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Remember those early days of Windows when 3.1 ruled the roost with its awesome Program Manager and Windows 95 was considered cutting edge? Well, you can relive those days, not with some aging desktop pulled from the recesses of your basement, but with your iPad. In a seven-minute video that may turn the stomachs of Apple fans, YouTube…
The BlackBerry PlayBook tablet couldn’t very well compete with the iPad without something to match iBooks, right? RIM has partnered up with Kobo to provide an electronic novel marketplace for the PlayBook out of the box when it launches early next year. Kobo offers a library of some 2 million-odd titles, ranging in price from…
Yesterday we had heard from one RIM VP that BlackBerry smartphones would, in the long haul, be loaded up with the QNX operating system running on their recently-announced PlayBook tablet. Though that one source hardly locked down the possibility of such a switch, some fellow bloggers have prodded VPs on the matter and yielded comments…
We all know that a tablet from HP is coming early next year with the Palm webOS platform but we may have finally received confirmation that it will be called the “PalmPad.” During a conference call with analysts, HP vice president Todd Bradley said the “webOS-powered PalmPad” will launch in early 2011. Sure, he could…
Best Buy is making its intentions about the BlackBerry PlayBook very clear – it wants to carry and sell the device when it comes to market. The PlayBook, RIM’s new tablet, is likely going to be a popular tablet with hardcore BlackBerry fanatics, so it makes sense that the huge electronics retailer would want to…
Dell is planning a “whole slew” of tablets over the next few months and the 7-inch Android tablet we spotted earlier could be released in a few weeks. The news comes from an interview with the Wall Street Journal, as a Dell executive said the company is also working on a 10-inch tablet. When you…
John Jackson, an analyst from CSS Insight, estimates that the BlackBerry PlayBook tablet announced by RIM recently will cost $300 – $350, though RIM hasn’t said anything about price point yet. Regardless, anything under $400 would be an aggressive price point and compete with the Samsung Tab’s rumoured subsidized $300 pricetag, and the bare minimum…
Tablet maker Kno has announced that they will be releasing a 14.1-inch tablet aimed for educational purposes. The “super textbook”, also called the Kno tablet, will allow students to buy e-textbooks and store them on the tablet, saving bag space and money. The newly announced tablet will have just a single screen, but a dual-screened…
The Samsung Galaxy Tab had just been announced, followed very shortly by the BlackBerry PlayBook, and now we’re hearing rumors of the second Apple iPad. What a time for tablets! While it’s blatantly obvious what the iPad has been missing – like a camera or USB ports – it looks like the second generation of…
Over a breakfast event today at the BlackBerry Developer Conference, a RIM VP confirmed that the QNX operating system announced in their new PlayBook tablet would in fact be finding its way to smartphones in the long run, and ultimately replace the existing BlackBerry OS. Of course that kind of major transition would take time,…