The Galaxy Tab 2 gives Samsung yet another tablet in it’s ever-increasing array of offerings. The most significant feature of this latest tablet is probably the price-$250. Samsung achieves this lower price by reducing some features. Onboard storage is 8GB, while the dual-core processor runs at 1GHZ, down from 1.2GHZ in the previous Tab 7.0 [...]
April 22 will be the release date for this latest offering from ASUS in the US. Although pricing hasn’t been confirmed by the company, several retailers are taking preorders for $399 with 32GB storage. The 10.1″ tablet was shown at the Mobile World Congress show in late February, but no release date or prices [...]
The collaboration between Google and Asustek was supposed to produce a tablet by June. However, it now looks like it will not appear until at least July, if not August. Apparently Google feels the seven-inch device is too expensive right now, at $249 USD. The delay in release is to figure out ways to reduce [...]
Those lucky enough to have a tablet with Ice Cream Sandwich are usually not too happy with the stock launcher. There are several options, including Nova and Apex launchers, which are popular. A couple of weeks ago one of the most used mobile launchers, Go Launcher EX, released a version for tablets, HD for Pad. [...]
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 [...]
For the past year or so, numerous tablet makers have been trying everything to knock Apple’s iPad off the top spot in the tablet world. Samsung, ASUS, Sony, Toshiba, HP, etc., etc., have all done their best to pose a real challenge to the dominance of Apple. And so far, all have pretty much failed [...]
Although the vast majority of android devices haven’t received an official update to Ice Cream Sandwich, android 4.0, rumors are that Google is preparing to release Jelly Bean, it’s next version, in the 2nd quarter of 2012. Why would the company try to launch it so quickly? Supposedly, this is in response to the upcoming [...]
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 [...]
