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Rumor has it we’ll be seeing a reduced cost, reduced storage version of the Nook Tablet this week.
According to The Verge, an 8GB model of the device will be available on February 22nd. The storage is typically at 16GB, and has a price tag of $249. Because the internal storage has been cut in half, a drop in price is [Read more...]
Today, February 17, Acer starts pushing out Android 4.0 for the Acer Iconia A200 tablet. This tablet is the first of its family to get the upgrade to 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich.
The ICS update coming to Iconia Tab owners has been customized by [Read more...]
Owners of the Asus Eee Transformer, prepare to be disappointed. The promise of an update to Ice Cream Sandwich by February is now broken. Asus has provided itself with some release-date wiggle room, changing their anticipated upgrade time for [Read more...]
If you’ve been waiting for the Lenovo ThinkPad tablet to receive the upgrade to Ice Cream Sandwich, you’ve only got a few months to go. The Android 4.0 update for this device is officially scheduled for May 2012.
Big features you’ll be treated to include face recognition, voice input, and a faster web browser. The face recognition feature, or Face Unlock, is a way of keeping your tablet locked against anyone who isn’t you. [Read more...]
Android tablet sales have struggled when it comes to their hold on the market, but may finally be seeing a good turn around. In the final quarter of 2011, Android leapt to 39% share of the market, from the previous year’s 29%. Units being backed by vendors went from 3.1 million the past year to 10.5 million. [Read more...]
Archos is coming out with something that’s pretty impressive- the Archos G9 series tablets. There are two size options- an eight inch model with 1024-by-768 resolution, and 10.1 with 1280×800 resolution.
The tablets will be running Honeycomb 3.1, have dual-core 1.5 GHz processors, 250GB of storage, and an HDMI output with 1080p media playback. Best part? The 8 inch version will hit the market at $279, and the larger, only $349. Awesome. We’ll be seeing these cheaper tablet options come September.
In case you haven’t seen OnLive for PCs, it’s a program that lets you play PC games on any PC that has an internet connection. The program streams the game’s feed from a server that is hosting the game so your computer isn’t actually processing any of the graphics. This allows you to play graphics intensive games such as Crysis 2 or Just Cause 2 on your Netbook supposing you have a fast internet speed and have downloaded the OnLive program.
Being a gamer myself I prefer investing in the hardware and using a program like Steam to manage my games, due to all the sales and combos and such; but with the release of OnLive on tablets this could lead my purchases being through the service instead. OnLive plans on porting the service to Android Tablets which opens the market not only to PCs, laptops, and netbooks, but also lets you run very intense games on tablet which can use a touchscreen UI or a physical controller. Engadget has a post here which shows a hands on with the HTC Flyer and the controller as well as the OnLive service already running on the tablets.
I think OnLive looks very promising especially with how they are handling moving it to mobile devices. Hopefully they will bring a service that works similar to Netflix in the way that is it available on almost any device. I’m curious to see where it heads within the next few months and how well it will compete with gaming on other devices. If the lag issues are able to be fixed on the device, purchasing a small tablet and a controller can not only save money, but can save a large amount of time with having to check for compatibility and whatnot.
Source: Engadget
There’s no creative way to say this anymore- there are more rumors over the possibility of an Amazon tablet. It’s understood by most that ones easily on its way, but there haven’t been many leads as to when or what we’ll be dealing with. Well, PC Mag may be on to something, and claims to have a source with all the answers.
According to their source, we’ll be seeing two models powered by a Nvidia’s Tegra quad-core chip; one 10 inch and on 7 inch with an LCD display. Apparently, Amazon wanted to give their users the ability to switch between a colored LCD screen and a black and white E Ink-like display for easy reading, but this would take to long and Amazon is supposedly planning the release of their tab(s) in time for the holidays.
This next bit of info i’m sure comes as no surprise.
Sony finally announced that it too is diving head first into the tablet pool, informing everyone of its plans to bring out not one, but two Android Honeycomb (3.0) tablets by this fall.
The two models, dubbed S1 and S2, come in two different designs; a nearly traditional slate with a wedged back and 9.4 inch (1280×800 resolution) display, and a clamped folding model with dual 5.5 inch screens that can be used separately or combined into one.
The S1 comes with front and rear facing cameras, and the S2 also comes with two featured cameras.
Both will support Wi-Fi and 3G and 4G wireless networks and will be powered by Nvidia Tegra 2 dual-core processor.
A more specific date has not been released, and there is no hint at a price yet.
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