Tablets

Rumor: Amazon’s New Tablet Will Be the Kindle Fire

After TechCrunch’s MG Siegler gave his initial glowing impressions of Amazon’s heretofore-unnamed tablet, we were understandably excited. A true iPad competitor. Now, with Amazon’s unveil just days away, new details have started trickling out. Including a new name: the Kindle Fire. https://gizmodo.com/this-is-what-amazons-kindle-tablet-looks-like-5837061 Which… is kind of a silly name? Anyway, in terms of build, the…

Commerce Kwame Opam Sep 26

Is This Really the Motorola Xoom 2? (Updated)

Sources with Droid-Life claim to have images of the yet-to-be-announced Xoom 2, and they might just be right. Without much to go on, it does kind of resemble Motorola’s earlier mock-up and even a shot leaked last week. Curiouser and curiouser. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-slips-up-and-reveals-a-dick-tracy-watchphone-5807291 The source notes that it’s got a similar build to the current Xoom,…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 24

Megapad Is the 23-Inch, Android-Based Tablet/All-In-One Hybrid Nobody Asked For

One adventurous DIY-er pieced together his own 23-inch touchscreen device that runs a non-Honeycomb version of Android and only cost $600 to build. Existing somewhere between a tablet and an all-in-one PC, Martin Drashkov thinks the Megapad could go mainstream. The technology is built on and around a standard computer monitor and behaves more or…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 21

Inside Nvidia’s Tegra 3 CPU and Its Secret Fifth Core

There’s a not-so-dirty little secret about NVIDIA’s upcoming Tegra 3 platform (which will soon find a home in plenty of mobile devices): the quad-core processor contained within has a fifth core for less intensive tasks. In a paper published by NVIDIA, they provided in-depth details about their Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing (vSMP). Simply put, vSMP implemented…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 20

Logitech’s Harmony Link: Tablets and Smartphones Get Full Control Over Home Theaters

Logitech understands that in the age of the of wi-fi and touchscreens, remote controls are heading the way of the Dodo. The Harmony Link is their attempt to bridge the gap between traditional IR components and the smart devices in our hands. The $100 Harmony Link is not unlike the Peel iPhone remote that came…

Tech News Adrian Covert Sep 20

Could This Be a 7-Inch Motorola Tablet?

This Is My Next just got a leaked image of what MIGHT be an unannounced 7-inch Motorola tablet. It looks nothing like the Xoom; it’s much thinner and curves up at the ends. Will Moto make a statement soon? [This Is My Next]

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 19

Here’s the 7-Inch TouchPad You’ll Never Be Able to Buy

We’d heard about it half a year ago, and now here it is in the grainy, blurry flesh: HP’s 7-inch WebOS tablet that was dead before it ever left the front door. Luckily, it looks pretty mediocre! https://gizmodo.com/unconfirmed-first-look-at-the-webos-tablets-weve-been-5736839 The codenamed “Opal” TouchPad, beyond being something of a gadget James Dean, doesn’t have a whole lot…

Gadgets Sam Biddle Sep 19

Windows 8 Will Let You Make Phone Calls?

Will your new Windows 8 slate be a giant phone come 2012? Screens from last week’s BUILD conference seem to indicate that. How it’ll be implemented is hazy—VOIP or Windows Live notifications—but it’s a good bet Microsoft’s recently-bought Skype will be a BIG part of it. https://gizmodo.com/everything-you-need-to-know-about-todays-windows-8-news-5839790 [istartedsomething via This Is My Next]

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 19

Wool Felt iPad Case Rolls Itself Into a Subtle Tablet Stand

As an Incase product owner I’m pretty used to the idea of my iPad and MacBook cases being simple black and white affairs that perform their jobs well with little fanfare (and a high price). That’s probably why this simple, handmade wool felt case from Hard Graft appeals to me as much as it does.…

Tech News Jack Loftus Sep 18

How Windows 8 and iOS 5 Stack Up Side by Side

Still on the fence about Windows 8? Not convinced that it’s got serious potential? Here’s a direct side-by-side comparison with an iOS 5 iPad that might be enough to sway you. https://gizmodo.com/if-you-already-hate-windows-8-then-you-hate-technology-5840704 It’s important to note that neither of these firmwares is fully baked yet (though iOS 5 is pretty darn close). And it seems…

Tech News Brian Barrett Sep 16

Archos’ G9 Android Tablets Have Superfast Processors and… Hard Drives?

Archos Android tablets. Typically considered also-rans, but these things do have a 1.5GHz dual-core processor and up to 250GB harddrives. The 10-inch G9 “Turbo” is packing Texas Instruments 1.5 GHz dual-core OMAP 4 processor, and Archos claims that will make page loading 50 percent faster than competitors tablets (which typically run 1GHz dual-core Nvidia processors).…

Tech News Brent Rose Sep 15

Firefox for Android Tablets Is Open for Testing

Mozilla has made the latest nightly builds for Firefox for Honeycomb ready for download. It’s already optimized for the tablet real estate and Android’s quirks, and will let you use Firefox Sync to share data with your desktop. [Mobiputing] https://gizmodo.com/mozilla-brings-the-best-of-honeycomb-to-firefox-for-tab-5836060

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 13

Intel Claims Next Chip Will Run Your Laptop For 24 Hours On One Battery Charge

I can’t wait for 2013. That’s the year where Intel’s Haswell architecture arrives, bringing three very important things. One, the ability to run your laptop for 24 hours on one charge. Heaven. Two, 10 days on “connected standby.” And three: This 22-nanometer 3D-transistor architecture consumes so little power—20 times less than their current gear—that it…

Tech News Jesus Diaz Sep 13

The Samsung Windows 8 Tablet Appears

Hey, look, it’s Samsung’s rumored Windows 8 tablet, appearing in a box before it’s announced. The word on the cyber street is that this thing packs quad-cores, but we’ll find out soon. Shocker: it looks kinda like an iPad! https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-teases-and-previews-a-quad-core-windows-slate-5834477 The spy shot surfaced on Chinese Twitter clone Weibo, and looks legitimate enough, with the…

Tech News Sam Biddle Sep 13

Someone Really Needs to Make a Good $100 Tablet

Today we heard that the UK is getting jobbed out of its final shipment of $100 TouchPads, with only HP employees being eligible to buy them. Sozzlepops, UK chaps. But that got us to thinking: With all the fuss over the TouchPad firesale the past few weeks, when will this very obvious demand for a…

Tech News Kyle Wagner Sep 12

QNX BlackBerries Being Rushed Out (YES!) Without Real Email/Calendar (NOOOOOO!!)

BlackBerry sales have been in the toilet, so RIM has been scrambling to get their much-anticipated first QNX-based phones to market. Very smart. But they may be pushing them out without BES/BIS email/calendar calendar support. That would be unfathomably stupid. This morning, an article in Mobile Magazine had this little poo-nugget: It turns out that…

Tech News Brent Rose Sep 12

Even GameStop Is Making an Android Tablet

Tablets. Tablets. Tablets. iPads, Android tablets, $99 Touchpads, everyone wants to make a tablet. Hell, even Gamestop—the brick and mortar video game store—wants to build their own. I’m not kidding, they’re making an Android-powered tablet that’s good at games. GameStop President Tony Bartel recently said: “If we can’t find [a tablet] that’s great for gaming,…

Tech News Casey Chan Sep 12

Sony Tablet S Is Up for Pre-Order at Best Buy

Sony’s natty new Tablet S will see release in just a matter of days, so Best Buy decided to show it off to get a buzz going. How sweet. It’s still too expensive, but it’s still the best Android tablet out. [Engadget] https://gizmodo.com/sony-tablet-s-review-its-good-to-see-you-again-sony-5836051

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 12

Netflix Is Finally Available on Nearly All Android Phones

It took a few false-ish starts, but all Android phones running Froyo or Gingerbread are FINALLY getting full Netflix support. No more workarounds or rooting. Just sweet streaming. For now, anyway, and if you haven’t jettisoned your account. https://gizmodo.com/netflix-is-finally-available-on-android-sort-of-5801342 Needless to say, if you’re running anything other than 2.2 or 2.3 (why???), you’re out of…

Tech News Kwame Opam Sep 10

Amazon Should Buy WebOS

If there was one company that could rival Apple, Google and Microsoft, it’s Amazon. It has devices; it has a content marketplace. But what Amazon doesn’t have is its own platform. webOS could be the final piece in its puzzle. webOS has largely been a dud of an OS, but that’s not because of the…

Commerce Adrian Covert Sep 9

Rumor: Amazon’s New Tablet Will Be the Kindle Fire

Is This Really the Motorola Xoom 2? (Updated)

Megapad Is the 23-Inch, Android-Based Tablet/All-In-One Hybrid Nobody Asked For

Inside Nvidia’s Tegra 3 CPU and Its Secret Fifth Core

Logitech’s Harmony Link: Tablets and Smartphones Get Full Control Over Home Theaters

Could This Be a 7-Inch Motorola Tablet?

Here’s the 7-Inch TouchPad You’ll Never Be Able to Buy

Windows 8 Will Let You Make Phone Calls?

Wool Felt iPad Case Rolls Itself Into a Subtle Tablet Stand

How Windows 8 and iOS 5 Stack Up Side by Side

Archos’ G9 Android Tablets Have Superfast Processors and… Hard Drives?

Firefox for Android Tablets Is Open for Testing

Intel Claims Next Chip Will Run Your Laptop For 24 Hours On One Battery Charge

The Samsung Windows 8 Tablet Appears

Someone Really Needs to Make a Good $100 Tablet

QNX BlackBerries Being Rushed Out (YES!) Without Real Email/Calendar (NOOOOOO!!)

Even GameStop Is Making an Android Tablet

Sony Tablet S Is Up for Pre-Order at Best Buy

Netflix Is Finally Available on Nearly All Android Phones

Amazon Should Buy WebOS

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