The HP TouchPad may have been discontinued this summer, but the 9.7 inch tablet is getting more useful all the time. HP has continued to push software updates which improve performance and add features even after the tablet was canceled, and third party developers have continued releasing high quality apps for the webOS tablet. The […]
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Kobo Vox tablet now available for $199.99
Looking for a $200 Android tablet with a 7 inch color screen for reading eBooks, but don’t feel like handing your money over to Amazon for a Kindle Fire? Kobo’s got you covered. The Kobo Vox tablet went on sale today. It comes from the company that’s probably the third best-known eBook provider, after Amazon […]
HP 3115m budget notebook comes to HP’s business lineup
The HP 3115m is an 11.6 inch notebook with an AMD Fusion low power processor, support for up to 8GB of memory and up to 500GB of hard disk space. It has a starting price of $429, and it’s aimed at HP’s business customers. If the notebook looks familiar, that’s because it’s virtually identical to […]
Motorola introduces XOOM 2 and XOOM 2 Media Edition tablets
Motorola has unveiled two new Android tablets. The XOOM 2 and XOOM 2 Media Edition will feature 10.1 inch and 8.2 inch displays, respectively. But for the most part the rest of the specs are the same no matter which tablet you get. They both feature 1.2 GHz dual core processors, 1GB of RAM, and […]
Amazon launches Lending Library for Kindle owners
Amazon really wants you to pay $79 per year to become an Amazon Prime member. Initially that subscription fee only entitled customers to free 2-day shipping on all packages. But earlier this year the company started letting Prime members stream thousands of TV shows and movies for free. Now Amazon is adding free eBook loans to […]
Boogie Board Rip writing slate now available for $130
Improv Electronics has started selling the first of its Boogie Board writing tablets that lets you write notes with a stylus and save digital copies of those notes to built-in storage. The company has been offering inexpensive digital writing slates since last year, with prices as low as $40. But the Boogie Board Rip is […]
HP Slate update brings an Oak Trail processor
HP is updating its Windows 7 tablet with a faster solid state disk and a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom Z670 Oak Trail processor. It’s been just over a year since the HP Slate 500 launched, so it’s about time for an update. If you feel like you haven’t heard much about this tablet over the […]
Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime tear-down shows Kal-El chip
Last week the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime showed up at the FCC website. While most of the good stuff is still tucked away behind confidentiality requests, somehow the folks at Wireless Goodness managed to get their hands on the internal photos of the tablet ahead of schedule. There aren’t a ton of surprises, but […]
OLPC to parachute computers into remote villages… literally
OLPC founder Nicholas Negroponte’s next big idea sounds crazy… and that’s probably because it is. PC Magazine reports he wants to airdrop cheap tablet computers into remote villages without providing any instructions, teachers, or other forms of support. But developing an inexpensive durable, ultraportable laptop that could be used in the developing world seemed like […]
Asus U24E ultraportable coming soon for the non-Zenbook set
Asus has a new 11.6 inch notebook coming out soon. It’s called the Asus U24E and it features a 1366 x 768 pixel display, An Intel Core i5-2430M processor, 4GB of RAM, and a 750GB hard drive. The laptop weighs about 3.3 pounds and will likely cost far less than the other 11.6 inch notebook Asus […]