Starting February 5th you’ll be able to pick up an Android 3.2 tablet with a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display from Sprint for $99.99 when you sign up for a 2-year contract. Data plans start at $19.99 per month for 1GB of data. The ZTE Optik tablet has a 1.2 GHz Qulacomm MSM8660 dual core processor, 1GB of RAM, and…

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Asus may be working on a new tablet with the model number TF300T. It was spotted by the folks at nccc.cool3c.com in China. For reference, the original Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet is the TF101, and the recently launched Eee Pad Transformer Prime is the TF201. There’s reason to think that the only other model that’s been announced to date…

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Looking for a small, cheap, low-power media center for your living room? Soon you may be able to pick up a $35 Raspberry Pi computer and install a custom version of the popular XBMC media center application with minimal fuss. The Raspberry Pi is a tiny computer with an ARM-based processor designed for educational institutions, hobbyists, or anyone else looking…

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Samsung has won another round in its ongoing legal battle with Apple over smartphones and tablets. A German court has ruled that Samsung can continued to sell the Galaxy Tab 10.1N tablet and Galaxy Nexus smartphone in that country… at least for now. After Apple successfully managed to get the Galaxy Tab 10.1 banned in Germany, Samsung introduced the Tab…

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Google has rolled out an updated version of Google Docs for Android. It includes better support for tablets and the ability to download documents to your mobile device so you can view them when you’re not online. You still can’t edit documents when you’re offline. But if you make any changes to a document using the Google Docs web interface, Google…

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A few years ago IBM started offering a free office suite called Lotus Symphony. It’s based on code from OpenOffice.org, but IBM has forked the project and created a custom user interface and other tools. Last month IBM released Lotus Symphony 3.0.1 with a number of improvements including support for bubble charts and up to a million rows in spreadsheets….

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The Motorola XYBOARD 8.2 tablet recently started shipping — but if you’re one of the first people to plunk down $400 or more for Motorola’s latest tablet, odds are you’re not exactly interested in ripping it to pieces to see what lies on the inside. Fortunately that’s where the FCC comes in. The XYBOARD 8.2 passed through Federal Communications website…

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Research in Motion plans to release BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 later this month. When the company showed off an early build of the new operating system for PlayBook tablets at CES in January, RIM highlighted the new calendar, contact, and email apps — but made no mention of the fact that the tablets would be able to run Android applications….

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A group of developers are continuing to work on improved versions of Google Android 4.0 for the Amazon Kindle Fire. Amazon’s $199 tablet ships with a customized version of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, but by rooting the tablet and installing custom software it’s possible to turn it into an (almost) full-fledged Android tablet running CyanogenMod 9, a custom version of Android…

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Amazon is re-iterating that the company sold “millions” of Kindle devices including the Kindle Fire tablet during the holiday season. The company reported its quarterly earnings this afternoon — and as usual, Amazon isn’t spelling out just how many Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch, or other Kindle devices were sold. But Amazon says Kindle device sales tripled during the holidays, and…

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While eBay is often a good place to look for new or used gadgets, sometimes it’s nice to know you’re buying from an established company and not just some random dude. Fortunately a number of retailers sell extra inventory on eBay from time to time, so you get the best of both worlds: Dirt cheap gadgets and a slightly stronger-than-usual…

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Since Mozilla switched to a “rapid release” schedule for the popular Firefox web browser, we’ve gotten a new version of Firefox every 6 weeks like clockwork. These often aren’t huge, game-changing releases, but there are bug fixes and new features in every browser update. This week Mozilla is pushing out Firefox 10. It has a few little updates such as…

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