ReaderDock plans to introduce two new tablet docking stations this month, one for the Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet or NOOK Color and another for the Amazon Kindle Fire. The N-Station and FireStation are both scheduled to ship in mid-February, but pre-orders for each will open in late January. The docking stations include built-in speakers so you can listen to…

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Motorola has introduced a new laptop-style docking station that lets you use your phone as if it were a notebook computer. The Lapdock 100 looks like a thin and light laptop, but it doesn’t work as a standalone device — there’s no operating system or processor to speak of. Instead, you connect a supported Android smartphone and the phone will…

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Best Buy is now offering a dock for the HTC Flyer tablet. It’s a simple little white dock with a MHL adapter which you can use to crank out HD video to an external display if you want to hook up your tablet to a TV or monitor. If you don’t plan to use your Flyer as a home theater…

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The Gigabyte S1080 is a 10 inch tablet with an Intel Atom N570 dual core processor and Windows 7 operating system. It’s been making the rounds since January, but the folks at Engadget caught up with Gigabyte at Computex this week and found out that the tablet is scheduled to ship in the US in June for about $700. The tablet comes…

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The Acer Iconia Tab A500 Android tablet has a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display and NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, which means it can handle HD video playback without breaking a sweat. But what if you want to watch your movies on a big screen? It looks like Acer will offer a docking station with HDMI output and a…

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Gigabyte’s Booktop line of netbooks stand out from the crowd not by offering faster processors, higher resolution displays, or applying any of the usual tricks. Instead, these otherwise normal looking netbooks come with docking stations that let you rest the mini-laptop on its side, plug in a keyboard, mouse, and external display, and use the Booktop like a desktop computer….

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The Motorola Atrix 4G is one of the most intriguing smartphones to hit the street this year. That’s partially because of its super-speedy 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and 4G connectivity. But it’s also because Motorola offers several docking stations which effectively transform the phone into a laptop computer or a home theater system. Now Motorola CEO Sanjay Jha…

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The Motorola Atrix 4G is an Android smartphone with a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and a whole slew of accessories that transform the phone into the brains of a notebook computer or a home theater system, the company has started to send out demo units, and the folks at Engadget, MobileCrunch, GigaOm, and Business Insider have posted some…

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Motorola has released a demo video for the upcoming Atrix 4G smartphone — you know, the one with the optional $150 Webtop docking station that effectively turns the phone into a notebook computer? It looks like there will also be a media dock which will allow you to connect the phone to a big screen TV and use a remote…

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The Gigabyte M1005 is the second “Booktop” style netbook from Gigabyte. That means that while the device looks like a typical netbook at first glance, you can close the lid and stand up the laptop in a docking station, plug in a keyboard, mouse and display and use it like a desktop computer. What sets the M1005 apart from the…

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This morning Acer introduced 5 new laptop and tablet computers and two major pieces of software news. But here’s one item I wanted to take a closer look at: The 10 inch Windows tablet Acer is expected to launch early next year. We don’t have complete specs for the computer, but we know it will have a 10.1 inch “high…

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Hoping to get your hands on the Samsung Galaxy Tab, but can’t stand the thought of using the Android tablet without a physical keyboard? No worries. Samsung is bringing an official keyboard dock to market. It’ll have 83 keys, a charger and audio jack and it’s designed to work in portrait mode. It’ll run £69.99 in the UK. The company…

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