Nearly a month after making a proposal to replace its inflight manuals with 18,000 iPad 2s, the U.S. Air Force has awarded a $9.36 million contract to Phoenix-based vendor Executive Technology to make the purchase. Apple’s tablet supposedly beat out competition from the PlayBook, Xoom, Galaxy Tab and Nook Tablet. Bloomberg reports the Air Force

A new Bloomberg report suggests the U.S. Air Force may purchase as many as 18,000 iPad 2s as replacement for manuals and navigation charts. The service’s Air Mobility Command reportedly has plans to issue a proposal, which would be one of the military’s largest orders of computer tablets. If correct, it would surely advance Apple’s

As promised late last year, Motorola has issued its Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update to the original Motorola Xoom tablet. But it’s only available to those in the U.S. with the Wi-Fi-only device. Those who have the pleasure of built-in 3G connectivity will have to wait a little while longer. A statement issued via

Today’s tablets are fast becoming the quintessence of what can be considered the perfect consuming tool. They’re portable, fast, easy to use, and allow us to watch videos, play games and read books, among a million other uses. Care to guess which tablet in particular is at the top of the list? The iPad. Ok,

There’s been no shortage of tablet devices this year, and Verizon is seeing fit to say goodbye to 2011 by introducing an oddly named Honeycomb line: Xyboard. How the honchos at Big Red ever thought the name would catch on, we’ll never know. In a market dominated by the iPad and Kindle Fire, out comes

If you didn’t wake up to that tablet you were hoping for on Christmas Day, then now seems like the perfect time to buy your own if you’re living in the U.K. British retailers have been slashing the price of tablets that have been struggling in recent months, with the HTC Flyer reduced to £199.99

Rumor has it Verizon Wireless will be releasing two Droid-branded tablet this month. According to CNET the carrier will be getting two of Motorola Mobility’s Droid Xyboard tablets, an 8 and 10-inch model. Both tablets sport Gorilla Glass-protected screens, a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and a 5-megapixel camera rear-facing and 1.3 megapixel front-facing

Not that we didn’t know it was coming, but the Xoom 2 and the Xoom 2 Media Edition have been officially unveiled by Motorola now. Announced in the UK and Ireland, the devices — as leaked — will be arriving with Android Honeycomb on board. The 10.1-inch Xoom 2 features a 1.2GHz dual-core processor, 1GB RAM,

Ice Cream Sandwich is coming! Did you hear? On a brand-spanking new phone even. And some other phones as well. But what about tablets? One of Google’s biggest goals with their new OS was to end Android fragmentation heading into the future, so it’s seems that it would only be a matter of time before

Motorola has officially announced the newest addition to the Xoom family of tablets, the Xoom Family Edition. This new version has been rumored for a while now, but this is the first official confirmation of its existence.  “Nowadays, everyone from mom, dad to the youngest child use the same tablet device. We set out to

What do Verizon and Motorola have in store for us for the rest of 2011? We’ll know as soon as next week. The two companies announced today that they are holding a joint event in NYC next Tuesday to show off their holiday lineup. Expected to make an appearance is the new Xoom 2, and

Pictures have surfaced of a Motorola tablet with the model number “MZ617,” and some believe that this could be the successor to the original Xoom, the Motorola Xoom 2. An anonymous tipster sent the pictures you see in this post to DroidLife, and it clearly has some differences to the original Motorola Xoom.  Beyond the

For a lot of people, Hulu Plus is like a necessary evil. No, you don’t get quite the same content through the mobile app that you would online, and your $7.99 per month for shows and movies still comes with ads. But it’s still at the top of the heap for streaming current content to

I feel like the black sheep in the Tablet herd, questing to find meaning within this gadget’s baffling existence, but always strolling away with a sprinkling of pros and a bushel of cons. Let me spew more diesel onto the incendiary spectacle by adding this to the table: I think tablets are one of the

Apple has been on a bit of a lawsuit tear as of late.  Whether you think they are in the right or wrong for all the legal actions they’ve been taking, one thing is sure that it seems like anyone who has ever released a smartphone or tablet is going to end up in their

Yesterday, Apple won an injunction against Samsung for the sale of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the EU. Today it was revealed by Foss Patents that Apple has filed a motion with same court regarding the Motorola Xoom. The document doesn’t say whether or not Apple specifically filed for an injunction against the sale of

The Motorola Xoom launched on Feb. 24th on Verizon with a promise of a free upgrade to 4G LTE to come within weeks.  Weeks turned into months, and is now closing in on half a year. At long last Xoom owners have received an email according to Droid Life that says the upgrade is finally going to

The Motorola Xoom has not exactly been a hit with the consumer market.  Although it seemed to take CES 2011 by storm, once it hit the actual consumer market it was more like a chorus of crickets could be heard welcoming it. With that in mind, it’s not that surprising that the price for the Wi-Fi version

Do you like the Motorola Xoom, and want to enjoy mobility without the constraints of being on Verizon?  Well, luckily for you there is now an unlocked model available that will allow you to  get it running on AT&T 3G or T-Mobile, but there you will be kept to EDGE speeds sadly. Thanks to the

When a Verizon YouTube video went live, eagle-eyed observers spotted something downright interesting — an unidentified Android tablet running Honeycomb. Could it be? The webs are wondering if the device featured might be the next-generation Motorola Xoom. Take a look and tell us what you think. (Scroll down for the embedded video.) This little cameo

Does your cat have its own iPad 2 or Xoom? Friskies has created a line of HTML5/CSS3 games specifically for tablet-toting felines. Cat Fishing, Tasty Treasures, and Party Mix-Up! have to be accessed from a tablet computer, and are designed specifically to delight and entertain cats rather than people. Check out a paws-on video of

Like many, I thought that Motorola Xoom tablets would be getting the Android 3.1 update yesterday after it was announced at Google I/O. So I grabbed the one sitting on my desk and checked. Nothing. The Xoom checks for system updates automatically every 12 hours, and the time hadn’t come due. So I forced it

The guessing game as to how the Motorola Xoom is doing can come to an end as the company has finally published a number of how many of the tablets have shipped. While not the same as how many have sold, the number of Xooms that have gone out there to the retail channel is

Seeing as Motorola has not yet told the world how many Xoom tablets have sold, it is leaving a lot of room for people to speculate. First it was analysts at Deutsche Bank who figured out that 100,000 units had sold in the first 40 days by looking at developer statistics.  And now it is

T-Mobile’s G-Slate with Google is the first 4G tablet computer to ship, believe it or not. Verizon’s Motorola Xoom hasn’t yet been upgraded to work with the carrier’s LTE network, Sprint’s WiMax-equipped HTC Evo View isn’t shipping yet, and AT&T hasn’t yet announced a 4G tablet. The LG-built G-Slate is also the first 8.9″ tablet