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Toshiba announces three new Android Tablets
Toshiba just announced 3 new tablets in their Excite Android tablet family. The new Excite slates are equipped with thinner and lighter designs, high definition displays and a wide range of ports and features. Toshiba will release a 7.7-inch model, a 10.1-inch model and a 13.3-inch model, and all three slates feature scratch-resistant Corning Gorilla Glass, quad-core NVIDIA Tegra [...]
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Lenovo unveils IdeaTab S2109
Without much notice, Lenovo has gone public with a product-tour YouTube video for its 9.7-inch (1,024 x 768 IPS LCD) tablet. This Android 4.0 device comes in an 8.9mm-thick, gunmetal-finish unibody shell that packs a 1.3-megapixel front camera (yet no back camera), microSD slot, micro-HDMI, micro-USB and 10 hours worth of battery juice.
There’s no confirmation on the specific [...]
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Sony Tablet S and Tablet P ICS-Bound (video)
Sony confirmed that an Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update is soon headed to the Tablet S and Tablet P. The devices will receive an Android 4.0.3 update next month, however it is sketch whether this is only for the Japanese market. After all, the announcement was made by the Japanese division of the giant.
Along with Google’s latest operating system, the update will also expand [...]
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Google Nexus Tablet Coming For Sure
Google chairman Eric Schmidt recently stated that his company is planning to market a tablet of the highest quality. Since this statement, rumors have been spreading like a fire-storm surrounding a Google-branded slate, the Google Nexus Tablet. DisplaySearch analyst Richard Shim recently suggested that a Nexus-branded tablet will enter production in April for an initial run of between [...]
Nokia Windows 8 Tablet Coming This Year
Speculation is pointing to a Nokia launch of a Windows 8-based tabletin the 4th quarter of this year. The new tablet is believed to have a 10-inch screen and run a dual-core Qualcomm ARM processor. The chip inside is expected to be the Snapdragon S4 Krait.
The Windows 8 device by Nokia is expected to be built by Compal who will be making around 200,000 of them for launch.
Nokia has commented [...]
ASUS PadFone Hitting Shelves in April
ASUS first announced the PadFone back in May of last year where it was made official. After several months, we now hear that the company will likely be launching the device in April of this year.
The PadFone is unique as it is a mixture of a tablet and a phone that are combined together to work as a single device.
The launch information comes from the ASUS Google+ account, which simply [...]
LG introduces Samsung Note-competitor, the Optimus Vu (video)
LG recently introduced the new Optimus Vu 5-inch tablet, a week before the handset’s Mobile World Congress debut. The Vu features a 5-inch IPS display and is a hybrid between a smartphone and a tablet. The device is thinner than the competing Samsung Galaxy Note, coming in a 8.5 millimeters.
“The Optimus Vu: was designed to maximize what customers could do with a smart-phone,” [...]
Lenovo releases the 10-Inch Transformable IdeaTab S2
Lenovo just released a new tablet, the Lenovo IdeaTab S2. The device measures just 8.69mm thick and comes with a 10-inch display. The operating system runs Google’s latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich.
The keyboard is an extra, which adds a little thickness to the tablet. In a similar way to the Transformer Prime, the S2 keyboard allows the tablet portion to be docked so it [...]
PCs Here to Stay as Tablet Sales Drop
The tablet market, which was cited as the fastest growing sector in technology by every tech publication imaginable a couple of months ago, might be seeing an abrupt shift in this designation. While industry experts saw every manufacturing giant scrambling to come out with their own best-selling slate this year, the emerging consensus today cites a trend that might be leaning back towards [...]
Nielsen says U.S. Kids Looking Forward to “iHoliday” 2011
Kids are hoping to get a lot more than board games and coloring books this holiday season
A new Nielsen survey looked at which consumer electronics are the most desired by kids and found that Apple appears to be the consumer electronics brand to beat. Kids ages 6-12 covet the iPad, iPod Touch and iPhone, while teens showed heightened appeal for the iPad, computers and e-readers. Many [...]
Barnes and Noble unveils Nook Tablet
Bookseller Barnes & Noble unveiled their latest iteration of the Nook family, the Nook Tablet, during an NYC press event this week.
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Tablets, the New Business PC?
Do you ever notice that it doesn’t take long for all of the cool consumer gadgets to quickly migrate into the business world? Smartphones, once marketed to gizmo junkies, are now standard issue to most company employees requiring mobile computing. They are as necessary as online business administration degrees. As of late, we’ve seen an atom-bomb-explosion of tablet devices [...]
Sprint launches HTC EVO 3D & EVO View 4G June 24th
Sprint just announced the much anticipated HTC EVO 3D and the HTC EVO View 4G tablet, and said that it will be on shelves June 24th.
The EVO 3D, which will retail for $199.99 on contract, features a 4.3-inch qHD 3D display and a class-leading 1.2GHz dual-core processor atop Android 2.3 Gingerbread. The glasses-free 3D display is a first among devices offered by U.S. carriers, and the phone will [...]
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iPad 3 with 4G LTE slated before Christmas
Apple will rock their new 4G LTE-enabled iPad 3 tablet later this year according to a china-based research firm. They say that Apple’s iPad 3 will launch before Christmas.
The research firm also says that the Retina Display will be included, albeit much improved in the resolution category…. if that’s possible.
Finally, the firm added that it does not expect Apple to launch a 4G LTE-enabled [...]
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ViewSonic ViewPad 7x Android Tablet review (video)
ViewSonic officially announced the ViewPad 7x Android tablet at the 2011 Computex show. While competition is fierce amongst the new Honeycomb tablets ravaging the market, this little ViewSonic baby also runs Android 3.0.1 Honeycomb, is powered by a dual-core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, has HSPA+ connectivity, an HDMI-out port, rear and front facing cameras, and a 7-inch LED display with a 1024 x [...]
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ASUS Padfone review (video)
ASUS took the wraps off of the second of their line of convertible tablets, and this one is cool as hell. Using what ASUS calls the “n+1″ concept, which refers to taking a current product and adding a single change that allows the product to evolve beyond its current capability, ASUS looks to dumb-down the process of moving between a tablet and a phone.
Enter the Padfone, a very different 10.1-inch [...]
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Amazon working on family of Android products including a smartphone
Android is planning to release an entire portfolio of Android products, not just one tablet as originally reported. The rumor hasn’t specified whether or not Amazon is planning multiple sized tablets, or a tablet and a new Android-powered eReader, although there’s some speculation that a smartphone could be in the works too.
It’s no secret that the company is working on at least one tablet. [...]
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GOOGLE ANNOUNCES EVERYTHING!- Honeycomb 3.1, Ice Cream Sandwich, Movies, Music, Android Open Accessory & Android @Home
Where do I start….Google had it’s I/O developer’s conference event today in San Francisco, and it was a gadget news doozy. They announced so much that it’ll make your head spin. First off, the Cupertino company announced its first major update to the Honeycomb OS, Honeycomb 3.1. Key features include resizable home screen widgets, added support for new input devices like [...]
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New Barnes & Noble Android eReader coming May 24th
Barnes and Noble is planning to launch a new Android eReader May 24th. The new eReader gadget hit gadget news during a meeting with analysts and investors, saying “it expects to make an announcement on May 24, 2011 regarding the launch of a new eReader device.”
Whether this is a new-gen NOOK or not is unknown. But if it is, you can probably expect it will have more powerful hardware and perhaps [...]
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Amazon proprietary tablet coming Summer
Amazon is in development of new tablet device that may launch as early as this summer. According to reports, Amazon has chosen Samsung to help design and build the tablet, which may run Honeycomb or even a custom operating system based on Google’s Android platform. Rumors of an Amazon tablet have been around for quite some time, and Android was always expected to be Amazon’s OS of choice. News [...]
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Adobe Eazel, Nav and Color Lava apps give iPad glimpse of mobile Photoshop (video)
Adobe announced the latest version of its Creative Suite software, version 5.5, which includes a new SDK for building smartphone and tablet applications that can interact with its famous Photoshop desktop software. To showcase some of the possibilities brought about by its new SDK, Adobe also introduced three new apps for Apple’s iPad. Adobe Eazel is a finger painting app with enhanced controls [...]
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HP webOS 3.0 available for testing to developers (video)
HP announced at its London webOS CONNECT event that webOS 3.0 beta is available for developers. The SDK includes support for HP’s new Enyo apps framework, which offers hardware acceleration, browser-based development, better performance, support for HTML 5 standards, and more. The webOS 3.0 operating system powers the HP TouchPad. HP also announced plans to launch a revamped developer portal [...]
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ASUS Eee Pad Transformer cool convertible (video)
The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer may not make it to the U.S., but it is a very feature-packed device that marries a standard 10.1-inch tablet with a QWERTY-equipped hinged dock. When combined, the result is a full-sized touchscreen laptop experience that can afford up to a staggering 16-hours of battery life on a single charge. When apart, the Eee Pad Transformer becomes a regular Honeycomb tablet. Spec [...]
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AT&T’s new Acer Iconia Tab A501, coming summer
AT&T is stepping up with the upcoming summer launch of the 4G-enabled Acer Iconia Tab A501 Android tablet. The A501 features Google’s Android 3.0 (Honeycomb) operating system as well as a 10-inch touchscreen display, a dual-core Tegra 2 processor, a 5-megapixel rear camera, a front-facing camera for video chat and an HDMI-port capable of piping 1080p HD video to any attached device.
“Consumers [...]
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Sprint unveils the HTC EVO View 4G tablet (video)
Sprint had a big day today at the CTIA show, announcing the EVO 3D smartphone and now a 4G WiMAX version of the HTC Flyer tablet, dubbed the EVO View 4G. The EVO View 4G has a 7-inch 1024 x 600-pixel capacitive touchscreen display, an aluminum uni-body design and a 4,000 mAh battery. It comes with a few unique software features developed by HTC, including HTC Scribe, a note taking application that [...]
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Samsung bringing Galaxy Tab Honeycomb in 8.9″ size (video)
Samsung launched the 8.9-inch Galaxy Tab during CTIA this week, its third Android-powered tablet. The Galaxy Tab 8.9 runs Android 3.0 Honeycomb, and features a mini-apps drawer for quickly launching your favorite applications. A future update will also bring Samsung’s custom UI to the slate. As its name implies, the Galaxy Tab 8.9 has an 8.9-inch screen with a 1280 x 600-pixel resolution. Despite [...]
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HP TouchPad official with June Launch
It was reported earlier that the HP TouchPad, the company’s first webOS tablet, would ship in June, and HP’s CEO has comfirmed this date. Leo Apotheker officially announed the release date at the enterprise-focused HP Summit in San Francisco. He also went on to detail that the webOS PC initiative would launch in beta, and run in a web browser “later this year.” If you haven’t seen [...]
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ViewPad 10 from ViewSonic now available (video)
ViewSonic has announced the availability of its unique dual-boot tablet, the ViewPad 10. The ViewPad 10 is an Atom-based tablet that features a 10-inch 1024 x 600-pixel touchscreen display, a 1.66GHz Intel Atom processor, 2GB of memory, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR and a 1.3 megapixel front-facing camera for video chat. Most notably, however, it features a dual-boot configuration that [...]
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Microsoft will be late to party again with 2012 tablet
You’d think as ginormous and innovative as a company like Microsoft has been in the past, that they would be a little quicker on the draw with the latest tablet and smartphone devices, and offering a little bigger competitive fight than what we’ve seen in the last few years. But here we go again. After entering the smartphone and mobile OS business recently with Windows Phone 7 and [...]
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Verizon carrying iPad 2 at launch as well (video)
Verizon has just put the iPad 2 on their website, and says that the Apple updated tablet will be available on the launch date, March 11th. While no formal announcement has been made, and the details surrounding the launch have not been clarified, Verizon is expected to begin selling the iOS tablet at 5:00PM local time on launch day, inline with those other retailers that will introduce the much anticipated [...]
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