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Amazon’s $200 tablet, the Kindle Fire, was announced in late September and is expected to start shipping in about two weeks. When the online retail giant published their Q3 2011 financial results in late October, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said: “Based on what we’re seeing with Kindle Fire pre-orders, we’re increasing capacity and building millions…
As expected, Motorola has announced two sequels to their first Android tablet, the Xoom. The Motorola Xoom 2 and Xoom 2 Media Edition both run Android 3.2, have a dual-core 1.2 GHz processor, 1 GB of RAM, 16 GB of local storage, 5 megapixel camera with LED flash on the back, 1.3 megapixel camera on…
HTC is now selling the T-Mobile USA compatible Flyer for $299.99 along with a new two-year contract, or for $454.99 for folks extending their contracts. T-Mobile, unfortunately, doesn’t have that deal on its site, hinting us the Taiwanese company decided to be more pro-active in pushing its 7-inch baby to the American public. Are they…
ASUS’ super-sexy Eee Pad Transformer Prime is at the FCC where the government employed engineers are having good time with it before the rest of us can even touch it. Yeah I know, they only test the device’s radiation levels making sure it’s safe to be used by the general public, but then again –…
Yahoo announced a couple of mobile products today and along with the Livestand iPad app, the company released a revamped version of IntoNow (version 2.0) for the iPad and Yahoo Weather for Android. The IntoNow app for iPad brings some pretty awesome visuals and functionality. The app integrates social networking technology while users watch their favorite shows,…
Yahoo today released its own magazine-like app in the iTunes App Store, called Livestand. The new offering is suppose to deliver a more intuitive way of how users interact with the content it finds, with better photos and videos the company claims to be “visually stunning.” The new Yahoo magazine app offers some pretty interesting…
Not sure why it took so long for Verizon and Samsung to launch the Gingerbread update for the Galaxy Tab, but the good news is that it will be released in the (very) near future. The 70MB heavy download will make your 7-inch tablet more powerful, bringing many new features and bug fixes to the…
Barnes & Noble is apparently gearing up to unveil the Nook Color 2 on November 7. The rumor is that the book store chain will release a successor to its popular tablet to compete with the brand new Amazon Kindle Fire. Details are pretty scarce, though the source also claims the company prepares to launch…
Look at the header image. Do you see anything on the right? No? Look closer. Yep, Nippon Electric Glass developed a new technology it calls ‘invisible glass’ because it looks, well, invisible. The point of the glass is to reduce as much glare as possible, a huge disadvantage of normal glass. In fact, normal glass…
Another promotion for the BlackBerry PlayBook has just gone live, this time targeting businesses. For every two BlackBerry PlayBooks that are bought through select corporate vendors, RIM will throw in a third for free. To sweeten the deal, they’ll toss in a free leather sleeve, charging pod, or HDMI cable for free. This follows up…