The Asus Eee Pad Slider is an Android tablet with a 10 inch screen and a slide-out keyboard that transforms the device into an Android-powered laptop. Asus loaned me a demo unit for review, and I wanted to share some initial thoughts. I’ll have more details to share soon. Aside from the keyboard, the Slider looks a lot like other…

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Amazon offers Kindle Fire users the opportunity to download and install thousands of third party apps from the Amazon Appstore. But there are some apps you won’t find there, including apps that require phone, camera, or microphone capabilities, because the Kindle Fire doesn’t have the hardware to support them. You also won’t find alternate home screen/program launcher apps or alternate…

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This week the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime tablet went up for pre-order. Now you can also place a pre-order for the optional keyboard dock. The Transformer Prime is a 10 inch Android tablet and an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor. But it’s the tablet dock that helps set the Transformer apart from most of other Tegra 3 tablets that…

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The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet is a 10 inch Android tablet aimed at people looking for a business-class experience. While the $499 tablet it has all the usual Android tablet specs including a 10 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, and Android Honeycomb operating system, Lenovo also offers a digital pen for writing or drawing….

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The Asus Eee Pad Transformer and Eee Pad Slider are both 10 inch tablets with 1280 x 800 pixel displays, 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processors, and Google Android 3.x Honeycomb operating systems. They also both manage to set themselves apart from the crowd with physical keyboards — but while the Transformer has an optional keyboard docking accessory…

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ZAGG has released a Bluetooth keyboard designed to work with smartphones or tablets. The ZAGGKeys Solo features an island-style keyboard, a slot for your mobile device, a 510mAh battery, and a microUSB port for charging the battery. The keyboard officially supports the Apple iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 3GS and up and latest iPod touch as well as a number of…

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Sony is expected to launch two Android tablets in the coming months, so it’s no surprise that we’re starting to see accessories for the upcoming Sony S1 and Sony S2. Today a Bluetooth keyboard for a Sony Android tablet showed up at the FCC website. The wireless keyboard is made by Taiwanese company Darfon, so it’s not entirely clear whether…

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Samsung offers a $70 keyboard dock accessory for the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet. It’s designed to make text entry much, much easier than it would be if you relied solely on the on-screen keyboard. But it also has a few other nice features including shortcuts for all sorts of Android functions, a headphone jack, and a port which lets…

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Asus North America hasn’t announced an official US release date for the upcoming Eee Pad Slider, but the company has promised that the 10 inch Android tablet with a pull-out keyboard will be available “soon.” It looks like European Asus fans are getting some more concrete details though. Asus UK has posted on Facebook to let us know that the…

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Motorola is offering a free Bluetooth keyboard with the purchase of a Motorola XOOM tablet. The keyboard normally runs $69.99, but it’s available for free if you pick up a tablet directly from Motorola before noon Eastern Time on June 14th. The deal is good on the WiFi-only or 3G model of hte tablet. The Motorola XOOM features a 10.1…

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Samsung is preparing to launch the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 next month, but the company also has an 8.9 inch model in the pipeline. While we haven’t heard much from Samsung about the smaller tablet since it was unveiled in March, Russian site mforum.ru spotted the tablet at an event this week — and also spotted an intriguing keyboard docking…

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The Apple iPad has a surprisingly good on-screen keyboard which you can use to type at a reasonable speed thanks to nice large keys and a decent layout. But the keyboard doesn’t provide any tactile feedback, which means if you’re not looking at the screen it can be hard to hit the right key, and that can slow you down…

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