Samsung approves the copy of the Smart Cover for Apple

Samsung has just certified the Smart Case, a copy of the Smart Cover for Apple. The fact that he affixed his seal is all the more surprising that Cupertino has brought charges against him arguing that its shelves are copies of the iPad. No doubt it will not play in his favor. The story was revealed by the team of 9 to 5 Mac has discovered that the company manufactured and sold Anymode the Smart Box which is exclusively intended for the Galaxy Tab 10.1.

A new HP TouchPad for August

HP is about to launch a new tablet in August, when he sold the first version there are only a few days in the United States. The new model will sport a glossy white frame, 64 GB of storage space and a dual core processor Snapdragon faster running at 1.5 GHz. The model now has an ARM chip running at 1.2 GHz and 16 GB or 32 GB of memory, depending on the variations.

The new model will also be compatible 4G. The differences are not very important. It's all the same TouchPad more upscale. We can assume that the shortages have prevented from delivering adequate supplies at the launch of the tablet, which would explain an output shifted to the next TouchPad.

Microsoft signed a tablet?

Microsoft plans to market a tablet to his name by the end of 2012. She embedded Windows 8 and would be designed in partnership with Texas Instruments and the Taiwanese OEMs. DigiTimes, which reports the rumors, citing sources familiar with the matter. Redmond declined to comment. That information is likely.

The market shelves is one segment that has allowed Apple to become the largest OEM in terms of semiconductor spending. In recent years, Microsoft has increasingly invested in marketing platforms. He had some very big hits, like the Xbox 360 and KINECTS or major failures with the Zune or Kin.

Foxconn victim of an explosion

Foxconn has sent a press release to confirm that an explosion took place at its plant in Chengdu in China on Friday to 7 pm, local time. He explains that two people were killed instantly and a third died of his injuries Sunday. Fifteen other workers were injured and six of them were already being treated and sent home.

The depth reports that the findings of a preliminary investigation believe that the explosion was caused by the presence of fuel particles in a pipe string polish. Several witnesses uncorroborated by Foxconn and Apple, the factory produced iPad 2. Cupertino nevertheless advised All Things D was working with Foxconn to determine the cause of the explosion, which seems to confirm that the affected production lines were dedicated to him.

Lenovo ThinkPad prepares Tegra 2

Lenovo is preparing a tablet ThinkPad Tegra 2 Honeycomb he should market in June at a price of $ 500. The tablet would have a touchscreen 10.1-inch IPS to a resolution of 1280 x 800 compatible with a stylus. The storage capacity would vary between 10 GB and 64 GB to 32 GB via the new ThinkPad and integrate the modules conventional Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and 3G, with an option to move to 4G.

It should also support an SD memory card slot and a mini HDMI output and USB and micro USB. The documents were leaked on the web talking about a life of 8 hours, but the Chinese has not yet confirmed. A first demonstration of this new ThinkPad Honeycomb should take place during Computex in June.

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Wacom announces a stylus for touch pads

On the touch pads, a defect is frequently ascended the lack of stylus. It is generally related to the technology used: capacitive screens placed in front of the stage with the iPhone and now the iPad, are not suited to this type of devices. To simplify, capacitive screens are in the form of a fine grid or passes a small current.

When you spend a finger on the grid in question, the conductivity of the latter changes the charge at a point x and it is therefore possible to determine the position of the finger. The operation involves two things: a minimum contact area (6 mm in general) and the use of a conductive component.

Lenovo is preparing a shelf 23 inches

Lenovo expects to sell a bar of 23 inches by the end of the year, an official of the firm says it will be intended for private rooms. The goal is to transport the slate from room to room, applying it on the table to share with family or placed on a dock and serve as a PC all-in-one. Lenovo has already anticipated the criticism and says he is working on weight and autonomy of its product.

He also explains that this tablet is obviously not for mobile use, but should serve as a television or computer inside the home. We still remain skeptical, mainly because the price of such a product should remain prohibitive. It will remain more expensive than a PC and less convenient than a normal-sized tablet.

Slate attack all support multimedia

Google has released a study that says that tablets replace not only computers but also televisions, and other multimedia. The stakes are high because Google believes that 165 million tablets will be sold during the next two years. Last March, he has surveyed a representative sample of 1430 consumers with slates to track their digital consumption.

Some results are predictable and seem to support the vision of Steve Jobs. If 72% of respondents say that the tablet is not their primary computer, 77% say they spend less time on their machines before and 43% spend more time on this new medium to their PC. What is interesting is that the survey also shows that for obtaining a slate, the use of a paper book, a radio, a smartphone and even television is neglected in favor of the shelf, probably because it can unify all these uses.

The Xoom Motorola sold to 599 €

Motorola has announced the European price of the tablet will be identical to the U.S. price level of 599 €. While sales in the U.S. are very disappointing, the firm expects that an outflow on the old continent will give a boost to the popularity of its iPad killer. The release date remains uncertain.

Motorola says it still will be "soon" on sale in France without giving further details. The news comes just after the publication of sales figures by Detutsche-Bank says that only 100,000 units were sold, against 2.5 million iPad 2. Obviously, the Xoom is only available in North America, while the model with the apple is already offered in over twenty countries.

Playstation delayed shelf and NGP; Sony goes to confession

Howard Stringer, Sony PD-G, confirmed that his company planned to release a tablet PlayStation. Built on Android, it should be to play what Xperia iPad is the iPhone. Another official also spoke of a possible launch delay for the PSP 2. According to Japanese newspaper Nikkei quoted by Bloomberg, Mr. Stringer has formalized a new project that is known by the codename of S1.

The tablet would be a model PlayStation 9.4 inches with a resolution of 1280 x 800 carrying a Tegra SoC 2, Honeycomb, two photo sensors (one front and one rear), USB and an infrared port. S1 could play PS One games and integrate services and Qriocity Sony Music. It would be sold at $ 600.

No shelf Dell Windows 7 before fall

Dell does not deliver its expected shelf Windows 7 before the fall. It is far behind HP and Asus, which are among the few manufacturers who dared take the step. Windows 7 is the system unloved shelves. HP announced a model in January 2010. The HP Slate was presented by Steve Ballmer himself. Palo Alto's finally abandon the original project.

The HP Slate has become a model in the world dedicated professionals (see "The HP Slate is not canceled, but as amended) and HP is now working on a model WebOS (see" Topaz, the HP Tablet webOS fully disclosed " ). Asus has taken over with the Eee Slate EP121 found recently on the market (see "Two tablets Asus).

iPad 2: Components and Performance

iFixit has disassembled the iPad and initial benchmarks show that Xoom is far behind in terms of performance. A5 processor Apple is very interesting. It costs $ 10 more expensive to manufacture than a similar model Tegra 2, according to a study TechInsights UBM. It is wider than the A4 has a new 512 MB memory (see "iPad 2: 512 MB of RAM and CPU S5L8940).

Placing on the market for the first time, the LPDDR2 Samsung is etched into 46 nm. However, researchers have shown that some A5 used a similar memory from Elpida. This confirms the willingness on the part of Apple to not depend on only one manufacturer. Also displays its new slate are produced by three different foundries.

The iPad 2 is in high demand and jailbroken

The launch of the iPad 2 seems to be a success with stock-outs, 70% of new consumers and a jailbreak. The U.S. site of the firm at the apple now talking about a period of three to four weeks. Apple Stores are the New World out of stock since Friday after designing long queues and many customers left empty handed.

A new wave of delivery is expected on Monday. Stockouts were nevertheless emphasized by the fact that Russian and Chinese retailers have hired several persons to do line up at an Apple Store and they buy as much as possible iPad. They were then sent by air and sold at exorbitant prices.

Wacom "unleashes" multitouch

Wacom offers an updated driver that allows bars "touch" of the brand to support multitouch on three and four fingers, against only two fingers behind. We talked about this possibility a few months ago, and we have the answer to our questions: Does it work on the shelves already sold? The simple answer is yes and no.

Yes, because some tablets (recent) are equipped with the necessary technology. No, because this is not the case for early release tablets. People who bought a tablet "touch" the launch will not have access to four-finger multitouch. For others, if the serial number ends in "/ K (A)" or "/ S (A), it should be good.

Apple becomes the first notebook PC maker

According to DisplaySearch, Apple became the largest manufacturer of notebook PCs in the world during the last quarter of 2010. The problem is that the study relies on data that are sure to be debated. Apple is used to rub the top 5 PC manufacturers in the United States. However, once we take the global figures, the company fell far behind.

The study by DisplaySearch has completely upset this by saying that Apple has 17.2% market share of laptops, which puts it before HP (15.6%), Acer (14%), Dell (9, 9%) and Toshiba (8.6%). DisplaySearch how he arrived at these figures? It simply combines the sales of tablets and laptops. Since the firm's competitors to Apple does not offer any consumer product, and sales iPad exploded during the holiday season, Apple ends up on top of a classification that usually escapes .

A removable battery on a shelf

The removable battery is a component so rare nowadays that is the subject of attention when it appears on a tablet made by Toshiba at the MWC. The tablet Honeycomb (Android 3.0) is relatively conventional with Tegra SoC 2, two photo sensors and a slab of 10.1 inches. It differs however from its competitors by using a removable battery of 2030 mAh whose autonomy remains unknown.

This is the only one offering this feature that is increasingly rare on mobile devices. The speech launched by Apple that was joined by his competitors advocates saving space through the abandonment of the mechanisms necessary to remove the battery being converted into larger cells and greater autonomy.

Intel wants vPro shelves

Intel vPro platforms account for out shelves for businesses. vPro is a founder of the label comprising a hardware platform to ensure the smooth functioning of business technologies, such as Intel AMT intended for network administrators. While smartphones and tablets are increasingly used in companies, many solutions, sometimes strange beginning to appear to take advantage of this new wave (see "Connecting an iPhone to a serial port).

HP TouchPad this, its shelf WebOS

At his press conference "Think Beyond" (seen on YouTube) HP has unveiled, among other things, his new tablet WebOS, the TouchPad. Jonathan is Rubeinstein, former PD G Palm and now a leader of HP since its acquisition (see "HP buys Palm 1.2 billion), which presented the various products launched under the WebOS mark Palo Alto.

That which interests us most is the long awaited tablet, TouchPad is the first model of the firm. It will be on the market during summer 2011 at a price that is still unknown. One thing is for sure. Hope to be successful, it will be well below the $ 800 tablet Motorola. The TouchPad is based on Snapdragon processor dual core 1.2 GHz APQ8060.