Toshiba will begin taking orders for the company’s first Android tablet on June 13th. The Toshiba Thrive will have a starting price of $429.99 for a model with 8GB of storage, while a 16GB version will set you back $479.99 and the top of the line 32GB model runs $579.99. All three are expected to […]
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ViewSonic launches ViewBook 730 budget tablet for $250
MSI isn’t the only company getting into the budget Android tablet space. ViewSonic just announced that it will offer a new 7 inch tablet called the ViewBook 730 for $249.99. The tablet has an 800 x 480 pixel resistive touchscreen display and a stylus for writing and drawing. It also has a 1 GHz ARM […]
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Closer look at the $199 MSI WindPad Enjoy 7
MSI unveiled the WindPad Enjoy 7 at Computex last week. It’s a cheap 7 inch tablet with a price of $199, but mobile tech expert jkkmobile says you get a lot of tablet for that low price. He got a chance to check one out in person, and he reports that the WindPad Enjoy 7 […]
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HTC EVO View 4G tablet launching on Sprint June 24th
Sprint is about to become the first US carrier to offer a version of the HTC Flyer 7 inch Android tablet. The company will sell the Flyer under the HTC EVO View 4G name, and as the name suggests, the tablet will support Sprint’s 4G WiMAX mobile broadband network. The EVO View 4G will be available from […]
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Sony S2 dual screen tablet hits the FCC
Sony’s dual-screen Android tablet moved one step closer to launch this week with the filing of documents at the FCC. The FCC listing doesn’t provide many new details about the Sony S2, but it will apparently support 802.11b/g/n WiFi, Bluetooth, and support for AT&T’s 3G mobile broadband network. Engadget suggests that the device could also […]
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Acer’s 7 inch Honeycomb tablet shows up at the FCC
Acer still hasn’t announced an official US release date for its new 7 inch Android tablet, but the folks at Wireless Goodness spotted an FCC listing for the Acer Iconia Tab A100 today, suggesting that the tablet is on its way Stateside. The tablet will be one of the first to feature a 7 inch […]
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Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1
The Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 launches in New York next week and around the rest of the country the following week. I got a chance to meet with Samsung VP Gavin Kim to talk about the tablet at our reader meetup in New York last night. You can check out a brief interview and overview […]
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Samsung to offer Touchwiz as over the air update for the Galaxy Tab 10.1
When the Samsung Galaxy Tab ships in the US starting next week there will be somethkng missing: the tablet-friendly version of the company’s Touchwiz software for Android. In order to ship the tablet with Google Android 3.1 as soon as possible the company decided to offer Touchwiz at a later date as a downloadable option. […]
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Closer look at the Toshiba Thrive tablet
The Toshiba Thrive tablet goes up for pre-order on June 13th and ships on July 10th. It’s a 10 inch tablet with Google’s Android Honeycomb operating system. But that only tells part of the story. I got a chance to check out an early version of the tablet at CES in January and found out […]
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Motorola XOOM 4G LTE upgrade won’t come until later this summer
It looks like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 is about to become the first Android 3.x tablet to ship with 4G LTE mobile broadband access in the US. Verizon announced today that it would start taking pre-orders for a 4G model of the tablet next week. Motorola, on the other hand, confirmed today that 4G […]