With a 10.1-inch display, the Tegra 2-powered Acer Iconia Tab A500 in WiFi-only edition may prove to be a worthy and more affordable alternative to Motorola’s WiFi Xoom tablet sporting Google’s Honeycomb operating system. The Iconia Tab is now available for pre-order through Best Buy in the United States and will go on sale come [...]
Yesterday we linked to information about Apple getting a patent on technology that allows for discrete and/or capacitive buttons on the bezel of a device. We’ve heard in the past about Apple and others exploring technology to allow touch on both front and back sides of devices. In my admittedly limited experiences with Android devices, [...]
Apple may be looking to more aggressively tackle Amazon and the e-reader market with its latest patent filing for a hybrid display system that can dynamically switch between an e-ink display and an LCD display depending on the application used. The Apple system would, like its graphics options on computers, not require the intervention of [...]
Best Buy may be the latest the experience the wrath of Apple after a sales incident that will result in Apple discontinuing its iPad 2 relationship with the big box retailer. According to CrunchGear, a Best Buy employee had tipped the site alleging that Best Buy had withheld sales of the iPad 2 in stock, [...]
While the LG G-Slate tablet will be able to capture 3D videos and images with its rear-mounted dual-lens camera, the tablet is not one with a glasses-free experience and now we’re learning that T-Mobile will be bundling 3D glasses with sales of the slate. The 3D glasses that will be bundled with the G-Slate will [...]
In the latest funding round where Kno sees a $30 million cash infusion from Intel Capital and Advance Publications, Intel will also get to license Kno’s hardware reference designs for its single- and dual-screen tablets targeted at the education market. News of the Intel licensing comes after Know had indicated that it would abandon the [...]
Barnes & Noble is seeking apps for its upcoming Nook Color app store, which has been rumored to be launching sometime this month. The device has already become a favorite for its price and hackability. “Rooting” a Nook turns it into an inexpensive Android tablet capable of downloading and installing Android Marketplace apps as well [...]
Some are surprised by this and some seem not to be. I’m in the latter camp. Google is apparently working on a Tablet version of Chrome OS. CNet is reporting that some details in the Chrome OS source code point to some Tablet (read touch) optimized features such as a virtual keyboard and a new [...]
Apple may be the culprit behind Research in Motion‘s delayed launch of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet, which is now said to be delayed for up to a month after the April 19th release date. According to a report by DigiTimes, RIM may be having difficulties in securing enough touchscreen displays for the company’s $500 7-inch [...]
Amidst fears and concerns over the future openness of the Android operating system, Google’s Andy Rubin has chimed in to correct and contradict recent Internet speculations in a blog post. Rubin is defending Google’s initiatives and maintains that Android will continue to be an open operating system to use without fears of restrictions. Android to [...]
New screenshots of HP’s and Palm’s webOS 3.0 operating system hints at what’s to come in terms of the mobile OS’s user interface for the TouchPad tablet, which we had seen initially at the HP Think Beyond event in San Francisco, California. The interesting thing, aside from the tablet naming number convention between webOS 3.0 [...]
One thing is always certain. Before a major product launch we start seeing screen shots trickle out. I’m guessing this is just the beginning of that part of the game for HP’s WebOS. PreCentral has a series of shots that show off shots of Bing, Maps, the browser, the Device Menu and a few others. [...]
Early adopters of the Android 2.2 Froyo-powered Samsung Galaxy Tab 7-inch are now treated with a functional, yet unofficial, port of Android 3.0 Honeycomb for the small pocket-able tab. Though Samsung has remained silent on whether the 7-inch tablet will get Android 3.0 in the future, the Galaxy Tab-maker has since announced 8.9- and 10.1-inch versions of [...]
A recent Apple patent filing for a Spaces-like feature for a tablet device, though it’s unclear if the feature may make it to a future iPad or iOS revision. In fact, by nature of Spaces, the feature may be more suited to a Mac OS X tablet rather than an iOS-powered iPad. Spaces is a [...]
Following in the launch of the Kyocera Echo, a dual-screen smartphone-tablet hybrid that won Notebook.com’s Best of CTIA award, Kyocera is rumored to be jumping into the tablet market with a gaming tablet. The rumored Katsura tablet, which means tree in Japanese, would have an etched pattern on the back-side and would probably be Android-focused. [...]
While the debate over how ready Microsoft will make its next iteration of Windows–Windows 8–tablet-ready is continuing, Microsoft is continuing to experiment with the ribbons user interface that was present on Windows 7 and its Office suite and extend the paradigm into Windows 8. Gone will be the menu-driven toolbars in favor of the ribbon, [...]
One year ago I got my first iPad on April 3, just like a bunch of other folks. it was a crazy and scary weekend. My mother was terminally ill and she experienced an incident leading us to think she might die that weekend. I was all prepared to do a video review of the [...]
Despite all of the April Fools jokes running wild on the Internet today, there is a lot of real notebook, tablet and smart phone news worth checking out. Notebook News For the Week of April 1st: We kicked off World Backup Day with a collection of deals on services and storage that will help you [...]
That was quick, but then that’s how these things go. Shortly after Netbooknews.de posted that they had seen a page up for the Asus Eee Pad Transformer at Best Buy, that web page is no longer there. (yep the link at the moment is a 404). We linked to that info earlier. Certainly we’re all [...]
Further moving the iPad from content consumption to production device, Adobe has unveiled its latest efforts in bringing Photoshop to the iOS tablet, giving photographers more image editing controls. Photoshop for iPad will bring more features and controls to photo editing on the mobile tablet than the current Photoshop Express title. Photography Bay shows some [...]
While the Lenovo LePad–which may be known in the U.S. as the Skylight tablet–won’t be shipping until June, Lenovo CEO Yang Tuanqing is letting people know that a LePad 2 will be slimmer than the original and will be arriving just a few months after that in the Fall. LePad is already currently shipping in China [...]
As Amazon had recently registered a domain name for Scratchpad, there has been speculation on the Internet that the Internet retailer may soon launch its own tablet to compete with rival bookseller Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color and Apple’s iPad under the Scratchpad brand. However, that may not be the case as the Scratchpad name [...]
Paywall discussions and big media trying to figure out how to turn their aging business models into a Tablet revenue stream are big and hot topics these days. Viewing and analyzing these efforts often focus on the fact that the folks doing all the agonizing over this don’t get the new ways of the Internet [...]
Is the Barnes & Noble Nook Color Android-based dedicated color e-reading tablet the best selling tablet in North America outside of Apple’s iPad? This seems to be the case according to a report by DigiTimes, which says that the versatile and easily rooted and hackable tablet has managed to garner “over 50% of the iPad-like [...]
Microsoft’s Craig Mundie is taking some heat for making some comments before the Committee of Economic Development of Australia in Sydney that he’s not sure Tablets (think iPad) are with us for the long haul. Saying he did not know if Tablets “would remain with us or not,” Mundie is talking long term although the [...]
I need to take my hands away from scratching my head on this one before I can type this post. We’d heard back in January that RIM’s tablet, The Playbook would possibly launch without email, calendar, and PIM clients. That was a puzzler then and it still is now. It lead to much speculation that [...]
Kickstarter projects I think can best be described as crowd sourced startups. A company announces a new product, takes pre-orders (or “investments”) and eventually comes out with the product or project. It’s not just for gadgets, its for all sorts of creative ideas. There’s a time line attached to the when the amount necessary has [...]
HP’s John Rubenstein recently appeared on the Engadget Show and clarified a bit about how webOS will run on all those non-tablet HP computers. Apparently it is going to run in a window on Microsoft Windows. I haven’t watched the video yet, but according to mobiputing, this won’t be a dual boot solution nor will [...]
Ha! All I can do is laugh. Samsung is taking some heat after introducing its new “slimmer than an iPad” Galaxy Tabs at CTIA earlier this week. The 8.9 and 10.1 inch models caught attention from all quarters and then caught even more when Samsung didn’t have units handy for reporters and bloggers to go [...]
The folks at CNet discovered an interesting tidbit at the Home Shopping Network – a Nook Color with Apps selling for $300. That’s a little over priced for the normally $250 device. But what was interesting was, not the expensive bundle, but the detail that an April update will be coming that adds the ability [...]
Of course the iPad2 would finally arrive on a day that I was in a tech rehearsal from 11am to 11pm. That seems to be how these things go in my life of late. I was glad it finally arrived however, and I’m sure Apple is glad that they got some of the early orders [...]
Well, you can call it hands on if you count non-working units in the mix. Samsung is eager to prove that it has skin in the tablet game going forward and Engadget got to take a look at non-working models of the Samsung 8.9 and 10.1 inch tablets that are yet to come. And when [...]
In addition to the Dell Streak 7 for T-Mobile USA’s network, Dell is prepping a WiFi-only model of the 7-inch Android 2.2 tablet with a WVGA resolution. The Streak 7′s WVGA resolution may be a disappointment for some as it’s the standard smartphone resolution for higher-end devices, but is seen as being low for a [...]
We’ll be live in Orlando, Florida this week to bring you the best and latest from the CTIA Wireless 2011 conference, but ahead of show-time, we’re hearing leaks of what Sprint will announce. From the looks of it, Sprint will most likely steal the show with an aggressive lineup of WiMax 4G-capable devices, including a [...]
While Archos has been making a number of portable media players–tablets and music listening devices–that run on the Android operating system, none of those systems released to date come with mobile broadband 3G access, placing Archos at a disadvantage against players like Samsung’s Galaxy Tab and Motorola’s Xoom Honeycomb tablets. That’s about to change as [...]
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Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE Review: A Worthy Successor to the Original (Video)
When Sprint had debuted the original WiMax-capable HTC EVO 4G nearly two years ago, it was an instant hit on the Now network. Not only was the HTC EVO 4G the first 4G smartphone in the world taking advantage of Sprint’s then speedy WiMax network, but it brought some new features and pizzazz to the [...]
Last year Toshiba waded into the Android tablet market with the Thrive, a 10.1-inch slate that served as the company’s response to what they deemed missing in the then current crop. Thus, it had several full-size ports, a rugged-ish exterior, and a thick chassis to accommodate both. Though a decent tablet, the Thrive didn’t generate [...]
Samsung Shows That It Is a Software Company
As exciting as it has been to talk, postulate, and speculate about the Galaxy S III’s hardware and specs before the third-generation Galaxy flagship smartphone was announced on May 3rd in London, once the device was announced one thing became apparent: Samsung is now a software company. That doesn’t mean that Samsung is shying away [...]
Autumn Dynasty Review: A Great RTS for the iPad
With its large touchscreen, the iPad seems like the perfect platform for Real Time Strategy games, and Autumn Dynasty proves it, mostly. Autumn Dynasty is an RTS iPad game with art that looks like tradition Chinese painting. The story involves quelling a rebellion while solving a mystery of shady noblemen. The story though, just serves [...]
Griffin GuitarConnect Pro Review: Record Your Jams with Ease
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
Google just delivered a beautiful update to the company’s Google Search app for the iPhone and iPad The Google Search app for iPhone and iPad replaced Safari as my browser of choice, earning a spot in the iPhone and iPad dock. It’s faster and offers a beautiful new full screen image search which looks awesome on the [...]
