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 …
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 is getting the LTE treatment from Verizon Wireless on July 28, but chances are you won’t like the terms.
The super-slim Android tablet will start at $530 with a 4G LTE connection from Verizon Wireless, and — here’s the rub — will at that price require a two-year data contract that costs at least $30 per …
In another sign that Amazon is cutting corners on its rumored tablet to make it as cheap as possible, a new report suggests that the device’s screen will be less capable than those of its rivals. Or not.
Whereas the touch screen on Apple’s iPad supports input from up to 10 fingers at a time, Amazon’s tablet will use a cheaper touch …
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, …
By nearly every measure, the Toshiba Thrive is an unremarkable Android Honeycomb tablet. It’s fat, it’s heavy, and it’s got pretty much the same hardware as its peers.
And yet, the Thrive—available now starting at $429 for an 8 GB model—is different. That’s because Toshiba had the sense to pack this 10-inch tablet with all the …
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,
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, 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, …
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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 …
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 …
Somehow, Archos has managed to fit some powerful hardware into an Android tablet that’s just over half the price of an iPad.
The Archos G9 series tablets will come in two flavors when they launch in late September: An 8-inch model will start at $279 and have the same screen resolution as an iPad (1024-by-768), and a 10.1-inch model …
The cheapening of Android tablets continues, as Vizio’s 8-inch slate is expected to launch for $350 next month, according to Engadget.
Aside from its price, which is less than most high-end Android tablets on the market, the simply-named “Vizio Tablet” includes one notable trick: It uses a built-in infrared controller to communicate …
