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Looks like the Memo Pad 7 won’t be the only Asus device in the series. Rather, the Taiwanese company is preparing to launch a 10-inch model as well, most likely at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The tablet pictured above is said to come with specs that are similar to the Transformer Pad 300 series,…
The budget-friendly Acer Iconia B1 is now available in the UK, where interested users can pick it up from major supermarkets like ASDA and Sainsbury’s. The price is set at 99 GBP (about $157), making for a pretty sweet deal, especially for first-time tablet buyers. As you may know from our previous coverage of the…
The tablet market is beginning to show some slight changes, as Apple sees a slight decline in iPad sales. Global tablet shipments were huge in the fourth quarter, thanks to a stronger than expected holiday retail season. Worldwide shipments reached a record 52.5 million units last quarter, which is a 74 percent increase over the…
According to ABI Research, almost 200 million tablets have been shipped worldwide since 2009 and an additional 1 billion tablets are forecasted to ship over the next 5 years. The company’s new research explores the impact a tablet has on the daily life of a U.S. consumer, showing that 22% of users spend $50 or…
A spokesperson for Microsoft confirmed today that the 64GB flavor of the Microsoft Surface Pro, which goes on sale February 9th, will have a dramatically low amount of storage that buyers can actually utilize. Only 23GB of the 64GB is available to users to store their own content. That’s less than half of the total…
NVIDIA is apparently working on a reference design for smartphones and tablets as part of the plan to expand its global footprint. Today’s mobile processor market is dominated by Qualcomm while few of the top handset makers like Apple, Samsung and Huawei design their own chips. So what can NVIDIA do? Their Tegra 3 was…
Samsung won’t be the only major company offering an 8-inch tablet with ZTE readying to get into action, too. The newly unveiled V81 has an 8-inch 1,024×768 pixels touchscreen (4:3 aspect ratio) just like the iPad mini. Moreover, it rocks a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 2-megapixel rear camera, VGA front-facing one, HSPA, Wi-Fi,…
With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, Samsung is attempting to make Android devices the new Valentine’s Day present. Samsung last week released a Garnet Red version of the Galaxy S III, which was so well received that Samsung today released a Garnet Red Edition of the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 tablet. The Garnet Red Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 will be available…
Hyundai has quietly (we haven’t caught a press release) released a new 7-inch tablet which seems capable enough to compete with Nexus 7. The Hyundai T7 has a 1280×800 IPS LCD screen, Samsung’s Exynos 4412 1.4GHz quad-core chipset, 1GB of RAM, 2-megapixel rear camera, front-facing one (for making video calls), 8GB of built-in storage, microHDMI…
This will be a killer year for tablet makers with an estimated 145 million of tablets shipping worldwide by the end of 2013. A combination of new market entrants, more affordable choices for consumers, and increased adoption by business audiences will support the growth. According to ABI Research‘s Jeff Orr, the rate of innovation is…