The Toshiba Thrive 10 inch Android tablet is expected to start shipping on July 10th, but you can start placing pre-orders today. Amazon, Newegg, Office Depot, and Toshiba Direct are all taking orders. For $429.99 you can get a tablet with 8GB of storage. A 16GB model will run you $479.99. And for $579.99 you can pick up the top-of-the-line…
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At $400, the Asus Eee Pad Transformer is the cheapest tablet on the market with Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb. But the $400 model also has just 16GB of storage space. Now it looks like Asus is starting to bring a 32GB model to market. A number of online retailers are showing listings for the tablet, and a few even seem…
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As expected, Best Buy has started taking pre-orders for the HTC Flyer Android tablet. I heard anecdotal evidence that some customers had placed pre-orders for the tablet last week, but the order page didn’t officially go live on the Best Buy web site until this weekend. Best Buy is charging $499.99 for the tablet and estimates that it should arrive…
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Best Buy has announced it will begin taking pre-sale orders for the HTC Flyer 7 inch Android tablet on Monday, April 25th. The tablet will be available in the US later this spring, and it will sell for $499. The HTC Flyer features a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel capacitive touchscreen display which can also accept pressure-sensitive input from…
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The Acer Iconia Tab W500 is a 10 inch Windows 7 tablet with an AMD processor and Radeon HD graphics. The tablet also has a keyboard docking station allowing you to use the W500 in laptop or tablet mode. The computer went up for pre-order in Germany last month, where it’s expected to start shipping on April 14th. Now it…
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B&H is the first US retailer to start taking pre-orders for the WiFi version of the Motorola XOOM Android tablet, widely expected to go on sale later this month. You can pre-order the XOOM today for $599. The XOOM is the first tablet to hit the streets running Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb, a version of the mobile operating system optimized…
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As expected, Best Buy has announced that the Motorola XOOM tablet will be available in stores on Thursday, February 24th. The company starts taking pre-orders for the tablet today, with a 3G capable model running $799.99. But Best Buy isn’t the only retailer taking pre-orders. You can also place an order at Wirefly for the same price. Both companies are…
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Over the past week or so we’ve seen plenty of notebooks with 18W AMD Zacate chips announced, but the Acer Aspire One 522 is one of the few new computers to ship with AMD’s lower power 9W Ontario chip. More precisely, it will have a 1GHz dual core AMD C-50 processor with built-in Radeon HD 6250 graphics. And it’s up…
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It’s been a few months since the ExoPC slate computer went up for order in Canada, but it’s just this weekend that the company launched pre-orders in the US. The Microsoft Store is taking pre-orders for the tablet for $699. For that price, you get a tablet with an 11.6 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, Intel Atom N450 CPU,…
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Notion Ink has announced that the upcoming Adam Tablet could begin shipping by the end of the year… or possibly early next year. Either way, the company says it will start taking pre-orders in early December. The Notion Ink Adam Tablet features a 10 inch capacitive touchscreen display, a 1GHz dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor, and Google Android 2.2….
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The Asus Eee PC 1015PN is a 10 inch netbook with a dual core Intel Atom N550 processor and second generation NVIDIA ION graphics. A few weeks ago Asus told me it would go on sale in October, and right on cue, the folks at ExcaliberPC have put up product pages for the laptop. You can pre-order the Eee PC…
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The Archos 32 portable media player is the first of five new Android powered internet tablets that Archos introduced a few weeks ago to actually go on sale. You can order the 3.2 inch device for $149.99 from the Archos web site. But the rest of the new Archos tablets aren’t expected to hit the streets until October. B&H has…
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