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We know that the Galaxy Tab 2 will be shown off in a few days at the Mobile World Congress 2011 show but a new report says the sequel to the first iPad competitor will be a 10.1-inch tablet that’s rocking Android 3.0 Honeycomb. According to Pocket-lint, the Samsung Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet will have…
We had heard a rumour the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet would be able to run Android apps by using the same version of the Dalvik virtual machine as Google’s operating system. Now three more supposedly trusted sources are confirming that it’s real, and should be made available to PlayBook owners in the second half of the…
The Motorola Xoom isn’t even available yet, and we’re already hearing about upcoming variants that are on the way. Recently a silver version of the tablet was found in the wild and now there are confirmations of WiFi-only and GSM versions. We can only hope that the GSM versions will support 4G networks out of…
HP announced a new line of devices yesterday during its event, and today it is quickly following up with webOS 3.0 SDK. After seeing the Pre 3 and Veer, I thought, “OK, they seem like decent successors to the Palm Pre and Pixi.” But when I saw the TouchPad, it was a different story. Here…
Nevermind Brickbreaker, the BlackBerry PlayBook is going to launch with some real games. EA Mobile has announced that racing game Need for Speed Undercover and classic puzzle title Tetris will both be included on the PlayBook at launch. This wouldn’t be the first time we’ve seen Need for Speed on a BlackBerry, either; it was…
LG must be pretty proud of their upcoming tablet, as their new promo video doesn’t hold back their distaste from the current “fruity” leader in the tablet market. Expected to make its official debut at Mobile World Congress next week, the Optimus Pad will soon go toe to toe with the competition. The video ad…
Yahoo! today announced an upcoming app for the iPad and Android tablets called Livestand which will aim to deliver unified, personalized content in a sharp magazine-style layout. Yahoo! has tons of properties to draw upon to deliver this content, like Sports, News, Finance, and Flickr, and they’re reaching out to advertisers and publishers to fill…
In a recent video demo of the BlackBerry PlayBook by RIM VP David Heit gave us the tour of various ways in which the tablet will be able to connect. We’ll have the Bridge mode we all know and love, which requires a PlayBook be paired with a BlackBerry handset to access any PIM data…
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet is starting to wriggle its way into retail channels for a late March launch. One such store, Office Depot, has it listed internally for $499 for the 16 GB model, which confirms earlier rumours of that price point. Other denominations of memory will cost $399 and $599, according to separate rumours.…
This morning Palm HP announced three devices, spanning from the teeny-tiny to the reasonably huge. At the lower end, there’s the Veer, which sports a 2.6-inch display and a slide-out QWERTY keyboard, complete with HSPA+ connectivity. Then there’s the Pre 3, which boasts a bigger display than its predecessor, and a much sharper resolution. The…