Introducing the HP Topaz WebOS tablet
Precentral.net has managed to come up with specs for a WebOS tablet ahead of the Feb 9th announcement. The Topaz will be black with both the HP and Palm branding. They also intend to get the Beats audio branding on the device as well, at least in the software and likely on the hardware as well. Finally, they haven’t closed the door on carrier branding for the 3G and 4G versions.
None of this is necessarily final but as of right now it looks like it will have:
Gareth, Matt, Tracy and James get together for a chat about an upcoming Samsung, HTC’s two new phones and a wealth of Blackberry offerings. Gareth reviews his Galaxy Tab, James reveals some rather special news, Matt analysis’ some iPad rumours and Tracy gets some results from Best Buy.
Playbook’s Sr. Product Manager Ryan Bidan seems to stand behind the decision that the device will be shipping without independent calendar and e-mail features. He states the device is a “great standalone tablet” with just using WIFI and “this is not a device that is reliant on a Blackberry.” This still doesn’t address the concerns of the Playbook missing many of it’s popular BlackBerry features such as calendar, e-mail, blackberry internet and messenger services without a tethered BlackBerry phone.
The Advent Vega seems to be the best value Android tablet on the market yet. The combination of specifications with price is unbeatable value. Surely something has to suffer to allow this thing to be so competitively priced.
Gareth, Matt, James and Tracy this week chit chat about the recent happenings in the mobile world. In this longer podcast the panel discuss the events of the year 2010 and look forward to 2011. Daring to elect their favourites from the year gone by and sharing their hopes and aspirations for the coming year. Matt lines up the entries to the 100th podcast competition and James and Gareth pick two winners. Find out if it was you by joining your favourite UK mobile phoney. chatty. people.
With Christmas over Google have managed to push their 2.3 Nexus S out the door, with specs not as high as one was expecting brings us to the point were we can examine the future of Android. Whilst many will no doubt be a little disappointed at the specs of the Nexus S it has brought hope to this happy blogger. Nexus S will get Android 3.0, without a doubt. Therefore Android 3.0 will not require as much in the was of hardware as some had believed. The likelihood of getting an upgrade to 2.3 and 3.0 for a current device has never looked brighter, depending on your manufacturer of course.
We’ve unleashed the hounds for another rip roaring competition. With this we bring you a special little reminder from Gareth for the Podcast. Have a listen. Download it and enter the competition. You can win a Toshiba HD Camcorder or John’s Phone (in Pink.)
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