 By prasad, on  September 30th, 2010
 Research in Motion had lead us on a couple of wild goose chases. After registering the BlackPad.com domain name, and filing a trademark application for the Surf Book name, RIM finally decided to call their Tablet the “PlayBook.”
Even if i had been told earlier, i wouldn’t have believed it that a Tablet focused on the Enterprise segment of customers, was going to be called . . . → Continue reading RIM names its Enterprise Tablet the “PlayBook”
 By prasad, on  September 25th, 2010
 ARM based chipsets from Qualcomm, Samsung, and Nvidia, have always been coveted as they are always at the cutting edge of ARM technology with their Snapdragon, Hummingbird, and Tegra platforms respectively. There are also several other manufacturers of ARM based chipsets like Marvell, Rockchip, Telechips, TI OMAP, etc that have good . . . → Continue reading Marvell announces 1.5 GHz triple-core Armada 628 ARM based chipset
 By kala, on  September 20th, 2010
That Research In Motion (RIM) is planning a Blackberry Tablet PC is not news to us, and we have been tracking news about the Tablet device from RIM for a good while now.
Tablet fans following our blog will also be aware that RIM had bought the ‘BlackPad.com’ domain name back in July. Soon, further details began . . . → Continue reading RIM files for “SurfBook” trademark
 By kala, on  August 22nd, 2010
QNX Software Systems, an Infotainment software specialist, was acquired by RIM for $200 Million in April this year. Bloomberg reports that three seperate sources have confirmed to them, that RIM will be using a custom OS developed by QNS to power their BlackPad tablet PC. RIM . . . → Continue reading RIM’s BlackPad Tablet to run custom OS from QNS
 By prasad, on  August 9th, 2010
Taiwan based manufacturer Quanta Computer will be manufacturing the BlackPad, Research In Motion’s (RIM’s) tablet PC, which is expected to be launched by November 2010, according to Apply Daily report.
The BlackPad Slate tablet will support Wifi, bluetooth, and 3G through connection to a Blackberry smartphone. . . . → Continue reading Quanta to manufacture RIM’s BlackPad tablet
 By prasad, on  July 31st, 2010
If you have been following tablet news recently, you would have come across the rumored Blackberry tablet. Bloomberg is now reporting this Blackberry tablet from RIM could come as early as Nov this year. They also claim that the Blackberry tablet is going to be called . . . → Continue reading RIM planning a Tablet for November
 By prasad, on  July 30th, 2010
Well first the disclaimer – i know this is not a proper comparison, each tablet PC device here is in different stages of their life.
While the iPad has been around for 4 months now and is the oldest on the block, the Dell Streak has been . . . → Continue reading Tablet comparison – iPad vs Dell Streak vs HP Slate 500 vs Blackpad vs Motorola tablet
 By prasad, on  July 29th, 2010
Mobilecrunch reports that RIM, the manufacturer of the popular Blackberry phones, has now registered the BlackPad.com domain name. They did an old fashioned WHOIS lookup on the domain name, and found that RIM has purchased the domain earlier this month.
They also say “The domain swapped hands . . . → Continue reading RIM buys the “BlackPad.com” domain name
 By prasad, on  July 22nd, 2010
All the efforts put in after the TorchMobile acquisition by RIM seems to be paying off finally. The WebKit based browser included along with Blackberry 6 beats its competition comprehensively, scoring a 208 on the HTML5 tests, measuring browser compliance and performace. The scores of the competition is nowhere near – with the iPhone 4 . . . → Continue reading Blackberry 6′s WebKit browser
 By prasad, on  July 20th, 2010
Verizon network seems to be getting all the goodies these days – it has just launched the Droid X, and the tablet news circles have it with a reasonable authority that the Droid 2 is expected, next in line would be the Blackberry Storm 3, and the Curve 3.
Verizon . . . → Continue reading Verizon to get 10.1″ Tablet PC, among other goodies, later this year
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