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Verizon has finally come to its senses and will no longer make it mandatory for all Motorola Xoom buyers to purchase a one-month data plan with the device. Initially, the carrier planned on charging a $35 activation fee and a $20 fee for a month’s worth of data even if users wanted to buy the…
Today Shape Services has launched an Android version of their iOS app, iDisplay, which turns Android handsets and tablets into secondary monitors for computers. I’m not sure how useful this would be for smartphones, but for tablets, especially big ones like the Motorola Xoom that just came out today, it would be perfect. iDisplay needs…
NTT DoCoMo and NEC recently announced the Medias N-04C in Japan, which is a mere 7.7 mm thick and weighs only 105 G. As you can see, when lined up next to it, the N-04C makes the 9.3 mm-thick iPhone 4 look like it needs to lay off the donuts. That wasn’t the only thing…
LG announced on Thursday that the Optimus Pad will be available for pre-order in Japan starting March 15th. The Korean manufacturer is teaming up with Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo to offer the 8.9-inch tablet. The Optimus Pad model L-06C will be tailor-made for its Japanese audience with BeeTv, a wireless entertainment service, and 2Dfacto, a…
After hearing that Motorola was trying to make it hell for those looking to apply modifications to the Atrix 4G in the form of a locked bootloader, they’ve redeemed themselves by giving the Xoom tablet a bootloader that can be unlocked for developers. Giving the first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet a bootloader that you can…
Yes, you’ll soon be able to walk into a Best Buy or Verizon store to pick up a Motorola Xoom tablet but if you are one of the select few who has been nominated for an Oscar or will host, you’ll get a special gold version of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet. Other than the…
When we first got a look at the HP TouchPad webOS tablet we were excited but that was muted because we felt it could be released in about six months. A new report suggests that the webOS iPad competitor could be landing in stores as early as April. According to the hit-or-miss DigiTimes, the company…
The RIM-owned company QNX has tweaked out a 2009 Corvette which lets the BlackBerry PlayBook change the car’s internal temperature through an app. Why would you want to do that if there’s already an in-car console to handle climate control? I dunno, maybe someone in the passenger seat is a little chilly and couldn’t be…
A new Motorola Xoom ad has hit the internet that is certain to get the hype-machine going at full throttle. This 16 second shorty doesn’t have a spoken word within it, but after seeing the ad itself, you’ll see that it doesn’t need to. We can all assume that this will be the beginning of…
The Motorola Xoom is the tablet Android fans have been waiting for. It’s got a spec sheet that’ll knock you back off your feet and a pretty sexy design. In all, we’ve come away pretty impressed with the Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet if you don’t count the sticker shock. For some reason, however, it seems…