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If you’re jonesing for some Honeycomb tablet action but aren’t ready to pull the trigger on the Motorola Xoom, you can head over to the Best Buy website and pick up the Acer Iconia Honeycomb tablet for a cool $449.99. The Acer Iconia Honeycomb tablet will come with a 10.1-inch display, an aluminum metallic backing…
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet launched last week in North America, and even though we’ve had six months to stew over the idea of RIM making a tablet, it still seems a little bizarre. RIM is one of the few manufacturers in the mobile sphere that has focused exclusively on creating smartphones, making the transition to…
Well, the tablet wars just got interesting. The Barnes & Noble Nook Color now has Android 2.2 Froyo and an app store available and these could make the $250 e-reader a strong contender in the lower-tier tablet space. If you recall, the Barnes & Noble Nook Color is an Android-powered e-reader which is positioned against…
While the Apple iPad continues to sell well – it can’t even make enough to keep up with demand – Dell said it believes that Android tablets will outpace it in sales in the not-too-distant future. Naturally, Dell believes it will help contribute to that success with its Android-powered products. When asked about the threat…
When Apple said it sold 4.69 million iPad 2 units last quarter, some analysts were a bit underwhelmed by the sales numbers. It turns out that Apple’s iPad 2 demand is vastly outstripping supply and the company says it could have sold many more if it had units out there. According to iSuppli, there are…
[Update: We know you all have been patiently waiting for an update on this contest, but up until now, we’ve only confirmed 2 of the 3 winners for our Motorola XOOMs. As per our contest rules, we’ve been giving our last winners five days to claim their prize, and picking a new winner if that…
Not long ago, we showed you the Honeycomb lockscreen “Morph” that can be applied to phones running CyanogenMod 7, but here’s a concept that takes the idea to the next level. This lockscreen, when officially available, will work in both landscape for tablet devices, and in portrait mode for phones, giving Gingerbread devices a little…
RadioShack is riding the tablet wave, big time. Already the electronics retailer is offering the Apple iPad and now they’ve added three additional products – RIM’s BlackBerry PlayBook, Motorola Xoom Wi-Fi and Velocity Micro T103 Cruz. The first of the three, which Simon reviewed a few days ago, is available for $499, the Xoom for…
Following up on the BlackBerry PlayBook teardown from this morning, an Ottawa company has not only done their own disassembly, but also tallied up how much all of the parts cost. According to their bill of materials, the 16 GB version costs $190, the 32 GB version costs $205, and the 64 GB model $235.…
Although nobody was exactly camping out overnight to pick up a BlackBerry PlayBook yesterday, Peter Misek, an analyst at Jefferies & Co., claims 45,000 of RIM’s first tablet was sold on launch day through Best Buy and Staples alone, counting 25,000 preorders predominantly for 32 GB and 64 GB versions. Mike Abramsky, of RBC Captial…