LG OPTIMUS PAD CONFIRMED WITH LTE AND 1.5GHZ PROCESSOR

While most device makers launch their devices at CES, LG waited until after CES to launch its Optimus Pad LTE. The 8.9 inch tablet is a successor to its original predecessor called Optimus Pad. It has got a 1280 x 768 pixels IPS display and a 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. The original model had a 1GHz Tegra 2 processor. And as the name itself suggests the Optimus Pad LTE also supports 4G

ARCHOS ARNOVA 7B G2 ANDROID TABLET UP FOR PRE-ORDER FOR 99 EUROS

Amazon.de has started taking pre-orders for the Archos Arnova 7b G2 Android tablet for 99 Euros. The device has a 7 inch resistive touchscreen display with a resolution of 800 x 480 pixels. It is powered by a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor and runs Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. The display doesn’t support multitouch inputs. Other specifications include 4GB of RAM, WiFi, a

APPLE LAUNCHES IBOOK 2

Apple launched a new service called iBooks 2 for the iPad yesterday. It offers support for digital textbooks that make use of features such as image galleries and video 3D animation.

The best thing about digitial textbooks is that you can constantly keep them up-to-date. They are also much lighter. Carrying an iPad is easier than carrying four or five heavy textbooks in your backpack. Already

MOTOROLA XOOM GETS ANDROID 4.0 OTA UPDATE

The WiFi-only version of the Motorola Xoom tablet has started getting the Android 4.0 update. The Xoom hit the market in early 2011 as the first tablet to ship with the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system. Right now it is the second Android tablet to get an OTA update to Android 4.0. The Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the first.


The new version of Android sports an improved user interface. It

LENOVO THINKPAD T430U LISTED WITH FULL VOLTAGE CORE I5 PROCESSOR

A Vietnamese website has posted a listing for a Lenovo ThinkPad T430u ultrabook with an Intel Ivy Bridge processor. What is interesting about this listing is that it shows the laptop as having an Intel Core i5-3320M standard voltage processor. Ultrabooks are supposed to have ultra-low voltage processors. This IS probably a typo, or maybe we are looking at a standard laptop with higher-end specs.

UPCOMING OLPC LAPTOP AND TABLET CAN RUN ENTIRELY ON SOLAR POWER

Modern computers use much less power than the computers of yester years. They are much more powerful too. But can a computer run directly off the power generated by a small solar panel? Well, OLPC says that it can. The upcoming OLPC XO 1.75 laptop and the XO 3.0 tablet can run entirely on solar power.

You can plug the devices into the solar panel and remove the battery altogether. They will

FUJITSU WORKING ON AN ANDROID TABLET CALLED STYLISTIC M532

Fujitsu is the latest company that wants to make its presence felt in the tablet space. The Japanese PC maker is reportedly working on a Tegra 3 powered tablet. The machine will launch in May.


The Fujitsu tablet will have a 10 inch HD display with a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. It will have two cameras – a 3 megapixel camera on the front side and an 8 megapixel camera on the rear side. The