If you’re a fan of Apple’s products then you’ll know all about the new portable iPad touch screen device that was released at the beginning of this year. Once again they have come out with a great new product that has set the standard for other companies to follow and now several months on a number of top electronics companies have developed their own versions to be released this year. One of these contenders for top spot on the tablet computer market is Neophonie, a German telecommunications company who have come up with their “Wepad” computer.

Once upon a time, the PC was king, then its crown (and reign) was stolen by the laptop; in its turn, the laptop was defeated by the notebook, then the new kid on the block was the netbook, but now, there’s a new guy in town: the tablet netbook.

Ladies and gents, welcome the technology world’s latest offspring: every gadgeteer’s dream come true, the perfect combination of mobility, power, storing capacity, sleekness and flexibility.

In order to have a clear view on the subject at hand, we should first do a recap of this marvel’s forerunners. In the 1970′s, Alan Kay envisioned a “personal, portable information manipulator” that he called the “Dynabook”. Laptops’ screens are at least 11 inches wide, thus permitting for full-size keyboards to be added.

Every time a new Apple product comes along, its seems like 1000 Chinese clones sprout out of the ground.

And after the launch of Apple’s successful iPad, as it was expected, dozens of China branded tablets followed suit.

Most of them are junk as you would expect, but like the dual sim market, there a handful of great products, which would entice any passionate hardware geek out there.

One such product is the Saycool M5A, which boasts an impressive roster of features for a Chinese piece of tech. Its powered by an Intel Atom Z515 processor, and it displays on a crystal clear 5 inch display.

Over the last few years we’ve noticed a systematic decline in the price of laptop computers. This drop in price has been a great thing for consumers but has led many to wonder whether the laptop will soon be and antiquated piece of equipment taking up shelf space with the likes of the eight track tape player and the typewriter. While laptops do provide a great option for people who are looking for mobile computing it does seem that some better options are coming up on the table.

For a while it seemed that notebook computers were going to be the next big thing in portable computing. Notebooks offered a highly movable tool that people could use for many of the daily computer requirements. The problem most notebooks seems to be that the combination of a very small keyboard along with a typically less-than-desired amount of computing power as turn the notebook into a sort of no man’s land of computing. While many people do like the features that notebooks offer, I think that many more are turned off by the small keyboard and lack of power that typically accompanies most notebooks.