Breaking news, information, and analysis on the latest mobile phones and mobile technology
Amazon announced this morning four new Kindle products: Kindle Fire, Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Touch and Kindle. The latter three are your average e-ink readers with six-inch screens, but they’re a little more sleek than previous Kindle models. They’re made with magnesium and soft-touch plastics, so they feel sleek. Amazon kept pushing its “premium products…
Today, Amazon has announced some sexy, cheap tablets, and one of them, the Kindle Fire, is running a new browser called Silk. It’s using Amazon’s extensive Web Services servers to do the bulk of the heavy lifting with CSS and JavaScript so the tablet doesn’t have to. Amazon is claiming 5 ms latency, versus the…
Amazon finally made the Kindle Fire Android tablet official this morning and we were able to get our hands on this Android-powered tablet. While there are some features that are missing that some may be disappointed with – namely the camera – the Kindle Fire is a very nice-looking tablet that should move a ton…
We all knew it was coming, but it’s now official: Amazon has just announced the Kindle Fire, its first tablet computer. The Kindle Fire is an Android tablet that doesn’t look like your average, well, Android tablet. It’s skinned down to the bone, so you’ll never actually see the home screens or menus like you…
We’re here live in New York and seeing what Amazon has in store for us. The company is widely expected to show off its first media tablet and this could be the first credible competitor to the Apple iPad. Previous reports suggested this will carry the Kindle brand name but we’re not 100 percent certain…
Amazone is holding a major press event tomorrow morning and all signs point to it finally unveiling the much-rumored Amazon tablet, which will be based on a customized version of Android and may finally bring some real competition to the Apple iPad. TechCrunch has actually played with at least a developer version and it says…
Samsung showed us last night that it has plenty more to add to its Galaxy portfolio. If you thought the Galaxy S II devices weren’t enough, or that maybe the Galaxy Tab and Tab 10.1 were feeling a little lonely, how about a Tab 8.9? Or to accompany its smaller cousins, the Galaxy Player 4.0…
We’ve been hearing about Facebook’s iPad app for quite some time and now Mashable has learned it will be unveiled at Apple’s iPhone 5 launch event on October 4th. What’s more, the social network will also introduce a revamped iPhone application and possibly an HTML5-based mobile app marketplace. The last part is not confirmed but…
After Flipboard, Zite and AOL Editions – we have another contender in the personalized magazine market, Evri. According to the official press release, Evri allows users to build their own news experience from more than 2.5 million popular topics, spanning across 15,000 of the “Web’s best sources.” In addition to standard news feeds, the iPad…
We’re just a few short weeks away from CTIA, we’re expecting quite a few announcements within that time. While doing some digging on the CTIA site, someone tipped off GSMArena about some interesting finding within CTIA’s Hot for the Holidays Award Finalists list, which includes two unannounced devices. Could these devices possibly be either the…