| The Register Sony Tablet P review | 21st December 2011 |
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| Now here’s an odd one. Sony has created what looks like a monster Nintendo 3DS but is actually an Android Honeycomb tablet computer. So you get a sort of flattened tube that folds out to reveal two screens. Will it work? Should it work? Read on… |
| Pocket-lint ViewSonic ViewPad 10e review | 19th December 2011 |
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| There's a saying in tech that when it comes to buying the latest computer you should always spend as much as you possibly can to make sure you get something that will last you as long as possible. But with tough economic times ahead, that isn't always possible. The ViewSonic ViewPad 10e, available for just £199, seems like a fantastic way to have your cake, eat it and still have plenty left over. But is it money well spent or will you be angered by the corner cutting? Or, is this the best deal on the market? |
| Mobile Choice Sony Tablet P review | 19th December 2011 |
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| The Tablet P will attract and alienate in equal manner with good build quality and a daring dual-screen design that deliberately breaks from the pack and me-too slates. |
| Pocket-lint Asus Transformer Prime review | 16th December 2011 |
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| The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime isn’t a robot in disguise, but it does have a few tricks up its sleeve that any Autobot or Decepticon would be proud of. This new Transformer improves upon the original version from earlier this year, adds more power and funky new styling. But is this update worth the substantial price - it's more than a budget laptop - and does it offer enough to be crowned the best Android tablet on the market? |
| Pocket-lint Sony Tablet P review | 16th December 2011 |
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| Tablets, like smartphones, are ten a penny now. You can get a rubbish one for £80, or a really great one for £400. They usually all look pretty much the same, are mostly either about 10- or 7-inches in size and are mostly comprised of a screen. The Sony Tablet P, on the other hand, offers something unique: a folding clam-shell design. The question is, does this unique-looking device bring enough to the table to justify its steep asking price, or is it just another niche product that will sell tiny numbers and disappear without a second version ever being produced? |
| Mobile Choice Sony Tablet S review | 16th December 2011 |
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| A stylish, wedge-shaped tablet that looks the business. The dimpled back is great to touch and the tablet sits comfortably in the hand, especially when held in landscape. The 4.7-inch screen is smaller than many rivals, but colourful and razor-sharp |
| The Inquirer Samsung Galaxy Note review | 16th December 2011 |
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| KOREAN SMARTPHONE MAKER Samsung has added yet another device to its Galaxy range in the Galaxy Note, a hybrid handset that aims to mash together the best features of a tablet and a smartphone. When you take it out of the box, the first thing that hits you is its size - the Galaxy Note looks enormous - think a larger version of the highly popular Samsung Galaxy S II. The 5.3in display dominates its rather minimalistic design. There is just one home button on the front that is flanked by touch sensitive menu and back buttons that light up when tapped. |
| CNET UK Asus Transformer Prime review | 16th December 2011 |
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| The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime is a superbly powerful tablet made as practical as a laptop by the keyboard dock. Sadly, it's let down by its outdated operating system -- it's premium in hardware, but not in software. |
| The Inquirer Motorola Xoom 2 review | 12nd December 2011 |
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| MOTOROLA'S SUCCESSOR to its Xoom tablet is a hit-and-miss affair and as such the device is likely to remain low down on the Christmas wishlists that will no doubt be headed up by Apple and Samsung products. We got off to a poor start with the Xoom 2 as the charger supplied with the tablet didn't work. Thankfully, the battery was at 40 per cent and it did work with other microUSB chargers in the office. Motorola sent another charger, confirming that the cable was faulty and saving the device from ridicule at INQUIRER towers. |
| Mobile Choice Motorola Xoom 2 review | 7th December 2011 |
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| The hardware looks different but many of the features are directly carried over from the first Xoom, so there are fewer upgrades than might have been desired. The stand-out is MotoCast, which is a great music and video streaming service |
| TechRadar Motorola Xoom 2 review | 7th December 2011 |
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| Though there have been some internal changes, it's the outside where the difference is most notable. Motorola seems determined to take the iPad 2 head-on here, because the Xoom 2 has the same thin profile as the iPad 2 (both measure just 8.8mm thick), and at 599g is actually lighter a whole 2g lighter than Apple's tablet. |
| Pocket-lint Motorola Xoom 2 review | 7th December 2011 |
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| It's interesting timing that, having been the first out of the blocks with the original Honeycomb tablet, and having been the Google approved launch tablet, the original Motorola Xoom is now nearly a year old. The hardware has aged, the software has updated and Android tablets have evolved, slightly. It is in that little band of \"slightly\" that the Xoom 2 lies. Are there enough changes to make the Xoom 2 more appealing than the original? Certainly. But is there enough of a change to make this tablet more appealing than it's rivals from the likes of Asus or Samsung? |
| TechRadar Asus Eee Pad Transformer prime review | 6th December 2011 |
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| The most important spec on the new Transformer is the Nvidia Tegra 3 processor. Everything amazing about the Prime tablet rests on this quad-core, 1.3GHz chip. HD videos play smoother (and longer, with up to 12 hours of battery use for video) than ever before. Games suddenly look fluid and dynamic, with water ripple effects, smoke, fog and explosions that mimic what you'd normally find in a PC game. |
| The Register Motorola Xoom 2 review | 6th December 2011 |
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| Motorola’s Xoom was the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet to hit the shelves, and now little more than six months after its April 2011 debut, a second-generation machine called - you guessed it - the Xoom 2 is upon us. The new Xoom is available in two forms: one with a 10.1in screen, like its predecessor, and one with a 8.2in panel called the Media Edition. |
| The Register Samsung Galaxy Note review | 5th December 2011 |
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| With Android tablets starting at seven inches and phones now reaching just under five, something was bound to come along to occupy what little middle ground remains and blur the distinction between phone and tablet irrecoverably. That something is the Galaxy Note. The Note is a fair bit taller and wider than your average mobile, but it’s not much thicker. In fact, it’s only seven-tenths of a millimetre thicker that an iPhone 4S. At 178g it's noticeably heavier than the Motorola Razr but it only gives away 14g to my HTC Desire HD. |
| SlashGear Asus Transformer Prime review | 2nd December 2011 |
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| Welcome to the next generation of Android tablets – where the year 2011 has been dominated utterly by the dual-core processor by the name of Tegra 2, so too does NVIDIA hold the next keys to the kingdom with the quad-core processor Tegra 3, and this is the city which you’ll love to explore: the ASUS Transformer Prime. What you’re going to get is a 10.1-inch tablet made with Gorilla Glass, radial spun Aluminum, a best-in-class Super IPS+ display, and an optional keyboard dock that brings you to the next generation of mobile: transforming devices. |
| TechRadar ViewSonic ViewPad 7e review | 29th November 2011 |
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| At £150, the ViewSonic ViewPad 7e is a low-priced 7-inch Android 2.3 tablet that some might find appealing if only for the flexibility it affords. Similar to the BlackBerry PlayBook in size, with a passing nod to the upcoming (but still not available in the UK) Amazon Kindle Fire, the ViewPad 7e is not nearly as user-friendly. Some apps, including those from Google, are noticeably not available. |
| TechRadar Sony Tablet P review | 29th November 2011 |
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| The excellent Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, ViewSonic ViewPad 7, Motorola Xoom and the innovative Asus Eee Pad Slider are all fantastic devices, which we'd happily use as our personal tablets. At long last Apple has competition for its much-loved iPad 2. Sony has further innovated the humble tablet by releasing this dual-screen Google Android beast, nicknamed the Tablet P. Unlike the folded-magazine design of the recent Sony Tablet S, this device folds in the middle, similar to Nintendo's handheld 3DS console. |
| Mobile Choice Archos 101 G9 review | 29th November 2011 |
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| If you’re all about the mobile movie experience this is one of the best tablets out there, and it’s reasonably cheap too. But poor battery life and a plastic feel means it’s no iPad 2 killer |
| SlashGear Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 review | 28th November 2011 |
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| AT&T and Samsung have brought forth a tablet that adds to their set of sleek Android-based slates, this one the first to work with the carrier’s 4G LTE network. Inside you’ll find the rather powerful 1.5Ghz Qualcomm MSM8660 dual-core processor, Samsung’s custom user interface TouchWiz UX made specifically for tablets, and either 16 or 32GB or internal storage. You can take 3 megapixel photos and 720p videos with the back-facing camera, slightly less impressive media with the front-facing 2 megapixel camera. As this tablet is thin, so is it speedy, and as there are now more than four different models of tablet running Android from Samsung on the market today, surely they’ve gotten the formula correct enough to warrant such an array by now – wouldn’t you say? |
