As promised, RIM has released its maiden tablet in the United States and Canada. BlackBerry PlayBook can be bought via RIM’s website or various participating retailers for $499 for 16GB and going up to $699 for larger capacity 64GB one. BlackBerry PlayBook is one of the few professional-grade tablets in the market that features […]
Acer Iconia Tab A500 Android 3.0 tablet goes on pre-order for $450
Acer today announced Iconia Tab A500 for the U.S. market and is currently on pre-order on Best Buy. Good thing about the Android 3.0 tablet is that it is one of the cheapest Honeycomb tablets around and decently spec’d as well. For $449.99, a user gets an 10.1-inch tablet powered by Nvidia’s 1GHz dual-core […]
Google eyes Chrome OS for tablets, traces found in Chrome OS’ source code
Google is looking to expand Chrome OS’ territory by adding touch-friendly features to the OS. New source code that was published by Google has references related to touch-based user interfaces. For instance, Google has added a new user-agent string as “CrOS Touch” that will help the web browser to deliver a touch-optimized website rather […]
Creative launches ZiiO tablets in India
It’s early 2011 and as promised, Creative today launched both their tablets in the Indian market. The ZiiO tablets will come in two sizes – 7-inches (800×480) and 10-inches (1024×600) and will run on Android 2.2 OS. Barring the physical dimensions, both tablets have same specs like Bluetooth 2.1 with apt-X and A2DP support, […]
Sony CEO confirms Honeycomb tablet, coming by end of summer
Sony’s CEO, Howard Stringer confirmed at an event in New York that Sony is preparing a Honeycomb-based tablet to compete in the burgeoning tablet market. Details are pretty scarce at the moment but Howard did say that United States will be the first recipient and will be launched by end of summer. Sony could […]
HTC schedules an event to show what’s next on April 12
If you thought HTC’s CTIA announcements lacked the firepower, they were mostly holding up for this little event scheduled on April 12 in UK. There’s nothing to go by with the invite except for the copy that invites us to see “what’s next.” We don’t know what next really is but rumormongers haven’t really […]
HCL intros three ME tablets in India
Indian hardware manufacturer, HCL has jumped onto the tablet bandwagon with its ME range of tablets. Three tablets were unveiled and admittedly, not the friendliest of names to remember but tablets are decently spec’d. Starting with ME AE7, its a 7-inch tablet with WVGA resolution (800×480) support and features Android 2.2 OS, 800MHz CPU, 256MB […]
Google Nexus tablet rumored for fall release
It seems Google will hop onto a new manufacturer for another Nexus device. The latest rumor comes via Mobile-Review who claims that the Android maker has teamed up with LG to launch a Nexus tablet based on Honeycomb reference design. There are no other details to go with this piece of info other than […]
RIM PlayBook will be able to run Android apps
What seemed a wild rumor couple of months back just got real. RIM has announced that its PlayBook tablet due on April 19 will have the ability to run Android apps as well as BlackBerry Java apps. Since PlayBook is based on a different OS than Blackberry phones, RIM will launch two optional app […]
Apple iPad 2 releasing in 25 more countries this Friday
Shortages of iPad 2 in the United States doesn’t mean other countries have to wait till the supply-demand equilibrium gets straight in Apple’s home market. The Cupertino giant has announced to release the iPad 2 in 25 more countries on March 25, Friday. The orders will begin at 1AM online and consumers picking up […]