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If you have an Acer A100 or A500 tablet, you may be wondering when that promised update to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is coming. Previously, Acer said the update will be available in April. Now that April is winding down, Acer is getting more specific with a date. On Acer's support page, the company revealed that...
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While both Amazon and Barnes & Noble seem to be holding the lion's portion of tablet market share down at the sub-$200 level, there's probably room for one or two more to make a dent; particularly at $150. XTEX has just announced My Tablet, a simply-titled unit with a 7-inch display, Wi-Fi and Android 4.0.3. That's right; an Ice Cream...
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Although it means that the number of Galaxy Tab iterations is ballooning to unprecedented levels, Samsung will be introducing the Galaxy Tab 2 to the market soon in 7- and 10.1-inch models. The Galaxy Tab 2s appear to have incrementally better features than their respective predecessors, most notably in the area of the newer Android 4.0 Ice...
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Toshiba announced three new tablets, a number of laptops, and two All-in-One desktop PCs today. Included in the list of new tablets are the 10.1-inch Excite 10, the Excite 13 which features a large 13.3-inch HD display, and the Excite 7.7 which features a 7.7-inch AMOLED display. All of the new tablets feature aluminum shells and Corning Gorilla...
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The iPad has outsold the lot of Android tablets by a significant margin, but that's not stopping Asus from addressing an issue that has plagued Transformer Prime buyers. If you haven't been following the story, Prime owners first saw GPS as a listed item on their tablets, but soon after that was yanked from the item description. Turns out,...
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Over the weekend, Lenovo quietly launched a YouTube video for its new IdeaTab S2109 tablet. This 9.7-inch slate features a 1,024 x 768 IPS LCD and Android 4.0. From the video, we learn the slate is 8.9mm-thick and features a gunmetal-finish unibody shell. Other features include a 1.3 megapixel front camera, microSD card slot, and micro-HDMI...
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Steve Jobs was adamantly against releasing a smaller version of the iPad. He bemoaned the 7-inch form factor as a tweener device that sits between a smartphone and a tablet, and because most tablet owners already have a smartphone, he said it didn't make any sense to give up screen real estate on a tablet in order to build one small enough...
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Say what you want about the new iPad's propensity to run a little bit warmer than previous generation models, iPad owners don't appear to be all hot and bothered over what some have dubbed 'heatgate." On the contrary, a new survey suggests that nearly every single iPad 3 owner is at least partially satisfied with...
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Remember when Google sold the original Nexus One smartphone directly from their website? It was a short-lived experiment, as the company determined they weren't ready (or willing, perhaps) to install the support infrastructure needed to properly serve customers and provide tech support for the phone. But now, with Android tablets falling well...
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If you haven't already succumbed to the dark side and picked up an iPad, there's an awesome deal to be had on the Android side of the tracks. For today only (and there's less than 10 hours remaining on this), Amazon is selling refurbished Kindle Fire tablets for $139 with free shipping. That's $60 off the cost of a...
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Samsung has a goal of selling 10 million Galaxy Note devices by the end of this year. It's only March, and the manufacturer is already half way to reaching that goal. Near the end of February, Samsung confirmed that it had sold more than 2 million Galaxy Notes worldwide. Just one month later, Samsung claims sales have reached 5 million units....
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Coby isn’t exactly a household electronics name, but the company is churning out low-cost products at a fairly good clip. Two of the tablets the company demoed at CES, the Coby Kyros MID7042 and MID9742, are shipping now, with four more to follow soon at different screen sizes. These tablets are definitely what you would consider inexpensive,...
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Lenovo launched a new mobile app store that is designed with businesses in mind. The new Lenovo Enterprise App Shop makes it possible for companies to create their own customized App Shops and helps IT managers overcome some of the security risks and hassles that come with managing mobile devices. With the Lenovo Enterprise App Shop, IT managers...
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Bully for U.S. Cellular; the mobile service provider announced today that Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 is now available in its stores. The tablet is the first of U.S. Cellular’s 4G LTE offerings and will run you $499 (after a $100 mail-in rebate). If you’re in one of U.S. Cellular’s 4G markets and...
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Acer took the wraps off of its first Tegra 3 Quad core processor-based tablet. The all new Acer Iconia Tab A510 promises a battery life of up to 12 hours of video playback with its 9800mAh battery. This 10.1-inch tablet features Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) and has a WXGA (1280 x 800 resolution) HD display. Other...
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Apple called its first iPad tablet "magical," as if owning one would turn flatulence into a flowery fragrance and unlock the mystery of double complete rainbows. Instead it entranced millions of people into buying one, even though it lacked basic amenities like expandable storage, built-in cameras, and Flash support (back when people still...
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Apple called its first iPad tablet "magical," as if owning one would turn flatulence into a flowery fragrance and unlock the mystery of double complete rainbows. Instead it entranced millions of people into buying one, even though it lacked basic amenities like expandable storage, built-in cameras, and Flash support (back when people still...
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Apple this week announced it sold more than three million new iPad devices since its launch on Friday, March 16 through Monday, March 19, an impressive figure that proves there's still a rabid fan base for these things. The new iPad's big new feature is its Retina display, one of the main points of emphasis along with adding support for 4G...
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Windows 8 is quite clearly the next major thing for Microsoft, and a lot is riding on the success of it. Windows 7 tablets were largely a flop, but it's likely because that OS was never really designed to work well in that form factor. Win8, however, is engineered to work specifically in that form factor. The Metro universe is right at home...
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For those of you who lay awake at night tossing and turning as you try to figure out whether Apple can afford to sell its new iPad models at the same price points as the iPad 2, you can rest easy knowing the Cupertino company is still making a profit on hardware. And a hefty one at that. IHS iSuppli completed its teardown analysis of the new...
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Amazon's 7-inch Kindle Fire ranks the second most popular tablet on the planet, a stat that has competing manufacturers considering building smaller, low-cost tablets of their own rather than pouring resources into more expensive full-sized slates. Even Google is reportedly getting in on the action, and according to...
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To date, not too many Android tablets have shipped with Ice Cream Sandwich onboard. Why? Perhaps only Google knows, but there's serious motivation to get cranking on that with Google I/O just a few months away. Archos, a low-cost leader in the space, has just announced that their 80 G9 Turbo slate is now shipping, and yes, Android 4.0 is on...
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