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Good news for owners of the Asus Transformer Pad Prime (TF201) or Transformer Pad Infinity (TF700) tablets. Asus Technical Marketing Manager, Gary Key, for whatever reason decided to use the XDA forums to announce that these two tablets will receive the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean treatment. Both of them will receive an over-the-air update within…
Giuseppe from TuttoAndroid.net informed us that the Asus Padfone 2 will be unveiled at an October 16th event taking place at Milan, Italy and Taipei, Taiwan. We’re not sure what to expect, but we would like the new device to have a faster quad-core CPU, 2GB of RAM, and better screen(s) for both phone and…
ASUS may launch the Padfone 2 sooner that we thought with such a device (with a quad-core processor) already earning a spot in the AnTuTu database. This, of course, doesn’t prove a thing but common sense tells us the Taiwanese company will want to monetize on all attention the original Padfone got. Unfortunately though, ASUS…
In an effort to lure people into purchasing the Nexus 7 tablet, Google has been giving customers a $25 credit on the Google Play store. Those still on the fence about purchasing a Nexus 7 are encouraged to act quickly, as Google’s terms stipulate that the promotional credit will no longer be offered after September…
The 7″ Android 4.1-running sub-$200 Nexus 7 brings a premium Android experience in a cheap package. The device was the first launched running Google’s latest version of the Android operating system, version 4.1 codenamed “Jelly Bean.” To get to such a low price, Google and ASUS made key omissions in the slate’s design, most notably…
ASUS is jumping on the Windows 8 bandwagon with two “convertible” tablets – Vivo Tab and Vivo Tab RT, formerly known as the ASUS Tablet 810 and ASUS Tablet 600 respectively. The first of the two is a “regular” Windows device with a 11.6-inch 1366×768 Super IPS+ display, Next Generation Intel Atom processor, 2GB of…
Sears is offering the ASUS Transformer Pad TF300 along with a free keyboard dock for $400. As you probably already know, the TF300 isn’t cool as the Infinity Pad, but it’s pretty awesome nevertheless, sporting NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 quad-core processor, 10.1-inch 1280×800 pixels screen, Wi-Fi, dual cameras, while Ice Cream Sandwich Jelly Bean is running…
The rumor is that Google will finally bring the Nexus 7 to continental Europe, with Germany being among the first countries to get the 7-inch tablet. According to AndroidNext, which got an information from a Saturn employee, the world’s first Jelly Bean tablet will start selling on September 3rd. Saturn, for those of you wondering,…
Asus is giving Transformer Pad TF300 owners a taste of some Jelly Bean (Android 4.1), according to a few out there who’ve received the update. This all started over the weekend when Asus hinted on its Facebook page that an upgrade “might” be coming. So the company is sending Android 4.1 to devices as we…
After waiting a couple of painstakingly long weeks, it seems like Google has finally caught up with demand for its 16GB edition of the Nexus 7 tablet. Google seems to be trying to get things moving faster with the rollout of its flagship slate, especially after releasing its first commercial of the device. Anyway, if…