If you were paying attention to today’s round of daily deals, you may have noticed that the Archos Arnova 10 Android tablet is now shipping in the US. The 10 inch tablet is the latest budget model from French device maker Archos. It’s has a suggested retail price of about $199, but it’s on sale […]
March 2011
Deals of the Day (3-30-11)
Netbooks, Notebooks, and Tablets Dell Inspiron Mini 10 netbook w/Atom N455, cell cell battery for $276 – Dell (coupon: ?$QNC1?HSKNR9F) Lenovo ThinkPad X120e 12.1″ notebook w/1.5 GHz AMD E-240 CPU for $359 – Lenovo (coupon: BLUEDEVILS) Archos ARNOVA 4GB 10″ Android Internet Media Tablet for $180 – Mertado Accessories Dell ST2210B 22-inch Full HD […]
Google Chrome OS notebooks coming in the second half of 2011?
Google Android may be busy taking over the handset market and making a run for the tablet space. But it’s not the only mobile operating system Google is cooking up. The company has been working on Chrome OS, a Linux-based operating system based around the Google Chrome web browser since at least 2009. It’s just […]
Hercules banks on ARM chips, Linux for its latest 10 inch netbooks
Hercules has been cranking out Intel Atom powered Windows netbooks for a few years. Now the company is taking another approach, with two new thin and light netbooks powered by ARM-based processors. The Hercules eCafe Slim HD and Hercules eCafe Ex HD are expected to ship in April, for around $229 and $269 respectively. The […]
Asus Eee Pad Transformer launches in the UK for ÂŁ379
A few days after launching the Eee Pad Transformer in Taiwan, Asus is launching its first 10 inch Android 3.0 tablet in the UK today. The Eee Pad Transformer will have a starting price of about ÂŁ379 in the UK, which is a little over $600 US — although the tablet is expected to be […]
Asus Eee PC T101MT convertible tablet gets an Atom N570 upgrade
Asus has introduced a new version of the Eee PC T101MT convertible tablet. This 10 inch netbook with a touchscreen display that allows you to use the computer in slate mode has been around almost a year. But at launch it featured a 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N450 single core processor. The new version of […]
PandoraDroid makes the Augen GenTouch78 tablet almost bearable
The Augen GenTouch78 made headlines when it hit the streets last summer because it was one of the cheapest Android tablets you could walk into a store and buy in the US. That didn’t make it a good tablet. In fact, it’s probably one of the worst tablets I’ve used, thanks to a sluggish processor, […]
BlackBerry PlayBook to get calendar, contact software eventually
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry phones are known for their business features including push email and strong calendar and contact apps. Unfortunately the BlackBerry PlayBook won’t have any of those features at launch. Instead, you’ll be able to connect the tablet to a BlackBerry phone to share your calendar, email, and contact data. That means if […]
Microsoft may be shipping (very) early Windows 8 builds to testers
There’s a rumor going around, thanks to a post at a Chinese forum, that Microsoft may be seeding early builds of Windows 8 to manufacturers for testing purposes. Windows 8 isn’t expected to officially launch until next year, but a public beta could be available later this year. Microsoft plans to make Windows 8 compatible […]
Deals of the Day (3-29-11)
Netbooks, Notebooks, and Tablets HP Pavilion dm1z 11.6″ laptop w/AMD E-350 dual core CPU for $400 – HP (coupon: NB5751) Refurb ASUS Eee PC 1005PEB w/Atom N450, 6 cell battery for $220 – Mwave Velocity Micro Cruz Reader R101 7″ Android tablet for $110 – TigerDirect (coupon: WQO22984) Accessories 8GB Apple iPod touch and […]