The Asus Transformer Pad TF300T is a 10 inch tablet with a quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor and a starting price of around $300. There’s also an optional keyboard dock which makes typing easier, adds a few ports, and doubles your he battery life. Normally you have to pay extra for the keyboard dock, but […]
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Xolo X1000 smartphone packs a 2 GHz Intel Atom processor
Samsung isn’t the only smartphone maker with a new product to launch today. India’s Xolo introduced its newest smartphone, the Xolo X1000. It’s a 4.7 inch handset powered by a 2 GHz Intel Atom Z2480 processor and PowerVR SGX 540 graphics. That makes it one of the fastest Intel-powered phones unveiled to date… although that […]
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JXD S5800 gaming tablets coming this summer
Chinese device maker JXD’s Android tablets aren’t like those from most companies. They’re designed for playing video games, feature gamepad buttons built into the case, and some take their cues from handheld gaming consoles like the PlayStation Portable. Archos may have the GamePad 7 inch tablet, but JXD has a whole family of inexpensive Android […]
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XBMC 13 Alpha media center now available for PC, mobile devices
It seems like just over a month has passed since XBMC 12 was released (because that’s how long it has been), but the developers of the popular media center software are already hard at work on XBMC 13. The first alpha builds of XBMC 13 are available for download for Windows, Linux, OS X, Android, iOS, […]
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RSS may not be dead… but Google Reader is
For the past few years I feel like I’ve seen headlines proclaiming the death of RSS on a regular basis. RSS (really simple syndication) isn’t dead. It provides a way to distribute the latest updates from a website to Twitter, Facebook, news apps like Pulse, and to old-school RSS readers like Google Reader. But those […]
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Google is booting ad blockers from the Play Store, Android
Google recently rolled out updates to Android that, among other things, prevented many popular ad-blocking apps from running on devices that aren’t rooted. Now Google is going a step further and removing a number of ad blockers from the Play Store, which will make it tougher to install those apps even if you do have a […]
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Does Google’s leadership shuffle mean Chrome OS and Android are getting closer?
Andy Rubin has been the head of the Android software team since before Google even bought the mobile operating system and brought it to market. But now he’s stepping down from his position and Chrome OS boss Sundar Pichai is taking over. So what does that mean for Chrome OS and Android going forward? Beat […]
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Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 price drops to $269
Amazon is cutting the price of its 8.9 inch tablets. Starting today you can pick up a Kindle Fire HD 8.9 for $269, which is $30 cheaper than the tablet cost yesterday. The Amazon Kindle Fire HD 8.9 4G is getting an even bigger price drop: It goes from $499 to $399. The Kindle Fire […]
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7 inch tablets too big? Poketab launches a 6 inch tablet in Japan
Android tablets come in a range of shapes and sizes… but most have 7 or 10 inch screens. And then there’s the Poketab 6, which has a 6 inch screen and a case small enough to slip into a pocket. In fact, with the growing size of smartphones, the Poketab almost looks more like a […]
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Deals of the Day (3-13-2013)
The Amazon Kindle Touch may not have all the bells and whistles of the new Kindle Paperwhite, but it does have a 6 inch E Ink touchscreen display and space for plenty of eBooks. It’s also a lot cheaper than the $119 Kindle Paperwhite. Amazon doesn’t actually sell the Kindle Touch anymore, but DailySteals is […]