Since the HTC Puccini checked in at the FCC earlier this month, bits and pieces have been leaking out about the 10″ successor to the HTC Flyer. We’d heard it would ship with a 1.5GHz dual core processor, a 1280×800 pixel display, and Android 3.0.1. That, of course, would make it HTC’s first Honeycomb tablet. On the wireless side of things,…

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The Netflix app is already available for a number of Android smartphones and tablets, but there are a few notable exceptions. For example, one of the platform’s most popular tablets — the Asus Eee Pad Transformer — had yet to receive an invite to the streaming video party. That’s all changed now, however, as Android Central reports that the 8.6.5.9 update…

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Sony has been showing off two new Android devices for a few months: The Sony S1 tablet with a 9.4 inch display and the Sony S2 dual-screen handheld device. But those names have always been code-names. Now Engadget has the scoop on the real name for the S1, along with a release date. The tablet will reportedly be called the…

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Intel is reportedly hoping computer makers will blur the lines between netbooks and tablets soon. The company’s next-generation Intel Atom chips will be appropriate for standard netbooks with 10 inch screens and keyboards, but Fudzilla reports they may also show up in convertible netbooks with touchscreen displays that can be folded down over the keyboard, or tablets devices with slide-out…

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HP sparked a huge amount of interest in the HP TouchPad tablet when the company marked down the price to $99 this weekend to liquidate all remaining inventory. Some folks who wouldn’t have looked twice at the tablet for $399 or more are rushing to buy it at the new low price, many with hopes of installing Google Android, Ubuntu…

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Over the past few days customers have been rushing to buy HP TouchPad tablets with prices as low as $99. The tablet wasn’t a particularly good seller when it launched in July for $499, but at under a hundred bucks, the deal seems to be too good for many people to pass up. Unfortunately retailers have had a hard time…

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This week AMD introduced a number of new low power Fusion processors including the AMD E-450 which is a little faster than the E-350 chip that’s been shipping since last year. But how does it stack up against other low power processors? The folks at Blogee have published a few benchmark results pitting the 1.65 GHz AMD E-450 dual core…

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Lenovo is now taking orders for its ThinkPad Tablet running Google Android 3.1 Honeycomb. Prices start at $499 for a 16GB model. A 32GB version is available for $569, and you can snag a 64GB model for $669. On paper the ThinkPad Tablet looks a lot like other Honeycomb tablets. It has a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel multitouch…

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Before HP killed off its webOS hardware division, the company was hard at work creating next-generation smartphones, tablets, and other devices to run the software HP took charge of when it acquired Palm for $1.2 billion last year. Writing for GDGT, a source that claims to have inside information from HP employees reports that the company was getting ready to…

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Sharp hasn’t yet brought an Android tablet to market in the US, but the company is on a roll with Japanese tablets. First Sharp introduced the Galapagos line of 5.5 inch and 10.8 inch tablets, and then the company followed up with a 7 inch model called the Galapagos A01SH earlier this month. Now Sharp is introducing a new 7…

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Independent developers are racing to port Google Android to the HP TouchPad to breathe new life into HP’s recently discontinued (and seriously discounted) webOS tablet. But one man may have taken a bit of a shortcut. He apparently ordered an HP TouchPad from Best Buy and when it arrived it was running Google Android 2.2.1 instead of the webOS operating…

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HP may have discontinued production of the HP TouchPad tablet… and virtually every retailer in the US that was carrying the tablet sold out almost immediately after marking down the prices to $99 for the 16GB model and $149 for the 32GB model this weekend. But there’s still hope for those that have been getting their hands on HP’s suddenly…

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Haven’t managed to get your hands on a $99 HP TouchPad yet? Don’t worry, there are some other great deals on mobile tech today… just none that are quite that good. Woot is offering the ViewSonic gTablet with a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor for a low price yet again, Walmart has a pretty good deal on the Asus Eee…

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HP may have discontinued its webOS smartphone and tablet products, but the company still hopes to keep the webOS operating system alive. Ultimately the company hopes to license webOS to other device makers. But in the meantime HP’s Stephen DeWitt tells AllThingsD the company will follow through on plans to use the software on the company’s printers and personal computers. There’s…

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Samsung is preparing a new 10 inch netbook with a low power processor and a low price tag. The Samsung N102 will feature a 1.33 GHz Intel Atom N435 processor and run Windows 7 Starter Edition. If the picture looks familiar, that’s because the Samsung N102 is simply a Windows version of the Samsung N100 — an even cheaper netbook…

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