Computer-makers Acer and Lenovo are targeting the third quarter of this year to launch tablets with Intel’s x86 architecture and Microsoft’s Windows 8 platform, which has been re-designed in face of stiff competition from consumer-centric mobile operating systems delivered by rivals Apple and Google. The Win-tel tablets will mostly be geared at enterprise users, who [...]
Research in Motion is now offering a sale on its PlayBook tablet, pricing the 16, 32, and 64 GB models at $299 each with shipping included. As the BlackBerry-maker has been struggling to move its most inexpensive 16 GB models at regular retail price, my guess is that there is now an excess of 32 [...]
It looks like Toshiba is working on a quad-core Android tablet with Tegra 3 on-board. A tablet made by Toshiba was spotted being benchmarked on benchmarking site AnTuTu with the model number ‘toshiba06.’ The tablet’s performance results were on par with other Tegra 3-powered tablets, such as the recently released Asus Transformer Prime. The clock speed [...]
Sony’s Playstation-certified Tablet S is now seeing a price cut for both the 16 GB and 32 GB versions. Both versions will get $100 knocked off, bringing the price down to $400 and $500 respectively. It’s unclear if this is the move represents Sony’s plans to introduce a successor model or if the company is [...]
Pantech is rumored to be making a tablet for U.S. carrier AT&T, and that tablet is now pegged for an early 2012 launch. Neither companies had made any announcements about the tablet, but a Korean website is now saying that the slate is due with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and 4G LTE network connectivity, [...]
Verizon is already starting to slash the price of its recently released 4G LTE Motorola Xyboard tablets, which are available in 8.9- and 10.1-inch variants. The discount of $50 applies only to those who are willing to sign up for a contract for a two-year data plan on the two slates. Those wishing to pay [...]
It appears that Acer will be giving its 10.1-inch Iconia Tab A500 a big bump in specs with the Iconia Tab A700, seen as a successor to the more budget-friendly A500. The Iconia Tab A700 will not only get a bump to NVIDIA’s quad-core Tegra 3 processor, up from the NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 dual-core CPU, [...]
Intel’s reference tablet with the company’s Atom-based Medfield processor clocked at 1.6 GHz was captured in photos. The tablet had been previously displayed at the Intel Developer Forum earlier this year, but the Medfield version of the slate was heavily guarded and kept behind glass. Now, it appears that someone has been able to obtain [...]
Verizon Wireless is preparing a software update for its Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet made by Samsung with embedded 4G LTE wireless broadband. The update is expected to hit at any time now and will bring a number of enhancements to the lightweight slate along with Samsung’s proprietary TouchWiz user interface overlay on top of the [...]
Despite releasing relatively affordable Android tablets and smartphones on the market, like the Iconia Tab A500, Acer has not so far gained any momentum in the market, leading many to speculate that the company may be exiting the mobile market. However, that isn’t true, company founder Stan Shih fires back, saying that the company isn’t [...]
Huwei’s MediaPad 7-inch tablet, which is available with mobile 4G HSPA+ broadband service in the U.S. as the T-Mobile Springboard by Huawei, may be getting its own Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich official port soon. The tablet was released with a well-built unibody aluminum construction, Android 3.2 Honeycomb, and a high resolution 7-inch 1280 X [...]
A new leak for what appears to be the singular hardware button on the front side of Apple’s iOS-powered iPad 3 tablet suggests that the third incarnation of the slate will retain a button design, rather than go without any buttons as was previously suggested by some speculations with an iPhone 5 model before the [...]
JXD is hoping to differentiate its 7-inch S7100 Android tablet running on Google’s Froyo build by adding hardware gaming controls for those who like to play games on a mobile tablet. Adding gaming controls would help gamers have easier control of their games and allow for finer manipulations; casual gamers will also have access to [...]
In addition to landing on Sony Ericsson’s line of XPERIA smartphones, Google’s Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich platform will also be hitting Sony’s tablet. The Japanese consumer electronics giant had recently introduced two tablet models, the Sony Tablet P and the Sony Tablet S, and Ice Cream Sandwich is expected on both models according to [...]
While Android Honeycomb barely just recently made it to the smaller 7-inch screen form factor thanks to the release of Android 3.2, developers are hard at work on pushing the boundaries of what constitutes a tablet. The latest hack comes by way of Chris Wade, a developer who is successful in porting Google’s tablet OS [...]
As always this isn’t a list of gadgets, geegaws, accessories, or Apps. This wish list is about things I’d like to see happen in mobile tech in general. As always I’m an impatient old elf and would prefer to see movement here sooner rather than later. Here are links to last year’s wish list as [...]
What was once a field of dreams two years ago is now littered with casualties. Hopes and hype have been dashed. Strategies have been changed and are changing again. Generals have fallen. The fortunes of competitors have been ransacked, as others continue to enrich their treasuries. The fallout thus far will most likely be just [...]
In Samsung’s and Apple’s on-going patent design lawsuit, Samsung may have seemingly scored a victory against Apple’s iPad with its slightly re-designed Galaxy Tab 10.1N, which was created for the German market after Apple had won an early victory against the original Galaxy Tab 10.1. On the 10.1N model, Samsung made some slight modifications to [...]
While content is still sparse and limited for the BlackBerry Playbook, running on the BlackBerry Tablet OS, users of the tablet will now be happy to know that they too can join iOS and Android in partaking in the game of Angry Birds. The tablet edition of Angry Birds is now available in BlackBerry App [...]
In what is reported as a tip to Nokia-centric blog My Nokia Blog, Nokia has an expansive product launch schedule for 2012 spanning both smartphones and tablets. The company had recently unveiled two debut Windows Phone smartphones at the Nokia World convention in October, and is presumably hard at work to introduce other devices in [...]
In the month of November, there were more 7-inch LCD panels being manufactured than 9.7-inch panels, which are used on the iPad and iPad 2 tablets from Apple. In the past, late Apple CEO Steve Jobs had dismissed the 7-inch tablet market, stating that it did not offer users a good experience due to the [...]
At the Consumer Electronics Show slated for January 2012, OnStar is geared up to introduce a system that will bring video chat and streaming content to select vehicles in the General Motors fleet thanks to mobile broadband service from Verizon Wireless’ 4G LTE network. The new system will find home in the Chevy Volt. It’s [...]
Intel got into the giving mood this holiday season and decided to share the company’s take on the future of smartphones and tablets. Intel demoed a new phone and tablet running on an Intel Medfield chip to the Technology Review. The two devices, running Android Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich, don’t use the standard ARM processors that are found in most phones [...]
Samsung Mobile has just announced that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update will be made available on the company’s latest range of Android smartphone and tablet releases under the Galaxy brand. The update coming in the first quarter 2012 will be made available for the Galaxy S II, Galaxy Note, Galaxy Tab 10.1, Galaxy Tab [...]
According to a report from Notebook Italia (linked to by Slashgear) Google’s Eric Schmidt is promising “in the next six months we plan to market a tablet of the highest quality.” He was quoted in an interview with the Italian paper Corrierre della Sea. He’s also promising that voice recognition will be a big part [...]
Soon after the Transformer Prime became official, Amazon had begun taking pre-orders for the tablet, but the online retailer had quickly withdrawn its pre-order pages after that as it found out that inventory for the world’s first quad-core Tegra 3-powered Android tablet would be strained. It’s unclear if supply for the Transformer Prime is easing [...]
The saga of Fusion Garage looks like it may have come to an unfortunate end. According to a report on The Verge, founder Chandra Rathakrishnan has been uncommunicative for a period of time, customers can’t get any responses from a dead website, and the US PR firm representing Fusion Garage is pulling the plug on [...]
Speculations posit that Apple would begin production of a 7.85-inch iPad tablet starting in spring and that the device may ship in summer. As the company is expected to introduce a higher resolution 10-inch iPad 3 in the spring, this suggests that Apple would be staggering the launches of its tablets in 2012. DigiTimes claims [...]
Asus UK has confirmed the Transformer Prime’s arrival in the UK along with some interesting news. The quad-core Tegra 3-powered tablet and successor to the original Eee Pad Transformer will be arriving in the UK in January, following the tablet’s release in the U.S. expected this month. In the UK, however, owners looking at the [...]
We had previously reported that Samsung’s 5-inch tablet-phone hybrid form factor mobile touchscreen device may be headed to AT&T, and it seems that the AT&T edition will be a little bit different than the international version. As it stands, the version that was seen going through the FCC earlier for U.S. regulatory approval may be [...]
When Microsoft releases its Windows 8 operating system next year, which will be optimized for tablets, the OS may be accompanied by a new music and media player that will also get the same finger-friendly, touch-optimized treatment. Screenshots of the new media player have been leaked out via Winunleaked. The player will allow users to [...]
American Airlines is now first out of the gate with FAA certification for iPad use in cockpits on its fleet of jets. American Airlines had begun testing iPads for use in various phases of flight this summer with the blessing of the FAA and now the airline has become the first in the world to [...]
Though a full version of Microsoft Office still has not hit Apple’s iOS platform yet, Microsoft has released OneNote for the consumer tablet. The iOS version of OneNote is now compatible with Apple’s iPad and can take advantage of the larger screen real estate afforded on the tablet. The tablet version comes with a new [...]
Pantech’s unannounced P4100 tablet was spotted at U.S. regulatory agency the FCC with support for AT&T’s 4G LTE network, suggesting that the tablet may launch after it has obtained approval by the government. However, as neither Pantech nor AT&T has disclosed when that may happen, it’s unclear when the slate will launch. In the past, [...]
Amazon is preparing an update for its recently released debut Android tablet, the Kindle Fire, that will bring performance updates to the device. According to Dieter Bohn of The Verge, a tipster to the site hinted that one such update will improve the performance of the Silk browser on the Kindle Fire, which was highly [...]
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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 [...]
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Google Search App iPhone and iPad Update Looks Beautiful (Video)
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