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Hands-on with Toshiba’s Android tablet

Toshiba plans to launch a 10 inch tablet running Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb later this year. While it’s not fully baked yet, the company started showing off an early prototype this week with an earlier version of Android. I got a chance to check it out last night, and the build quality seems good and […]

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Samsung showcases flexible, transparent OLED displays

Last year at CES Samsung showed off a laptop prototype with a 14 inch semi-transparent AMOLED display. You could see the screen well enough, but you could also see through the screen to see whether your car keys are on the table or not. This year, Samsung is continuing to show off its transparent AMOLED […]

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Velocity Micro unveils 3 new Android tablets

The folks at Velocity Micro already have a couple Android tablets under their hat, but the company has decided not to stop with the Cruz Reader and Cruz Tablets T301 and T103. This week Velocity Micro announced three new tablets, with screen sizes ranging from 7 to 10 inches. The first is a 7 inch […]

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BlackBerry 4G PlayBook coming to Sprint

Research in Motion and Sprint have announced plans to launch a 4G capable version of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet on Sprint’s 4G WiMAX network. The BlackBerry 4G PlayBook is due out this summer. This makes Sprint the first major US wireless carrier to commit to offering the BlackBerry tablet. Interestingly, GigaOm reports that the tablet […]

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Closer look at the Motorola Xoom tablet with Android 3.0 Honeycomb

Motorola has started showing off its upcoming Xoom tablet which will be available from Verizon during the first quarter of 2011. The software is still a bit rough around the edges, so a friendly Motorola rep spent more time showing me demo videos than the actual user interface for the tablet, but that’s to be […]

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Freescale at CES

Freescale Semiconductors recently announced plans to bring dual and quad-core ARM-based chips to market, but we won’t actually start seeing devices built around those chips until much later this year. In the meantime, the company is showing off a number of tablets and other computing devices that have been developed recently using the company’s low […]