The Aakash Tablet is an inexpensive Android tablet aimed at students in India. The Indian government spearheaded the project and partnered with UK-based DataWind to make a tablet that could sell for as little as $35. Now the second version of the tablet is almost ready to launch, and while it still has all the […]
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iFixit tears open the iPad 3 to see what makes it tick
The new iPad goes on sale on March 16th… but it’s already March 16th in Australia. So the folks at iFixit picked up an Australian iPad today and promptly started to dissect it to see what the insides look like — and how difficult it would be to repair a broken iPad. The iFixit team […]
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Archos Gen9 tablets now shipping with Android 4.0 (in some regions)
Archos recently started offering a software update for its latest tablets bringing Android 4.0.3 to the Archos 80 G9 and Archos 101 G9 tablets. Now the company is starting to sell those tablets with Google’s latest operating system preloaded. The order page for the US Archos Store still lists Android 3.2 Honeycomb, but the company […]
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HP to release more source code for webOS 3.0.5 (HP TouchPad)
HP has already committed to turning the webOS operating system that runs on smartphones and tablets into open source software. But initially the goal was for future versions of webOS to be community-focused software. Now HP has announced plans to release additional parts of webOS 3.0.5 as open source software, which should allow independent developers to […]
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iPad review roundup (2012)
Apple’s third generation iPad will hit stores tomorrow, and the early reviews are in. The new tablet has a 9.7 inch, 2048 x 1536 pixel display, 1GB of RAM, and quad-core graphics. It’s a little thicker and heavier than the iPad 2, but gets the same 10 hours of battery life despite the new CPU, […]
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B&N now lets you repartition 16GB NOOK Tablets to free up more space
The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet that has been shipping since November comes with 16GB of disk space plus a microSDHC card for anyone that really needs more space. But there’s a catch – only 1GB is available for files you download from the web or copy from your computer. The rest is used by […]
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Archos will launch Gen10 premium tablets this year
French device maker Archos will introduce a range of new tablets in 2012, including a super-thin model that measures just 7.6mm (or 0.3 inches) thick and a tablet with a keyboard docking station. Last year Archos divided its Android tablets into two families. The Arnova line of budget tablets are among the cheapest halfway decent […]
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4G BlackBerry PlayBook visits the FCC
Right now if you want to use a BlackBerry PlayBook tablet with a 3G or 4G network you need to use a MiFi or similar mobile hotspot. But Research in Motion is preparing to launch new models with 4G connectivity… and this week they showed up at the FCC website. The first to appear was […]
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Chromium OS gets a desktop and window manager, looks like a proper OS
Right now Google Chrome OS is little more than a Google Chrome web browser running on top of a Linux kernel. There’s no desktop or taskbar, and there aren’t many native apps built into the operating system unless you count the file browser or media player which open in in browser tabs. But Google may […]
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Acer M3 ultrabook with NVIDIA Kepler graphics coming this month
Acer has announced that the Aspire Timeline M3 ultrabook will be available around the globe by the end of March. Meanwhile, NVIDIA says the M3 will be the first ultrabook to ship with a next-generation NVIDIA Kepler graphics processor. The Acer Aspire Timeline M3 qualifies as an ultrabook because it’s a thin and light notebook […]