Motorola took its second shot at tablets in the US with the now official launch of the Droid Xyboard. Its versions of the Xoom 2 come in the same 8.2-inch and 10.1-inch sizes but get the expected 4G LTE upgrade and support for creating a hotspot with as many as eight devices. Along with Motorola’s […]
Dec 6 2011 | Posted in
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The HTC Flyer is now getting its promised update to Android 3.2, HTC Hub has learned. The update has been rumored as far back as three months ago for the seven-inch device. The 210MB over-the-air update is now being delivered to French Wi-Fi and 3G models that have 32GB of storage. The software version is […]
Dec 5 2011 | Posted in
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California-based MIPS Technologies and China’s Ingenic Semiconductor have teamed up to create what they say is the first Android 4.0 tablet. It will cost less than $100 uses a 1GHz XBurst CPU. The OEM tablet is now shipping in China under the Ainol Electronics brand and will arrive in the US and other countries over […]
Dec 5 2011 | Posted in
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Dell on Monday confirmed that it had stopped selling the . The tablet is no longer available online and is withdrawing just months after Dell axed the Streak 5. In a statement, it said it would still be involved in the mobile space but conspicuously referred to the Streak 7 in the past tense, suggesting […]
Dec 5 2011 | Posted in
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Verizon has finally confirmed that it will launch Motorola’s Xoom 2 tablets sometime in December. The carrier also admitted that it will split from the traditional naming scheme, referring to the devices as the “Droid Xyboards” to add the Droid badge that adorns several other high-end smartphones in the company’s inventory.As expected, the Xyboards will […]
Dec 2 2011 | Posted in
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GameStop revealed on Friday that some of its stores will get the ASUS Transformer Prime as soon as this weekend, albeit for demonstration purposes only. It will become the first retailer to let customers get their hands on the quad-core Tegra 3-powered device. The tablet is available for pre-order from the gaming retailer now, with […]
Dec 2 2011 | Posted in
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Acer today has added an new addition to its Iconia Tab line. The A200 carries the same 10-inch display and dual-core Tegra 2 chip as the A500 but drops the rear camera and cuts the storage to 8GB or 16GB depending on the model. In return, it gets a softer, more colorful look in gray […]
Dec 2 2011 | Posted in
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Samsung on Wednesday raised the bar for mobile chips with a preview of new Exynos 5250 chips. The dual-core design is the first based on the ARM Cortex-A15 and, through the 32 nanometer process and other optimizations, should be much faster than an ARM Cortex-A9. Samsung estimates that a 2GHz Exynos 5250 is twice as […]
Dec 1 2011 | Posted in
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Amazon is now updating the Kindle Fire with required software updates that updates the device’s software to version 6.2. While Amazon kept quiet about exactly what the update included, the software removes the ability to break the root file, AndroidPolice reported. The software also makes the Kindle Fire update automatically over Wi-Fi in the future, […]
Lenovo has added new 7-inch and 10-inch tablets to the 5-inch LePad S2005 Android ‘phablet’ launched earlier today. The new tablets run Android 3.2 (Honeycomb), but are said to be inline for an update to Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) in the near future. Unlike the planned US launch of the IdeaTab K2 variant, which […]
Nov 30 2011 | Posted in
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