Tablets

Blackberry Goes Casual

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Mobile Phones, Tablets, Tech On: 25 Jan

Gone are the days of Blackberry being business only. With the rise of a new CEO who wants to stay on track with the leading markets, Blackberry maker, Research In Motion (RIM), is going for a complete overhaul of the company. RIM has recently missed new product deadlines and targets for sales, while at the [...]

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Hands On CES2012: Sony Tablet P

Posted By: Nick Hernandez In: Tablets, Tech On: 11 Jan

The Sony Tablet P has been talked about since August, of last year, and was shown off during yesterday’s Sony press conference at CES; it’s a fresh outing for Sony in many ways. To start off, it’s the only fold-able Android device out there and it’s currently running Android 3.2 Honeycomb, which seems an odd [...]

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Sony Press Conference — It’s Going to be a Good Year

Posted By: Angela Min In: Mobile Phones, Playstation 3, Tablets, Tech On: 10 Jan

Last year wasn’t the best year for Sony. After the whole PSN debacle, Sony has been struggling to sort out their PR. With spirits up, the Presidents of Sony took the stage earlier tonight for their first press conference of this year’s CES 2012. Some of the highlights of the show tonight were the new Walkman Android smartphone, Netflix for the Vita on [...]

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Sony’s Tablet S Sees Price Cut

Posted By: Alex In: Tablets, Tech On: 04 Jan

The Tablet S from Sony’s stable has had price reductions recently, wherein the 16 GB model is now priced at $400, a $100 slash in price, while the 32 GB model has also had a $100 slash in the price and is now selling at $500. The technical specifications of the tablet however remain unchanged [...]

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Kindle Fire To Receive Update To Fix Critical Flaws

Posted By: Alex In: Tablets, Tech On: 16 Dec

The New York Times has released the news that within the next 2 weeks, Amazon will bring out a major update to the Kindle Fire firmware. The users feel this is a much needed move, since they have been faced with problems in the device such as poor performance, along with there being no scope [...]

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HP Releases WebOS In The Wild

Posted By: Alex In: Mobile Phones, Tablets, Tech On: 12 Dec

HP recently announced that their mobile platform WebOS will be now be released to the open source software community. Analysts speculate that this move is mainly aimed at allowing other smart phone manufacturers to use the OS (leading to greater adoption and more applications) and will lead to greater development of the platform. It is [...]

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Mega Man X Arriving on iOS

Posted By: Sean Bassinger In: Gaming News, Mobile Phones, Tablets On: 09 Dec

Another remake for the popular Capcom title Mega Man X — this time for iOS — is in the works, and set to arrive this month. Reports on Andriasang indicate the new version is based on the currently available mobile edition. Still, enjoying Mega Man X with touch screen controls is a questionable concept, as [...]

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Motorola Wins Patent Injunction Over Apple In Germany

Posted By: Alex In: Mobile Phones, Tablets, Tech On: 09 Nov

Motorola and Apple are currently at loggerheads not only in the technology market, but also in the courtroom. This battle is over a lawsuit filed by Motorola against Apple Inc. The German court that is hearing this case recently gave Motorola a formal order of prohibition against Apple. This would mean that Motorola has the [...]

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Motorola Upgrades Xoom Line Up With Xoom 2 And Xoom 2: Media Edition

Posted By: Alex In: Tablets, Tech On: 06 Nov

It was highly anticipated that Motorola will soon release a successor to the XOOM tablet. But as a sequel to the honeycomb-run tablet, Motorola launched two versions of XOOM 2 – XOOM 2 and XOOM 2 Media Edition. The new twins in the market have slimmer designs than XOOM and they have stark similarities to [...]

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HP Slate 2 Announced

Posted By: Alex In: Tablets, Tech On:

Hewlett Packard has refurbished their Tablet PC Slate 500 and rolled out the Slate 2. The Slate 2 will carry a price tag of $699, bringing it down by a hundred dollars. The major changes to the 8.9 inch tablet are the addition of Swype and a change of processor to Intel Atom Z670.

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Barnes and Noble’s Nook 2 Rumoured To Be Announced Soon

Posted By: Alex In: Tablets, Tech On: 02 Nov

The Kindle Fire, from Amazon has recently taken the world by storm because of its low pricing and this seems to have led its competition, Barnes & Noble (right from the ebook reader days) to seemingly accelerate the release of its own tablet, the Nook Color 2. Rumour has it that this device will be [...]

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HP Touchpad Finally Out Of Stock

Posted By: Alex In: Tablets, Tech On:

Back in August, Hewlett Packard had reduced the price of the TouchPad to a mere $99 because it planned to discontinue the tablet completely due to weak sales and demand. This led to a massive firesale and now it seems HP has finally run out of TouchPads as a notice went around the company notifying [...]

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