It’s official. The Nook has been rooted by some guys called the “NookDevs”. New features for the disgraced Nook include: Facebook and Twitter apps, as well as web browsing. Nice work. So essentially the Nook is now a web tablet, am I right?
[Via Twitter, AndroidGuys]
More tablet news for you my friend! DigiTimes is claiming that Asus, the pioneer of (cheap) netbooks, is getting ready to produce a (cheap) tablet. In fact DigiTimes says that it’s a “4- to 7-inch panel…which will offer a combination of tablet PC and MID functions.” That would be pretty neat, wouldn’t ? Now we just have to remember to take every tablet rumor with a pepper shaker… [DigiTimes]
The classic Apple tablet wannabe might think this has to do with the iTablet, but who knows what this means? Going straight to the news, Apple is looking for a 3D game designer here with lots of 3D designing knowhow. I actually have no idea why they would need a game designer, but hey, let’s bet it’s for something interesting. Dare I say Apple is interested in getting into the gaming business? I don’t think so.
[Via CrunchGear]
According to Oppenheimer analyst Yair Reiner, Apple is almost ready to give its Chinese manufacturing partners the green light needed to begin production of the Apple Tablet in February, then ship it in March. The rumored 10.1″ Multi-Touch capacitive tablet would be well stocked, and according to Reiner, it would sell 1.5 million units in the first quarter, at an average of $1000 a piece. We’ll see if this is real, in the meantime take this with a grain of salt. [Via BGR]
That was not expected. When Mike Arrington said the CrunchPad was well alive, he meant it (we think). Until certain events and an email came along:
But the email went on. Bizarrely, we were being notified that we were no longer involved with the project. Our project. Chandra said that based on pressure from his shareholders he had decided to move forward and sell the device directly through Fusion Garage, without our involvement.
Err, what? This is the equivalent of Foxconn, who build the iPhone, notifiying Apple a couple of days before launch that they’d be moving ahead and selling the iPhone directly without any involvement from Apple.
Chandra also forwarded an internal email from one of his shareholders. My favorite part of the email: “We still acknowledge that Arrington and TechCrunch bring some value to your business endeavor…If he agrees to our terms, we would have Arrington assume the role of visionary/evangelist/marketing head and Fusion Garage would acquire the rights to use the Crunchpad brand and name. Personally, I don’t think the name is all that important but you seem to be somewhat attached to the name.”
And with that, the entire project self destructed.
Basically, Arrington got ripped off at the last second. In order to really understand the obserity of this situation, head over toTechCrunch to hear their story. I wonder what kind FusionGarage will come up with.
[via TechCrunch]
Remember the CrunchPad? No? Okay, let’s bring it back to life again; Mike Arrington says that it will come out and will cost between $300 to $400. He says the rumor of costs going up are not true, and that in fact costs are coming down. But remember it’s a 12-inch tablet, and $300 to $400 is not too bad. He also says they’re making it “perfect”, and we should find some major news about it soon. Mike talked about this on the podcast “Gillmor Gang”, and the CrunchPad subject starts at the 39 minute mark.
[Engadget]
More intriguing details from the xpPhone. And it doesn’t only run Windows XP. It runs Windows 7, too, and there are options to have it in 4.3, 4.8, and 7-inch versions. Windows 7, 5 MP camera, and dual GSM/CDMA are also available options. [Gizmodo]
Another Apple patent. This time it’s for pen-based tablet input. Translation: Apple has filed a patent for a pen that works in a special way with a tablet. Let’s take a deeper look in here:
“Upon the occurrence of an ink phrase termination event, the ink manager notifies the handwriting recognition engine and organizes the preceding ink strokes into an ink phrase data structure…The present invention, in large part, relates to the observation that client applications and handwriting recognition software in pen-based computer systems can make far more accurate ink-related decisions based on entire ink phrases, rather than individual ink strokes.”
That means that pen would be used with some tablet, and if you put them together, you could say “Apple Tablet”. Here we go again, which is why this is in the “Rumors” category. But hey, we all know Apple will make the tablet, right?
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