By Sean P. Aune |
The Kobo Arc is receiving an update to Android 4.1 Jelly Bean and all of the goodness that goes along with that. Kobo isn’t a name you hear that often in the United States any more, but the brand has caught on elsewhere in the…
By Sean P. Aune |
According to a new report, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is placing a substantial order for iOS devices that will see the Apple products appearing on the battlefield as well as in offices. Electronista is reporting that following the conclusion of the current federal…
By Todd Haselton |
Amazon’s Kindle Fire family currently consists of the Kindle Fire ($159), Fire HD ($199) and two larger 8.9-inch tablets that cost $269 and $399, respectively. But the company may be trying to introduce an even more affordable tablet with an HD display. TechCrunch said its…
By Sean P. Aune |
It seems there may be some confusion up at the BlackBerry headquarters about whether or not there is a new PlayBook tablet in the future. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins recently told Australia’s Herald Sun that tablets are “a very difficult business.” He went on to suggest…
By Todd Haselton |
Will BlackBerry ever release a new PlayBook? It doesn’t seem like that plan is in the books, for now. BlackBerry CEO Thorsten Heins recently sat down with Australia’s Herald Sun to discuss the future of his company and whether or not a new tablet is on the…
By Brandon Russell |
Apple’s next iPad mini likely won’t be out until third or possibly even fourth quarter of 2013. According to speculation from NPD Display Search analyst Paul Semeza, supply chain checks suggest the Retina version of Apple’s enormously popular mini tablet will land the tablet for…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple hasn’t adopted wireless charging the way other companies have, and perhaps now we know why. The firm applied for a patent that would allow an iPad to charge wirelessly via its smart cover. That means your smart cover may one day actually serve as…
By Todd Haselton |
Remember the Microsoft Zune? It was a media player that was ultimately launched to compete with the iPod and has since been retired. Then Microsoft tried a bizarre mobile experiment with the Kin One and Kine Two phones, two devices that hardly ever spent time…
By Brandon Russell |
Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD 8.9, the company’s vending machine tablet for Prime content, has been lowered to $269 for the Wi-Fi version in the U.S., and $399 for the 4G model. More than ever, Amazon’s best hardware portal is at an even more enticing price.…
By Todd Haselton |
Google just opened registration for its annual developer conference, Google I/O, which kicks off on May 15th and lasts through May 17th. The conference often sells out extremely quickly, largely because it’s an event where Google introduces the next version of Android, new hardware and…
By Todd Haselton |
The low-cost and smaller tablet market is expected to surge this year, largely propelled by manufactures introducing tablets with screens below 8-inches, research firm IDC said Tuesday. The company recently revised its shipment estimates for the year from 172.4 million units to 190.9 million units, due…
By Sean P. Aune |
Sprint announced this morning that it is pushing out the Android 4.1.1 Jelly Bean to the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. An over the air (OTA) update is going out to owners of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. At last you will be able…
By Sean P. Aune |
The LTE version of the Xperia Tablet Z is going to make its retail debut in Japan on March 22. According to the Xperia Blog, the Xperia Tablet Z will go up for pre-order on NTT DoCoMo on March 9, and will be available in stores on…
By Sean P. Aune |
Barnes & Noble announced today that it has struck new deals with multiple studios to bring even more content to the Nook HD and Nook HD+ for both rental and sales. Although the Nook brand has now been spun off into its own company, Barnes…
By Sean P. Aune |
According to a new report, Apple and Intel have once again discussed a potential deal that would see the chipmaker building processors for the iPhone and iPad product lines. As PC sales continue to contract, Intel is looking to other revenue streams to keep itself…
By Sean P. Aune |
ASUS is at it again with products that perform double duty. Meet the Transformer AiO, the Windows 8 all-in-one desktop that is also an Android tablet. When we first heard about the ASUS Transformer AiO this morning, the first thought that jumped into our heads…
By Brandon Russell |
News Corp. has a new 10-inch educational tablet called Amplify that’s just $300. Do tablets have a place in education? It would certainly seem so, and the tab, which will come with Google Apps for Education, a Dictionary and graphic calculator preloaded, will try to squeeze…
By Todd Haselton |
Samsung announced on Tuesday morning that Verizon Wireless will begin selling its Galaxy Note 10.1 slate with 4G LTE service beginning on Thursday, March 7, backing up earlier rumors that stated the same date. The Galaxy Note 10.1 offers a large display with a 1280…
By Todd Haselton |
There are a bevy of fresh Apple rumors this morning. One of them suggests that Apple will add a fingerprint scanner to its next generation iPhone and that the new device will be introduced alongside a budget iPhone this June or July. A second rumor, also…
By Sean P. Aune |
ASUS Announced today that the Transformer Pad TF300 will begin receiving an update to Android 4.2 beginning today in the U.S. While the Android 4.2 Jelly Bean update is rolling out to the Transformer Pad in the U.S., users in other territories will have to wait a…
By Sean P. Aune |
The Marble White Galaxy Note 8.0 is a nice looking device, but what do you think of a Charcoal Black version? An anonymous tipster sent over an image to the folks at PhoneArena of what appear to be a black version of the Galaxy Note…
By Sean P. Aune |
The LTE version of the Galaxy Note 10.1 is making the rounds of the carriers, and it appears that it will land on Verizon on March 7. An anonymous tipster sent AndroidCentral a picture of information that appears to support the Galaxy Note 10.1 LTE…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple announced last week that there have been more than 1 billion iTunes U downloads across 1,200 universities and 1,200 K-12 schools. The company also confirmed to TechCrunch in a separate statement that it has sold more than 8 million iPads to schools and other educational facilities around the…
By Todd Haselton |
iFixit recently published a list of the most (and least) repairable tablets. Several of them are older devices that may already be collecting dust on shelves, but it’s a reminder of all of the teardowns the company has done recently. The Dell XPS 10 Windows…
