Review: Sony Tablet S 16GB WiFi

Text and Photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Sony has put an interesting spin on its first and much anticipated Google Honeycomb device. The oddly contoured and shaped much like a folded magazine, Sony Tablet S ($499 for 16GB and $599 for 32GB), actually serves to unify Sony's various product lines and aims to make waves in the tablet space. Does it have what it takes?

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Apple stops Samsung Tab 10.1 in Europe, now goes after Motorola's XOOM

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

After managing to stop the sale of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia early this month, Apple has put a kibosh on the Tab's sale in Europe when a European court has blocked the sale of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 across the European Union, in every member state except the Netherlands. Now, Apple has sued Motorola Mobility for various alleged patent infringements present in their Motorola XOOM tablet.

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Breaking News: HP retires Palm brand, launches TouchPad tablet, Pre 3 and Veer smartphones

The HP Veer, Pre 3 smartphones and the TouchPad tablet are HP's new trio of WebOS devices Palm is dead, long live HP. Today's Think Big announcement from HP lifted the lid on the TouchPad WebOS tablet, a spanking new Pre 3 smartphone and a funky new smartphone called the HP Veer. Highlights from the event in San Francisco today include:

• Palm is gone as a brand but WebOS remains part of HP
• WebOS is coming to PCs and notebooks, soon
• The HP Veer is a tiny WebOS smartphone - essentially an even smaller version of the Pre 2 with similar features (8GB of memory, 800Mhz Snapdragon processor, mobile hotspot, 5 megapixel camera)- out in Spring.
• The HP Pre 3 is a larger Pre, now with 3.6" inch screen, a larger QWERTY keyboard, dual cameras, a Qualcomm CPU running 1.4GHz, geared towards business users. Out in Summer.
• The HP TouchPad with a 9.7 inch display, 1024 x 768, 1.6 pounds, Beats audio, video calling, 1.3 megapixel webcam, 16GB or 32GB storage, dual core 1.2GHz Snapdragon processor. Accessories include keyboards, cases and docks. Like the BlackBerry PlayBook, the HP TouchPad can interface with the WebOS smartphones (possibly for wireless 3G data) but will also work as a standalone Wi-Fi tablet.
• New touch-to-share feature allows you to tap TouchPad and Pre/Veer and send websites, files and other documents wirelessly between the two devices.
• WebOS devices will be able to print to HP printers from the outset.
• HP is putting considerable R&D and money towards WebOS

  Pricing and availability for the Canadian market has not yet been released.

iPad owns 95.5 % of tablet market, new competition to face uphill climb

Its no surprise, really, that Apple's iPad dominates 95% of the tablet computing market as per a report from Strategy Analytics. The iPad, after all, is the only commercially available tablet in the market right now. As we head into the highly competitive holiday buying season, can Apple's iPad sustain its popularity and build on its ecosystem?

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