The IFA consumer electronics show has been running all week in Berlin, Germany, and there has been a stream of tablet and tech news coming out of the show. It’s no surprise, therefore, that we begin there, and why not start with Sony – a company that has been notably quite on the tablet front. It is quiet no longer with the arrival of the Sony Tablet S priced at an iPad-ish £399. The Android Honeycomb sports a 9.4-inch screen.No for you? What about the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7. Android Honeycomb 3.2 with a 1.4Ghz processor and camera’s front and back might just tick a few boxes. The 7.7-inch screen is not our favourite, but somebody must think that this is big enough for a tablet! Mind you, there is also an 8.9 Galaxy lurking about the IFA show allegedly for those of us that like things a bit bigger.
Another big name, Toshiba, is also coming on hot. The AT200 tablet is a 10.1-inch device and only 7.7mm thick tablet, though critical info such as availability and price are yet to come. A hands-on review is here though. Viewsonic also got active, following much talk, with its new tablet offerings.We were interested on this little variant of a tablet – the Boogie Board RIP. Not a RIP in the regular sense of the acronym at all, this RIP stands for Record, Image, Preserve. It’s a true write-on tablet that can save your scribbles and download them to your workstation. Might have a use? Not 100% sure. Should be less than £100.
Aside from tablets, you might want to see what’s new in the ultrabook sector. Thin and light PC’s are all the rage now, chasing after the Apple Air Book market. Three products from Acer, Lenovo, and Toshiba are highlighted here in a review from CNet.Perhaps we should have left it to the experts to provide a summary of IFA – so we will. The good folk of TechRadar offer this Top 10 from the show that is well worth a glimpse.
In the world of publishing, MediaWeek tells us that the UK magazine market is falling apart now. Printers might want to avert their eyes, but following that decline in sales of newspapers and books, magazines are now beginning to shed numbers too. One imagines a combination of the march of the internet and cost cutting is to blame. Since 2000 sales of the top 100 titles have fallen by some 30% or so.Back to tablets briefly, and the Guardian this week offers us some thoughts on how Amazon will take on the mighty Apple and the iPad in the near future. Analysts are suggesting a price led campaign in the run up to Christmas. That will be fun to watch.
Returning to our printing roots, it is good to see that Apex Digital Graphics are readying themselves for an Autumn open house, whilst as well as joining the throng at October’s Apex event, UK post-press manufacturers Morgana are preparing for a busy Graph Expo in Chicago coming up real soon. The company is releasing a number of new products to the US market.Finally, do keep checking back to see what will be featured in our next edition, PIND 69. We aim to add details of our next edition this link during the course of the week. For an RSS feed of PIND, copy this link into your feed reader; and click here for the GenesisNews Print Daily – you can even take out a free subscription for this daily news update on print, publishing, packaging and associated technology!
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