Almost 7% of the web traffic in the U.S. is coming from smartphones and tablets. As of August 2011, “the share of non-computer traffic for the U.S. stood at 6.8 percent,” reports ComScore, “with approximately two-thirds of that traffic coming from mobile phones, and tablets accounting for much of the remainder.” Guess which tablet …
Tablets
Kindle Who? Lenovo’s $199 Tablet Up for Pre-Order
Amazon’s Kindle Fire isn’t the only $200 tablet in town. Lenovo’s IdeaPad A1, a 7-inch Android slab, is up for pre-order, starting at $199. Lenovo expects these budget tablets to ship on October 27.
The IdeaPad A1 runs Android 2.3 and has a 1 GHz processor, 512 MB of RAM, front- and rear-facing cameras and a 1024-by-600 display. The …
Amazon Might Lose Money on Each Tablet (and Why It Doesn’t Matter)
Estimates for how much it costs Amazon to produce a single Kindle Fire tablet have started to roll in and, as CNET reports, the estimates hover between $150 and $250, depending whom you ask.
UBM rounds out the low-end, speculating that the $199 Kindle Fire only costs Amazon $150 to cobble together. This is based on UBM’s estimate that …
Samsung ‘Galaxy 7.0 Plus’ Is More Pasta for the Proverbial Wall
With the Galaxy 7.0 Plus, Samsung has finally settled on a favorite tablet size: all of them.
The Galaxy 7.0 Plus is a souped-up sequel to last year’s original Galaxy Tab, running Android 3.2 Honeycomb. It has a 7-inch, 1024-by-600 resolution display, a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor, 1 GB of RAM, 16 GB or 32 GB of internal storage, a …
Palm and webOS’s Savior May Be…Amazon?
Could Amazon be lining up to grab Palm away from Hewlett Packard? VentureBeat claims it’s heard as much from “a well-placed source” (well, aren’t they all?). Amazon’s said to be in “serious negotiations” to snatch Palm from HP, and that HP’s more than ready to divest itself of the once-prominent smartphone manufacturer turned webOS …
BlackBerry PlayBook Sees Amazon Kindle Fire, Drops in Price $200
BlackBerry PlayBook price, come on down, you’re the next—or actually, first—contestant on The Price Wasn’t Right, But We’ll Fix That, in view of the Android-based Kindle Fire, which Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled Wednesday for just $199.
RIM’s PlayBook had been going for between $299 and $499, depending on model, but retailer Best …
Amazon’s Kindle Fire and New Kindle E-Readers Closeup
Amazon came out firing at its press event yesterday with the Kindle Fire tablet and two new Kindle e-readers. Although there weren’t a lot of surprises in terms of tech specs—we’ve heard rumors of the Amazon tablet and a new Kindle before—Amazon did manage to keep images of its new products under wraps until now.
Let’s take a …
Could Amazon’s Kindle Fire Dethrone Apple’s iPad?
Whatever the pundits want to say about Amazon’s new Kindle Fire, however much they want to throttle each other for letting slip trite, presumptive clichés like “iPad killer,” they have to admit, Amazon basically painted crosshairs on Cupertino’s back when it unveiled a $200 color Android tablet at today’s press event—a tablet that’ll …
Amazon Unveils $199 ‘Kindle Fire’ Android Tablet, $99 ‘Kindle Touch’
Amazon fired its first serious shots across Apple and iOS’s bow this morning as it unveiled multiple new Kindle slates at surprisingly low prices, including new no-keyboard touch models as well as the not-so-secret headliner, dubbed “Kindle Fire” and built around Google’s Android operating system.
“Four years ago, we set out to …
Bloomberg Announces $199 Amazon ‘Kindle Fire’ Tablet Before Amazon Does
It seems Bloomberg jumped Amazon’s gun this morning, unveiling the online e-tailer’s $199 “Kindle Fire” tablet before Amazon had a chance to get the word out at its press event this morning.
Bloomberg confirmed speculation that Amazon will launch a 7-inch tablet running Google’s Android operating system. The news service notes the …
Wait, Now Amazon’s Launching Three Kindle Tablets on Wednesday?
Everyone’s talking Amazon’s nifty new watch-out-Apple tablet, supposedly an Android derivative dubbed the “Kindle Fire,” but have you heard about the other two?
Yes, the other two. As we head into the eleventh hour, we’re hearing Amazon’s planning not one, not two, but three Kindle tablets for its Wednesday (tomorrow) dog and pony …
Amazon Kindle Tablet: What We Know So Far
On Wednesday, Amazon will almost certainly announce its highly-hyped Kindle tablet. And like so many other big tech rumors, the details are dripping out ahead of time.
Here’s what we already know (or think we know) about Amazon’s Kindle tablet:
(MORE: Amazon’s Kindle Tablet Won’t Be for Geeks)
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TechCrunch’s MG Siegler …