New Tablet by T-Mobile: SpringBoard Tablet

I guess everyone has tablet fever. T-Mobile is trying to get a piece of the action by compete with the big hitters like iPad, but in a new ballpark of keeping the price low, below $200. T-Mobile has created the Springboard Tablet made to compete with Amazon's Kindle Fire Tablet to try and grab the everyday person to get addicted to the tablet trend.
The Springboard has a 7in sharp screen with a 1.2GHz dual core processor running Android's Honeycomb OS. It includes a back and front camera which the Amazon Fire doesn't have. It also has an HDMI, micro-USB and microSD slot in order to expand your storage an extra 32GB if need be. The HDMI port is new to tablets so you could potentially hook this bad boy up to a monitor and key board and mouse and bam its a computer.
It will be hitting the shelves during the holiday session so be sure to look for it in all the flyers and all online. But of course, make sure you tell them that you heard it here first.

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Windows 8 vs. OS X 10.6.6 Royal Rumble

You always hear the fight about which Operating System is better. The Mac people will swear by the iOS due to its simplistic design while being supposedly virus proof. While there are others who would take a bullet for Microsoft. iOS has its iPad 2 tablet that by far can out preform any other tablet on the market right now. But there is a sleeper fighter, still put its time in the gym to get bigger and stronger... Windows 8 has previewed as a demo. It is still early in its development stages but it has been promised that it should be in the beta stage in the Spring of 2012 and release in Fall 2012. So it has plenty of time to work out those kinks.

But in the mean time, there is an interesting video that tests both the Windows 8 vs. the Mac OS X 10.6.6

Both were installed on Dell Inspiron Mini 1012 with 1GB RAM and 1GHz processor, against OSX 10.6.6 installed on a MacBook Pro with a 2.4GHz dual-core processor and 2GB RAM. The thing to keep in mind is that Windows 8 is running on essentially half the machine hardware wise than OSX 10.6.6. By specs alone, OS X should beat out Windows 8 simply by the machine it's installed on.

You be the judge.

Read more: http://technorati.com/technology/article/windows-8-dev-preview-vs-os/#ixzz1YoyVTq6V

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ASUS Eee Pad Slider Specs Revealed

Sliding through a new tablet flagship form into the crowded arena of Android tablets, Asus showoff its 10.1-inch Eee Pad Slider specs and might hit the Italian border by next month, according to Notebook Italia.

Asus Eee Pad Slider official specs sports 1280 x 800 WXGA display, dual-core 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of memory, 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera, 5 megapixel rear-facing camera, USB 2.0, mini-HDMI, microSD card reader, WiFi and Bluetooth. Besides this slew of features, the Slider showcase a full-QWERTY keypad beneath it’s sliding screen and will be shipped into Honeycomb 3.1 Android OS with 3.2 upgrade to follow.

Accordingly, the Slider is said to be available in two flavors, 16GB and 32GB at close €479 and €599 price points overseas, while $400 and $550 for US models.

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