You've been dying for an Asus Eee Pad Slider running Windows 7, right? Hiding amongst the hoards of ultrabooks on display at the Microsoft booth at CES 2012, is your answer: the Toshiba Portege M930. Oddly, Toshiba hasn't announced this tablet / laptop hybrid and doesn't even have it on display at its booth, but the rotating tablet seems pretty far along, considering it has a real name and the unit on display was working quite well.

You'll want to check the video below for how the screen mechanism works, but it's one of the more well-designed hinges I've seen. You don't have to slide the screen over the keyboard which has been a worrisome f …

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We finally got to check out the elusive Panasonic ToughPad A1 in person today, and can confirm that it laughs in the face of water damage. The tablet feels unsurprisingly sturdy, and we particularly liked the matte display designed for outdoor viewing. It didn't do much to impress on the software side, though, running Honeycomb at a pretty slow pace. The Panasonic representatives pointed out that the tablet's target end users in enterprise and the military are unlikely to have much interest in being on the bleeding edge in that regard. The ToughPad we saw was a pre-production model with hardware as well as software wrinkles due to be ironed o …

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We just dropped by Gadmei's booth at CES, where they're showing a couple of tablets with glasses-free 3D technology - the T863 and E8-3D. There are a few visual differences, but the tablets are nearly identical in terms of hardware. Both feature Android 4.0.3 on top of a 1GHz Cortex A9 processor, 1GB RAM, 8GB storage, and a 5000mAh battery. Alongside this, you'll get a 0.3MP webcam, an optional 2MP rear shooter, microSD slot, and micro USB and mini HDMI ports. The chief difference lies in the 8-inch displays used in each of the tablets. Both use parallax barrier glasses-free 3D, and while the resolutions are almost identical - the T863 sport …

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Here's one dual-core slate you won't find in stores: Qualcomm's Snapdragon S4 Liquid Mobile Development Platform, or MDP for short. We already told you about the raw specs a couple of months ago - including a Snapdragon S4 MSM8960 "Krait" chip with Adreno 225 graphics, integrated LTE, two 13-megapixel cameras and a 10.1-inch, 1366 x 768 screen, and now, Android 4.0 - but today we got our hands on the tablet and tried out Desert Winds.

We'd previously seen our buxom warrior woman traverse the desert on a 1.2GHz Snapdragon S3 APQ8060 chip, but it looked better than ever on the 1.5GHz MSM8960 tablet here at 720p with very few …

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Just as with the original Acer Iconia A500, Nvidia is the first to publicly show off its followup: the Acer Iconia Tab A510. The chipmaker is obviously interested in showing off the power of the quad-core Tegra 3 processor inside, clocked at 1.3GHz. In that regard, Ice Cream Sandwich seemed to run quite smoothly and a couple games we tried performed well. Of course, the A510's predecessor also managed to look good with Nvidia's handpicked games but didn't really stand up to long-term use - and the fact that we found some touchscreen accuracy issues on this floor model doesn't bode well. We should be looking at a 1280 x 800 screen instead of …

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Velocity Micro recently announced two new Ice Cream Sandwich Android tablets as part of its CES lineup, and today we were able to spend some time with them. Unfortunately we weren't able to take any photographs, but they did leave us with some strong impressions. The Cruz T507 and T510 are essentially the same beast under the hood: a 1.2GHz Cortex A8 processor, discrete ARM Mali 400MHz 3D graphics acceleration, 512MB of RAM, and 8GB of internal storage. Both feature front- and rear-facing cameras, Mini USB and Mini HDMI ports, a microSD slot, the requisite 3.5mm headphone jack, and a DC power connector for charging. The physical similarities …

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We were just able to take a close-up look at three Toshiba prototypes - two tablets and a 5.1-inch phone with a 21:9 aspect ratio. The two tablets, one 7.7-inch and the other 13.3, don't present any big surprises, but they're light and thin, with rounded corners and a textured back. More exciting is the phone, which demonstrates an elongated aspect ratio that allows the large-screened device to still fit in a pocket. Unlike the tablets, the phone has a brushed-aluminum back and sharper corners.

Although we weren't able to see much of the devices in action, we successfully (in fact, accidentally) powered on the larger tablet, and were assure …

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