Tablets

Tomorrow’s Google Tablets Taste Like Honeycomb

Here’s the Android 3.0 Honeycomb homescreen for tablets. It’s slightly different from Android’s phone-interface to take advantage of the larger tablet-sized screen, which means there’s even better multitasking and widgets. Updating. Besides this multitasking improvements, you also have improved notifications (popups in the bottom right corner). Developers can use these more advanced notifications using their…

Tech News Jason Chen Feb 2

LG G-Slate: A Dual-Core, Honeycomb Tablet With a 3D Display

Here’s the first look at LG’s G-Slate tablet, gunning to be the best Android tablet by equipping a dual-core Tegra 2 chipset, 8.9-inch 3D display, 3D camera, and of course, Honeycomb. It also runs on T-Mobile’s 21mbps HSPA+ network. The 1GHz Tegra 2 chipset enables 720p HD and 3D content on the tablet, and the…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 2

News.Me: Here’s The NY Times’ Answer to The Daily

TechCrunch has an exclusive look at News.me, a new social news iPad app that keys you into what your friends are reading/linking to, while allowing you share the news you’re reading as well. Will it compete with The Daily? Co-developed by betaworks, who are responsible for the link shortener bit.ly, Erick Schonfeld likens News.me to…

Tech News Adrian Covert Feb 1

Install Android 3.0 Honeycomb on the Nook Color

The best Android tablet is the Android tablet that can run Android 3.0 ‘Honeycomb’. And I guess that means the Nook Color, which has just received a port of Android 3.0 Honeycomb. Which you can install. Right now. Well, if you have a Nook Color, that is. Based on the Honeycomb SDK preview, the port…

Tech News Casey Chan Feb 1

The Dell Streak 7, Or: 10 Ways to Not Make an Android Tablet

If it was possible to drown in plastic and silicon, we would so choke to death on all the Android tablets coming soon. This is a guide to not making one. The Dell Streak 7 followed it precisely. The Dell Streak 7 is perhaps the last Android tablet from a major manufacturer that will follow…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 31

Robotic Lego Arm Stress-Tests the Kno Tablet Over and Over Again

That overpriced, oversized Kno tablet? A video look-behind-the-scenes has revealed some high-tech testing equipment—namely, a Lego robotic-arm used to test the touchscreens and ambient light sensors. Wicked sideburns on the Lego robot’s human-overlord too, I might add. [YouTube] https://gizmodo.com/that-dual-screened-kno-tablet-aimed-at-students-will-co-5685165

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 31

HP’s webOS Products Will Be Here Sooner Than We Thought

In a recent BBC interview, HP CEO Leo Apotheker said that we won’t have long to wait after the company’s big Feb. 9th webOS announcement before we can actually buy the products. The HP-branded devices are expected “within weeks” of the event. And if those tablets are as awesome as they look, well, the sooner…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 28

AT&T Posts Record Numbers, but iPad Activations Lagging

So, completely unsurprisingly, AT&T pulled a ton of revenue last quarter—$31.4 billion. Chalk that up in part to the 4.1 million iPhones they activated. But don’t chalk it up to the paltry 442,000 tablets switched on. The 442,000 figure includes both iPads and Android tabs—and since we figure the latter has been relatively negligible in…

Tech News Sam Biddle Jan 27

Why iPads Aren’t Ready For Classrooms… Yet

A tony prep school in Knoxville, Tennessee has made it mandatory for every student between grades 4 and 12 to own an iPad. That might be a good idea, someday! But being this far ahead of the curve shortchanges students. However magical it might be, let’s not forget the iPad is a first-generation device, with…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 25

Leak: Full Specs For HP’s 9.7″ Topaz WebOS Tablet

Though we’ve already had a chance to see what they might look like, a new wave of leaks from PreCentral suggest that HP’s 9.7″ webOS tablet will have a 1.2GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, and wireless docking features like whoa. https://gizmodo.com/unconfirmed-first-look-at-the-webos-tablets-weve-been-5736839 Here are the specs for the Topaz, the larger of HP’s two webOS tablets,…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 24

Leaked Best Buy Intel Reckons On a $700 Price-Tag For Motorola’s Xoom Tablet

Yesterday we’d heard that the Motorola Xoom tablet was swinging into town on February the 17th, for around $800. According to a leaked Best Buy system screenshot, it’s going to be more like $700. [DroidAttic via DroidLife] https://gizmodo.com/motorola-xoom-lands-at-best-buy-february-17-5741008

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 24

Leak: Nokia’s MeeGo-Running Tablet Appears

Spotted running what looks like Nokia’s upcoming MeeGo platform (though it’s expected to resemble something like this once finished), this tablet isn’t supported by any leaked specs yet, but we’ll find out soon, I’m sure. [MobileReview via MyNokiaBlog via SlashGear] https://gizmodo.com/nokias-leaked-future-tablet-screenshot-large-smartphone-5260260

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 24

Motorola Xoom Lands at Best Buy February 17

The Motorola Xoom, the much ballyhooed Honeycomb-equipped tablet that grabbed our eyeballs and wouldn’t let go at CES, should be settling into Best Buy store shelves on February 17, according to leaked internal docs seen here. https://gizmodo.com/the-best-new-tablet-5727948 Price is still not entirely confirmed, but an $800 rumor has been floating around for a while. A…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 23

Will Motorola Really Muck Up the Xoom Tablet with Motoblur? (Updated)

According to Motorola’s European head of Android product management, Motorola wants to put the Motoblur interface on their upcoming Xoom tablet, which would be sad for a countless amount of reasons. But there’s also something that doesn’t add up. Updated. https://gizmodo.com/motorola-xoom-10-inch-tablet-android-3-0-means-a-lot-l-5726007 According to Crave, the Moto exec Jonathan Nattrass said that Motoblur would be available…

Tech News Adrian Covert Jan 21

Rumor: HTC Flyer Tablet Launching March, Resembling Large Desire Smartphone?

According to the always-rumormongering, often-incorrect Taiwanese publication Digitimes, HTC’s got three tablets for the first half of 2011, with the first launching in the US in March. It’ll be called the Flyer allegedly, and will resemble the Desire phone—plus run Android 2.3 (Gingerbread), as we heard before. The two other tablets will supposedly launch in…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 20

DesignScene for iPad Is the 21st Century Muse

Apps for consuming web content on the iPad have largely shaken down into two categories: dedicated apps for individual sites and RSS readers populated with a users’ selected feeds. DesignScene is something else entirely: a prepackaged bundle of all-things design. It bills itself as “a real-time inspiration app for graphic designers drawing from myriad relevant…

Tech News Kyle VanHemert Jan 19

Unconfirmed: Palm’s Tablets Will Use HP’s Beats Audio and Have Heaps of Cloud Storage

Yesterday’s photos of Palm’s Topaz and Opal tablets now have some rumored specs to back them up, claims Engadget. https://gizmodo.com/unconfirmed-first-look-at-the-webos-tablets-weve-been-5736839 As we saw yesterday, the Opal will supposedly measure 7-inches, with the Topaz coming in at a larger 9-inches. That Opal will have a 1024 x 768 resolution screen—a TFT LCD, to be exact. The…

Tech News Kat Hannaford Jan 19

Unconfirmed: First Look at the webOS Tablets We’ve Been Waiting For

Looks like we didn’t have to wait until Feb. 9th after all to see HP’s webOS tablet. Engadget has what are reportedly the first pictures of the dark horse tablets that may finally step up to the iPad. Details below: https://gizmodo.com/the-palm-webos-tablets-were-dying-to-see-are-a-month-aw-5724617 As you can see from these renders, the 9-inch Topaz and 7-inch Opal tablets…

Tech News Brian Barrett Jan 18

A Basic Sketch of the Next iPad

Apple is a cyclical creature, like bears, unicorns and ladyfolk. iPods in September; iPhones in June; and likely, iPads in April. April is not so far away! So, unsurprisingly, we’re starting to hear what the next iPad looks like. The brains While one generation of devices does not a trend make—three’s a trend, in journo-land—Apple…

Tech News Matt Buchanan Jan 17

WebOS Tablets Coming Soon, Hints HP Training Video

Apparently patient HP trainees were rewarded with a tantalizing tidbit regarding WebOS tablets: They’re coming soon! This we had an inkling of, obviously, but now things are much more official! https://gizmodo.com/the-palm-webos-tablets-were-dying-to-see-are-a-month-aw-5724617 Admittedly, the wording is incredibly vague, but here’s the transcript in question, obnoxiously dated “that’s hot” meme and all: That’s hot. Love it. Why…

Tech News Jack Loftus Jan 16

Tomorrow’s Google Tablets Taste Like Honeycomb

LG G-Slate: A Dual-Core, Honeycomb Tablet With a 3D Display

News.Me: Here’s The NY Times’ Answer to The Daily

Install Android 3.0 Honeycomb on the Nook Color

The Dell Streak 7, Or: 10 Ways to Not Make an Android Tablet

Robotic Lego Arm Stress-Tests the Kno Tablet Over and Over Again

HP’s webOS Products Will Be Here Sooner Than We Thought

AT&T Posts Record Numbers, but iPad Activations Lagging

Why iPads Aren’t Ready For Classrooms… Yet

Leak: Full Specs For HP’s 9.7″ Topaz WebOS Tablet

Leaked Best Buy Intel Reckons On a $700 Price-Tag For Motorola’s Xoom Tablet

Leak: Nokia’s MeeGo-Running Tablet Appears

Motorola Xoom Lands at Best Buy February 17

Will Motorola Really Muck Up the Xoom Tablet with Motoblur? (Updated)

Rumor: HTC Flyer Tablet Launching March, Resembling Large Desire Smartphone?

DesignScene for iPad Is the 21st Century Muse

Unconfirmed: Palm’s Tablets Will Use HP’s Beats Audio and Have Heaps of Cloud Storage

Unconfirmed: First Look at the webOS Tablets We’ve Been Waiting For

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