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Huawei unveiled a new member of its tablet portfolio – MediaPad 7 Lite. The details about the device are scarce at the moment, and all we know is that it has a 7-inch 1280×800 pixels touchscreen, Wi-Fi and optional 3G connectivity, some camera on the back and metal unibody, while Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich…
Leaked images online reveal that RIM is gearing up to unveil a 4G LTE BlackBerry PlayBook tablet for release on July 31st. It’ll supposedly launch on Bell with the possibility of a few other Canadian carriers, but the 4G PlayBook here in the United States is looking like a no-go at the moment. MobileSyrup got the…
As expected, Microsoft Surface won’t be the only Windows RT tablet on the market, with Asus, Lenovo, Toshiba and Samsung joining the party later in the year. Apparently, the Redmond giant is very careful and controlling in selecting OEMs for RT tablets, allowing each of its chipset partners to pick only two of them. NVIDIA…
Amazon has been in the rumor mill all summer. It’s been speculated by many, that the company is preparing not just a smartphone, but a larger Kindle Fire tablet within the next few months. Now, in the latest rumor, the e-commerce giant is said to be working on “bigger plans,” like the introduction of five…
Huawei wants to follow ASUS’ footsteps and offer a keyboard dock with its soon-to-be-launched MediaPad 10 FHD tablet. We got this information from the tablet’s promo video which Huawei released on Facebook. In the same video, the Chinese company also talks about other specs, including the 10.1-inch Full HD (1920×1200 pixels) IPS display, 1.5GHz quad-core…
ASUS is working to make its tablets — including the Transformer Pad, Transformer Pad Prime and Transformer Pad Infinity — sing along the latest version of Android. The new software version will be released “in the coming months” which is everything but specific statement. Here’s what they said: We are pleased to announce that many…
Microsoft confirmed the release date for the next major release of the Windows operating system today. Windows 8 will be available on October 26, 2012, almost exactly three years after the Windows 7 debut. Steven Sinofsky broke the news at Microsoft’s annual sales meeting and Brandon LeBlanc wrote on the Windows Team Blog to confirm…
It looks like Barnes and Noble is the first tablet maker to get the Nexus 7 memo, as it’s looking to give potential customers $50 gift cards with purchase of its Nook tablet. This deal makes perfect sense because it’s just in time for the back-to-school sales to roll out, and it also undercuts the impressive…
The Huawei MediaPad 10 FHD, which was announced alongside Ascend D Quad at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, will be released in late August. Yu Chengdong, Huawei’s head of the Consumer Business Group and Senior Vice President of Huawei Technologies, turned to Sina Weibo (Chinese version of Twitter) to spread the good news, saying that…
Just when you thought you couldn’t get your Instagram-on with the newly released Nexus 7 tablet, think again. The wildly popular photo sharing mobile application has updated its app (version 1.1.7) to support the Jelly Bean powered slate. Now, folks will not only get the chance to view post-filter photography, but the ability to utilize…