The iPad craze is still in full stride and it seems it’s not slowing down any time soon so we have a hunch that Apple iPad will be one of the most popular Christmas gifts this year. Apple iPad is a great tablet that becomes even better when you take in consideration there are zounds of apps available in the iTunes App Store. Some are useless and some are great so sometimes it can take days hours to figure out exactly which one is most useful.
With both Microsfot Xbox 360 Kinect and Sony PlayStation 3 Move being released just in time for start of Christmas shopping spree it’s also time to ask ourselves which one is better or more suitable for gaming.
BlackBerry has yet to release a great touchscreen smartphone introduced 7 inch tablet during the BlackBerry Developer Conference. By the looks of it this might just be our favourite tablet so far as it will support OpenGL, HTML5, Flash 10.1, Adobe Air apps and full multi-tasking thanks to a dual-core processor. Unfortunately it will not be ready to fill your stockings this Chirstmas ass the Q1 2011 was hinted as the release date while the price was kept a secret. Full specifications and press shots after the break.
Engadget already blessed us with a Windows 7 LG UX10 tablet hands-on photos and they have done it again with hands-on photos of the MSI WindPad 100 which is a 10 inch Windows 7 tablet that is powered by a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Z530, 2GB of RAM and 32 GB SSD. MSI also unveiled the WindPad 110 that unlike its Windows 7 brother will be based on nVidia Tegra 2 platform and will run Google Android 2.1.
Next up in the flood of tablets is LG’s effort the LG UX10. It will feature a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom Z530 processor, 1GB RAM and Windows 7 Home Premium. Luckily for us paparazzi from Engadget were all over this tablet earlier today. See the full story for more info and hands-on photo gallery.
A bit closer (only 3 days) then Asus Eee Pad EP121 to public release in UK is the Dell ‘Streak’ Mini 5 and T3.com got hands-on video on this Google Android 1.6 5 inch tablet/smartphone. Hit the link to view the video.
Cent got exclusive hands-on photos with the recently officially announced Dell ‘Streak’ Mini 5 tablet/smartphone. It will feature a 5 inch screen, 5 megapixel digital camera, 1GHz snapdragon processor, Google Android (version yet to be confirmed) and will be exclusive to O2 in UK. Hit the link to view the photos.
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Dustin Sklavos at NotebookReivew posted a great guide on tuning graphics cards. He goes through anatomy of GPU, resolution, texture details, shadows, shaders, lighting, anti-aliasing, texture filtering and v-sync.
So if you want to optimize your graphics card to get couple of extra frames per second and you know you do hit the link to read the guide.
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Pau Mller for Engadget: I’ve wanted a PlayStation 3 since forever. It plays Blu-ray movies, it has some great exclusive titles, and it looks like it could beat somebody up without breaking a sweat across its glossy matte brow. But it’s always seemed out of reach price-wise. As my desire grew stronger over recent months, I found myself unable to pull the trigger: I just didn’t want to pay $400 for a video game console that came out in 2006. The fact that I could get a lot more for my $400 than $500 would’ve gotten me at launch was hardly consolation, given that the PS3′s main competition, the Xbox 360, has been available in a full fledged edition for $300 for a while. Luckily, the PS3 Slim has come at last to save me from all this heartache. Follow along, as I journey from the mire of indecision to the glories of console love… but really, it’s all about the price drop.
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Cnet: Hello children everywhere, and welcome once again to the cream of the kit we have reviewed. CNET UK Editors’ Choice awards are given to the very best gadgets we test each month, and manufacturers would sell their first-born to get one. Honestly. So without further ado, here are the winners for May 2009. See the winners at Cnet.