Qualcomm bets on Windows RT tablets and hybrids
Though it got lost in the Google I/O onslaught, Qualcomm held its own developer conference, known as Uplinq, this week. No one was jumping out of airships, but the company, which already dominates the mobile phone business, made the case for how it will extend its Snapdragon platform and other technologies to tablets, laptops and [...]
Tablified Market HD is 50% Cheaper, Gives You all the Android Tablet Apps You Need (Video)
If you own an iPad, then you know you’re the lucky user of many thousands of apps specifically created for your device. If you’re an Android tablet users, well there are not that many apps for tablets out there… so you have to adapt. An idea would be installing software as the Tablified Market HD [...]
Hewlett Packard Won’t Use ARM Processors at Windows 8 Debut, Rely on Intel Chips Instead
HP officially announced it will base its first Windows 8 tablets on x86 chips, like those made by Intel and they won’t sell tablets based on ARM tech. The news comes from a spokeswoman for the company based in Palo Alto, California. The decision is good news for Intel and Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD), [...]
HP Will Not Make a Windows RT Tablet
In the beginning of June, Microsoft surprised the world by launching its Surface line of tablet devices. However, Microsoft’s move has also taken its hardware partners by surprise, with some criticizing the development. Acer kept themselves limited to criticizing the Surface itself, claiming it might not make it big. Hardware company HP has gone one step [...]
Latest iBerry ICS Tablet AX01 to Cost Rs.5,990
Come July a new tablet from iBerry India will enter the market. The iBerry Auxus AX01 will be based on Android 4.0 ICS and is aimed at the budget segment, priced as it is at a convenient INR 5,990 for the Wi-Fi only model. Specs aren’t anything to set new speed records, though are pretty [...]
Google’s Nexus 7: The Latest Entry in the Tablet Wars
Business users who swear by Google’s Android mobile devices have several new products to look forward to. At its I/O developer’s conference today in San Francisco, the search giant announced a new tablet computer called the Nexus 7, as well as several new features for the new Android 4.1 operating system called “Jelly Bean.” Google [...]
Rumor: Google Working on Nexus 10 Tablet Too
Both Amazon and Google are expected to release 10-inch tablets before the end of the year. It should come as no surprise that Google isn’t content on releasing a “Google Experience” tablet just in a 7-inch form factor. No, there’s a whole tablet sector to conquer — a sector with Apple’s name written all over [...]
Google Nexus 7 Tablet Rooted
The Google Nexus 7 cheap quad core tablet was barely announced on Wednesday and apparently it’s already been rooted, only two days after being handed out to hundreds of developers. Some of them posted the product on eBay already and others went on to hack the device as best they could. A user called “birdman” [...]
No Adobe Flash For Android 4.1 Jellybean
The latest business strategy adopted by Adobe is increased focus on improving its service on PCs, the company revealed in its official blog. As a result, there won’t be any further versions of the Flash Player developed for mobile browsers. What this means is that Android 4.1 Jelly Bean would not have Adobe Flash player [...]
Amazon Preparing Two Kindle Fire Slates With Upgraded Design: 7 and 10 Inch Models Incoming!
Amazon has been rumored to be working on a Kindle Fire 2 for a while and apparently they’re preparing not one, but two new models, one with a 7 inch diagonal and the other with a 10 inch screen. Insiders say that the products could launch as soon as next month, or at least be [...]
Rumor: Google Developing Nexus 10 Tablet
No sooner has the Nexus 7 tablet made that all important transition from the world of rumor to the real world that a bigger 10 inch version might be coming soon. Now this isn’t a bad thing considering the long period of rumors and speculation did culminate into a the new 7 inch Nexus tablet [...]
Report: Tablets now drive more ecommerce traffic than smartphones
Tablets, as we’ve written about before, are ideal shopping devices, generating outsized sales despite their smaller reach. But now, it appears that tablets have outpaced smartphones in the sheer amount of traffic they deliver to commerce sites, according to online marketing technology company Monetate. Monetate, which analyzes more than 100 million online shopping experiences, said that in the first [...]
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