The Acer Iconia Tab A100 is a tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display, an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, and support for Android 3.2 Honeycomb or Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Unfortunately some users have noticed that the tablet has a pretty lousy built-in microphone. So if you want to use the Iconia Tab A100…
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The Sony SmartWatch is a nifty $150 device that you can wear around your wrist and use as a companion for an Android smartphone. It pairs with your phone wirelessly and lets you access Twitter, email, music, weather, and other functions from your wrist. But when hacker Chris Wade took one apart he found it doesn’t actually run its own…
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE is a tablet with a 7 inch display and 4G LTE mobile broadband support. You probably figured that out from the name. But what the name doesn’t tell you is that the tablet also features a pretty stellar 1280 x 800 pixel Super AMOLED Plus display, and a 10 hour battery, measures 0.31 inches…
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The HP TouchPad Go is a 7 inch tablet which never made it to market. It was a casualty of HP’s decision to kill off its webOS hardware division last summer, just two months after introducing the HP TouchPad 10 inch tablet and watching it flop (only to see it sell like hotcakes once the price was lowered from $499…
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The Vivaldi tablet is a 7 inch tablet and open source KDE Plasma Active software. The €200 tablet is expected to start shipping in May, but the folks behind the official Vivaldi user forum at OpenTablets.org got their hands on an early unit — and they’ve ripped it apart to see what makes it tick. There aren’t any major surprises. After…
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Auraslate is positioning it’s 7 and 10 inch Android tablets as hacker-friendly devices with open source software. In fact you even get a disc with the source code when you buy one of the company’s tablets. But just how easy is it for an independent developer to work with one of these tablets? Pretty easy, it turns out. AdamOutler posted a…
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The new iPad goes on sale on March 16th… but it’s already March 16th in Australia. So the folks at iFixit picked up an Australian iPad today and promptly started to dissect it to see what the insides look like — and how difficult it would be to repair a broken iPad. The iFixit team has a long history of…
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The Asus Eee PC X101CH is probably one of the best new netbooks you can buy for $270 thanks to a Cedar Trail processor, fanless design, decent build quality and instant-on software. But the netbook has a few drawbacks for power users. For instance, it’s nearly impossible to upgrade the RAM. The Intel Atom N2600 processor used in the Eee…
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Nike recently introduced a wearable device called the Nike+ FuelBand which can track your fitness data throughout the day. It’s basically a tiny computer in a wristband with a handful of sensors and a very limited set of functions. One question that Nike didn’t really address when introducing the FuelBand last month was how it managed to cram the electronics…
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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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The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet may be a shiny new 7 inch tablet with a dual core processor, but the tablet sure looks a lot like the 2010 NOOK Color. The new model uses the same case design as the original, but comes with more RAM, more storage, and a faster processor. But the folks at iFixit have discovered that…
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The Amazon Kindle Fire is a 7 inch tablet with a 1024 x 600 pixel display, a 1 Ghz dual core CPU, and 8GB of storage. But you can find all that out by looking at the product listing on Amazon. The folks at iFixit had some slightly tougher-to-answer questions, like: what happens if you rip the things to shreds?…
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