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Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet/laptop hybrid is now available in the U.S. in a new flavor: 256GB of storage, the most offered for the entire line. It started shipping in Japan last month, but now it has shown up on CDW.com with availability between 4-6 days. It has yet to appear officially on Microsoft’s website, but one…
We’re all expecting the next-generation Nexus 7 tablet to debut sometime soon, and we’ve already seen a decent amount of ‘leaked’ specs for the device. Well, this time around, an Asus Customer Service Rep was nice enough to spill the beans through the company website’s Live Chat. According to the specs, the upcoming Nexus 7…
In an interesting twist of events Motorola and Verizon decided to bring the Jelly Bean update to the carrier-specific versions of the Motorola Xoom 2 (and Xoom 2 Media Edition) while leaving Wi-Fi only models stuck to Ice Cream Sandwich. Yeah, it sounds weird but apparently that’s going to happen as you can see for…
Today, CEO Thorsten Heins confirmed that the BlackBerry Playbook will not be receiving the BB10 update during the company’s quarterly earnings call. The company missed estimates, leaving the stock down more than 25%. BlackBerry itself has seen quite a few setbacks, to put it nicely, in the past few years and this news certainly won’t…
Not all of us appreciate big tablets. In fact, we’re hearing that Apple’s iPad Mini is selling like hot cupcakes and Google sold more Nexus 7 than Nexus 10 units. And we’re seeing more and more companies releasing smaller tablets. However, what I’d like to see is a dockable tablet, something like the Asus Transformer…
The world’s first 8-inch Windows 8 tablet, the Acer Iconia W3 is now available in Staples stores and online at Staples.com for a price of $349.99. The Iconia W3 runs on Windows 8 and has an 8.1-inch 1280 x 800 display, a dual-core Atom processor running at 1.5GHz, 2GB of RAM, a 2MP front-facing camera…
Barnes & Noble executives confirmed during the company’s fiscal year-ending earnings conference call that Nook sales are on the decline. To turn this segment around, the bookseller is ready to rethink its strategy for the eReader device. Executives confirmed that sales of the tablet declined 34% in the fourth quarter, recording a $475 million EBITDA…
These days, our electronics are coming in lots of colors. Tablets and phones come in the standard black and white, metallic variants, red, blue and even gold. Now Samsung is giving the American consumers what they’ve been clamoring for: a tablet that comes in brown! Like coffee and chocolate, the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 joins…
Huawei has announced the MediaPad 7 Vogue today, a seven-inch tablet that sets itself apart from other similarly sized Android tablets by offering voice calling and SMS. The MediaPad 7’s receiver functions on quad-band GSM and UMTS networks, and can support 3G connections of up to 42MBPS. The MediaPad 7 will also come in a…
Samsung announced that its new suite of Galaxy Tab’s will finally hit the United States in a couple of weeks. This comes after the company said the tabs were coming to Canada of few days ago. The Tab 3 series include 10.1, 8 and 7-inch tablets. All three of these tabs are up for grabs on…