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Starting tomorrow, Future Shop and Best Buy stores across Canada will start selling the big daddy of Android tablets: the Motorola Xoom. It’ll be going for $599.99, which might feel a little steep (especially when many netbooks cost half that, and this is the Wi-Fi-only version), but you get a fair bit for your money.…
The Wi-Fi-only BlackBerry PlayBook is launching April 19, and will be sold by carriers no less. What would they have to gain by giving RIM’s first tablet any space on the shelf, since there aren’t any cellular plans or contracts to tack on? $30/month from users who want to enable 3G wireless connectivity on the…
A recent Piper Jaffray study of the teenage tech market has revealed that 37% of 4,500 high schoolers were looking at buying an iPhone in the next six months, while 17% already had one. That data mostly reflects the same data from their last survey, but the more surprising information is that a full 22%…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab has been available for ages now in terms of technology time, and its successors – the Tab 8.9 and 10.1 – have already been announced and are on their merry way. However, for the 7-inch model that launched late last year, users have been forced to choose which carrier they wanted…
The Motorola Xoom may be a pretty piece of hardware, but it looks as though the sales of the world’s first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet may be pretty awful, only selling around 100,000 since its launch in February. There’s also the Atrix 4G from Motorola, which isn’t faring too well, either. The Motorola Xoom, even…
The NOOKcolor is no longer the only tablet to sport the SDK-based Honeycomb ROMs, as the Samsung Galaxy Tab has just received the unofficial Honeycomb treatment. While it may not be the most stable ROM out there, it’ll certainly occupy you for the time being, and give you one of the first unofficial tastes of…
Samsung, LG, HP, HTC, RIM, and Motorola have all jumped into the tablet market with both feet, and Sony Ericsson won’t be too far behind, apparently. Sony CEO Howard Stringer revealed that they would be releasing an Android tablet running 3.0 Honeycomb by the end of the summer in the U.S. market. If Sony Ericsson…
Did you miss out on winning an iPad or the Palm Pre 2 a couple of months ago? Have you been quietly sitting at your desk for the past 2 months waiting in anticipation for the next time we’d have something to give away? All of your waiting was absolutely worth it as we’re going…
There’s quite an interesting rumor floating around pertaining to the next version of Android, Ice Cream, or Ice Cream Sandwich, as we’ve heard in the past. According to this rumor, Ice Cream will not only be for phones and tablets – it may have a great deal to do with Google TV, too. The rumor…
Back in late December, we published a review for an iOS & Android title called Dungeon Defenders which is one of the first games to be released on mobile devices using Epic’s Unreal Engine. We really enjoyed the game, especially on the iPad since the game took advantage of all the of extra space, and…