30 Days with Google's Nexus 7 Tablet
I’d be lying if I said my decision to attend Google’s I/O conference last month had nothing to do with the tablet rumors. I’ve been waiting for a good, affordable 7-inch tablet ever since Samsung pioneered the concept with its original Galaxy Tab in 2010, but every small tablet since then has suffered from some [...]
Turn Your Swag On With Soulja Boy’s Bewildering Branded Tablet
EricLimer View Profile Email Facebook Twitter AIM Google Plus RSS If you’re looking to pick up a tablet, but the iPad isn’t weird enough for you, Soulja Boy has got you covered. The new Tiger Shark Soulja Boy Edition is just what you need to puzzle and disgust your friends. Apparently trying to apply his [...]
Archos ’97 Carbon’ Tablet Now On Sale
Archos is among the early and better known companies that used a relatively cheaper price tag to ensure mass acceptance of its tablet offerings. The French company is back this time with a brand new offering in the form of 97 Carbon packed as usual with quite decent specs. The 97 Carbon is running on [...]
Why A Traditional Publisher Can Hurt Your Career
Graphic courtesy of liberatemedia.com Mark Coker, CEO and founder of the hugely successful ebook distribution platform Smashwords, wrote a blog poston how the sales figures for an indie author versus those of a traditionally published author can demonstrate something that not many in the industry know: a traditional publishing deal might actually do more harm [...]
Google releases its first commercial for Nexus 7 tablet
Google is doing very well with its new tablet called the Nexus 7. The tablet quickly became very difficult to find in retail locations and for a while only the 8 GB model was available at the Google Play store. The 16 GB version of the tablet has been completely sold out. The tablets were [...]
Acer Confirms Jelly Bean Updates Coming for Some of their Models
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean has already been out there for almost a month, so it’s time for big companies to start announcing time frames for the devices that they’ll update. HTC and ASUS already made announcements and now it’s Acer’s turn to make one. Sony already said that Xperia phones won’t get Jelly Bean, while [...]
Opinion: Why Apple can’t sustain tablet dominance
Apple perfected its stranglehold on portable music players with the iPod, but can’t quite wrap its hands around smartphones or tablets the same way. Here’s why. For the last decade, Apple’s success has largely been driven by massive dominance. I’d even call it market ownership. At its peak the iPod claimed better than 85 percent [...]
Hands On Google’s Nexus 7 Tablet
My Google Nexus 7 (Fig. 1) showed up this week and I have been giving it quite a workout. At times it has been fun, educational and frustrating. Some of the latter is due to Android in general versus something specific to the Nexus 7 but there are some caveats. Figure 1. Google’s Nexus 7 [...]
BSNL new Android ICS tablet: 5 reasons to buy
Zeebiz Bureau New Delhi: Smartphones have outpaced classic phones while tablets have become the next ‘IN’ thing in today’s mobile telephone market. Expanding its low-cost tablet range further, Pantel Technologies Private Limited (PTPL) and BSNL have jointly launched T-Pad IS701C in India. PTPL, which is said to have a reverse bundling alliance with BSNL, aims [...]
Sony Tablet S Analysis: The Gamer’s Choice?
View Large Image Gamers are a unique bunch. …okay, maybe they’re not exactly unique, but they like it when other digital products cater to their tastes. Take the Sony Tablet S, for instance, marketed towards gamers as being the only PlayStation-certified tablet available. And indeed, the slick unit features access to the PlayStation Store, which [...]
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