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Scattered reports are indicating that RIM is cutting a pretty sweet deal on the BlackBerry PlayBook to those in the family. Employees will be able to snag up to five 16 GB tablets for $100 a pop, apparently. The 32 GB only costs $149, and the 64 GB version is going for $199. Those of…
There’s no shortage of sales this Cyber Monday on tablets and smartphones but the Cyber Monday sale at Walmart is focusing on the prepaid market, as well as a neat iPad 2 bundle. The Walmart Cyber Monday iPad 2 bundle sale isn’t close to a “door buster” but it will allow you to save roughly…
Everyone in the tech world is expecting the ASUS’ Eee Pad Transformer Prime will be up for sale sometime in mid-December, but new light has been shed on an even earlier release. A pre-order page on Newegg surfaced showing a more specific launch date of Dec. 8 for its release. This news comes after other major retailer sites…
It looks like Best Buy over-promised to customers eager to snag a BlackBerry PlayBook for $300 off. Despite having the same attractive offer as many retailers over Black Friday and the weekend, Best Buy appears to be unable to fulfill many (and some say all) orders of the BlackBerry PlayBook. Prices were as low as…
Lenovo and Qualcomm announced that the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet will incorporate Qualcomm’s Gobi 3000 technology, making it the first Android tablet that can be used all around the world. Qualcomm’s chip can sing along both EV-DO (CDMA) and HSPA (GSM) based networks, allowing for instance Verizon and Sprint customers to use the tablet even when…
Well, it looks like Lenovo is preparing to release its 5-inch version of an Android tablet, as photos were popped up on Engadget. Lenovo’s latest creation ironically looks similar to the Dell Streak 5 and this news comes after leaked photos of the company’s new 10-inch Android tablet, which reportedly packs Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 and a quad-core…
We’re just a few short days away from Black Friday and even Apple is going to get into the discount game with some sales. The folks at 9to5Mac reportedly have the leaded deals and this should include the iPad 2, accessories, iPod touch devices and discounts on Mac computers. The leaked flyer from Apple supposedly…
Citi Analyst Mark Mahaney predicts Amazon will sell 12 million Kindle Fire tablets in 2012, which works out to 15% of the tablet market. Mahaney forecasts that 20 million units will be sold in 2013, and the price will get knocked down to $179, but we’ll see if that pans out. Of course, Amazon is…
Sony UK is running a live web chat later today at Facebook, allowing the general public to ask questions about the company’s two Honeycomb products – Tablet S and Tablet P. Omar Gurnah, who is a tablet marketing manager at Sony UK, will answer any inquiries potential customers may have regarding to the Japanese giant’s…
RIM was hosting a little get-together in Toronto today called the BlackBerry Innovation Forum where they were showing off a bunch of the stand-alone apps for the PlayBook that we’ve been waiting for, including e-mail, contacts, calendar. There aren’t any big surprises here, other than maybe a little more blue in the UI than we’re…