Of all the companies to turn on the PC, you’d think ol’ Big Blue would be last. But no, it looks like one of the engineers who helped design IBM’s very first personal computer three decades ago is celebrating the anniversary (this Friday, August 12th) by announcing something of a paradigm shift: his main computer’s now a …
Tablets
Apple’s iPad Poised to Dominate Through 2020?
Everything’s coming up roses for Apple’s iPad in 2011, and that’s bound to continue for at least the next decade or so, predicts Needham & Company analyst Charlie Wolf. In fact the investment firm just bumped its target price for Apple’s stock to $540 and projects sales of 54 million iPads and 108 million iPhones in 2012.
Is the guy …
HP’s TouchPad Gets a $100 Price Cut, This Weekend Only
Did Tuesday’s $50 price cut on the HP TouchPad strike you as ho-hum? Perhaps this weekend’s $100 price cut will do the trick.
The instant rebate will be in effect from August 5 through August 7 on HP’s website, PreCentral reports.
(MORE: HP’s TouchPad: A Promising Tablet That Needs More Polish)
The TouchPad debuted to lukewarm …
One Month Later, HP Cuts Price of ‘TouchPad’ Tablet by $50
HP’s TouchPad tablet was released about a month ago at a starting price of $500—see our take on the device here—and the company has already announced a $50 instant rebate available for purchases between July 29 and September 10.
Some retailers, such as Amazon.com, are offering additional discounts as well: Amazon sells the …
Acer’s 7-Inch Honeycomb Tablet Coming Next Month for $300
Acer continues to ignore the memo that Android tablets aren’t supposed to be priced competitively. Its 7-inch tablet, the Acer Iconia A100, will arrive in August for a mere $300 — at least according to a memo sent to retail partners and snagged by Engadget.
Last we heard, the Iconia Tab had a 1024-by-600 resolution display, 1 GHz …
Lenovo’s Android Tablet Story: Netflix, Storage and a Pen
The Android tablet market is getting saturated to the point where we’ve seen almost everything, from thin-and-light beauties to port-packed workhorses, but Lenovo’s still trying to squeeze a few more ideas out of this generation of tech specs.
To begin with, Lenovo has decided that consumers and business users have different needs, …
Can Samsung Solve the 5-Inch Tablet’s Identity Crisis?
In the world of tablets, 10-inch screens reign supreme, but that hasn’t stopped some companies from dabbling in different shapes and sizes. Samsung, HTC, Dell and Research in Motion have all tried 7-inch tablets. Vizio’s going to market with an 8-inch tablet soon. LG rocked the 8.9-inch screen with the T-Mobile G-Slate. And you may …
Dear Amazon, Here’s How You Should Sell Your Tablet
Dear Amazon,
Hi, it’s me, Doug Aamoth—Amazon Prime member, Subscribe and Save junkie, Cloud Player user, lover and friend. So this Android tablet of yours is looking more and more like a reality, which is cool. I think you have a lot of the right pieces in place to pull it off.
But as someone who’s spent thousands at your site …
Motorola’s Next Tablet Might Look More Like an iPad
Motorola’s next tablet, according to one rumor, will use the same 4:3 aspect ratio as Apple’s iPad, signaling that Motorola has soured on widescreen tablets.
The Motorola Xoom, like most other 10-inch Android Honeycomb tablets currently on the market, uses a 1280-by-800 resolution display. The iPad’s display resolution is 1024-by-768, …
Sony’s Upcoming Tablets Are Definitely Not iPads
For products which still haven’t been officially announced, Sony’s upcoming Android tablets sure haven’t been publicity-shy.
Sony first teased them back in April. And on Wednesday, it held press events in New York and San Francisco at which it showed them off and released more details, such as the fact that the smaller S1 will …
Seriously, Who Buys Tablets with Wireless Data Plans?
AT&T has proudly announced that it’s the exclusive 4G wireless carrier for Sony’s upcoming S2 dual-screen tablet. I’m proud to announce that I couldn’t care less. Honestly, any time I hear about this or that wireless carrier selling this or that tablet, I wonder, who’s actually interested? Do people really want to pay upwards of $20 per …
Read the Philly Papers? Get a Half-Price Android Tablet
Android tablets still not cheap enough for you? One newspaper publisher wants to help out.
The Philadelphia Media Network, publisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News, announced that it’ll sell deeply discounted Android tablets—half-price or less—when bundled with newspaper subscriptions.
The tablets will …