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If you bought the 16GB Google Nexus 7 tablet, only to see the price drop from $250 to $199, you’re probably a little irritated. While we can’t speak for Google or US Nexus 7 owners, Asus is attempting to make things right by offering up a voucher to European Nexus 7 owners who purchased the device before…
It’s one of the most popular 7-inch tablets on the market. It features Android Jelly Bean, a small compact size, and an alluring $199 price tag for 16GB of storage. Of course I’m talking about Google’s Nexus 7 tablet manufactured by Asus. It made the news this morning for a slightly different reason and garnered…
Samsung has started rolling out Android 4.1 Jelly Bean update for its flagship tablet, Galaxy Note 10.1. The first market to get it is Germany where some folks should see their 10-inch tablet prompting them to get the new software version — version XXBLJ9, in case you wonder. When it comes to what’s new in…
Starting November 9, AT&T will take $100 off the price of tablets when they are purchased with a two-year data plan agreement. AT&T announced the promotion on its website and confirmed that the discount extends to both Android tablets and Apple iPads. Customers can add the tablet to an existing shared data plan or a…
We’ve seen our fair share of drop tests between some of the latest 7(ish) inch tablets out there, but Blendtech has just released a new video showing what it does best. Blending stuff up. With a Kindle Fire HD, Google Nexus 7, and iPad Mini all in their respective blenders after being smashed in half,…
In order to better compete with Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Google’s Nexus 7 (and in wake of the Nook HD and Nook HD+ launch), Barnes & Noble is slashing prices of the Nook Color and Nook Tablet. The former is now available for just $139, making it a great choice for folks who wanted to…
It’s the iPad mini launch day and people, particularly those who work for damage coverage and repair companies for gadgets, are wasting no time filming and uploading a drop test between the iPad mini and its competitors. That’s exactly what SquareTrade did. The drop test is already up on YouTube and it pits Apple’s iPad…
SellCell.com, a website service that allows you to find the best buy-back deal for your phone or tablet, released new statistics about tablet trade-ins. It particularly revolves around Apple’s recent unveiling of the fourth-generation iPad and new iPad mini. Since that announcement, it turns out iPad trade-ins have skyrocketed up 500 percent. The Apple iPad…
Archos keeps unveiling new affordable tablets. After Xenon and Carbon, their latest gig is called Archos 80 Cobalt. As you would imagine from its name, we’re talking about an 8-inch tablet which screen has XGA (1024×768) resolution. In addition, the Cobalt also packs a 1.6GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM, 2-megapixel camera on the back,…
With 74.1% share, smartphones remain the dominant device in mobile advertising impressions in the UK. However, tablet usage is increasing rapidly with an overall share of 18.9%. According to data from the InMobi mobile advertising network from July 2012 to September 2012, Apple’s iPhone (27.9% impression share) continues to be the most popular single handset…