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Toshiba working on sleep/resume bug affecting the Thrive tablet

The Toshiba Thrive Android tablet went on sale just over a week ago, but early customers are already starting to notice a major with the company’s first tablet to run Google Android 3.1 Honeycomb. According to a thread at the Toshiba forums, a number of users are having trouble getting the tablet to resume from […]

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Portable computer maker Viliv may be on its last legs

Korean device maker Viliv isn’t exactly a household name in the West. But over the past few years the company has produced some of the most interesting portable computing devices around. That includes the 5 inch Viliv N5 Windows computer with a QWERTY keyboard and the Viliv S10 Blade convertible Windows tablet. Now it looks like […]

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Chinese tablet runs Android 2.3, features removable battery

A Chinese manufacturer has released a new 7 inch Android tablet with two things you don’t often see from tablets in the West: a removable battery and the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. The Hong Kong Sheng 708 tablet has a rather catchy name too. The device has a back panel that you can slide off […]

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HTC offers up source code for the HTC Flyer tablet

HTC has released the kernel source code for a number of Android devices including several of the company’s most recent smartphones and the HTC Flyer 7 inch Android tablet. The Google Android operating system is based on an open source Linux kernel, but not every bit of software that runs on top of that kernel […]

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HTC Puccini tablet struts its 4G at the FCC

Word on the street is that HTC is working on a 10 inch Android tablet code-named Puccini. While the company hasn’t yet confirmed the existence of this device, something that sure looks like a 10 inch HTC tablet just popped up on the FCC web site. There aren’t any photos posted and the only specs […]

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Android 3.2 coming to the 7 inch Samsung Galaxy Tab… unofficially

Google Android 3.2 is designed to bridge the gap between 7 and 10 inch tablets by offering a version of the Android operating system that will scale easily to various screen sizes. Motorola has already begun rolling out the software update for its 10 inch XOOM tablet and Asus plans to issue an update for […]

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Asus Eee Pad Slider coming soon in the US, Poland?

The Asus Eee Pad Slider is an Android tablet with a pull-out keyboard that hides away behind the screen when you’re not using it. It’s sort of like having a cross between a laptop and a tablet — if a laptop ran Android and worked with a touchscreen instead of a touchpad or mouse. Asus […]