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Well, look what we have here. Google has moved one step closer to pushing its Nexus 7 tablet beyond the Google Play store. Today Staples has announced its attentions to carry the seven inch wonder in its retail chains across the country. Starting right now, folks can pre-order the Jelly Bean slate on Staples’ website.…
Amazon will not refresh its entire Kindle lineup including the Fire this month, as one previous rumor suggested. Instead, the Kindle maker plans to launch its Fire successor some time in the second half of this year, according to sources familiar with the matter who told AllThingsD. Those same sources talked about a few “key…
We knew Canadians won’t have to wait for too long to join the Nexus 7 craze, with Google saying its tablet will arrive sometime “late July.” The exact date was not mentioned but now thanks to the local branch of Staples, we know that will happen on July 23rd with pre-orders being accepted as we…
With Nexus 7 getting all the attention these days, I decided to take a step back and rant about my next tablet purchase. First of all, let me say that I like Google’s new tablet as it offers an incredible bang for the buck. However, it has a darn small screen by today’s standards. I…
We know Google will make sure pretty much every part of the world gets to try its first own-branded tablet – Nexus 7. Customers in UK will be able to get the 7-inch tablet starting from July 19th, when Dixons Group-owned Currys will start offering the 16GB model for 199 GBP, which translates into some…
Asus has turned to Twitter to spread the good news for the wannabe Nexus 7 owners, simply saying that it “got things covered,” while attaching an image of upcoming covers. As we can see from the mentioned image, the company will offer 5 differently colored covers for the upcoming tablet, including black, cyan, magenta, light…
Archos announced a new tablet for folks on a budget. The all-new Archos 97 Carbon comes with a 9.7-inch 1024×768 pixels screen, Wi-Fi connectivity, 2-megapixel rear camera, VGA front-facing one, HDMI out, USB port, 1GHz processor, 1GB of RAM, 16GB of internal memory, memory card slot, while Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is running the…
Samsung has silently started rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich update for its Galaxy Tab 7.7 tablet. I say “silently” since it’s not an over-the-air affair but the one that requires Samsung’s Kies software running on your PC. If you don’t want to mess with Kies, you can always wait for the OTA update, which is…
You’ve probably heard that Google’s Nexus 7 is an awesome device, offering quite a bang for the buck. Folks all around the Interwebs are delighted with this 7-inch tablet with many of us waiting for the first chance to grab one as soon as it’s available outside of the U.S. However, you/we may like how…
Google I/O may have been just last week, but you can bet that we’ve been spending some real time the Google Nexus 7, the first Nexus tablet of its kind. Decked out in Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, the Nexus 7 also rocks a great set of specifications and at an even better price of $200…