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I’m sure you’ve already checked out our hands-on video of the just-announced HP TouchPad webOS tablet but we couldn’t resist getting another taste of the webOS tablet at Mobile World Congress. The HP TouchPad webOS tablet has a 9.7-inch display, a 1.2-GHz dual-core SnapDragon processor from Qualcomm, 512 MB of RAM, a 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera…
The Apple iPad has gotten plenty of love in terms of books and periodical publications, and it seemed like Android was still a long way before it would get any serious apps from the big publishers. However, Conde Nast is reportedly preparing its publications for Android now that version 3.0, or Honeycomb, is going to…
HTC kicked off its press event at Mobile World Congress by announcing the HTC Flyer. As expected, the Flyer is a 7-inch tablet with a 1.5 GHz Snapdragon processor, 32GB of storage, 5-megapixel rear-facing camera, 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera, and HSPA+ connectivity. Sleek in design, the tablet includes an all-aluminum housing. Harkening back to the days…
So, when Nokia decided to back Windows Phone 7, it looked like MeeGo was going to suffer a not-so-noble death. Well, don’t tell that to Intel, as the company is still planning to support the platform and it showed off a developer reference tablet at Mobile World Congress 2011. I hate to be super critical…
While LG officially announced the G Slate at CES 2011, we didn’t get a chance to see the thing in person … until now, that is. We got our hands on the LG G Slate, which will also be known as the Optimus Pad, and the 9-inch tablet may be something special. The company made…
Today at Mobile World Congress 2011, RIM announced two new 4G-ish varieties of the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet. In the second half of the year, there will be one PlayBook that runs on LTE and Wi-Fi, and another that runs on HSPA+ and Wi-Fi, in addition to the WiMAX version headed to Sprint. The rest of…
Motorola confirmed today at Mobile World Congress that its XOOM tablet will land in European markets starting in Q2 2011. The high-end tablet device will be available in both a 3G/WiFi version and a WiFi-only version. The XOOM is a premier Android tablet that features a 1GHz dual-core processor, a 10.1-inch widescreen HD display with 1280×800…
Today at Mobile World Congress, Samsung will be announcing their first Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet, called the Galaxy Tab 10.1. Surprise, surprise, the screen is 10.1 inches, but don’t be too jaded by the blatantly unoriginal naming, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 still packs a punch. It’s got a dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor clocked at…
When Google gave the world an in-depth look at Android Honeycomb, it announced some exciting new tools for developers. One of these tools is a new graphics engine called Renderscript and the search giant just detailed what this will mean for developers in a blog post. The demo video demonstrated is a series of balls…
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet was announced with HDMI-out capabilities, but it hadn’t been shown in action. Today, a video demo shows the PlayBook hooked up to a projector, and streaming HD video and the native OS to the big screen with little problem whatsoever. At 1:51, it looks like the video jumps a little bit,…