Not that you needed a survey to tell you this, but there’s a statistically good chance that someone in your family wants an iPad for the holidays.
A Nielsen survey, conducted in October, found that 44% of children ages six …
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What’s Inside Amazon’s Kindle Fire: A PlayBook
iFixit gazes into the heart of Amazon’s Kindle Fire and finds it packs a few surprises.
Amazon Releases New Kindles Early
To everyone who’s been waiting patiently for their new Amazon Kindles to arrive, here’s some good news: The company is shipping them out early, it announced today, with Kindle Touch and Kindle Touch 3G orders being filled six …
Kindle Fire Reviews Run Hot and Cold
Amazon’s Kindle Fire arrives a day earlier than expected—here’s what everyone’s saying so far.
“What we really built is a fully integrated media service. Hardware is a crucial ingredient in the service, but it’s only a piece of it.”
Holiday Price Wars: Hot Market for e-Readers Under $100, Tablets Under $200
Prices of many tablets and e-readers have shrunk in recent months, and sales are expected to come with bonuses and/or further price deductions during the upcoming holiday shopping frenzy—on Black Friday especially. Here are a few of the gadgets that are intriguing, if only because they’re newly easier to afford.
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Hey Amazon, How About a ‘Kindle Fire’ Smartphone?
After writing about Android fragmentation, I ran into a friend at a conference. He began ranting about a particular type of fragmentation: The way wireless carriers muck up Google’s operating system with junkware, promotional …
Apple’s iPhone ‘Battery Fix’ No Fix at All?
Is your iPhone’s battery faring better or worse after Apple’s iOS 5.0.1 update yesterday afternoon? The update—Apple’s first offered over the air, direct to phones running iOS 5.0—is supposed to remedy “bugs affecting …
“RIM has the ability to continue working on and releasing its own implementations of Flash Player 11 and beyond.”
Android’s Fragmentation Mess–and How to Fix It
The next version of Google’s mobile operating system looks impressive. But it may not be coming to an Android phone near you any time soon.
Kindle Fire Getting Netflix, Facebook and More at Launch
Amazon is flexing the Kindle Fire’s app muscle ahead of next week’s launch, promising apps for Netflix, Facebook and Twitter, and plenty of games to boot.
Apps are the biggest advantage the Kindle Fire has over Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet. Although the two tablets have similar specs and similar prices (the Nook Tablet is $50 more …
Asus Transformer Prime Is the First Quad-Core Android Tablet
Android tablets are old news, I know, but Asus’ Eee Pad Transformer Prime hopes to get your attention again with its quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 chip.
The Transformer Prime, which got a quick tease last month, now has a December …