The Samsung Galaxy Player was one of the best looking Google Android powered portable media players I got a chance to see at CES last month. If you’re looking for a pocketable Android device which can do pretty much everything except make phone calls (and which doesn’t require a monthly phone contract), the little guy […]
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Acer shows off 3 tablets: 2 Android, 1 Windows
Acer unveiled a 10 inch Android tablet at CES last month, but now the company is tripling down. At Mobile World Congress Acer is showing off three tablets: the Acer Iconia Tab A500 we already knew about, lus a 7 inch model called the Iconia Tab A100 and a 10 inch Windows tablet called the […]
Intel showcases MeeGo for tablets
Intel and partners have been showing off a tablet user interface for MeeGo Linux for the past half year or so, and some partners such as Linpus have been building software around it. But this week and Mobile World Congress Intel is trying to make the case that MeeGo is ready for consumer tablets — […]
BlackBerry PlayBook to come in 4G WiMAX, LTE, and HSPA+ varieties
Research in Motion has announced it will offer two more 4G capable versions of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. That means the PlayBook will now come in at least four versions: WiFi-only WiFi + WiMAX WiFi + LTE WiFI + HSPA+ Interestingly, the company hasn’t announced any 3G capable versions of the tablet. Most major US […]
LG officially launches the Optimus Pad 3D Android tablet
LG is holding the official coming out party for its Optimus Pad tablet at Mobile World Congress this week. We already knew a fair amount about this tablet, also known in the US as the G-Slate. It runs Google Android 3.0, has a dual core NVIDIA Tegra 2 chip, and can record and display 3D […]
Samsung introduces the Galaxy Tab 10.1 Android tablet
Samsung has officially unveiled its next-generation Android tablet. As expected, the tablet will keep the Samsung Galaxy Tab name, but it will have a larger display. So I introduce you to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1. The tablet features a 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor and runs Google Android 3.0. The Galaxy […]
If MeeGo is dead, someone forgot to tell Intel
There’s been a lot of talk this weekend suggesting the folks at Nokia didn’t bother letting Intel know that the phone maker was practically pulling the plug on development of products that would run the MeeGo Linux operating system before making the announcement on Friday. And it looks like that means Fujitsu isn’t the only […]
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10 inch tablet pictures, details come out ahead of official launch
Samsung is expected to introduce a 10 inch Android tablet this evening. But pictures of the new tablet are already making the rounds. The tablet will reportedly have a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, an 8MP camera, and run Google Android 3.0 Honeycomb. It will have two sets of speakers for virtual surround […]
Opera to launch web browser for the Apple iPad next week
One of the killer apps for the iPad is the Safari web browser, which supports full desktop views of web pages on the 9.7 inch, 1024 x 768 pixel tablet. But now that Apple has opened the door to competing browsers on its mobile platforms, the folks at Opera plan to introduce a version of […]
Rumor: Samsung to introduce 10 inch Android tablet this weekend
Mobile World Congress starts next week and it’s a safe bet that we can expect a number of product announcements with a heavy focus on smartphones and mobile computers including tablets. So we won’t have long to wait to find out if Samsung is really going to introduce a new Android tablet on Sunday night, […]