Tablets

HP Slate 7 Hands On: A Better Way to Do Android

This is the good HP. We knew that HP had been planning on making some new Android hardware, but the Slate 7 is still a pleasant surprise. Because it’s good. The Slate 7 is built on almost-stock Android. “Almost” means that a few things are added—Beats audio and, sigh, in-app PRINTING (THANKS HP REALLY WANTED…

HP’s Going Android With Its $169 Slate 7 Tablet

The HP Slate 7 is beyond fashionably late to the Android tablet party, but it tries to make up for its tardiness with a very low price. When the device arrives in April, HP’s first Google-powered tablet just announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress will cost just $169. That’s $30 less than the the…

Galaxy Note 8.0 Hands On: The 8-Inch Tablet That’s an 8-Inch… Phone

Samsung’s Galaxy Note just grew to 8 inches. It’s actually really nice. It combines a bunch of the stuff that Samsung’s been building in the Galaxy S and Note series and puts them into a nearly perfectly sized tablet. Two things, though. One, we don’t know how much it costs, and price is a huge…

Lay Waste To Wireless Networks With This Hacktastic Nexus 7

Tablets are great for slouching on the sofa and checking your Facebook, but they can also be super sleek hack-machines. Take the new Pwnie Express Pwn Pad as an example; it’s a fully-loaded hacker suite designed to puncture any network. Built from a Nexus 7, the Pwn Pad obviously makes use of Google Android OS,…

HP Is Making a High End Android Tablet (And Maybe a Phone)

HP hasn’t had the best go of it the past few years. According to a report from ReadWrite, though, it’s trying to get off the mat with a new premium tablet, powered by Android. The reported tablet would run Nvidia’s new Tegra 4 processor, and has been in development since before Thanksgiving. HP’s business side…

9 Reasons to Root Your Android Device

To root or not to root? That is the question. Rooting your Android device definitely pushes you up a level or two in your geekdom. It requires a certain level of commitment, at least a little savvy, and even a modicum of risk. So, why would you want to bother? We’ve got nine good reasons…

The 128GB Surface Pro sold out at Microsoft’s online store in just a few hours. Big demand or small supply? [WinBeta]

Which One Has More Usable Space: the 128GB Surface Pro or the 128GB MacBook Air?

Everyone’s been making fun of the Surface Pro for being so stingy on hard drive space. The 128GB version of the Surface Pro only has 90GB of free space (originally reported to be 83GB but since boosted). Where the hell did the other 38 gigs go? Well, you could ask the same question to the…

Report: FreedomPop’s LTE Clip Will Give Wi-Fi-Only Tablets Free Mobile Internet

According to a leak obtained by Forbes, FreedomPop, a company that’s looking to provide free, mobile Internet access, is now looking to tablets as its next broadband market-disrupting frontier. Dubbed the LTE Clip, the relatively unobtrusive device will attach to Wi-Fi-only tablets, granting them LTE Internet from Sprint Nextel in the process. Wi-Fi-only tablets already…

Report: Microsoft Surface Pros Are Showing Up In Stores Ahead of Release Date

You can’t buy one just yet, but if you mosey on over to your neighborhood Microsoft store, there’s a chance you might be able to put your greasy paws all over a Microsoft Surface Pro, what the Surface should have been from the get-go. According to reports by Engadget, the new devices are already being…

Reminder: Being On Sale Doesn’t Make Something a Deal

One of Best Buy’s daily deals today is $40 off the Hipstreet Equinox 2. Normally retailing for $180, the 10.1-inch Android 4.0 tablet can be yours this very Friday for a mere $140, which is $40 closer to the roughly zero dollars it’s worth. Remember, kids: a sale and a deal are two entirely different…

The 64GB Surface Pro Will Have Just 23GB of Usable Space

If you thought yesterday’s news—that the 128GB Microsoft Surface Pro will only offer 83GB of usable storage—was bad, think again. The Verge has learned that the 64GB version will offer up just 23GB of space to the user. https://gizmodo.com/the-128gb-microsoft-surface-pro-only-offers-83gb-of-usa-5979796 It seems the Windows 8 install, built-in apps, and a recovery partition will consume 41GB of…

Nine People Who Actually Need a 128GB iPad

The monster 128GB iPad is here, but you almost definitely don’t need it. For a solid grand, you might as well buy a MacBook Air or three years’ worth of toilet paper. Unless, of course, you are one of the following. https://gizmodo.com/the-128gb-ipad-is-real-its-here-and-its-almost-defini-5979812 Doctors. You have tons of charts and reference materials that you’ll need at…

The 128GB iPad Is Real, It’s Here, and It’s Almost Definitely Not For You

As expected, Apple let a 128GB iPad out of the bag today. And there’s almost zero chance you should buy it. https://gizmodo.com/does-apple-have-a-fancier-ipad-4-up-its-sleeve-update-5979453 The new iPad has the same retina display as its brothers, and the same design, and the same guts, with one notable exception: a metric crap-ton of storage. More storage than any decent…

The 128GB Microsoft Surface Pro Only Offers 83GB of Usable Space

The standard Windows 8 Surface tablets came in for some stick, thanks to the Windows files eating up 13GB of hard drive space. That’s nothing compared to Windows 8 Pro, which requires an astonishing 45GB of the Surface Pro’s disk space for its files. The numbers, obtained from Microsoft by Softpedia, would make an absolute…

Microsoft Ad: Surface Pro Costs Zero Dollars

So this would be a pretty daring strategy from Microsoft. Surface Pro! NOW FOR JUST $000.00 DOLLARS! Errr… guys? Yeah, obviously this is just a dumb, silly typo, which happens to come on announcement day for the biggest product of Microsoft’s year, but hey! It happens to everyone. So please don’t waste everyone’s time with…

Is an iPad on a Pedestal Art?

At the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, there’s a strange exhibit on show: a single iPad stands on a white pedestal. It’s not for visitors to play with; instead, it’s a piece of art by Li Liao. The New Yorker explains the concept behind the piece: While Americans hash out the moral ups…

Sony’s New Xperia Tablet: An Android Slate Slimmer Than the iPad Mini

Sony has announced a new high-spec Android tablet, the Xperia Tablet Z. It offers up some meaty internals—but the most exciting news is the svelte package into which the hardware is crammed. The 10.1-inch tablet packs a 1,920 x 1,200 screen, Qualcomm 1.5GHz quad-core APQ8064 processor, 2GB RAM, 32GB storage, 8.1-megapixel camera, NFC, LTE, and…

The Galaxy Note 10.1 and Galaxy Tab 2 are finally getting an upgrade to 4.1 Jelly Bean. Welcome to the present.

This Case Made of Old Fire Hoses Will Keep Your iPad Dry

Fire hoses transfer millions of gallons of water at hundreds of pounds of pressure. They’re tough, hard wearing pieces of kit—so what better use for them when they’re retired than a waterproof iPad case? The brainchild of Hosewear, a company set up by two design students, these slip cases are manufactured from a variety of…