If you missed the first two parts of my in-depth review of the new ExoPC Slate Windows 7 tablet you can find part 1 here and part 2 here.  So far I’ve looked at the hardware, which is fantastic, and the custom ExoUI interface.  Admittedly this interface is still in beta and it needs work [...]

Categories: Hardware, Microsoft

Yesterday I published part 1 of my in-depth review of the ExoPC where I looked at the hardware, and we’re off to a cracking start as it’s extremely impressive.  The most noticeable thing about this tablet however is the custom interface that ExoPC have provided to make working with this Windows 7 tablet simpler and [...]

Categories: Hardware

Here at Windows 7 News we’re always bringing you the best and latest news and as of late last year, in-depth hardware reviews (with our in-depth review of Windows Phone and the HTC Mozart handset). We’ve still more to come with a bumper review of NetGear home AV kit next month, but to kick-start the [...]

Categories: Hardware

The buzz word in computing in 2010 has been tablet, as popularised by Apple’s iPad.  This year we’ve seen tablets go on sale using Google’s Android operating system and Windows 7, and we’ve seen both RIM and HP announce specialised tablet operating systems for their own devices. During this time both Android and Windows 7 [...]

Categories: Online Services, The Web

Bloomberg have today written that Microsoft’s apparent new Tablet version of Windows that’s set to be unveiled at CES next month will be a special version running on ARM chips, which is great news for those wanting a low-power tablet device.  The bad news though is that we’re unlikely to see this new version of [...]

Categories: Microsoft

I’m going to come clean, I’m not a fan of Google’s Android operating system.  I just don’t think that a desktop / icons approach is appropriate for either a smartphone or a tablet.  That said I’ve now seen the demonstration video for Google’s forthcoming ‘tablet’ version of the operating system, codenamed Honeycomb and I’m quickly [...]

Categories: Google

There used to exist a time where travel meant devoting the entire time to your companions, be it family or friends. There was no TV to watch, no phone (I mean the times when cell phones were not so common) and the internet was not nearly so portable as it is today. That was the [...]

Categories: travelling geek

While Google’s executives have recently been attacking Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Windows Phone platforms, Apple supremo Steve Jobs has now stepped in to hammer Google’s Android operating system. While not attacking the OS specifically he’s been hugely critical of the tablets onto which manufacturers are dropping it, saying that 7″ screens are simply too small [...]

Categories: Apple, Google

Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn has said that the iPad has halved sales of laptops at the popular store in an interview with the Wall St Journal.  As a result shoppers at the chain will find more tablets, e-readers and smartphones in stores and fewer desktop PCs. The news doesn’t come as a major surprise [...]

Categories: Apple