The tablet space has really heated up these past few years and while the iPad is still a dominating force, manufacturers have been busy creating and shipping a slew of different tablets running Android. One tablet that’s done incredibly well is the Kindle Fire which is Amazon’s 7 inch tablet and competitor. The success of [...]
Looking to buy a new Android tablet, or see how your current tablet stacks-up against the competition? Every month we rank the Top 10 Android tablets on the market. We base our rankings on several factors: device age, hardware specifications, OS version, sales, popularity and buzz factor. Tablets that have not been released won’t be [...]
Amazon has had incredible success over the years with their Kindle line of e-readers and most recently the debut of the Kindle Fire, a tablet which has carved a rather strong presence in the 7 inch tablet market. Some new products are due and it appears that they will likely be getting some upgrades according [...]
Apple and Samsung have been at war for the last several years due to numerous patent disputes and Apple claiming that Samsung is stealing their designs. Unfortunately, there’s no sign of it slowing down any time soon, some would say because the late Steve Jobs was so against Android. Now, a U.S. Appeals court [...]
There’s been rumors floating around the last several months about Samsung and Google working on a Nexus tablet. Not much information has been able to go on, but it appears that there’s even more to making the rumors true. Google’s own GIT repository is being updated and mirrored to their AOSP tree. In plain English, a [...]
One of the largest carriers in the US, AT&T, says that manufacturers are slowing production of Wi-Fi only tablets as the cost of the hardware for cellular data continues to decrease. Or are they saying that because they’d like them to cease altogether? Probably a little bit of both. The reality is that if more [...]
Toshiba Enters The Tegra 3 Club Toshiba’s new Excite tablet features the quad-core Tegra 3 SoC and will ship with Android 4.0 ICS on board. It comes in the familiar 10″ form factor with a 1280 x 800 resolution display packaged in a super thin shell. The tab comes in 16GB/32GB/64GB versions and packs a [...]
Talk about next gen phones- when I think about this, I think about Tony Stark working in his laboratory building some sort of cool new toy! Imagine, not touching your phone to do stuff? That’s exactly what Huawei wants us to do. Huawei is a Chinese telecommunications supplier. They have been expanding into the smartphone, [...]
According to ComScore, Amazon’s Kindle Fire currently accounts for 54.4% of all Android tablets in the U.S. The runner up, the Samsung Galaxy Tab Family (7.0, 10.1, etc) comes in at a mere 15.4%. The Motorola Xoom, the first true Android tablet comes in even lower than that at 7%. The Asus Transformer Family, arguably some of [...]
We all remember the notes that used to get passed around in class. Sometimes they were good, sometimes they were bad, but they were almost always a hot commodity and if you didn’t ever get any you were left behind feeling uncool. Well, big news potentially for T-mobile customers has come just over the horizon [...]
ZTE, a Chinese handset maker wants to get in on the “phablet” success of Samsung’s Galaxy Note. Why wouldn’t they? Last numbers showed that Samsung sold over 5 million of them in 5 months! That’s a pretty good number, considering in the United States it is only available on one carrier- AT&T. As an [...]
When I first heard about Xytec’s $150 MY TABLET ’7 Android tablet, I thought to myself, “Great- another bargain basement tab, that my kids won’t even use ala Coby!”. Specs wise- looks solid: Latest ICS, 7 inch display with 800X400 pixel resolution (which can be had on today’s Woot Sellout Dell Streak for $139.99), 1GB [...]
Acer is looking to further expand their tablet line today as the previously announced-at-CES tab is now ready for your hard-earned cash over at Acer’s US website, as you can see $449.99 will get you the A510 with 32GB of onboard storage and Wi-Fi. The A510 is certainly no slouch when it comes to specs, [...]
We’ve covered the Acer Iconia A100 a few times across the site, in fact our very own Randy Arrowood is running a challenge of sorts to use his tab exclusively for the next 30 Days, you can check out how he got on his first week here. There’s no denying that the A100 is an attractive [...]
ASUS’s Transformer Prime is one of the hottest Android tablets on the market. Despite being a massive success and a must have Android tablet, the Prime has been riddled with GPS issues from day one. Over the last four months, ASUS has tried to resolve numerous customer complaints about GPS performance and has released software [...]
Looking to buy a new Android tablet, or see how your current tablet stacks-up against the competition? Every month we rank the Top 10 Android tablets on the market. We base our rankings on several factors: device age, hardware specifications, OS version, sales, popularity and buzz factor. Tablets that have not been released won’t be [...]
During Google’s First Quarter 2012 meeting, CEO Larry Page slightly hinted at an upcoming Android tablet stating that Google was “quite focused on” the lower priced tablet market. This falls in line with the longstanding rumors that Google would be co-branding their own 7-inch tablet sometime this summer. Depending on which unconfirmed rumor you use [...]
I bought a 7” Acer Iconia A100 as an inexpensive hold-me-over device while I waited for the coming wave of new, Ice Cream Sandwich powered 10” Android tablets that would be introduced in 2012. The problem for me? I fell in love with the size. Now, instead of looking out for a new 10” tablet [...]
First Thoughts I was so excited to get this. I have had it a good long time and I am quite sad to give it up. I had heard many times that it was quite comparable to the iPad, even after some screen issues with the glass popping out of the bezel (taken care of [...]
The Battle of The eReaders Turned Tablets The Amazon Kindle Fire introduced weeks ago is a powerful dual core tablet with Android underpinnings overlayed with an Amazon OS that combines everything the major online retailer has to offer in rich 7″ tablet all for $199. Barnes & Noble saw the threat to their original Nook [...]
The Top Ten Android Tablets Sept. 2011 Android Tablets are steadily gaining popularity as more manufacturers release variants with different sizes, features, and price points. If you are looking to get in on the tablet action there is definitely a Honeycomb option that will satisfy your needs. The original Honeycomb tablet the Motorola Xoom is [...]
First Thoughts I wasn’t so sure what to think of this tablet, it seemed bulkier than what I would like, or so I thought, it also had heard it wasn’t built as good as it could have been and that a few other things weren’t up to par, however, the price was quite a nice [...]
First Thoughts I had thought that a 7 inch tablet was a good idea, the other thing I had heard is that it was Gingerbread, this was bad to me. Gingerbread is awesome, but honeycomb is what I want on tablets, or so I thought. First impressions are a bit deal but aren’t everything and [...]
I just know that Motorola HAS NOT learned their lesson. Which lesson is that? You know, the lesson of coming late to the tablet party with a $600 cost of entry. Well, the quad-core Tegra 3 is expected to ship later this year and if gizmocrunch is to be believed, the first tablet to ship [...]
A few weeks ago there was an “analyst” named Trip Chowdry from Global Equities Research that famously claimed that the Motorola Xoom had sold only 25,000 units. Or was it 120,000? See, he wasn’t really sure because he only called a grand total of 21 stores to find out how the device was selling. From [...]
Are you a reader in Canada who prefers Rogers as their carrier? Today should be your techie Christmas! The LG Optimus Pad is now available for either $449,$649, or $699 depending on how committed you choose to be to your carrier. It has Android 3.0, a 3D Camera, Tegra 2 processor and an 8.9 inch [...]
That might not be exactly what he said, but that’s how I read it; and he’s right. Too much of the current crop of Honeycomb tablets just suck, and for lots of different reasons. Motorola CEO Sanjay Jah blamed part of the problem on the lack of apps, saying this: During an earnings conference call, [...]
The article at Android and Me makes it seem like they finally believe that an Android based tablet is coming soon from Amazon, but if you’ve been reading along here you’ve known for a while now that this was coming. I laid out all of the proof that anyone would need to be convinced of [...]
Gingerbread Arrives for Samsung Galaxy Tablet If you own one of the original Samsung Galaxy Tablets, you can certainly consider yourself an early adopter of the Android tablet platform. But while you got one of the first major Android tablets out there, you got in too early to get a taste of Honeycomb (3.0), the [...]
Staples seems to be morphing into the new Best Buy. Selling the Transformer and Iconia may not seem like a big deal, but the office supply chain is already selling the Xoom, the webOS ripoff Blackberry Playbook, the Dell 7” Streak and convertible Inspiron and others. They also offer the Nook, Nook Color and [...]
XDA for the win The guys at XDA are fast. As soon as word leaked that the Gingerbread update for the 7 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab was live in Europe (Italy) they got right to work porting to the masses. The build is JQ1 and its stock but that wont stop XDA as they are [...]
Yeah thats right all you HTC fanatics out there. If HTC had their way all you Google I/O attendees out their would have received a Sense-free, Honeycomb powered Flyer tablet AND an unspecified phone from their portfolio. Wow (by the way HTC if the offer is still open you can definitely get in touch…). This information comes from [...]
It’s Been So Long You Have Probably Forgoten Your Motorola Xoom Has A MicroSD Card Slot Techcrunch just did an interesting piece on the Motorola Xoom and its lack of a working microSD slot even though the hardware is there. Its not like it is even terribly hard for them to enable it, their are [...]
Pocket-Lint got a tip that Viewsonic will introduce the ViewPad 7x at Computex Taipei on May 31st. Viewsonic already sells a Froyo based version of this tablet known as the ViewPad 7, and according to this source the 7x will be an addition to the 7” line, not a replacement. Beyond a dual core Nvidia [...]
AT&T* announced today plans to offer the Cisco Cius™ to its business customers. The Cisco Cius is an ultra-portable mobile tablet that enables access to essential business applications for virtually anywhere, anytime collaboration. Cisco expects the Cius to be available for AT&T’s HSPA+ network in the fall of 2011. That’s the main idea behind this [...]
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