Tablets

Microsoft Will Announce the Surface 2 September 23rd

Microsoft just sent out invitations for an event in New York City on Monday September 23rd, two weeks from today. It will be showing off the new Surface. Which is to say, it’s going to be showing us the future of Microsoft. The upgrades to the Surface RT (expected to just be called Surface) and…

Redesigned Wacom Intuos Tablets: A New Look for Budding Artists

On the heels of its Windows 8 and Android tablets, Wacom just announced a new sleeker and brighter Intuos. The new models are geared less toward professionals, and more toward everyday folk looking to draw and sketch on their computer. https://gizmodo.com/wacom-cintiq-companion-windows-8-and-android-tablets-f-1166233037 The new Intuos comes in 2 sizes—a 6 inch model for $100, and an…

Samsung Galaxy Mega Review: A Big Phone, a Small Tablet, a Bad Buy

Hey, look at this phone, I say to my girlfriend. That’s not a phone. That’s a tablet, she says. Exactly. What Is It? No, really, what is it? The Samsung Galaxy Mega bills itself as a smartphone, despite its 6.3-inch screen. That puts it closer in size—by a good margin—to a Nexus 7 tablet than…

Two months after announcing that it would cut back, Barnes and Noble now says that it will continue to manufacture the entire line of Nook devices. You can also expect a new Nook for the holidays. [CNET]

Wacom Cintiq Companion: Windows 8 and Android Tablets For Artists Only

Artists, illustrators, and designers of all kinds rely on Wacom’s line of drawing tablets. Up until now, the devices only worked as peripherals. But Wacom’s new line of fully self-contained tablets are the only devices you need to make art just about anywhere. The Cintiq Companion is Wacom’s attempt to integrate its own powerful stylus…

What’s So Wrong About Taking Photos With An iPad?

You’ve got a device in your hands that has a camera. But you’re not supposed to use it, because someone might laugh at you. How are you the dickhead in this situation? Show most of my friends a picture of a person taking a snapshot with an iPad or a tablet and they’ll laugh. Actually…

Report: The Cheap Kindle Fire to Be Replaced by Cheaper Fire HD

The Kindle Fire HD is the Amazon tablet for most people. Last year, it was just $40 more than the improved-but-uh-why-would-you-buy-this-again second gen Kindle Fire 2. BGR has an unconfirmed report, though, that last year’s Fire HD is this year’s Fire is very confusing for everyone, probably. There are already reports of the new Fire…

New Newspaper Owner Jeff Bezos on the Bleak Future of Newspapers Last Year

Well this is just fun. Jeff Bezos talked with German newspaper Berliner-Zeitung in 2012 about the dark future of newspapers and how they can be relevant to Amazon. And well, since Bezos is now a newspaper baron, it’s probably a good idea to revisit his rather bleak thoughts on print. Here’s the meat of it,…

North Korea’s Android Tablet Is a Strange, Neutered Monster

North Korea and the Internet are just starting to get along, and the relationship is a little bit tense. DPRK does have Android tablets though! And rest assured, they are very strange. A tourist known only as “Michael” picked up the tablet—a Samjiyon—when he was visiting the country, and spilled all the strange details to…

Nexus 7 2013 Review: The Best Small Tablet, Even Better

Google’s Nexus 7 was the best small tablet of 2012. Rather than mess with success, Google did something uncharacteristically conservative: It made little improvements here and there and left the rest mostly as is. The result? This year’s Nexus 7 is more low rumble than tectonic shift, but it’s still our new favorite tablet. For…

Laptops Are Getting New Super Durable Gorilla Glass

Corning has a new version of its ultra-tough touchscreen glass called Gorilla Glass NBT, meant for touchscreen notebooks. What makes Gorilla Glass NBT so good? Many of the displays on laptops are made from soda lime glass. But Gorilla Glass NBT is made from a different material altogether, and while Corning doesn’t exactly divulge what…

Google Nexus 7 Teardown: Hey That’s an Inductive Charging Coil

The ace team at iFixit has given the ol’ teardown to the new Google Nexus 7 and they’ve discovered that the rear case is very easy to open, that it’s taller, narrower and thinner and that there’s an… inductive charging coil (the first iFixit has seen in a tablet). The battery inside the new Nexus…

How the New Nexus 7 Stacks Up to the Competition

Well, we already knew pretty much everything there was to know about the new Nexus 7 before Google’s official announcement. You could have even technically have gone to Best Buy and bought (that is, pre-ordered) it this morning. But even though nothing was really a surprise, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s one sweet…

Watch Google’s Nexus 7 Peep Show Right Here, Right Now

By this point Google’s new Nexus 7 is a foregone conclusion; hell, you can already preorder it from Best Buy. But if you’re into official announcements—and are curious what Google serves for breakfast—you can watch the drama unfold live here, starting at noon Eastern, nine Pacific. If you simply can’t spare the time, here’s a…

Just Look at How Insane Your Phone’s Graphics Will Be Next Year

Project Logan is NVIDIA’s next-gen mobile processor. Inside of it is the Kepler GPU, which NVIDIA claims the fastest, most advanced scalable GPU in the world. Last year, Kepler hit desktops and laptops, and next year your phone and tablet are about to get supercharged. We have seen just how crazy NVIDIA can make graphics…

You Can Pre-Order the New Nexus 7 at Best Buy for $230 Right Now

Uh, so much for official product launches. Thoroughly leaked and benchmarked already, now Best Buy has opened up pre-orders for Google’s new Nexus 7 ahead of its official launch. Best Buy’s online store provides full-res images of the new tablet, making clear the new rear camera and Nexus branding. Best Buy also confirms all those…

This New Leaked Nexus 7 Totally Looks Like the Other Leaked Nexus 7

Let’s face it. The new Nexus 7 is no longer a surprise. We’ve already seen it. We’ve already seen press shots for it. Hell, we pretty much know all the details. And now here it is in its full packaging, which means someone was able to get a real version of it early. Which means…

Leaked Best Buy Ad Reaffirms Google’s Rumored New Nexus 7

A leak last week revealed details of Google’s new Nexus 7 tablet—and now freshly leaked press shots and a Best Buy adreaffirm its existence. The @evleaks Twitter account has published a set of press images of the rumored new tablet. It shows a few subtle tweaks to the existing design: gone are the dimples in…

New Nexus 7 Leak Spills Almost All the Details

We didn’t get any new hardware back at Google I/O, but we’ve heard plenty about a new Nexus 7 on course to be announced sometime this month. Time is running out, but now Engadget has gotten some leaked details that seem to confirm most everything we’ve heard so far. According to the leaked spec sheet…

Microsoft had to eat $900 million last quarter in unsold Surface RT tablets, which might help explain that $150 price drop the other week. We’ll be listening in on the earnings call later to day for any more details and to try to pinpoint exactly how many things Steve Ballmer smashed when he heard the…