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Acer has placed its bet in the tablet wars on low pricing, introducing a US$169 Android tablet with a 7.9-inch screen. The Iconia A1 is full-featured, has an "accessible" price and will raise the stakes in the tablet wars, said Jim Wong, president of Acer, during a speech at a press event in New York on Friday morning. The tablet offers more than eight hours of battery...
pcworld.com (16 days ago)

Sony is going all out with the bigger brother to the Xperia Z, offering a host of top end specs to convince iPad- and Nexus-lovers to look again.The Sony Xperia Tablet Z will be available in two flavours: Wi-Fi only (£399, around $600 / AUS$590) and an LTE version too (£499, around $760/AUS $735), which puts it squarely against the iPad in terms of price, although it packs...
techradar.com (2 months and 25 days ago)

IntroductionWindows 8 needs touch to really shine. It's designed to give you the power of a PC with the convenience of a tablet, so you need to be able to drag apps side by side and swipe through web pages with your finger - and then you need to have a keyboard and trackpad for desktop applications. Making that work needs the right hardware, but Microsoft isn't the one to...
techradar.com (1 month and 15 days ago)

Google’s Nexus 7 seems on track for its first annual refresh, with Reuters reporting that a new version of the 7-inch tablet will launch in July. Citing two unnamed sources, Reuters says the new Android tablet will have a Qualcomm processor, a higher-resolution display (1920-by-1200 would be my guess) and a thinner bezel design. Once again Asus will be the manufacturer, and...
time.com (1 month and 15 days ago)

Introduction and designSince Windows 8 a multi-headed beast, a hydra of mouse, keyboard and touch support, it's no wonder we see tablets trying to be more than simple slates. Lenovo's latest machine in this vein is the ThinkPad Tablet 2, a 10.1-inch tablet running the full Windows 8.Having a real OS gives it a wide library of software to choose from, plus a keyboard dock...
techradar.com (2 months and 19 days ago)

Blame Donald Judd. Lately we've noticed a profusion of cubes in the world of hotel design -- modern, self-contained pods set in some of planet's most otherworldly landscapes. Here are some of our favorite ultra-modern Tablet cube hotels. Want to check in? Our Magazine features a wide range of hotel and travel content.
huffingtonpost.com (10 days ago)

In 2011, Sony introduced the Tablet S, an Android tablet with a unique wedge-shaped case that mimicked a folded-back magazine, making it — in theory, at least — it comfy to grasp. A year ago, its successor was a bit less unorthodox in form factor, but still sported a bit of a hump on one side. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Sony is announcing the worldwide rollout of...
time.com (2 months and 25 days ago)
Battered in the tablet wars, Hewlett-Packard has introduced an Android-powered seven-inch tablet for $169.
nytimes.com (2 months and 25 days ago)

Samsung announced a brand new 7" Android tablet, dubbed Galaxy Tab 3 7.0. It brings the now familiar S4 styling (just like its 8" cousin) and comes in Wi-Fi and 3G versions, with the 3G one being fully voice call capable. It even adds a proximity sensor, you know, if you want to put up the tablet up to your head. The Samsung Galaxy Tab 3 7.0 is also noticeably more compact...
gsmarena.com (21 days ago)
Filed under: Investing BlackBerry won't make another tablet to replace the ill-fated Playbook anytime soon. The company is thinking about how to make a tablet that stands apart from the pack. "How can we take this to the next stage and not just be another tablet, or another design of a tablet?," CEO Thorsten Heins said at the Australian BlackBerry Z10 launch this week. "How...
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