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In what should be an interesting year for tablets, Archos has just announced a new tablet of its own. The Archos 97 Carbon tablet is set to tout the latest Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system and Google apps. It’s out later this month in a variety of sizes, including a 7-inch model to vie for attention alongside the new Google Nexus 7.
Microsoft are going portable with two brand new tablets on the way called the Microsoft Surface RT Tablet and the Microsoft Surface for Windows 8 Pro bringing new and techy Windows 8 features to your eyes. These beauties certainly provide stiff competition for Apple.
Apple deserves all the credit in the world for the iPad’s runaway success, but the quality of the opposition thus far hasn’t exactly made the job particularly difficult.
The Apple iPad continues to be the leading tablet computer. To combat this Microsoft is reportedly working with its hardware partners to launch not one, but a total of 32 different Windows 8 tablets this year, with some costing less than £200.
OnLive has announced some big news that could change mobile gaming forever. From today its cloud-based game service will be arriving on phones and tablets via iOS and Android apps letting gamers play console quality games on mobile devices.
The Peli iKeyboard lets you turn your Apple iPad into a proper Asus Eee Pad Transformer rival. Covering the bottom half of your iPad’s screen, it provides a tactile means of typing, without compromising on portability. Read on to find out more.
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Microsoft’s tablet ambitions might only be realised once Windows 8 finally touches down in the second half of next year, but it looks like its Microsoft Office suite might be getting some tablet action considerably sooner.
If you have an iPad you can catch Channel 4’s catch up service, 4oD now with their new app ready to use on your Apple tablet device.
Currently, it is an ad-supported app and sponsored by Heineken.
You can catch a wide variety of programmes from the website but excludes archived content and shows from the US.
Channel 4’s head of VoD Sarah Milton said:
"Collectively, connected TV is an interesting opportunity and in aggregation is a significant market, but at the moment it's all pretty fragmented.
There's little in the way of consistent formats and we need some degree of scalability and longevity. The manufacturers are also continually developing new versions of their products."
