Christmas may have come and gone, but the BlackBerry PlayBook is still on sale at several stores with 16GB models going for as little as $199. Best Buy has the best price on the 32GB model, at $249.99. Here’s a roundup of some of the day’s best deals. Tablets BlackBerry PlayBook 7″ tablet w/32GB for […]
December 2011
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Samsung Galaxy Note 5.3″ Android device coming to America in 2012
Samsung has announced that the Galaxy Note is headed to the US in 2012. The Note is an Android device that’s a bit of a cross between a phone and a tablet. It can make phone calls, but it has a relatively large 5.3 inch display and also comes with a digital pen for writing […]
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How to update a NOOK Tablet to OS 1.4.1 and still have root access
The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet is a 7 inch tablet with a dual core processor, 16GB of storage, and an excellent display. It comes with a custom version of Google Android designed to work with the B&N book and app stores, but customers have been hacking the NOOK Tablet since it hit the streets […]
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Amazon has sold “millions” of Kindle Fires
Amazon has a way of tooting its own horn without giving out specifics. Today the company announced that the Kindle Fire and Kindle eReader family has been awfully successful this holiday season, but we still don’t have exact sales figures for any of those devices. That said, here’s what we do know for now: Amazon […]
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Acer Iconia Tab A200 now available in the UK for £299
The Acer Iconia Tab A200 is a 10 inch Android tablet with a 1280 x 800 pixel display, an NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor, and 1GB of RAM. Basically it’s what you get if you take the Iconia Tab A500 and slap it in a new case, add a few color options, and remove […]
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Asus Eee Pad Slider review
Over the last two years computer makers have flooded the market with tablets. The best of these devices tend to be thinner and lighter than laptops, offer better battery life, and always-on features including the ability to receive incoming email or instant messages even when the display is off. Another hallmark of tablets running Android, […]
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Intel Atom Cedar Trail products on track for early 2012
Intel has started shipping its third-generation Atom chips for low-power mobile computers such as netbooks. The company says products with Cedar Trail chips will debut in early 2012, with some of the first devices coming from Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo, Samsung, and Toshiba. Noticeably absent from that list? Dell. The company recently announced that it’s […]
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PandaBoard ES packs a 1.2 GHz OMAP4460 chip into a tiny PC board
The PandaBoard ES is a platform aimed at developers that want to write software for phones, tablets and other mobile devices. But basically it’s a tiny, low-cost computer board with a 1.2 GHz TI OMAP 4460 dual core processor, support for 1080p HD video, HDMI output, OpenGL 2.0 graphics, and more. The PandaBoard ES has […]
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7 inch HP TouchPad Go reviewed (tablet that never was)
HP never got around to releasing the TouchPad Go before discontinuing its webOS hardware division this summer. But the company did produce a handful of prototypes of the HP TouchPad’s little sibling, and the folks at webOS Nation managed to get their hands on one. They’ve posted a detailed review of the tablet. It paints […]
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Arch, Ubuntu, and Debian Linux ported to the HP TouchPad tablet
Before hackers figured out how to install Google Android on the HP TouchPad, people were using the 9.7 inch tablet to run Ubuntu Linux… sort of. The discontinued tablet actually shipped with HP’s webOS software preloaded and early attempts to run Linux didn’t boot Linux instead of webOS. They basically let you run Ubuntu alongside Android […]