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Now that the holiday season is starting to wind down, it’s time to get comfortable with the new gifts. A popular one, mainly thanks to its attractive (if inconsistent) $200 price point, is the BlackBerry PlayBook. Over the summer I had slapped together my top ten favourite apps at the time, but since then, selection has…
What do you get when you mix the only tablet to successfully compete with the Apple iPad and the only well-known operating system for tablets? A Kindle Fire running Android Ice Cream Sandwich, of course. That’s what user Jackpotclavin of the XDA developers forum did. He released a pre-alpha of the ROM and it’s been…
Notice that I’ve used “tablet” instead of “hot” to describe this deal. While this is undoubtedly a good price for the HTC Flyer, I don’t think this is really what I would call a “hot” deal. The reason is simple – HTC’s baby doesn’t have a dual-core processor and I’m not sure it will be…
Rumor has it Apple will release the iPad 3 on February 24, 2012 in honor of Steve Jobs’ birthday. Asian manufacturers are apparently working up a sweat trying to prepare the third-generation iPad for that date. If true, we’re just two months away from a shiny new iPad. February 24th is slightly under one year…
Hasbro doesn’t like how Asus is calling its brand-new Transformer Prime tablet. The toy maker has a trademark for the “Transformers Prime” brand and think what the Taiwanese company is doing is illegal. Hence they’re suing them in a federal district court. From what we’ve heard, Hasbro holds the mentioned trademark for toys, board games,…
Are you happy with your iPad? If you said “yes,” you’re not alone, as a survey from the Software Usability Research Laboratory testing customer satisfaction for the Apple iPad, 83.65 percent of respondents indicated that they were satisfied with the tablet. The survey covered a range of other topics involving the iPad such as how user friendly…
RIM’s Swedish arm, better known as The Astonishing Tribe, has updated Scrapbook for the BlackBerry PlayBook with in-app downloads. These new content packs add a whole bunch of new stickers and backgrounds to create your virtual postcards. The packs cover themes like Christmas, the 50s, and travel. The 2.0 update also lets you upload the final creations to…
And we thought the Acer Iconia Tab A200 will be an affordable tablet? It may turn to be the case but not in Russia where, according to Mobile-Review, it will sell for 14,990 rubles (about $470). Yep it’s the same 10.1-inch device with a dual-core processor we’ve seen getting FCC’s seal of approval in October…
It’s been a month since the Kindle Fire launched and no one knows the exact sales figures (except for Amazon) but a new report from Millennial Media sheds some light on the success of the Amazon tablet. Millennium, a company which bases its monthly data on mobile ads distributed across its multi-platform network, says that…
After a brief mention back in the spring, Angry Birds is now available on the BlackBerry PlayBook. The quintessential mobile game has you slingshot various kinds of birds into shoddy structures, which in turn collapse onto the lazy, stupid, thieving pigs within. The absence of Angry Birds on any BlackBerry has even spawned a shameless…