Sixty-one workers were killed earlier this week in an explosion at the Pegatron owned Ri Teng Computer Accessory factory in Songjiang China. The likely cause of the explosion was aluminum dust which is created during the polishing of Apple’s iPad. According to the United States…
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Samsung May Start Outsourcing Laptop Production to Taiwan
Samsung has always built their own notebooks, but in 2012 according to Taiwan’s industry executives said Samsung will outsource an insignificant contract manufacturing of to a Taiwanese ODM. Looks like Samsung is testing the waters and has been asking around Quanta Computer Inc., Compal Electronics…
Lenovo’s Quad Core LePad Q1 Order Being Filled by Pegatron
Taiwanese manufacturers Pegatron, ASUS’ sister company, will reportedly take over production of Lenovo’s new quad-core tablet the LePad. According to DigiTimes, production of the new device will start in January. Both Pegatron and Lenovo have no comment on the rumor, but there has already been…
Intel Playing Matchmaker with Ultrabooks & Manufacturers
CES is poised to be a show bursting at the seams with Ultrabooks and 2012 is gearing up for a landslide of devices with news that Intel is going after the smaller manufactures. According to CNET nn Wednesday Intel plans on holding a meeting in…
Pegatron Ready to Invest in Ultrabook Production, Other Manufacturers Wary
Earlier we reported that while Intel was pushing the Ultrabook category of laptops pretty hard at IDF 2011, manufacturers are still wary about how much the Ultrabook laptops will really sell. At the moment, Lenovo, Toshiba, Acer, and Asus haven’t produced many units of their…
Pegatron Ivybridge Ultrabook References Design Hands at IDF 2011
At the Ultrabook lounge at IDF 2011, Pegatron had two Ultrabook reference of designs which featured the next generation Ivybridge processor. These two Ultrabook’s didn’t have names but they had different features. What makes these two devices particularly interesting is that Pegatron is the sister…
ASUS Padfone to Ship with Ice Cream & Tegra 3 in Q4?
ASUS isn’t messing around when it comes to marking its territory in the tablet ecosystem shipping 400,000 tablets in the first half of Q1. They’ve released one of the most competitive Android Honeycomb tablets around with the Eee Pad Transformer not only because it under…
Review: bmodo12 Windows 7 Tablet
It’s no secret that Windows 7 is not the best operating system for tablets, mainly because of its mouse-centric heritage. Most of the Windows tablets that cross my desk suffer from usability issues, short battery life and high price tags and the bmodo12 is not…
Freescale Pegatron 10.1″ Android Tablet
We uncovered this 10-inch Tablet based on Freescale’s ARM-processors at Computex 2010 running a custom Android interface. The unit is from the ASUS manufacturing subsidiary Pegatron and is intended to show the opportunities offered by Freescale CPUs for Internet Tablets. The Pegatron Freescale Tablet has…
German ‘Anti-iPad’ the WePad Interface Walk Through
Sascha and Roland were able to attend the WePad conference during Republica and posted this video with the applicaitons and interface of the german “Anti-iPad” that is to be sold by Neofonie in cooperation with content publishers and mobile carriers.
The video shows the user…
WePad “Hands On” & A Few Impressions
The WePad conference which Roland, our partner in crime over at NetbookNews.de described the event as one of the strangest he’s attended in all his years as a Journalist! The WePad was running a scripted demo so the guys didn’t have a chance to get…
