Posts Tagged ‘US’

Two days, ago Acer America announced that will update its Iconia Tab line of tablets to Ice Cream Sandwich.

The ICS update will provide new features and improvements, including improved multitasking and switching between tasks, the faster browser, enhanced app and folder management, more intuitive navigation, and a completely reimaged design – more polished and with enhanced holographic effects.

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Today, Samsung announced the official launch of its new second-generation Series 9 notebooks in South Korea.

Samsung Electronics held a domestic Series 9 notebook media launch event, at the D’light hall in Seocho-dong, in Seoul, South Korea.

The luxury second-generation Series 9 notebook is offered with a 13-inch or a 15-inch display in a Mineral ash black color. The ultra-slim and compact-sized Samsung Series 9 comes with a Single Shell “Aero Dynamic” body design. The 13-inch model is just 12.9mm (0.5 inch) thin and weighs 1.16kg (2.56 lbs), while the 15-incher is 14.9mm (0.58 inch) thin, weighing 1.59kg (3.5 lbs) and offers up to 10 hours of battery life on a single charge.

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Sprint offers in the States its first tablet under $100 – the ZTE Optik.

Sprint’s 3G tablet – ZTE Optik runs Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) and comes with a 7-inch WXGA (1280 x 800) touchscreen display. The tablet is powered by a 1.2GHz dual-core Qualcomm (MSM8660) Snapdragon processor, 1GB of memory and 16GB of storage, which can be expanded up to additional 32GB via the microSD card slot.

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Today, Lenovo announced a new color of its U300s Ultrabook for the Japanese market.

The 13.3-inch (with HD display) IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook will be now available in Graphite Gray color in Japan. Till now, the company was offering only the Clementine Orange (108074J) model with i7-2677M processor, in the land of the rising sun.

The Graphite Gray IdeaPad U300s Ultrabook (108075J ) is powered by 1.6 GHz Intel Core i5-2467M dual-core CPU, 4GB of DDR3 1333MHz (PC3-8500) memory and a 128GB SATA SSD drive.

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Pantech applies for patents for its waterproof Pantech Element P4100 (AT&T) LTE tablet.

Today, Pantech announced that has already completed a patent application in Korea, for its waterproof technology used in the Pantech Element P4100 (AT&T) LTE tablet.

The Pantech Element P4100 LTE (4G) runs Android 3.2 (Honeycomb) and comes with an 8-inch XGA (1024 x 768) TFT capacitive multi-touch display. It is powered by 1.5GHz APQ 8060 Qualcomm (S3) dual–core processor and 16GB of storage (which can be expanded up to 32GB via the microSD card slot). The tablet also has a SIM slot, two cameras (2MP front-facing and a rear 5MP with flash and 4x digital zoom), Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth v2.1 + EDR, micro USB and micro HDMI port.

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Yesterday, Epson introduced its iProjection App for wireless projections from iPad and other Apple touch devices.

Epson’s iProjection App allows Apple mobile device users (with devices running iOS 4.2 or later, including the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch) to wirelessly display documents and photos to any networked Epson projector.

The iProjection app is also cloud-ready (supports cloud files services as Dropbox and various email applications) and is available for free in the App StoreSM. It is also compatible with Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Apple Keynote, Adobe PDF, and supports JPEG and PNG images as well.

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Toshiba REGZA AT700 just got lighter with 23g, after CES 2012 ended.

Toshiba REGZA AT700 (above) just got lighter with 23 grams, after the company introduced its new Excite X10 tablet at CES 2012, in Las Vegas.

A week ago, when Toshiba showed its new Excite X10 tablet at CES (for the US market), we thought that the company is exhibiting some radically hardware-upgraded model of its AT200 (which was introduced for the European market) or REGZA AT700 tablet (the Japanese version). At that time the Toshiba AT200 (in September, 2011) and the REGZA AT700 (in October, 2011) were weighing exactly 558g (below - screenshot of REGZA AT700, October, 2011).

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