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Lenovo releases the 10-Inch Transformable IdeaTab S2

Posted by David on January 10, 2012 · 0 Comment

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 [...]

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PCs Here to Stay as Tablet Sales Drop

Posted by David on November 17, 2011 · 0 Comment

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 [...]

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Nielsen says U.S. Kids Looking Forward to “iHoliday” 2011

Posted by David on November 17, 2011 · 0 Comment

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 [...]

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Barnes and Noble unveils Nook Tablet

Posted by David on November 7, 2011 · 0 Comment

Bookseller Barnes & Noble unveiled their latest iteration of the Nook family, the Nook Tablet, during an NYC press event this week. var amzn_wdgt= { columns:"1", rows:"1", title:"Barnes and Noble Nook Tablet", width:"250", ASIN:"1400532655", showImage:"True", showPrice:"True", showRating:"True", design:"2", colorTheme:"Orange", headerTextColor:"#FFFFFF", shuffleProducts:"True", marketPlace:"US", [...]

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Tablets, the New Business PC?

Posted by David on October 11, 2011 · 0 Comment

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 [...]

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Sprint launches HTC EVO 3D & EVO View 4G June 24th

Posted by David on June 7, 2011 · 0 Comment

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

Posted by David on June 4, 2011 · 0 Comment

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)

Posted by David on May 31, 2011 · 0 Comment

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)

Posted by David on May 30, 2011 · 0 Comment

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

Posted by David on May 16, 2011 · 0 Comment

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

Posted by David on May 10, 2011 · 0 Comment

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

Posted by David on May 6, 2011 · 0 Comment

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

Posted by David on April 21, 2011 · 0 Comment

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)

Posted by David on April 11, 2011 · 0 Comment

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)

Posted by David on March 31, 2011 · 0 Comment

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)

Posted by David on March 25, 2011 · 0 Comment

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

Posted by David on March 22, 2011 · 0 Comment

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)

Posted by David on March 22, 2011 · 0 Comment

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)

Posted by David on March 22, 2011 · 0 Comment

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

Posted by David on March 15, 2011 · 0 Comment

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)

Posted by David on March 8, 2011 · 0 Comment

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

Posted by David on March 5, 2011 · 0 Comment

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)

Posted by David on March 5, 2011 · 0 Comment

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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Apple Press Event: Announces iPad 2, A5 duel-core & iOS 4.3

Posted by David on March 2, 2011 · 0 Comment

Apple blew it up with the official announcment of the iPad 2, straight from the horses mouth, Steve Jobs. Here are the specs: Apple A5 processor, dual core CPU 2x CPU speed, 9x graphics speed improvement Front and rear cameras Gryoscope 33% thinner, 13.4mm to 8.8mm thin — thinner than an iPhone 4, and lighter than the previous iPad AT&T and Verizon models, white and black iPads Same original [...]

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A list of what to expect from the iPad 2- announced tomorrow

Posted by David on March 1, 2011 · 0 Comment

Below is a compilation of rumors, guesses, unofficial reports and specs from iPad accessories already out- trying to make the best hypothetical guess of what we’ll hear tomorrow at Apple’s Press Event, announcing the iPad 2. Here it is: A much thinner and lighter iPad. We’re talking seriously thin. A slightly thinner bezel around the iPad’s display, making the device’s footprint [...]

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WSJ says iPad 2 officially launching March 2

Posted by David on February 23, 2011 · 0 Comment

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Apple will announce its next-generation iPad tablet at a special media event on March 2nd. The Journal cites multiple sources claiming that indeed the iPad 2 release date is on shedule. Apple will hold the press event in San Francisco to announce its new tablet. Whether Steve Jobs will be the host of the event is questionable considering he’s on [...]

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HP TouchPad comin’ in April

Posted by David on February 23, 2011 · 0 Comment

HP’s webOS-powered tablet will launch this April, says DigiTimes, citing confirmation from HP’s component suppliers. The TouchPad, which will launch with webOS 3.0, will starting shipping to retailers by the end of March, andthen be ready for release some time in April. DigiTimes also says that HP intends to sell between 4 and 5 million TouchPad units and between 45 and 48 million notebook computers [...]

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Motorola Xoom hits shelves in 2 days

Posted by David on February 22, 2011 · 0 Comment

While Motorola is still keeping the price of their latest tablet, the Motorola Xoom, a secret, we do know that the Xoom tablet will hit the carrier on February 24th. But that’s not all. A small asterisk, just below the email address registration, states that Flash support won’t arrive until Spring of 2011. What is up with Flash and adobe? Are they that hard to work with? It seems [...]

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LeapFrog wants kids to experience ‘Year of the Tablet’ too with LeapPad Explorer Tablet

Posted by David on February 21, 2011 · 0 Comment

If we needed any more proof that 2011 is going to be the year of the tablet, CES and MWC certainly confirmed that with a vengence. But why should all the tablet fun be had by the adults, as kids surely deserve their own touchscreen distraction too. Happily, Leapfrog has announced a multi-functional edutainment tablet for children ages 4 and up. The device has a collection of creativity tools [...]

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Motorola XOOM Pricing: $600 for Wi-Fi, $799 for 3G/4G

Posted by David on February 17, 2011 · 0 Comment

Motorola announced pricing for their XOOM tablet. Apparently, the 3G/4G version will be available from Verizon Wireless for an unsubsidized price of $799. The tablet will have the option to connect to Verizon’s 3G data network, and later this year, its 4G LTE network as well for a monthly fee, but buyers will not have to sign a service contract with the carrier. Motorola also said that the Wi-Fi-only [...]

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