Last November, Gamestop launched a pilot program to sell android tablets in about 200 of it’s stores. Apparently the test was successful, because the retailer has now added another 1,400 or so stores to the list. Tablets such as the Acer Iconia 7′, selling for $229.99, up to a 32GB ASUS Transformer Prime at $499.99 [...]
After a bump in market share from the popularity of the Amazon Kindle Fire, android tablets once again are losing out to the iPad. Analyst firm IDC reports Apple’s iPad increased it’s market share from around 55% to 68% from Q4 2011 to Q1 2012. While the Fire pushed to around 17% market share in [...]
For those who like to read comics, Barnes & Nobles is now letting you read those that were previously available only on the Nook on your seven-inch or larger android device.. Simply download the latest Nook app onto your android tablet, and you will have access to over 600 comics, many of them graphic novel [...]
At the recent Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Huawei showed off their latest tablet, the Mediapad FHD. The 10.1″ screen device is a very strong new iPad competitor. The resolution of 1920×1200 puts it only slightly behind the new iPad’s 2048×1536. With 2GB of ram, it has double what any other tablet available contains. The [...]
I sure remember App inventor. As a matter of fact, I was rather taken with the idea. A way for a simpleton like me to create my own Android apps? Sign me up! Well…. it was kind of tough, and was not what i thought it would be. Sure, it had a Graphical User Interface [...]
It seems Google is coming out with a new product this year, AR glasses. AR stands for augmented reality, and the device will be kind of like having a wearable computer on your face. Details are sketchy, but one rumor is a single lens will display information, without transparency, while the other remains clear. The [...]
Galaxy Tab 10.1 by Samsung The Samsung tablet comes with: The Tablet Charger USB cable (for either plugging into the charger or a usb port) Headphones with microphone Instruction Booklet HARDWARE: The tablet looks great, the glass looks great. It looks well designed and well thought out. The Proprietary port is on [...]
Finally, there will be an alternative to the stock browser from Google for android devices. With the release of Chrome for android beta, users who are lucky enough to have a device using Ice Cream Sandwich can try it out. It is a fairly large size app, around 16mb. One decent feature is the ability [...]
Assuming the Mayan doomsday prediction is wrong, what will the tablet landscape look like by the end of this year? One thing for sure is that a lot of tablets, whether running iOS, android, or Windows 8 will be sold. Most estimates put the number around 125 million or so for the year. With Apple set to [...]
Back in the middle of December 2011, around ten percent of American adults owned a tablet. According to the Pew Research Center, that number nearly doubled by the middle of January, 2012, to nineteen percent. For ereaders, the same percentage increase was seen, from ten to nineteen. Overall, twenty-nine percent of households now have either [...]
