SourceCode: The Tablet Situation, A Mid-year Report

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

2011, the proclaimed "Year of the Tablet," has reached the halfway point.

We now have something resembling a very young marketplace for tablets other than Apple's iPad. Most of the new models have bet the farm on Google's Android OS and hope it will succeed as wildly and as quickly on the tablet space as it did in smartphones.

Braver manufacturers like RIM and HP are pushing their own hardware and software platforms hoping that customers who want 'something different', might subscribe to their approach and buy their products. 

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Leaked!: Nokia's first Windows Phone

Nokia's CEO  Stephen Elop showed off a Nokia N9 handset that was apparently running Windows Phone OS and not Meego. This is exciting news for a number of reasons. That impressive design of the N9 might see Meego and Windows Phone (Codenamed Sea Ray) versions and Nokia getting ready to launch a Windows Phone Mango device sometime soon. Now, here's the kicker. Another image (below) shows another Nokia N9 but this one is running the Gingerbread version of Google Android. Android! No indication if the photo is fake but it is nonetheless intriguing.

Sources: Engadget

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Review: Motorola DEFY

Smaller than your average smartphone, the Motorola DEFY is considered to be more of a tablet accessory that can be used as a full featured phone while serving to supply 3G Internet data to a WiFi enabled Motorola XOOM, a BlackBerry PlayBook, an Apple iPad or any of the new tablet devices now appearing in stores.

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Pentax claims smallest and lightest Interchangeable Lens Camera System

There's a mad race going on in the IRL (Interchangeable Lens Camera) segment and it is a race to the smallest, lightest and most convenient camera system.

Pentax just jumped in the fray with a promising new system of bodies and lenses. This is like the revenge of the digital rangefinders and it's starting to get really crowded. Sony just dropped their smallest NEX C3 camera, Panasonic countered with their petite but capable GF3 and now Pentax is big time flexing.

Sporting  a 12.4-million-pixel, 1/2.3in, CMOS sensor the Pentax Q will feature a 'Q' lens mount with an outer diameter around 6mm shorter than the K-mount, according to Pentax. 

'This is made possible by reducing the flange back to nearly one fifth of that of the K-mount, as well as by optimising the size of the image circle of its lenses to be proportioned to the size of the compact image sensor,' Pentax reps explained. The cameras and first lenses are expected to hit the market in September.