ASUS look set to unveil a phone that can dock with a tablet at the Computex event at the end of this month, according to reports. The device, which is rumoured to be called the Padfone, looks to be the second iteration we’ve seen of the PC in your pocket concept that Motorola recently pioneered [...]

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Mobile devices, from smartphones to tablets, start to become popular for normal web related tasks like visiting websites, watching movies or playing games. This can be attributed to the advancement of hardware to make the devices faster and more responsive, software like Opera Mobile that make the most out of what little space and speed [...]

Categories: Opera, Web Development

Those of you who follow me on Twitter, Facebook and other sites will know that I’ve been asked by Microsoft to run an ‘Ask the Expert’ session at their upcoming Windows Desktop TechDay on Monday 23rd May in London (UK). I’ve also arranged a Geek Meet the night before. I’ll be there to answer your [...]

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There are all manner of images, screenshots and leaked details coming out now about Windows 8 and we already know a lot about what Microsoft want this product to be.  We know it’s going to be smaller, quicker and more agile than even Windows 7 was able to be.  It’s going to have to run [...]

Categories: Windows

For the last year we’ve all been talking about tablets.  They’ve been the technology of the moment for some considerable time now and their appeal doesn’t seem to  be diminishing.  It’s still been the case though that we’re just not seeing tablets being used out and about in cafes and on trains in the way [...]

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I’ve written a lot about tablets over the last few months and indeed I now own a Windows 7 tablet myself, the ExoPC Slate.  It didn’t take much use of this device to become disillusioned with the modern web as it stands today and I can’t help but wonder if the future of the web [...]

Categories: The Web, Web Development

The tablet market is exploding and growing exponentially, but it’s still not reaching a critical mass with the general public not embracing them in the way they did netbooks.  So why is this happening and how do tablets need to change in order for them to become the next generation of computing device. Let’s look primarily [...]

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I took delivery of my new Windows 7 Tablet today, an ExoPC Slate, on the day ironically when Apple unveiled the iPad 2 to the world.  It‘s thinner, lighter and has two cameras.  The latter we already knew and the former two should have been expected of a new device.  But what does the arrival [...]

Categories: Apple

As I prepare to return the review ExoPC Slate it’s time to sum up my conclusions about the device.  If you missed the first three parts of this review you can catch them at Part1, Part 2 and Part 3.  So what’s the ExoPC like to live with day to day?  Obviously there’s been talk here [...]

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