微軟平板 宏碁看衰

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=398210

http://news.cnyes.com/content/20120621/KFKZDVMJN3VMQ.shtml

這就說明怎麼會走向泡沫呢? 越來越多主角加入, 並不像之前的 NETBOOK

傳 Google 平板 6 月開始出貨！首批產量 60 萬台

http://www.nownews.com/2012/05/25/91-2817618.htm

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_MAIN_ID=320&f_SUB_ID=2943&f_ART_ID=378791

http://udn.com/NEWS/STOCK/STO2/6972938.shtml

New iPad 4G Teardown

http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/iPad-3-4G-Teardown/8277/1

三星未來平板 透明可彎折

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/12050903/112011120800260.html

宏碁看好 Ultrabook威脅平板 發表新品 本季歐洲市佔將大升 逼近過去水準

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/110929/143/2zkvk.html

客戶流失 RIM美銷售腰斬

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=343641

RIM帶衰 廣達裁減代工人力

http://news.chinatimes.com/focus/50109627/122011092100109.html

iPad3 十月試產 明年上市

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/110821/78/2x96h.html

http://udn.com/NEWS/BREAKINGNEWS/BREAKINGNEWS5/6536131.shtml

Threatened by iPad, PCs start to look like tablets

http://news.yahoo.com/threatened-ipad-pcs-start-look-tablets-175631868.html

野村：非iPAd平板電腦 明年起飛

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/12050901/122011071800128.html

蘋果專利戰火 下波燒向平板?

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/12050901/122011071800127.html

亞馬遜推平板電腦 大戰蘋果

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/110714/16/2v1gy.html

全球約 1% 的網絡瀏覽量來自 iPad , 且穩定成長

http://chinese.engadget.com/2011/07/07/ipad-makes-up-one-percent-of-global-web-browsing-magic/

亞馬遜預計8月推出自有品牌平板電腦 預售400萬台

http://tech.weiphone.com/2011-06-23/Amazon_launched_its_own_early_August_sale_of_400_million_tablets_237170.shtml

宏碁將於今年平板發貨量下調60%

http://tech.weiphone.com/2011-06-16/Acer_shipments_will_be_flat_this_year_236835.shtml

山寨平板電腦 市占近2成

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/12050901/122011061600218.html

賈伯斯現身 親推新軟體與iCloud

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/110607/135/2sw89.html

iSuppli：受平板衝擊一季度個人電腦出貨量同比降20％

http://tech.weiphone.com/2011-05-26/iSuppli_the_impact_of_the_first_quarter_by_the_flat-panel_PC_shipments_down_20_year_on_year_235910.shtml

平板大車拚

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=320666

台北國際電腦展 聚焦平板電腦

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=320638

2011 Computex Best Choice Award展前部份得獎產品介紹

http://chinese.engadget.com/2011/05/24/2011-computex-best-choice-award-preview/

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=316350

iPad 2 specs discerned, 900MHz dual-core ARM CPU and PowerVR SGX543MP2 GPU blow away graphical benchmarks

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/12/ipad-2-specs-discerned-900mhz-arm-cortex-a9-and-powervr-sgx543m/

Apple iPad vs iPad 2前後代規格比較

http://chinese.engadget.com/2011/03/02/ipad-2-vs-original-ipad-whats-changed/

平板四大天王：Apple iPad 2 vs Motorola Xoom vs HP TouchPad vs BlackBerry Playbook 規格對對碰

http://chinese.engadget.com/2011/03/02/apple-ipad-2-vs-motorola-xoom-vs-hp-touchpad-vs-blackberr/

蘋果將發表「iPad 2」 線上直播內容整理

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=304344

Nomad 電容式畫筆，讓 iPad 變成畫布

摩托羅拉新平板電腦800美元

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/12050901/132011021700685.html

MWC展快報－宏碁、華碩平板電腦 多機齊發

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/12050901/112011021700078.html

BenQ推平板電腦 搶商機

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/110217/4/2mjt4.html

摩根斯坦利報告：平板電腦潛力讓人震驚

http://tech.weiphone.com/2011-02-16/Morgan_Stanley_Report_Tablet_PC_shocking_potential_230781.shtml

Widescreen(16:9/16:10) tablets are coming soon

Hardware manufacturers bent on stealing customers away from Apple are designing their tablet computers with the movie watcher in mind.

An onslaught of new tablets are adopting a widescreen format instead of mimicking the iPad's display, which is shaped more like a standard sheet of office paper.

Shipments of tablets are expected to increase by 200% over last year, according to a report by research firm DisplaySearch. And tablets with wide screens are flooding supply chains, the report says.

Several companies showed off upcoming slates this week at Mobile World Congress, a massive mobile-tech conference in Barcelona, Spain. Three Android tablets from ViewSonic, Huawei and SmartQ vary in size but have widescreen dimensions in common.

Another trio of devices run Google's tablet-optimized operating system, called Honeycomb, and feature a similar film-friendly display. One such product, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, was announced by Samsung Electronics at the Barcelona show. Samsung describes the device as the "ultimate entertainer," with "full HD movies" listed as the top selling point on its promotional website.

Samsung's current tablets also have wide screens. In fact, those smaller devices very nearly adhere to a 16:9 aspect ratio, which is the format most movies are produced in. The Honeycomb tablets, with their 10-inch screens, are 16:10 in size and will need thin black bars to display the whole picture.

The iPad, meanwhile, has a 4:3 ratio. That's the same as what tube-screen TVs used until the recent switch to wider HD programming.

Those three types of screens -- the 9.7-inch one used by the iPad, as well as the 7- and 10-inch widescreens used by other tablets -- are expected to be the "dominant screen sizes," DisplaySearch said. (Anything larger than 10 inches in a widescreen format would be "hard to pull off," said Carolina Milanesi, an analyst for research firm Gartner.)

Considering that consumers shifted en masse to widescreen TVs over the last decade, some considered it surprising that, for Apple's forward-thinking tablet, the company chose the screen format that it did.

Watching movies and recent TV series on an iPad can be frustrating because users have to choose between large black bars on the top and bottom of the screen or cutting off a portion of the sides of the video.

"When Apple introduced its iPad in 2010, it once again shocked many industry observers by providing a standard (4:3) aspect ratio device, even as notebooks, monitors and TVs were moving to wide (16:9 or 16:10) formats," DisplaySearch wrote in its report. "The success of the iPad has sparked debates about the best display format for slates."

But the iPad's sheet-of-paper-like dimensions are useful for certain tasks.

"Applications such as e-mail and gaming work well with the current 4:3 aspect ratio," Dan Hays, a director at management consulting firm PRTM, wrote in an e-mail. "The question for manufacturers is how customers will use tablets once they are mainstream."

Hays' colleague, Huw Andrews, says consumers don't seem put off by the iPad's suboptimal format for showing movies. And that's certainly evident by the 15 million units Apple sold last year.

"At these larger screen sizes, watching widescreen video is a good user experience, even though it does not fill the entire screen," Andrews wrote.

Hewlett-Packard announced a tablet called the TouchPad last week. Like Apple's, HP's tablet runs a proprietary operating system, and it has the same screen dimensions and resolution of the iPad.

But other much-hyped tablets, like the BlackBerry PlayBook from Research in Motion and LG's G-Slate, have wide screens. Motorola Mobility's premiere Android Honeycomb tablet, the Xoom, also has a wide screen that's "optimized for high definition video in true 16:9 widescreen format," the company said.

(CNN)

NVIDIA announces quad-core Kal-El SOC, promises it in tablets by August

So it turns out that NVIDIA roadmap we saw last month was as true and pure as driven snow. The barely conceivable quad-core Tegra chip that it listed has now been made official by none other than NVIDIA itself, with the company also informing us that the new silicon is already sampling out to prospective clients. Known as Kal-El internally, this will most likely turn into NVIDIA's Tegra 3 as and when it's ready to enter the consumer market. Tonight NVIDIA whetted our appetite for what's to come with a demo that can most fittingly be described as an exhibition of unadulterated computational muscle. A 2560 x 1440 stream was being decoded on a developmental device, scaled down to that slate's native 1366 x 768 resolution, and additionally displayed on a connected 30-inch, 2560 x 1600 monitor. That entire voluminous workload was being handled in real time by Kal-El and we saw no signs of it struggling.

By NVIDIA's own estimation, the quad-core newbie provides roughly double the processing power of Tegra 2 and triple the graphics-crunching prowess. In the second demonstration of the evening, we saw an instance of Great Battles Medieval -- ran at 720p with 650 enemy soldiers on the field -- on both a Tegra 2 and a Kal-El platform, which showed the baby superhero handily dusting its still very new brethren. This was in large part down to the full dozen GPU cores contained within Kal-El, though before you freak out about battery-draining insanity, NVIDIA claims things are much, much more efficient as well -- up to 12 hours of HD video playback are promised under the right circumstances.

It's a big fat wedge of awesome boasts we've heard from the GeForce maker today, however the company's given us a schedule to hold it to as well. The "August timeframe" is when the quad-core Kal-El is expected to land in tablets, while smartphones will have to wait until the holiday season to benefit from what's likely to be a slightly downgraded variant. Skip past the break to eye the future Tegra roadmap for the next few years plus video of the wildly impressive demos we were witness to.

NVIDIA Kal-El quad-core SOC and development platform

MWC11／平板電腦夯 Samsung、HTC爭出頭

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_MAIN_ID=320&f_SUB_ID=2942&f_ART_ID=301576

主流平板電腦配置比較
來自：weiphone

  
運行webOS的觸控板終於現身，惠普向日益增長的平板市場交出了答卷。惠普此番不再重蹈與微軟合作時的覆轍，帶來了領先的配置，輕鬆勝出目前的場上對手（Apple ipad）以及其他尚未正式登場的選手（摩托羅拉 Xoom和黑莓）。若同場競技，很顯然蘋果的參賽者在記憶體(2561GB其他人的對比)和前置攝像頭上處於劣勢，不過第二點應該能依靠即將到來的iPad 2扳回一城。縱觀各主流產品，可以發現他們均使用不同的平台和軟體，看來今年夏天平板市場將上演一場系統大戰。

華碩已經備好對付 iPad 2的秘密武器 

       無論如何，平板電腦市場的絕對指針肯定是iPad，尤其隨著 iPad 2即將問世，這些視 ipad公司為參考對手的廠商也必須把目標轉換到iPad 2了。華碩董事長施崇棠在接受電腦世界專訪時透露，華碩已經備好足以抗衡iPad 2的秘密武器 - 沒意外的話仍是一款平板。而平板的核心則是目前最具競爭力（也是最多廠商採用的）Tegra 2。

       他也表示，過去的30年是個人電腦的時代，接下來將是雲端運算的時代，也就是不被作業系統所限制住的一個時代，但這些雲端世代的作業系統仍需要有足夠的市佔率。尤其最佳化個人使用體驗，並在個人電腦與雲端運算之間取得平衡相當重要，而Chrome則更激進的希望能把一切變成網路化，微軟需要從瀏覽器擷取一些精華。但他仍認為，許多事情仍是非個人電腦不可。

       而使用界面是重點，尤其如何整合二維與三維，以及文字輸入與多重任務等等，都是新的用戶界面所需要面臨的挑戰，然後施董事長不免再次稱讚一下蘋果（感覺華碩已經很習慣幫自己增添一點蘋果味？）。而被問到雲端世代作業系統方面，他認為將是由蘋果，谷歌以及微軟三分天下，其它作業系統可涉入的機會並不大，不過相較電腦世代由Wintel聯盟霸占，雲端世代則更為開放。另外，他個人預測需要配戴眼鏡的立體電視在2011年並不會太好過，因為趨勢似乎走向在小尺寸顯示器觀賞裸視三維。 (威峰)

WSJ: iPad 2 in production, features FaceTime camera, faster processor

Oh look, what's this? The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the iPad 2 has entered production -- which exactly lines up previously rumored manufacturing schedules. According to the WSJ, the new edition of Apple's tablet will have a faster processor with a better GPU and more memory in a thinner, lighter package. There's also said to be a front-facing camera for video conferencing, but the much-discussed display resolution will remain "similar" to the current iPad -- which actually goes along with the most recent information we've gotten from our sources, who say that the next iPad will indeed stay at the current resolution, and that the higher-res display we'd heard about earlier may have actually been for a future model. As for availability, the WSJ says the new iPad will be on Verizon and AT&T, which certainly makes sense -- although it'll be interesting to see how Verizon handles positioning it against the upcoming Xoom, which Motorola is marketing in an aggressively anti-iPad manner. In any event, between the iPad 2, the Xoom, and whatever Palm has to offer tomorrow, this spring is about to get very, very interesting.

Wall Street Journal

(engadget)

平板電腦勢力大洗牌

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/12050901/122011020100208.html

張忠謀：平板電腦2011下半年超夯

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/12050901/122011012800093.html

宏碁：小筆電不會被淘汰

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=297896

iPad能嵌在車內，也能嵌入鋼琴，看來越來越Smart了!!

This Piano Doubles As One Sharp iPad Dock

How, how is it that the Ion Audio Concert Piano wasn't around when we put together our list of essential iPad accessories? Because this 88-key marvel wouldn't have just topped the list—it would've been the list.

Okay, so maybe an iPad dock that's also a full-size digital piano screams excess. But! This particular iPad piano dock also comes with an iPad app that teaches you how to play. Not to mention its "classic would-grain exterior," which looks not at all cheap, I promise. No pricing information yet, probably because something this silly-but-maybe-actually-pretty-awesome is priceless. [IonAudio via Born Rich]

(gizmodo)

Acer 2011年中將用Sandy Bridge平板淘汰Netbook

http://chinese.engadget.com/2011/01/18/acer-building-sandy-bridge-tablets-for-android-will-use-them-to/

戴爾平板電腦 鎖定醫療與教育市場

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=296670

CES11／施崇棠：平板電腦 只會剩幾家

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=295530

CES 2011平板電腦機海戰 華碩4機齊發 聯想支援雙平台 微星內建微投影器

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/110106/143/2kc6j.html

CES 2011年將在元月6~9日在美國拉斯維加斯展開，為全球產業人士揭開年度重點開發方向，並宣示今年三大趨勢為：Tablet、Application、Internet-enabled everything

也為2011平板電腦(智慧手機)大混戰揭開序幕...

What's all this #CES business about?

(CNN) -- If you spend any time on the internet or with geeky friends this week, you're sure to come across an acronym that's pervasive in the world of technology each January: CES.

The Consumer Electronics Show, which officially runs Thursday to Sunday in Las Vegas, bills itself as the "world's largest consumer technology trade show." Others have called it a "gadget Super Bowl" and "Christmas morning" for nerds.

Really, just pick a metaphor and run with it.

"It's the World Cup of technology. It is the geek gathering for the world," said Gary Shapiro, head of the Consumer Electronics Association, which hosts the annual, international event. "And everyone touched by technology goes there, with over 120,000 people in one location. They're all there. It's the who's who of technology. Nothing replicates it."

There's some history to back up those comparisons. Commercial VHS, DVD and Blu-ray formats all debuted at the trade show. The personal camcorder, the Atari game "Pong," Microsoft's Xbox console and HDTV all chart their origins to CES, too.

The show essentially sets the year's tech trends, hitting on themes that will keep popping up and evolving all the way through the holiday shopping season. Last year at CES, 3-D television and tablet computers -- or at least the promise they represented -- were all the rage.

This year's show promises to be grander than those in recent memory, which suffered in attendance and scope in part because of the economic recession. About 2,500 companies will show off new tech toys at CES this year, Shapiro said, and their eye-poppingly opulent showcases will cover more than 1.6 million square feet of space at the Las Vegas Convention Center, which is up 11% over the size of last year's show.

"You can't even physically see the entire show in the four days of the show," he said, noting an issue that's always the talk of worn-out journalists and industry insiders who attend. "It's literally miles of exhibit space. There's over 20,000 products that will be introduced there. It's kind of overwhelming."

But bigger may not necessarily be better.

Ahead of the show, many bloggers and analysts are focusing not on the companies that will be at CES but the one that won't: Apple.

"Apple seems set to dominate CES once again next year, even though it won't actually attend the show," wrote a Computerworld blogger. Last year's CES was swirling with rumors about an impending Apple tablet device, which Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled as the iPad later that month.

This year, Apple "has two fangs to suck the blood out of CES," writes the blog TechCrunch, noting that two Apple rumors -- that it will soon announce an iPad 2 and an iPhone on the Verizon network -- may steal some CES thunder.

Apple is the world's largest tech company in terms of market capital. And, perhaps more important, it's arguably been doing more to advance consumer electronics hardware in recent years than Microsoft, Sony, Panasonic and the other big-name companies that exhibit at CES.

In 2007, Apple released the iPhone, one of the first touch-screen smartphones. Now everyone makes those. In April it began selling the iPad, the first successful touch-screen tablet computer, and created a market for an entire new category of consumer electronics.

Expect as many as 80 tablet computers to be on display at CES this week, said Shapiro. Bloggers have been calling this year's CES "tablet mania." But the iPad, the gadget everyone wants to compete with and that accelerated this frenzy for media-consumption devices, will be conspicuously absent.

Because it's so hot right now, Apple is able to take a go-it-alone approach to product releases, summoning the world's tech media to the Bay Area for press conferences that focus only on its new products and bottom line.

Others, however, still need the critical mass of CES to attract buzz.

Google is another missing player at the trade show, although its Android operating system -- which is competing most successfully with Apple's iOS -- will have a big presence at this year's CES, said Shapiro. That's because Google's Android powers many of the smartphones and tablets that aim to compete with Apple's products.

But Apple or no Apple, Google or no Google, CES still has a firm grip on driving the year's consumer technology trends and is worth the attention it gets, said Kurt Scherf, vice president and principal analyst at Parks Associates, a research group.

"It's large and exhausting but at the same time I really find it to be the most important (event) of the year in terms of how it generates excitement about what's possible with consumer electronics and services," he said. "It's a really exciting show."

Shapiro said CES will "knock your socks off." We'll find out in a few days.
(CNN)

CES展6新技術 點亮電子

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/0,5249,12050901x122011010300307,00.html

宏達電HTC推平板戰 iPad ? Scribe將成宏達電首款平板名稱 ?

http://tech.weiphone.com/2011-01-02/HTC_to_push_flat-panel_war_iPad__228730.shtml

VIZIO：智能平板機夏季上市

http://tech.weiphone.com/2011-01-03/VIZIO_Intelligence_and_flat-panel_market_in_summer_228744.shtml

Japan's DoCoMo new tablet aims to take on iPad

TOKYO (AFP) – Japan's top carrier NTT DoCoMo is to launch a tablet computer running Google software to challenge Apple's hot-selling iPad, a report said Saturday.

DoCoMo will marry the new Google-backed Android operating system with a device made by South Korea's LG Electronics to launch the product in Japan by the end of March, the Nikkei business daily said, without naming sources.

Users will be able to get on the Internet via DoCoMo's cellular connections, it said, adding pricing and other details were yet to be decided.

Google is expected to release a tablet-friendly operating system worldwide in early this year.
(Yahoo!)

First up we have the Eee Note EA800, a cross between an eReader and a tablet. It has a non-backlit TFT display with 2,450 dpi, 768×1,024 resolution. It’s powered by a 624MHz CPU, has a 4GB SSD, micro SD port, a camera, built-in mic, and Wi-Fi. As you can see, the EA800 has a stylus, and is clearly meant to be used as a digital notepad:

Tech in Style was lucky enough to spend a week with an EA800, and they say that writing on it is a pleasure. The fast refreshing TFT screen and the CPU combine to minimize the lag in the device. The inclusion of a camera and mic means that you can take not just written notes but images and audio as well.

On the software side, the EA800 has a browser, a music player, a calculator, and support for a plethora of documents: ePub, PDF,  MP3, JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, doc, docx, xls, xlsx, ppt, pptx and possibly more. ASUS claims that the EA800′s battery is good for about 13 hours, which is on par for tablets but not as long lasting as dedicated eReaders.

Next up we have this mysterious device pictured above, which has at least one USB 3.0 port, a built-in keyboard, and what seem to be Android buttons. Below is another tablet; Engadget bets that this one has a keyboard that slides out, but we won’t be able to confirm that until next week.

Finally we have a teaser clip from ASUS itself, this time outlining the capabilities of the Windows 7-based ASUS EP121 tablet, which seems to be ASUS’ main bet against the iPad and other current mainstream tablets. Unfortunately it’s all in (digital) chalk; there are no shots of the device itself.

Since we don’t have all the information yet, it might be possible that the EP121 is one of the two mysterious devices pictured above, but the thing is, the teaser doesn’t mention any keyboard, slider, swivel, detachable or otherwise. Check out the links below for more pics and info. Which tablet would you like to own in 2011?

[via Engadget & via Tech in Style (1) (2) (3) via Akihabara News]

(technabob)

摩托羅拉，三星，LG電子三巨頭 CES 2011將推出Android 3.0平板電腦

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-29/Motorola_228571.shtml

CES越來越國際化了!!而臺北國際電腦(子)展越地方化了??看來要加油了...?!

華碩將在CES上展示的Eee Pad EP101TC平板電腦及附件

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-29/Asus_Eee_Pad_EP101TC_at_the_CES_show_flat_and_the_annex_228547.shtml

Onkyo blesses 10.1-inch TA117 Android tablet with NVIDIA's Tegra 250

Akihabara News Onkyo

(engadget)

IDC：中國平板電腦市場 2011年增長率將達300％

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-28/IDC_China_s_annual_growth_rate_of_the_tablet_PC_market_will_reach_300_by_2011_228492.shtml

CNN評2010年十大科技趨勢：首項為iPad掀起平板電腦風潮

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-28/Ten_technology_trends_throughout_the_year_CNN_Comment_iPad_tablet_wave_lift_228497.shtml

Windows平板電腦在蘋果的影響下未來路途坎坷

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-27/Windows_Tablet_PC_in_Apple_s_future_under_the_influence_of_rough_road_228475.shtml

After scouring the web for the various rumors about the iPad 2, these are my best guesses of what we’ll see in the iPad 2 when it is announced:

• Front-facing 640×480 camera with FaceTime chat support
• High-res camera on the back (resolution unknown, probably the same 5MP as the iPhone 4)
• Dual-core CPU based on A9 ARM Cortex platform at 1GHz per core (likely to be branded “A5″ by Apple, just to confuse consumers)
• Improved sound, with a larger speaker on the back left corner of the iPad
• Addition of a 3-axis gyroscope to improve gaming and interactivity
• RAM increase from 256MB to 512MB
• Screen size will remain at 9.7-inches – no 7-inch or smaller version plannes
• Possible increase in screen resolution, leveraging “Retina display” tech from iPhone 4 (I have my doubts on the ability to do this on a cost-effective basis yet)
• Slightly reduced body size and a flat back instead of a curved one (time to buy some new cases)
• MicroUSB port to meet European regulations on mobile device chargers
• Announcement likely to come at MacWorld Expo between Jan. 26 and 29th, with the iPad 2 shipping sometime in February or March 2011.
• Pricing likely to remain the same as 1st gen models

Several of the rumors (rear camera, speaker cutout and size change) are reaffirmed by this video of a supposed “Crystal Case for iPad 2nd Generation” in the works in China:

As is always the case with rumors and speculation, there’s a chance I could be completely wrong, but check back here at the end of January, and let’s tally up how many I got right.

It all sounds great to me, but what I really want – and know we won’t get – is an SD card slot, 4G data network, and Flash support.

[sources: MaxConsole, Ubergizmo, iLounge and Device]

(technabob)

Kno tablets start shipping this week: quick, make desk space!

http://www.engadget.com/2010/12/20/kno-tablets-start-shipping-this-week-quick-make-desk-space/

The Best VNC Apps for Your iPad

http://lifehacker.com/5713455/the-best-vnc-apps-for-your-ipad

聯想拚蘋果 樂Pad、樂Phone上陣

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/0,5249,12050901x122010121500373,00.html

Microsoft to demo new slate PCs, Windows 8 tablet functionality at CES?

New York Times

微軟透露將推出新一代平板電腦對抗 Apple iPad

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-14/Microsoft_revealed_that_it_would_introduce_a_new_generation_TabletPC_against_iPad_227880.shtml

美國運營商Sprint公司 明年將推出4G平板電腦

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-11/U.S._carriers_Sprint_4G_Tablet_PC_push_next_year_227775.shtml

平板取代個人電腦PC已成趨勢 最大輸家是戴爾惠普?!

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-10/Tablet_PC_has_become_a_trend_to_replace_Dell_227765.shtml

平板電腦崛起 左右記憶體消長

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/101212/5/2iumb.html

Reuters: iPad 2 Has Two Cameras, Better Display, Coming Early Next Year

We've heard these rumors in bits and pieces before, but today Reuters reports with conviction that the next will have front and rear-facing cameras, a higher res display, and will start production in the early months of next year.

Reuters cites multiple supplier sources, two of whom said that production would begin soon for iPad 2. The next generation of Apple's tablet is expected to be thinner and lighter, with an improved screen resolution that will can hopefully keep up with the iPhone 4's retina display. Most importantly, it will add a front-facing camera to allow for video chat.

It's everything you would expect, given Apple's track record of yearly product updates. But the more confirmation I get about an iPad 2 FaceTime camera, the more I start saving up my pennies. [Reuters]

(gizmodo)

歐德寧：明年將有35款平板電腦採用英特爾晶片

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-09/Otellini_Next_year_there_will_be_35_Tablet_PC_using_Intel_chips_227688.shtml

三星將推 10寸大號滑蓋智能機：凱萊平板

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-09/Samsung_10-inch_large_push_slider_smart_machine_Gloria_Flat_227690.shtml

亞當平板今日開始接受預訂多圖欣賞

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-12-10/Adam_plate_today_for_booking_Image_Kit_227737.shtml

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13924_3-20025046-64.html?tag=topTechContentWrap;editorPicks

資訊展湧12萬人 平板電腦熱銷   ViewPad人氣夯 2天賣千台

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/101206/143/2ig86.html

http://mag.udn.com/mag/digital/storypage.jsp?f_ART_ID=285700

每週電腦報(eWeek)：2011年平板電腦需具備的功能

(1)Android作業系統

(2)視訊會議

(3)網路列印

(4)大尺寸觸控Panel

(5)Chrome OS

(6)3G以上無線連網

(7)SD儲存

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-11-29/eWeek_2011_should_have_227229.shtml

平板2011年開打激戰　美國市場十大iPad殺手現身

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/101129/17/2i1kq.html

2011年將是平板電腦的戰國時代!!

Tablets taking bite out of PC sales: Gartner

WASHINGTON (AFP) – Worldwide personal computer sales are on track to set a new record this year but tablets like Apple's iPad are taking a bite out of the sector, technology research firm Gartner said Monday.

Worldwide PC sales are forecast to total 352.4 million units in 2010, up 14.3 percent over last year, Gartner said, but down from the firm's previous 2010 PC sales forecast in September of 17.9 percent growth.

In 2011, worldwide PC sales are forecast to reach 409 million units, up 15.9 percent over this year but down from Gartner's earlier estimate of 18.1 percent growth next year.

"These results reflect marked reductions in expected near-term unit growth based on expectations of weaker consumer demand, due in no small part to growing user interest in media tablets such as the iPad," Gartner research director Ranjit Atwal said in a statement.

"Over the longer term, media tablets are expected to displace around 10 percent of PC units by 2014," Atwal said.

Gartner last month said sales of tablet computers like the iPad are expected to soar from nearly 20 million units this year to 55 million next year and over 208 million in 2014.

Apple began selling its iPad in April and a number of other companies have since begun producing the multi-media devices, which can be used to surf the Web, read electronic books, watch video and more.

Raphael Vasquez, research analyst at Gartner, said "PC market growth will be impacted by devices that enable better on-the-go content consumption such as media tablets and next-generation smartphones.

"These devices will be increasingly embraced as complements if not substitutes for PCs where voice and light data consumption are desired," Vasquez said.

Gartner said the PC industry was facing a number of challenges.

While emerging markets were expected to gain over 50 percent of the total worldwide PC market by the end of 2011, Gartner said, "there is good chance that consumers (in emerging markets) will simply leapfrog PCs and move directly to alternative devices in the coming years."

Gartner said consumers in the United States and Europe were postponing PC purchases because of economic uncertainty but "the bigger issue for PCs in the home market is consumers temporarily, if not permanently, forgoing PC purchases in favor of media tablets."

"Media tablet capabilities are expected to become more PC-like in the coming years, luring consumers away from PCs and displacing a significant volume of PC shipments, especially mini-notebooks," Gartner said.

"Media tablets are rapidly finding favor with PC buyers who are attracted to their more-dedicated entertainment-driven features and their instant-on capability," the research firm added.

(Yahoo!)

中國6成山寨廠 轉戰iPad

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/101104/4/2g8lr.html

惠普進入平板電腦世界：反蘋果之道而行

採用PC級晶片組---微軟的作業系統，英特爾的晶片

http://tech.weiphone.com/2010-11-01/HP_Tablet_PC_into_the_world_the_opposite_direction_against_Apple_225801.shtml

到明年三月間，華碩至少準備了五台新的平板電要上市：

．一台12 吋 Wintel 平板將在十二月量產，一月上市 ，據稱這台有得到微軟在觸控和 UI 方面的奧援。
．一台九吋的 Armdroid-Tegra 2 平板，三月發表。
．一台九吋的 Wintel 平板，三月發表。
．一台七吋的 3.5G 平板，可以打電話，三月發表。
．一台七吋的 Wifi 平板，三月發表。

(engadget)

Telstra’s T-Touch Tab Android Tablet

[via AusDroid]

(phandroid.com)

Acer 平板電腦產品線 11/23 發表，價格從 299 美元到 699 美元

iPad熱賣 分食個人電腦市場

 

iPad adoption rate fastest in electronics product history

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/gaming.gadgets/10/05/ipad.adoption.ars/index.html

(CNN News)

惠普平板機定名PalmPad 2011年初發布

來自國外媒體的報導，在近日舉辦的分析師會議中，惠普表示他們的WebOS的平板機將會在2011年初發布，產品名稱也已確定。

惠普執行副總裁托德布拉德利首次表示他們的平板機產品將定名為 PalmPad，惠普已經提交PalmPad商標的註冊。

托德布拉德利表示：“惠普未來的產品組合將會遠遠超出智能手機的範圍，我們將會在2011年初發布基於 WebOS的系統的PalmPad。”

目前智能手機廠商在手機產品的基礎上都已經準備推出平板機產品，除了蘋果的iPhone和iPad的，主打的Android系統手機的摩托羅拉，宏達電，三星，LG電子等廠商都都已經有了平板機產品計劃，RIM公司也在黑莓手機的基礎上推出了自己的PalyBook產品。現在屬於惠普的WebOS的系統也必定會在平板機上得以應用。

(WeiPhone)

The next iPad: thinner, built-in camera, same screen size?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ytech_gadg/20100928/tc_ytech_gadg/ytech_gadg_tc3744

(Yahoo!)

挑戰蘋果 RIM推出平板電腦

 

（法新社舊金山27日電） 黑莓機製造商行動研究公司（Research in Motion，RIM）今天公布1款觸控式平板電腦「PlayBook」，以搶攻商界用戶。

 

RIM總裁兼執行長之一拉扎里迪斯（MikeLazaridis）在此地1項活動中展示這項新產品，並說，「這是世界上第一款專業平板電腦」。

 

這也是黑莓機首次進軍行動電話以外的領域。

 

PlayBook的觸控螢幕為7吋（17.8公分），較蘋果iPad的9.7吋為小，可使用動畫程式（Flash），而廣受喜愛的蘋果產品禁止下載動畫程式。

 

PlayBook是業界預定推出以挑戰iPad的若干款平板電腦之一。（譯者：中央社張佑之）

(Yahoo!)

鴻海獨享蘋果 拿下第二代Apple iPad (9.7吋)代工

http://news.chinatimes.com/tech/0,5249,12050901x122010092800384,00.html

Apple's iPad Now at Work in the Canadian Government

宏碁淡出電子書 重兵搶攻平板電腦

http://tw.nextmedia.com/applenews/article/art_id/32842835/IssueID/20100927

New Apple iPad Designs Surface with Landscape Docking & More

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/09/new-apple-ipad-designs-surface-with-landscape-docking-more.html

iPad將推訂閱服務 報業主管盼取得主控權

 

iPad可能讓NoteBook及NetBook走向泡沫?

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Is the Notebook Dying?

Yes. You can scream all you want, but yes, the notebook is dying.

First it was the death of the netbook, and now analysts are piling on Best Buy's CEO remarks about iPad cannibalizing laptop sales by 50%.

Morgan Stanley notes that notebooks' year-over-year growth was negative for the first time ever this August. They have gone as far as saying that "tablet cannibalization"—chiefly by Apple's (AAPL) iPad—is at least partially responsible."

That growth is negative doesn't mean that notebooks are not selling anymore. We don't even know if the pattern will continue in 2011, although chances are that it will. But there is a pattern now. Actually, the pattern has been there for a while. Back in 2009, the Wall Street Journal was reporting on how companies like Verizon were replacing on-the-field laptops with Blackberrys. By the end of that year, they had switched 12,000 laptops to smart phones.

The news now is that the retail laptop market is not growing anymore, confirming that trend. In fact, growth has been steadily decreasing since March—even while new, faster, cheaper laptops have been introduced since then. The incoming September numbers show another 4% decrease. That's one of the reasons why manufacturers like Dell, Samsung, and HP are racing to get their own tablets in the market before Apple becomes unstoppable in this new computing world. If you think that HP wasn't thinking about this trend when they bought Palm, you are seriously mistaken.

It's just evolution

So, are tablets the end of the laptop? Perhaps it is too early to tell now—even with the loud and clear numbers—but yes, yes they are. Eventually, it will happen. New computing formats have been replacing old computing formats since the beginning of the information era.

Just a few years ago, some people couldn't believe the desktop market was going to become stagnant. But it did, and today many people only use laptops. Just like when people couldn't believe that the command line was going to be replaced by the Graphical User Interface.

The same will happen with tablets.

Laptops will not disappear. Not now, not right away, and maybe not ever. Like the desktop, they will survive for years on different industries and enterprises. Eventually, however, I'm sure they will vanish completely except for a very few specialized niches, just like they have disappeared for many workforces who have moved from traditional computer platforms to smart phones.

So what will happen with the keyboard, you ask? I can't type on a tablet! Well, I write for a living, so I understand that concern. I know I will keep using keyboards until new input methods replace them.

But now think about the immensity of people who, unlike you and me, don't touch a keyboard at all or touch it just barely, to send "hey, see you at 5! LOL! xxxooo" mails or write Facebook messages or chat with contracted words and emoticons. Think about the majority of people who, outside their work offices, never touch and don't want to touch a keyboard. Think about the huge number of blue collar workers who don't use computers in their work, who just depend on their phones to communicate. Think about the increasing number of office workers who have moved from desktops and laptops to their smart phones. And in addition to all those, think about that big majority of consumers who don't give damn about computers.

It's inevitable

For those people, tablets are indeed the future. Because that's really all they need in their digital lives: A way to easily get their entertainment, communicate with others, and access their memories. And as tablets evolve, connecting to cameras, camcorders, smart phones, printers and AV systems, becoming hubs rather than just the end of a chain, that future will come even sooner than expected. Gene Roddenberry was right. [Fortune]

(gizmodo)

Watch How an iPad Was Used to Paint This Stunning Hologram

This video shows, without a doubt, the most magical thing I've seen the iPad do yet: creating a series of gorgeous, twinkling holograms, captured with long exposure photography as the iPad was moved through the air. Confused? Just watch.

The video is a collaboration between Dentsu London and BERG, the latter of which is responsible for awesome projects such as BBC Dimensions and the Mag+ tablet concept.

Of this latest feat, they explain:

First we create software models of three-dimensional typography, objects and animations. We render cross sections of these models, like a virtual CAT scan, making a series of outlines of slices of each form. We play these back on the surface of the iPad as movies, and drag the iPad through the air to extrude shapes captured in long exposure photographs. Each 3D form is itself a single frame of a 3D animation, so each long exposure still is only a single image in a composite stop frame animation.

When the individual words are writhing across the screen there's barely a trace of the iPad that made them. But my favorites are the final shots, where all three words appear together and you can see the ghostly forms of the people that are moving around the space to create them. Kinda spooky, very beautiful. [BERG and Dentsu London]

(gizmodo)