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After about four months of waiting, the Sony S1 Android tablet finally has a solid release window of September, which lines up with preview rumours. Sony didn’t mention anything about the S2 device, but it’s safe to assume it’ll be coming out at around the same time. The Sony Tablet S has a lot of…
AT&T and HTC just announced the Jetstream, an Android 3.1 Honeycomb tablet with 4G LTE and HSPA+ capabilities. So far, so good. It has a 10.1″ display and a 1.5GHz dual-core processor to power the tablet, which also sounds pretty great. Additionally, the HTC Jetstream is capable of 1080p HD video recording and playback. Excellent.…
Mozilla announced the launch of its long-awaited Firefox app for Honeycomb tablets, which will “show the evolution of its phone based predecessor,” with some added enhancements. This new app, allows users to take advantage of the “Awesome Bar,” a tool that provides quick access to your favorite sites and bookmarks from within the URL bar.…
Rogers has been testing the waters with LTE here in Ottawa, Ontario for the last couple of weeks, and now they’re ready to push in to the big city. A Toronto LTE rollout has been announced for September 28, and along with offering the LTE internet stick currently available, there will be some other new…
An HP executive said that the company’s computer division would still remain the largest in the world if it was spun off and that the company may bring back the HP TouchPad because tablets are important. What a frigging mess. Reuters interviewed Todd Bradley, who is an executive in HP’s Personal Systems Group, said that…
IHS is forecasting that 275.3 million tablets will be sold in 2015, up from its earlier prediction of 242 million units. The estimate for this year is 60 million, so you may wonder what prompted the research company to raise its figures. Yes the tablet prices will further go down and mobile operators will do…
Great news for all you techies who love the outdoors. Fujitsu is set to release a new rugged tablet dubbed Arrows Tab with Japanese telecom NTT DoCoMo. This tablet will not only ship with dust and waterproof hardware, but it will sport Android 3.1 according to TCMagazine. Like most Android tabs, the new Fujitsu tablet will carry a 10.1-inch screen and…
It’s almost guaranteed that Amazon will release a tablet or two to go against the iPad and many analysts believe that Amazon has the best shot at dethroning Apple in this market for multiple reasons. Let’s take a look at how likely it is for Amazon to succeed in the tablet space. Of course, this…
Quickoffice just released a new update that enhances its Android Honeycomb tablet app, Quickoffice Pro HD. In the this new update tablet users gain a single-screen, multi-pane document view optimized for tablets, along with integrated access to cloud partners such as Box.net, Dropbox, Google Docs, Huddle, SugarSync and MobileMe. These upgrades pretty much mirror the…
ViewSonic’s ViewPad 7x, the 7-inch Android tablet that was announced back in May, is heading to Europe where it will be available for 350 EUR, which is pretty affordable by Europe’s standards (gadgets cost much less in the U.S.). That money gets you a device that’s pretty comparable with the Acer Iconia Tab A100, rocking…