After a mysterious “soak test” was opened up to a select few Motorola Xoom WiFi owners, we were left scratching our heads on what Motorola could have planned. Well, an email to Droid-Life this evening has detailed exactly what to expect from this test, as build number IMM76 begins its official rollout any day now. [...]
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With the paint still drying their quad-core 7.7-inch slate announced at Mobile World Congress, Toshiba is already looking ahead to what’s next. The company recently had their wares on display in the UK, and among them was a 13.3-inch tablet prototype built around NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 platform. PocketLint was on site and able to snap off [...]
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Much of the Android world are still waiting for the anticipated stable release of CyanogenMod 9, the Android 4.0 based custom ROM that has everyone excited. Unfortunately these things take time but the CyanogenMod team are generous, often giving us early looks at their wares for those who want a preview or for those who [...]
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Just as was rumored over the weekend, Barnes & Noble has introduced an 8GB version of their Nook Tablet. Along with the halved amount of internal storage, we’re also getting less RAM at 512MB. All of this was done to bring the tablet down to just $200, a great price point if the want to [...]
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The government subsidized Aakash tablet has quickly caught on in India, selling like hotcakes in no small part thanks to its low cost. Currently priced around $60, the goal is to eventually bring the tablet down to $35 with additional government money, but some are eying a much lower target. Kapil Sibal, India’s minister of [...]
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Notion Ink has finally revealed a little more information regarding their upcoming Adam II Android tablet. Apparently the slate will be powered by a Texas Instruments 4400 series dual-core processor, complimented by a PowerVR SGX5xx GPU and running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. In an unexpected twist to their announcement, Notion Ink will be featuring [...]
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Looks like LG is still giving it the old college try with the newly announced Optimus Pad LTE, the South Korean OEM’s latest forray into the Android tablet space. Dubbed the first LTE tablet (in Korea), the Optimus Pad LTE is a surprisingly sexy tablet boasting an 8.9-inch 1280×768 “True HD” IPS display, 1.5GHz dual-core [...]
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Time for an update on the story of the “computer for masses,” an Android-based tablet with a price tag of only 2,500 rupees (~$50) thanks to government subsidization. The road to cheap Android for all wasn’t a smooth one, as the Indian government had to cancel their initial contract before finding a new manufacturer to [...]
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If you haven’t realized it by now, Dell has sort of dissipated from the tablet and mobile game. Their Streak devices haven’t done so well in a market that has quickly evolved. It looks like they haven’t slowed down on their efforts to bring a compelling device to market, though, as Reuters reports they’re getting [...]
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The ladies and gents at Huawei have announced that new series of MediaPad tablets are headed to store shelves soon. These don’t differ much from the original but they will be preloaded with Android 4.0. We imagine minor improvements were made internally but only on the configuration and layout side. – They’ve also announced the [...]
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