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Fashion company Pierre Cardin wants its share of the tablet action, hence it launched a 7-inch tablet which as far as we can tell won’t impress anyone with its specs. Perhaps folks in the “targeted market” for such a product don’t really care about the tablet’s guts, but we do. The Pierre Cardin PC-7006 Tablet…
Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 is now available for pre-ordering on Amazon UK. The online retailer lists August 11th as the shipping date which is less than one week from today. The price, you ask? It’s 605 GBP for the 3G + Wi-Fi version of the device with unspecified amount of built-in storage (we hope it’s…
Carphone Warehouse has slashed prices for all versions of the Motorola Xoom. This, however, doesn’t mean Moto’s baby is now super-affordable — quite the contrary, the Xoom is still far from being an Average Joe’s product of choice. The 3G model now costs 539 GBP, while the Wi-Fi only version is down to 439 GBP…
Comcast is quietly running a neat promotion, offering the free Motorola Xoom to select new customers. Alternatively, there’s an option to get the Honeycomb tablet for $99, which is still an awesome deal. The problem, however, is that the promotion isn’t advertised anywhere and only customers who actually ask for the Xoom may get one.…
Sony never really went into details when it announced its two Honeycomb tablets – S1 and S2. Now we have few additional tidbits of information to share, though we still don’t have the complete picture. First of all, we know that the S1 — which is the one with a single 9.4-inch IPS LCD display…
If our review scared you off of the HP TouchPad with webOS you may want to give the tablet a second chance, as buying the device from HP directly this weekend will net you a $100 discount. The deal, first reported by PreCentral, says buying the 16 GB TouchPad directly from HP.com from Aug. 5-7…
We’re big fans of the Rdio service, so we’re happy to see that the music-streaming service now has a fully-featured iPad app. For those of you who don’t know, Rdio is a subscription music service which gives you access to millions of streaming or downloaded songs with a strong social twist. The iPad app takes…
In an attempt to spruce up the existing mobile Gmail site, Google has added a few new features for those who don’t have a dedicated app on their handset. While the updates a rather minimal, all are welcomed, as they bring the web app a step closer to that of a native application. Google has…
The Toshiba Thrive has received a software update that will address issues some users have been experiencing. The tablet hasn’t been available that long at this point, so it’s definitely refreshing to see Toshiba provide an update this quickly. While we never experienced the issue with our Thrive review unit, some users have claimed that…
We’ve been intrigued with TabCo before due to its viral marketing (and pizza) and the company has just released a new promotional videos which give us our first glimpse of its tablet. The TabCo tablet teaser video is titled “Lemmings” and it shows a bunch of similarly-dressed people using an iPad (or iPad-like device) and…