Dell Inspiron Duo tablet unveiled at IDF 2010

The Intel Developer Forum brought about some really interesting portable devices, where among them include the Dell Inspiron Duo tablet that features 10-inches of viewing goodness, powered by a dual-core Intel Atom processor as well as a full QWERTY keypad which can be hidden thanks to a swiveling tablet display. Dell has positioned the Inspiron Duo to be a consumer device that delivers both productivity as well as entertainment in a single package. Now where have we heard that before? Since it runs on the Windows 7 Home Premium operating system, it will be able to play nice with a wide range of Microsoft applications. Dell claims that this is going to be the most powerful Windows tablet in the world. We concur with that, at least until someone else comes up with something more powerful.

Source: ubergizmo

Acer reportedly planning 5-inch Android 3.0 tablet

Its already been heard that Acer had some 7- and 10-inch Android tablets in the works, but it looks like it's not stopping there. DigiTimes is now reporting that the company is also prepping a 5-inch tablet which, like the others, will be based on Android 3.0 and will roll out sometime in the first quarter of 2011. Of particular note here is that the 5-inch model will reportedly boast both "handset and tablet PC functionality," which would pit it up against the likes of the Dell Streak. Details otherwise still seem to be pretty up in the air for all three, though -- in fact, DigiTimes says that Acer is still deciding between Qualcomm's Snapdragon and NVIDIA's Tegra 2, and that it will even release an Intel-based Windows 7 model before the Android tablets in order to "test the water in the market."