tablet pc

Wacom Graphire Bluetooth: the pen is pointier than the mouse

Crave The silver tablet connects to your PC via Bluetooth (if your computer doesn't have Bluetooth built in, you'll need to spend another £25-30 on an adaptor). Wacom has introduced the Graphire Bluetooth, a wireless pen-and-tablet combo.

Tags: wacom europe gmbh, bluetooth, photoshop, corner

14 July 2005, 9:48

Pen-on with the Aiptek SlimTablet 600u

Crave But the fiercest conflict is between those fuddy-duddy traditionalists who favour the out-dated, finger-cramping mouse, and the forward-thinking, finger-snapping young dandies that glide effortlessly across the screen with a graphics tablet.

Tags: aiptek, notes, tablet, microsoft powerpoint

31 March 2008, 11:52

Nokia 770: take a maemo, Miss Jones

Crave It's an Internet appliance -- a tablet-style device that lets you connect to the Internet via Wi-Fi or a Bluetooth connection to a mobile phone. Relative to a PC, it's smaller and cheaper, boots up more quickly and is less likely to clash with your...

Tags: jeans, mobile phone, bluetooth, nokia

26 May 2005, 11:37

Crave Talk: Is Origami the future?

Crave Perhaps Microsoft is trying to exorcise one of its own demons -- the unimpressive performance of its Tablet PC, by releasing a smaller, smarter successor. Parallels from the movie can be seen in Microsoft's Project Origami, also known as the Ultra...

Tags: microsoft, field, ultra, host

15 March 2006, 8:00

Hands on with the Asus R2H Origami

Crave The rest of the device is fairly standard, and uses Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, an Intel Centrino ultra-low voltage processor, and 512MB of RAM. Crave managed to get a quick hands-on with the Asus R2H Origami Ultra Mobile PC at CeBIT this morning...

Tags: ultra, samsung, cebit, production

13 March 2006, 9:27

Asus R2H: Origami UMPC in 'quite good' shocker

Crave Finally, there's a very handy mouse nipple at the top right that you can use to navigate your way around the Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition operating system. It's called the Asus R2H and it's the most serious rival to the Samsung Q1 Ultra...

Tags: asus, laptop, samsung, portable

12 July 2006, 13:07

Photos: Asus reveals rugged UMPC

Crave The device is fully 'convertible', meaning it can work in standard laptop mode, or in tablet PC mode. The Asus R2H was one of the few ultra-mobile PCs we actually liked, so you can imagine our delight when we encountered its successor at CeBIT today.

14 March 2007, 13:01

Panasonic DVD-LS90: DVD giraffe

Crave You can also pivot the screen thanks to its giraffe-like neck, which folds back on itself to lie flat like a swivelling tablet PC. What's this then? Looks like one of those portable DVD players to us.

Tags: panasonic, playback, dvd player, portable

18 October 2005, 9:46

WannabEees: Eee PC vs Elonex One vs OLPC vs EasyNote XS vs MSI Wind and more

Crave Wi-Fi is standard, as is wired 10/100 Ethernet, two USB2.0 ports, built-in speakers, and the keyboard's removable so you can use the One like a tablet PC. Its rivals -- including the Eee PC 901 -- will have a very hard time topping it.

12 March 2008, 11:17

Fujitsu Siemens LifeBook U820 and P1630: Tiny tablets

Crave Fujitsu has announced updates to two of its LifeBook lines, the UMPC-like U series and the tiny P-series tablet. This new 1kg tablet updates the P1620 with Centrino 2 components, including an Intel Core 2 Duo SU9300 Ultra Low Voltage Processor and...

Tags: intel, cell, connectivity, webcam

5 November 2008, 11:01

Toshiba NB110: NB stands for netbook

Crave Toshiba is actually one of the pioneers in mini-laptops, with the Libretto first coming out in 2001, and the Tecra M4 convertible tablet in 2005. It resembles an Eee PC, with specs a mix between that and the HP 2133 Mini-Note: Intel Atom processor...

Tags: japan, mini, eee pc, ram

2 October 2008, 9:46

Tour the stands at CES 2007

Crave Nokia's 770 is reborn as the Nokia N800, a pocket-sized Internet tablet that lets you browse the Web using Wi-Fi or via a Bluetooth connection to your mobile phone. HP's TouchSmart PC is an all-one-desktop with a touch-sensitive screen and some...

11 January 2007, 10:00

New OLPC laptop looks way too cool for school kids

Crave The design provides a right and left page in vertical format, a hinged laptop in horizontal format, and a flat two-screen wide continuous surface that can be used in tablet mode. With all the attention we lavish on Netbook-style laptops such as the...

Tags: generation, children, consumption, keyboards

21 May 2008, 10:30