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Motorola shipped a million tablets in 2011

You know those 10.5 million Android tablets that shipped in 2011? It looks like about a million of them came from Motorola. The smartphone and tablet maker reported its quarterly earnings this afternoon, and Motorola says it shipped a million tablets in 2011, including about 200 thousand tablets during the last quarter of the year. […]

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Lenovo ThinkPad X130e laptop now available for $429 and up

The Lenovo ThinkPad X130e us the latest 11.6 inch member of Lenovo’s business-focused ThinkPad family… but this model isn’t really aimed at business. When the company introduced the laptop late last year, the goal was to position the X130e as a laptop for students. The laptop was supposed to be available in December, but that […]

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Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook up for pre-order for $900 and up

The Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook is a thin and light laptop with an Intel Core i5 processor, quick boot and quick resume technology. Samsung will offer three models, with prices ranging from $900 to $1100, and it looks like the first two are already available for pre-order. Amazon and J&R are both taking pre-orders for […]

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Deals of the Day (1-26-2012)

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is Google’s latest flagship Android smartphone. It ships with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, has a button-free front panel, and a large 4.65 inch 1280 x 720 pixel Super AMOLED display. Normally it runs $300 when you sign up for a 2-year Verizon contract — but today Amazon is offering the […]

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$100 ZTE Optik Android tablet heading to Sprint in February

Chinese phone and tablet maker ZTE has been threatening to enter the US market for a while… and now it looks like the time has come. Sprint will begin selling a 7 inch ZTE tablet for $99.99 starting February 5th. Update: It’s official. Android Police has details and more photos. In order to get that […]

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Qualcomm buys display company Pixtronix

Qualcomm may be known first and foremost for making the processors that power millions of phones and tablets. But the company also has a display division… and it’s about to get a little bigger. EE Times reports Qualcomm has acquired display company Pixtronix for about $175 million. Pixtronix is a startup working on MEMS display […]

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Tablets sales are up (iPad still dominates, but market share is shrinking)

Apple announced recently that it shipped a whopping 15.4 million iPads in the most recent quarter, with iPads outselling Mac computers by a margin of nearly 3 to 1. But how does the iPad fare against the onslaught of tablets running Android, Windows, or other operating systems? Pretty well, actually. According to a new report […]