  RIM has given an official response to the statement."Any testing or observation of battery life to date by anyone outside of RIM would have been performed using pre-beta units that were built without power management...

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RIM's PlayBook Battery Issue Delays Launch

Shaw Wu, an analyst with Kaufman Bros., informed investors on Tuesday that RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook could cause delays due to insufficient battery life.  Apparently, Playbook's "relatively poor battery life of a few hours" will need improvement.  With the leader in battery life, Apple's iPad gets an average 10 hours while the Cruz Tablet has average 9+ hours.  We are not clear what "few hours"...

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Honeycomb Tablets Shipping in March. Yes!!

As you may already know, Google will finally optimize Android for tablet usage with the release of Android 3.0 (Honeycomb).  Based on what DigiTimes is reporting, we sold start seeing MSI tablets in April or May with Honeycomb.  Google plans to release Android 3.0 in March.  This MSI tablet will have Nvidia Tegra2 processors .CES will be showcasing plenty of tablets this Janua...

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Viewsonic To Address G Tablet Issues

After Staples decided to pull the Viewsonic G Tablet off the shelves, Viewsonic is declaring there is no "manufacturing defect."  However, Viewsonic views the issues as "user experience [problem] that caused all the returns."  Seriously?  Blame it on the user?  The blame is on the poor UI that Viewsonic implemented.  According to what I have read, installing a custom ROM fixes all the issues. ...

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Staples Pulling Viewsonic G Tablet From Its Store

It has been reported that Staples is pulling all Viewsonic G tablets from its store shelve due to a "manufacturing defect."  We are not sure what exactly the "manufacturing defect" is but we do know its Touch N Tap software (which runs on top of Android) has defects.  In any case, do not expect this to return to stores.  From what Staples is stating, this is going back to Viewsonic with no...

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MSI to Launch Tablets in 1Q 2011

DigiTimes reports that MSI will be officially introducing its first 10" tablet with Intel hardware and Microsoft Windows. In addition, MSI is planning to launch an ARM-based tablet powered by Nvidia's Tegra2 processors and Android 3.0.  However, this will not happen until April or May 2011.  As mentioned in the article, "MSI is expected to adopt a more aggressive pricing strategy to promote ...

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Huawei S7 Prepping a Tablet With Capacitive Screen

Although we have not done a formal review on the Huawei S7, we found it to be one of the better 7 inch Android tablet on the market.  It has a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, both 3G and WiFi data connectivity, a good resistive screen and actual access to the Google Android Market.  We have found the resistive screen to be pretty responsive... for a resistive display so definitely do not...

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Update: Notion Ink Adam Preorders - Hold the Orders

Two days ago we reported that the Notion Ink Adam was going live with preorders on Friday (yesterday).  However, AndroidPolice has uncovered some information that one should note and maybe hold off the preorders.  At this point, we would recommend not placing any preorders on this product until we get some additional clarification.  We want to make sure that this is not another repeat of the...

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Notion Ink Adam Tablet: Preorder Goes Live on Friday

Previously, we have not reported anything on the Norton Ink Adam.  Reason being that there were many rumors but nothing really confirmed.  In any case, we were wrong in not providing general information about this exciting tablet launching soon.  We at TabletConnect can be tough when reviewing tablets.  With possibly hundreds of tablet launching in 2011, manufacturers will need to really...

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Test An App Before Installing on Your Tablet - YouWave

How many times have you install a new app only to find out that it is no good?  Either it does not work as intended or is poorly written or whatever the case maybe.  Sure it is easy to just delete it.  However if you want to test an app in another environment aka your computer, YouWave is your answer.  YouWave is an Android emulator that runs on your Windows PC.  Although one can download an...

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Toshiba Launching 3 Tablets in 1st Qtr 2011

DigiTimes has reported that Toshiba will be launching three tablets in the first quarter 2011.  These tablets are already scheduled to appear at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next month in Las Vegas.  What is interesting is that Toshiba will be using three different OS: Android, Windows 7 and Chrome OS.  Two of them will have 10.1" screens while the other will have a large 11.6" screen. ...

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