Friday, February 8th, 2013

Time	Event
1:07a	WikiPad Gaming Tablet Coming This Spring For $249 Gaming on Android has been a hot topic lately. Purpose built consoles and handhelds have been rolling out along with plenty of excellent games. The WikiPad, announced in 10-inch form previously, takes a middle ground. A 7-inch Tegra 3-powered tablet is paired with a handheld dock that features two analog sticks, directional pad, a quartet of front buttons, two shoulder buttons and two trigger buttons, along with a pair of speakers and a grippy, contoured design. The software side brings Jelly Bean along with NVIDIA's Tegra Zone, MadFinger's Dead Trigger and Shadowgun: Dead Zone and Distinctive Games' Hockey Nations Tournament. The WikiPad is also PlayStation Mobile Certified, giving it access to the handful of Sony's library of games that have been ported to the platform.  The tablet's specs bear a striking resemblance to Google's 7" tablet, and priced at $249 for the 16GB model it competes directly with the 32GB Nexus 7 or a 16GB Nexus 7 and a decent Bluetooth gamepad. No firm date for release was announced, and the 10-inch model is still in the works. That larger product had some manufacturing issues that presented a lengthy delay, and with the market moving smaller and cheaper the opportunity to bring out a smaller was too good to pass up. We'll see how thing work out come this Spring.  Tablet Specification Comparison   Apple iPad mini ASUS MeMO Pad (ME172V) Google Nexus 7 WikiPad Dimensions 200 x 134.7 x 7.2mm 196.2 x 119.2 x 11.2mm 198.5 x 120 x 10.45mm 195.6 x 125.7 x 10.6mm (tablet) 286 x 145 x 65.3mm (tablet + dock) Display 7.85-inch 1024 x 768 IPS 7-inch 1024 x 600 7-inch 1280 x 800 IPS 7-inch 1280 x 800 IPS Weight 308g (WiFi) 370g 340g (WiFi) 320g (tablet), 760g (tablet + dock) Processor 1GHz Apple A5 (2 x Cortex A9, PowerVR SGX543MP2) VIA WM8950 (1GHz Cortex A9 + Mali-400) 1.3 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 (T30L - 4 x Cortex A9) 1.3 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 (T30L - 4 x Cortex A9) Connectivity WiFi , Optional 4G LTE WiFi WiFi, Optional 3G WiFi Memory 512MB 1GB 1GB 1GB Storage 16GB—64GB 8GB, 16GB + microSD slot 16GB, 32GB 16GB + microSD slot up to 32GB Battery 16.3Wh 16Wh 16Wh 15Wh Starting Price $329 $149 $199 - 249 $249   (Comment on this)
2:23a	HP Chromebook Confirmed: Available Now For $329   We already covered the leak, and now we've got the confirmation we knew would come. HP has officially announced the HP Pavilion 14-c010us Chromebook. Quite the name, eh? Specs are unchanged from before, with 2GB of RAM, Intel's Celeron 847, a 16GB SSD, and that 14-inch 1366 x 768 display. The largest Chromebook yet comes with the same battery life as the Acer C7 (about 4.5 hours) and an extra pound of weight. Not much more to share till we get the hardware in our hands.  Gallery: HP Chromebook Confirmed: Available Now For $329 (Comment on this)

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