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 [...]
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 [...]
This one has been rumored for a few weeks now and we’ve covered those rumors here as well as here. Today, the Canadian focused blog mobilesyrup.com has managed to get their hands on the product launch flyer for the . It will go on sale on May 17th and the price will range from $449 [...]
There are Xoom owners on the XDA Developers forum that are reporting that the Honeycomb 3.1 update is already hitting their tablets. There are both Wi-Fi only as well as 3G owners that have claimed to already gotten the update, or had it fail because the device is rooted. Check the image below of one [...]
I covered this tablet back in April and was impressed enough with what it had to offer. On paper. From that first story: Feature highlights: Android 3.0 Honeycomb 10.1-inch LCD @ 1,280×800 resolution LED backlight Tegra 2 (1GHz) CPU 1GB RAM 16GB internal memory IEEE 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5MP rear camera, 2MP front camera HDMI, [...]
Well apparently someone jumped the gun already, and has put up their special edition tablet on eBay. Today at day 1 of Google I/O, every single attendee was gracious enough to get their own custom special edition of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. As of right now, the Gtab 10.1 is up to $1,325 with 26 [...]
During the mammoth session that was the keynote address at Google I/O today, it was announced that everyone of the 5,000 attendees would receive a free limited edition Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The device that was originally announced at Mobile World Congress, and later re-announced at CTIA with a new look and thinner form factor, is [...]
Google is calling Honeycomb 3.1 an incremental release, but this point version includes some incredible features for users and developers both. From the Android Developers blog, here’s the list of the new features along with a brief explanation of each: Open Accessory API. This new API provides a way for Android applications to integrate and [...]
Starting today those of you using a VZW powered Xoom tablet will being to see the Honeycomb 3.1 OTA update begin rolling out today. Honeycomb 3.1 is a little more than just a point update. Google is introducing a new way to manage your running and most recent apps. Instead of accessing a limited number [...]
Looks like the guys and gals at PocketNow got a little tip slipped their way today. The picture you see above is apparently the HTC Puccini (more on the name later), a new Honeycomb tablet made in collaboration between HTC and AT&T which will use AT&T’s 4G network. The 4G network will reportedly be of [...]
Too Many Android Tablets? An analyst recently wrote an editorial saying that the influx of Android tablets into the market will lead to oversupply and a negative impact on the Google tablet OS. While the article makes a few good points manly the tablet is a luxury item and the phone is a necessity. While also [...]
This BeBook Live is no joke. At $279 I thought it would have the specs of a Blackberry Pearl, but it’s actually much better than that. It has a really funny promotional video to boot, though you might choose to use it a little differently if you pick one up. At about the :12 mark [...]
If I were the head of some tech company like ASUS that just made the first Android tablet that had any reasonable amount of consumer demand I’d be quite happy to let my potential customers think that we had made every single tablet that we could. The thing stopping us from making more is, we’re [...]
Target joins the list of places selling WiFi only Xoom Ah finally the WiFi only Motorola Xoom tablet a lot of us have all been waiting for appears to be slated to go on sale at Target real soon according to Android Central. I think Motorola has a lot of hope that it will boost [...]
As we previously reported on April 20th, the LG Optimus Pad is heading to Rogers in Canada. AndroidCentral has that new image that they say is an early look at Rogers sales material for the new tablet. This rumor doesn’t do anything to confirm the May 10th release date, nor does it reveal any pricing [...]
I didn’t want to laugh when I read that HTC is going to ask for $80 for the Flyer magic pen, I just couldn’t help myself. I saw the video embedded below a few weeks ago and I’ll admit that I thought it was an interesting idea. But $80? We’ve covered the Flyer so I [...]
First Thoughts I was quite excited when LG told me they would be sending this device to me, it had been a while since I had a Xoom and I had not yet played with the new update 3.0.1. Needless to say the update did not disappoint but the 3D was a bit of a downer. The Looks From [...]
It’s really odd to see a new product pre-announcement in an 8-K filing with the SEC, but that’s how B&N chose to leak info about their upcoming Nook release. Since the discovery of this 8-K the rumor mill has kicked in to high gear and shares of B&N have shot up, but there’s really nothing [...]
Samsung debuted, in Korea, a new hybrid tablet, called the SENS-240. Essentially the SENS-240 is a car navigation device that Bluetooth pairs itself with your smartphone, and gives you a better navigation experience. While paired with your phone, it requires your phones voice, data, voice search functions, and video functions to display on the tablet’s 7 inch screen.The [...]
It seems as though Samsung pulled a quick one on us. They have downgraded the internals of the 7 inch Galaxy Tab wifi only model. The GPU, graphics processing unit, is responsible for rendering games and video on your device. If you look closely at the picture you can see it says PowerVR SGX 530. [...]
NVIDIA Tegra 3 to Power Future ASUS Tablets, More Tabs Coming The ASUS Transformer has duly impressed, to the point that the manufacturer can’t get ahold of enough touchscreens to build more than 10,000 a month. But future products from ASUS aren’t going to leave you content with the current offerings. DigiTimes announced that ASUS [...]
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