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 [...]
Just because Barnes & Noble released their new Nook Tablet doesn’t mean they are done with the Nook Color. Though the Nook Tablet improves on the formula established by their first color e-reader, a new update for the Nook Color is now available, opening up many of the new features put forth in the latest [...]
Over the past 24 hours or so there have been plenty of rumors floating around about upcoming Tegra 3 quad-core tablets that could be heading our way. While the Asus Transformer Prime is official, Lenovo recently got some news time with their apparent Tegra 3 tablet that is coming. Now HTC and Acer are joining [...]
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 [...]
read more … Continue Reading Here Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet image gallery Phil Nickinson – androidcentral.com
Youtube link for mobile viewing And let’s throw a third question in there: Will we see this in the U.S.- … Continue Reading Here Samsung Galaxy Note commercial asks same question as us: Phone or tablet- Phil Nickinson – androidcentral.com
It’s no secret that Motorola is already working on their followup to the Motorola XOOM. Some have been referring to it as the XOOM 2, others insist it will be the XOOM 4G, but no matter what you want to call it no one quite knows any solid details on the device that hopes to [...]
Android has never been truly known as a “gaming platform”. Sure, the Xperia Play is widely considered to be the “PlayStation Phone” and has Android, but the bulk of its games are made specifically for that device, and that’s not the Android way. With devices getting better graphical abilities and the overwhelming market share Android [...]
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, [...]
How Many Cores Do you Have? Tablets these days are going for more and more power. And that power is coming directly from the system-on-chip they use. In short, the processor really makes all the difference when it comes to Android tablet power. To give you an example, the Motorola Xoom is running off a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Its good to see more and more quality apps getting the full Honeycomb treatment. The SDK has been out for months now, but its possible that most developer were waiting for a few devices to test their applications out on. Either way, Honeycomb optimized apps have been starting to flow in, and XOOM owners like [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
PCWorld just did an interesting article entitled ‘Five Things Google Needs to Fix on Android 3.0 Honeycomb‘ and it brings up some very good points. Honeycomb is great but things need improving and I think the 5 points PCWorld raise deserve looking at and debating. 1. Improved Image Rendering Images appear to lack vivid colours [...]
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 [...]
Feedly has now updated to version 2.0, which brings a very beautiful Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) UI and phone updates. It comes preloaded with a bunch of well categorized news feeds such as Engagdet, Joystiq, and a bunch more. It has a very well put together Google Reader integration, which will display all your feeds in a [...]
Acer seems to making big plans to add to its tablet line-up. We have seen several tablets from Acer in the recent past and it seems we can expect to see more and soon. From the looks of it Acer will be releasing a 7-inch version of the A500 Android based tablet in June. This [...]
Galaxy Tab 8.9 In Action The Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is finally being shown in working form. The demo tablet shown at MWC did not actually power on so this is the first sighting of the ultra thin Tab running Android 3.0 Honeycomb. To put the thinness of the Tab in perspective it actually comes in thinner [...]
Motorola Mobility released their Q1 results yesterday, and while less than impressive it shows that improvements have been made. Revenues are up, losses are down, shipments are up and they are beginning to accumulate some cash at the end of their balance sheet. From the Moto Mobility Investor website: First Quarter Financial Highlights Net revenues [...]
On Tuesday, we reported on the Lenovo ThinkPad tablet which is scheduled for release in July, and we’ve previously covered their upcoming Skylight Slate and LePad 2 tablets, but it appears the Chinese heavy hitter have yet another Android tablet up their sleeves. The above leaked Powerpoint slide confirms the release dates we reported for the [...]
The Motorola XOOM has only been out for about 2 months, and it looks like the second update is already on its way. The first one was basically bug fixes and enabling support for Flash 10.2 which came out only a few days after that update. It looks like the focus on the second update [...]
Our buddies over at TmoNews received a tip that the HTC Flyer will be landing at T-mobile, as early as July 6th. Now keep in mind when dates are set this soon they are definitely subject to change. So don’t write that down in ink. This 7in. tablet is already expected to be available this [...]
The Acer Iconia A500 also went on sale on Tuesday at Best Buy and many stores still have this one in stock. BestBuy.com also list this one as available. Sure, it’s $50 more than the Transformer but it comes wrapped in a nice metal case and you can get one today. It would actually be [...]
Android Will Lead Tablet Market If you think back to a little more than a year ago the Apple iPhone was dominating the smartphone market and Android was just beginning to make a name for itself. Fast forward to present day and the Android platform has seen rapid growth to become the leader of smartphone market [...]
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Not Delayed, to be Released Tuesday The other day we posted a rumor about the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer getting delayed till June. Well now to the delight of many of you, you can scratch that out, it wasn’t true in any way at all. It is pretty much confirmed that [...]
Well it looks like all you folks up north will be greeted with the new Dell Streak 7 tablet very soon. Dell Canada has the tablet shipping on April 28th, and carrying a 449.99 price tag. That price seems a little hefty for not sporting Android 3.0 (Honeycomb), but it does have some good specs [...]
The gdgt blog posits that Amazon is going to introduce an Android tablet, and they even go so far as to predict that Samsung will be the maker of said device. I have said before that Amazon tablets are coming, so this type of rumor isn’t surprising to me. I previously predicted phones as well, but [...]
When the pieces of the puzzle were getting joined together, ASUS’ much anticipated Honeycomb (Android 3.0) tablet is being reportedly delayed. Amazon was the first place to let the word out of the Eee Pad Transformer being delayed. They said to their customers to not expect the tablet until June. Can’t Blame Technical Difficulties This dockable tablet, [...]
Toshiba’s first Android tablet attempt, the Folio 100, never made it to the US after getting very lackluster reviews and suffering from very high return rates. I doubt that either of those will be an issue for the new Toshiba Regza, a 10.1” Honeycomb powered tablet. From my first glance this should be a contender [...]
Under the category of “with a grain of salt”, Mobilesyrup.com is reporting that a source within Rogers has given them information that the LG Optimus Tab and Huawei S7 tablets are set to drop on May 10th. If the date holds up, the releases will cover both the high and low-end of the tablet spectrum. LG [...]
This review has been a long time in coming. You may have heard that shipments for the Notion Ink Adam were delayed a bit. I ordered during the first day, buy my order was delayed three times. When it finally shipped, it got from China to the US in three business days. I had received [...]
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