If you’ve been dying to get your hands on an HP TouchPad, your wait is nearly over: pre-orders start on the 19th of June and the tablet goes on sale in July.

In a frenzy of alliteration, Toshiba has decided that the Toshiba Tablet will be the Toshiba Thrive. The firm can clearly make an excellent tongue-twister, but can it make an excellent tablet too?

Samsung’s been busy recently: as if making smartphones and tablets wasn’t enough, it’s having a go at a new kind of PC too. Like Asus’s Eee Slider the PC 7 Series transforms from a tablet into a netbook thanks to a slide-out keyboard.