Originally Posted by defirish (Post 35125728)

What is a tablet style device?

Originally Posted by defirish (Post 35125738)

Ah right. Thanks for that explaination. If you can any chance of a link please so I can get the full picture of what it is if you dont mind?

Originally Posted by Paul (Post 35125756)

In theory I would expect it to work with a sim that has a data tariff and a data service available to it. I would be surprised if tesco were selling items that they couldn't bundle together to make even more money from customers lol

Originally Posted by ooogemaflop (Post 35125868)

the Archos 101 has full USB support so if you were going somewhere you need more than its 8/16 gig internal and upto 32 gig microsdhc you could take a 2.5 inch external drive and use that

Originally Posted by gazfan (Post 35126823)

Not strictly a 'tablet pc' but I thought it might be worth pointing out that I have tried internet access on my Kindle 3g in Italy, Holland & Denmark, recently - with no problems. OK it can be a bit slow & clunky, but for checking gmail & BBC news it has proved invaluable.

Originally Posted by ooogemaflop (Post 35126998)

The Archos appears to be available at a couple of places if you use Google shopping search. I am a bit nervous though about using one of the lesser known outlets.

Anyone heard of simplyelectronics??

http://www.simplyelectronics.net/checkout.php

Originally Posted by punky (Post 35126856)

Ooh, that's good.... Amazon said that 3G would only work in your home country except for the Kindle store and Wiki.

Originally Posted by ooogemaflop (Post 35128689)

Win 7 is fully touch screen compliant iirc :-)

Originally Posted by punky (Post 35128665)

Now this is interesting...

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/l...e/ntablet.html

Atom 1.6ghz
32gb SSD
3G connectivity
N WiFi
Multi-touch capacitive
Any OS

And for £349.

I'd like to know what brand it is underneath and the reviews but its impressive specced.

Originally Posted by punky (Post 35128692)

What ZrByte said. Even XP had touch input drivers. Win7 comes with drivers pre-installed but it's still designed to be operated by a mouse. It's not the same as Android and other phone OSes where touch input is the sole method of input.

Originally Posted by ooogemaflop (Post 35140945)

so whats left? full linux or windows? Most likely windows dont you think? its gotta be something with some kinda app lib or as in the case of windows vast compatability with regular software. Anything with out app support will just crash and burn.

It could always be a rewritten android with better support for different features?

Originally Posted by punky (Post 35140941)

How class is this advert?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI2I...layer_embedded

Ad i'm guessing it's not another Android one.

Originally Posted by punky (Post 35140941)

How class is this advert?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quI2I...layer_embedded

And i'm guessing it's not another Android one.

Originally Posted by Gizmodo

The First Good Android Tablet Has Locked Down Wi-Fi and Costs 0, Ughhhh

The Motorola Xoom sure has a lot of whizbang stuff inside: Crazy dual-core processors! Nvidia graphics! HD camcorder! 1GB RAM! Front camera! 3G that's somehow magically upgradeable to 4G! But, uh, it's eight hundred dollars. And it gets worse.

The worse being fine print in the leaked Best Buy ad that says:

Like Engadget, we can't figure out any other way to translate that besides the Xoom's Wi-Fi is locked down until you activate a data subscription with Verizon. They're requiring you to buy at least one month of data service to a basic feature of the hardware? What. The. Balls.

The pricing is horribly wrong for a couple of reasons on top of that. One, there isn't a cheaper option. While the most expensive iPad with 3G and 64GB of storage was $830, people still had the option to purchase a bunch of cheaper models, down to $500. In other words, the iPad cost as much as a netbook; the Xoom costs as much as a laptop.

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Originally Posted by Guardian

Sony unveiled its long-awaited Android tablets on Wednesday – but the price tags had analysts claiming it will struggle to compete for the No 2 spot in a market dominated by Apple.

The basic model of Sony's main tablet, shown at the IFA show in Berlin, is priced at €499 (£441), the same as the iPad – a price where Hewlett-Packard and other tablet companies have failed to dent Apple's dominance.

Sony had vowed in January that by 2012 it would become the world's No 2 tablet maker – behind Apple – and it stuck by this bold claim at IFA where its chief executive Howard Stringer introduced the devices.

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Sony has priced the devices firmly at the high end, alongside Apple. The Tablet S will go on sale in Europe from the end of September at a starting price of €479, depending on the configuration. The pocket-sized Tablet P will follow in November, starting at €599.

Sarah Rotman, at research firm Forrester, said: "Sony is no copycat … but the price raises a red flag. We've been down this road before: Motorola and HP both priced their devices on par with the iPad, and both were unable to sell their devices in volume until they lowered the price significantly."

She added: "My concern for Sony is not price competition with Apple but price competition with Amazon, whose [Android] tablet we expect to be significantly cheaper."

At least one gadget reviewer who has played with the new "Sony Tablet S" is not so sure Sony will achieve its aim of becoming the second behind Apple. "I don't think it has the premium feel, design and build quality that either the iPad 2 or [Samsung] Galaxy Tab has right now," said Tim Stevens, editor-in-chief of Engadget.

"I honestly don't think this is going to be the tablet that really catapults Sony into the lead on the Android front, which is where it needs to be if it wants to be No 2 in the tablet market."

There has been little buzz generated ahead of the release, unlike the anticipation for the iPad or even the Galaxy Tab.

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Originally Posted by Guardian

Amazon is expected to release a tablet computer before Christmas which analysts forecast will finally provide serious competition for Apple's iPad, which has had the overwhelming share of the tablet market since its launch in April 2010.

Though the company declined to comment on Tuesday, a growing number of analysts and industry watchers said Amazon, best known for its online shopping site, is preparing to push into the highly competitive tablet market to add to its dominance of the handheld ereader market through its Kindle device.

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Sarah Rotman at Forrester, speaking about the expected tablet from Amazon, said that if Jeff Bezos's company manages to set the price below $300 (£185) and launch it by October, "we see Amazon selling 3m to 5m tablets" by the end of the year and that it will "completely disrupt the status quo". However she sees Apple continuing to dominate the sector, where it has roughly three-quarters of the market. In the Christmas quarter of 2010, Apple sold 7.3m iPads.

Rotman said that "even though Amazon taking on Apple is a bit like David taking on Goliath – compare the market capitalisation, profits and cash position of the two companies – Amazon's willingness to sell hardware at a loss, combined with the strength of its brand ... makes it the only credible iPad competitor in the market".

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Analysts expect Amazon's forthcoming tablet will use Google's Android mobile operating system, which has become the dominant player in the smartphone market, pushing aside Finland's Nokia, but made little impact so far on the larger devices, partly due to a lack of content and apps.

But Amazon has been preparing its own "app market" for Android, and can offer its Kindle app on the platform, creating a potentially huge market for ebooks.

"A year from now, Amazon will be synonymous with Android on tablets, a strong second to Apple's iPad," Rotman said.

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Originally Posted by Guardian

Apple has sold more than 28m iPads since it was launched, reporting 9.2m sold in the three months from April to June in its most recent financial results.

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BlackBerry maker RIM, whose seven-inch PlayBook tablet runs its own QNX software, has seen slow sales since its launch, with just 500,000 sold in the three months to May, when it last reported its results.