Tablets

Just months after Acer’s Iconia W3 Windows tablet arrived to woeful reviews, the company has already announced it’s going to overhaul the slate ASAP. Which probably still won’t be enough to make you buy it.

Report: Amazon’s Tablets Will Get Sharper Displays and a New Design

BGR claims it’s got exclusive details about the Amazon Kindle Fire tablets that will be released this fall. It’s more or less what we could expect from a yearly iteration of a tablet. Here’s the skinny. First up, the basic seven-inch Kindle Fire will get a display spec bump from a 1,024 x 600 screen…

The Skyview Turns Your Tray Table Lock Into a Hands-Free Device Mount

There’s finally a good reason not to feel complete and utter resentment towards the flight crew that made you fold and lock your seat tray up. Griffin’s Skyview is a universal hands-free adapter designed to hold everything from a Galaxy S4 to an iPad Mini using the locking mechanism of most tray tables as a…

Barnes & Noble Is Going to Stop Making Nook Tablets

Barnes & Noble has announced that it’s going to leave manufacturing of its Color tablet line up to third party manufacturers. In a press release, B&N explained that it will create a “partnership model for manufacturing in the competitive color tablet market.” The move is clearly driven by poor financial performance, and the company explains…

Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra Phone Is… Nah, That’s Not a Phone

And here we face a conundrum. On the one hand, Sony’s Xperia Z Ultra has salivation-worthy guts. On the other hand, the screen on this thing is 6.4 freaking inches! That’s not a phone, that’s a tablet you talk into. Ignoring that for a moment, this thing sounds awesome. It’ll come running Android 4.2 (Jelly…

What iOS 7 Looks Like on Your iPad

There’s no tablet flavor of the iOS 7 beta, but using a simulator feature on Apple’s XCode developer platform, German site Apfelpage has given us a look at what the next-gen operating system will look like on the iPad. Aside from a few changes, it’s pretty consistent with what we’ve already seen from iOS 7.…

Wireless Dice Guarantee Tablets Are the Board Games of Tomorrow

You can already get beloved board games like Monopoly on your tablet that provide a somewhat similar experience to the original cardboard sets. But they’ll never fully replace those old versions because they lack the tangible satisfaction of grabbing a pair of dice, going through your shaking ritual, and tossing them across the table—oh wait,…

Sony Xperia Tablet Z Review: Sony Finally Gets One (Mostly) Right

In a time when tablets are becoming increasing similar, it’s rare that you pick up a device and have one of those, “Whoa!” moments. You relish them when they come, because it means that creativity and innovation still exist in a world of look-alikes. After years of trying and failing with Android tablets, Sony has…

Acer Iconia W3 Hands On: First Mini Windows 8 Tablet Can’t Measure Up

It was one of the most anticipated devices of this year’s Computex: The Acer Iconia W3, the first full Windows 8 tablet to take on the iPad Mini. We finally got some hands-on time, and the results are bittersweet. https://es.gizmodo.com/la-nueva-generacion-de-superprocesadores-intel-ya-esta-511175109 The Iconia W3 isn’t just Acer’s first attempt to sneak Windows 8 into the small…

Asus’ New Three-in-One: Crouching Windows PC, Hidden Android Tablet

Asus has already been experimenting with mixing Android and Windows in the same device with its bizarre but intriguing 18.5-inch Transformer All-in-One desktop, giant-Android-slab-thing. Now, it’s taking the concept to its logical extreme with the new Transformer Book Trio, dual processor-weilding device that staking its claim to tablet, notebook, and desktop territory. https://gizmodo.com/asus-transformer-all-in-one-desktop-hands-on-android-a-5974015 Much smaller…

The First Small Windows Tablet Will Be Available in June

The previously leaked Acer Iconia W3 has been officially announced by the hardware maker today, which added a stamp of officialdom to internet rumour. The 8.1″ tablet is 11.3mm thick, with a dual-core Intel Atom Z2760 clocked at 1.8GHz inside. The display runs at 1280 x 800 resolution, with Acer sticking in dual front and…

Wait, Samsung just launchedtwo more Galaxy Tabs? Anyone who can keep count of these things deserves one for free.

This Beautiful New Asus Ultrabook Is Dripping in Glass

Asus has been busy announcing a slew of new products at Computex in Taipei overnight and, while many of them are deeply unremarkable, a glass-coated ultrabook and updated Transformer Pad Infinity should be enough to pique your interest. The 13.3-inch Zenbook Infinity uses a pretty impressive-looking aluminum and glass construction, featuring Gorilla Glass on both…

The iPad Cleverly Detects This Connected Picture Book’s Page Turns

The arrival of the iPad had many predicting the device would wipe out books, magazine, and newspapers once and for all. But their doomsday predictions were a little premature, and as the folks at engageLab demonstrate with this fantastic conceptual app, tablets and books can live in perfect harmony. The Bridging Book isn’t commercially available,…

Hisense Sero 7 Pro Hands On: A Promising Nexus 7 Clone

Contrary to some rumors, Google didn’t announce a refreshed Nexus 7 at I/O a little while back, but up-and-comers Hisense just announced a pretty good alternative to the aging tab. Its new Sero 7 Pro—the companies first foray into the tablet space—is basically a Nexus 7, but at only $150. https://gizmodo.com/google-i-o-whats-new-in-android-chrome-and-beyond-506734952 The Sero 7 Pro…

HP SlateBook x2: An Android Notebook With Sweet Tegra 4 Guts

On the heels of its very first Android tablet after a long affair with webOS, HP’s just announced its second device running the Google operating system, and it’s ushering in that Android notebook fad we’ve all heard whispers about. Enter the SlateBook x2, the first Tegra 4-powered, 10-inch Android convertible. https://gizmodo.com/hp-slate-7-hands-on-a-better-way-to-do-android-5986538 We only got to…

Report: Microsoft Wants to Buy Nook for $1 Billion

TechCrunch is reporting that Microsoft, which has already made an interesting $300 million investment in Nook, wants to double down and buy the whole darn thing. Specifically, Microsoft wants to pay $1 billion to acquire the digital assets of Nook Media LLC—that would be the separate Nook company that spun off from Barnes & Noble…

You Can Now Get a Nook HD For $150

Following last week’s decision to make its tablet actually useful with the addition of Google Apps, Barnes & Noble has now slashed the price of its Nook HD range. Until the 12th May—yes, this is a Mother’s Day offer—the price of the Nook HD line is cut both online and in-store. So, a 8GB 7-inch…

Nooks Just Turned Into Real Android Tablets

When it comes to skinned, forked, mainly-for-media-consumption Android tablets, Barnes & Noble’s Nook HD and Nook HD+ offerings have always played second fiddle to Amazon’s Kindle Fires, and a shortage of apps was a big part of that. Now, Nooks are taking a step into real full-fledged tabletdom with a big big update: the Google.…

The World’s First Tablet Projector Promises a 100-Inch Display

A built-in projector isn’t quite at the top of anyone’s wish list for tablet improvements. But that didn’t stop Promate from putting one into its new LumiTab and declaring it the world’s first tablet projector. The average consumer might not be interested yet, but corporate honchos who live and die by PowerPoint presentations are surely…