The first Ouya $99 video game consoles are expected to ship next week to customers who backed the team’s Kickstarter campaign. Users will be able to download and play games on their TV using the small Android-powered game system. While most of those games will be Android titles optimized for use with a gamepad and […]
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Archos Titanium 8 inch, 9.7 inch tablets now available for $169 and up
The Archos Titanium line of Android tablets feature 1.6 GHz Rockchip RK3066 ARM Cortex-A9 processors, ARM Mali 400 graphics, Android 4.1 software, and reasonably low prices. Archos unveiled the tablets a few months ago, and now the first models are available in the US for $169 and up. J&R is selling the Archos 80 Titanium tablet for […]
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Win a Ramos W42 quad-core Android tablet
The Ramos W42 is an Android tablet with a 9.4 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display and a Samsung Exynos 4412 quad-core processor. It’s one of the fastest tablets I’ve had the pleasure of testing, although it’s not a perfect tablet — the touchscreen isn’t quite as responsive as one might like. Pandawill sells the […]
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Archos confirms plans to enter the smartphone market this year
French tablet maker Archos could launch its first smartphones this year. The company is outlining its plans for 2013, and in addition to launching additional tablets, the company say it wants to get into the smartphone and home automation markets. We’d actually first heard about the company’s plans for the smartphone space last month when […]
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Archos TV Connect stops at the FCC on the way to a US launch
Archos has been offering Android tablets in the US for a few years, but the company’s upcoming Archos TV Connect is something a bit different. It’s designed to let you run Android apps on a TV, turning your television into a game console, web surfing machine, and internet video player. Introduced at the Consumer Electronics […]
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Deals of the Day (3-22-2013)
Samsung’s Series 9 notebooks are thin and light laptops that measure half an inch thick, weigh around 2.5 pounds, and pack premium features including 13.3 inch 1600 x 900 pixel displays and backlit keyboards. I picked up a model with a Sandy Bridge processor a few months ago when it was on sale and I’ve […]
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Cube U30GT2 benchmarks (Rockchip RK3188 tablet w/HD display)
The Cube U30GT is one of the first Android tablets to ship with a Rockchip RK3188 quad-core processor, which makes it one of the fastest Chinese tablets available to date. It’s also not a bad looking tablet, and it has a high resolution 10.1 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel display. Geekbuying sells the Cube U30GT2 for $266, […]
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Kobo releases Android 4.1 update for the Kobo Arc tablet
Kobo is offering a software update for its 7 inch tablet, bringing Android 4.1 Jelly Bean to the Kobo Arc. Sure, Android 4.1 is kind of last year’s software… but it brings a number of new features to Kobo’s $200 tablet. While Kobo isn’t as big a name in the US as competitors Amazon or […]
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Archos GamePad now available in the US for $179
The Archos GamePad is a 7 inch Android tablet with game controllers built into the sides of the case and button-mapping software that lets you use those controllers while playing Android video games. It’s been available in Europe for a few months, and now you can pick up an Archos GamePad in the US. J&R […]
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Will Amazon buy Liquavista, and would that lead to color Kindles?
Amazon currently offers two types of Kindle devices. You can pick up an inexpensive Kindle with a black and white E Ink display designed primarily for reading eBooks. Or you can buy a Kindle Fire tablet which can also run apps, play movies, and do much more. Maybe one day there will be another option: […]