Some 5 months after the launch of the Blackberry PlayBook, not only has the Android Player not even been released, but new details tell us that it’s going to be much less impressive than we were initially led to believe.

Every once and a while, our favorite deal-a-day site — Woot.com — offers up a nice treat for tablet fans such as ourselves. Today they’ve got the very first Honeycomb tablet to hit the streets, the Motorola Xoom, for a reasonable $349. This is the WiFi-only 32GB version of the Motorola Xoom. Aside from lacking [...]

Today at an event in New York, the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, introduced three brand new Kindles, and the much anticipated Kindle Fire, a 7″ color tablet designed to connect customers with Amazon’s content. Let’s start quickly with the new Kindle E-Readers. The three all-new devices will run $79, $99, and $149, for the [...]

Toshiba is announcing the Thrive 7 today, a 7″ Honeycomb tablet which is the second addition to the Thrive series. Toshiba described the Thrive 7 as a smaller version of the Thrive 10 and it will feature that same grip-friendly back. The Thrive 10 is a ‘utility’ tablet of sorts, featuring a range of full-sized [...]

Windows Phone 7.5 (AKA Mango) has been previewed by Microsoft for months now. Numerous bloggers have been given access to early builds of it, and it’s been pretty much revealed from head to toe… or so we thought. Today, Microsoft is officially announcing the rollout of Windows Phone 7.5. Along with that announcement comes the reveal of [...]

The ThinkPad Tablet is not going to be for everyone. I mention that now because, over the next few days, my postings on the Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet may make it sound like the coming of the Holy Grail of gadgets. I am a particular type of user and, for me, this device mates very well with [...]

Some of the big name tech media have just received invitations from Apple for an iPhone press event to be held on October 4th, at which Apple’s iPhone 5 is expected to be announced. The invitation image shows the brilliance of Apple marketing. Yes, this is marketing. They market extremely well to the press and the press [...]

It’s all too tempting to look at the Fusion Garage Grid10 and claim “vaporware”, but if Fusion Garage was able to get the Joojoo to market, then they sure as hell ought to be able to get the Grid10 out the door. The company responsible for the Grid10, which runs the ‘Grid’ Android-based OS, just hacked [...]

Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Tab 7.7 was announced at IFA 2011 at the very beginning of this month. Many were excited to hear about the high density Super AMOLED Plus display and the 1.4GHz dual-core CPU. Given the excitement, and the popularity of the original Galaxy Tab 7 in the US, it’s surprising that we saw reports that the Galaxy Tab 7.7 might [...]

  Up until today we’ve only been able to buy the Wifi version of the Acer Iconica  A500 Android tablet here in Australia, but this info received today has announced the availability of the 3G version. It’s called the Acer Iconia Tab A501 Pro, and the only difference I can see from the A500 is the [...]

Back at the end of August, Verticool (makers of AndyPad) confirmed to us that the AndyPad would indeed have access to the Android Market. We thought it odd that Verticool didn’t appear to be advertising this fact on their AndyPad website and it seems there was good reason why. Access to the official Android Market [...]

It was widely reported that Samsung’s upcoming Galaxy Note would feature HSPA+, however, we’ve uncovered a video which may have let slip that the Galaxy Note will come equipped with 4G LTE, despite the official specs list not indicating as much. The specs section of the official press release from Samsung lists only “HSPA+ 21Mbps [...]

HTC kindly offered to lend us the HTC Status to have a look at and I was happy for the opportunity because it’s giving me some time to step back and look at Android on the lower-end of the phone spectrum. We tend to focus on the bleeding edge devices, and sometimes it’s easy to forget that [...]

Carrypad is part of the Meet:Mobility blog network which also includes UMPCPortal.com and Ultrabooknews.com. The primary difference between Carrypad and UMPCPortal has been the distinction between the portability of a full desktop operating system (UMPCPortal) and the newer operating systems that were designed from the ground up to enable mobility (Carrypad). More simply put, UMPCPortal [...]

Intel was mostly hush hush about their upcoming Clover Trail platform, focusing instead on Medfield and Cedar Trail, but careful attention to some of the technical sessions at IDF last weak showed that this latest update to Atom is planned for 2012. Chippy caught a video of an early prototype of Clover Trail running Windows [...]

Today at IDF 2011, Intel held a session that was all about Android Honeycomb on Atom. We came away with a good bit of info about how Android on Intel will compare to Android on ARM, and how Intel plans on differentiating its products. The beginning of Android on Intel happens on the Medfield platform, which [...]

The exciting Medfield Intel/Honeycomb tablet (codenamed Red Ridge) has been mostly hidden behind glass at IDF, but Intel was willing to let us get our hands on an earlier reference design called Green Ridge. The device you are about to see is running on Intel’s Oaktrail platform, though you likely won’t see such devices become consumer-available, rather [...]