Kobo has announced their latest e-reader device, the Kobo Vox, as the “world’s first social eReader”. It’s a 7-inch Android tablet running Android 2.3, with an 800 MHz processor and 512 MB of RAM. The 7-inch screen has a resolution of 1024 x 600, and…
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Amazon Kindle Fire 2 Already has Orders Placed with Foxconn
Amazon is apparently not wasting time getting ready for the release of the next generation Kindle Fire. Sources in Taiwan report, that Foxconn has received the contract for the production of the tablet. The Kindle Fire that we are currently only able to Pre-Order for…
Amazon Kindle Fire, Kindle E-Ink Devices to Be Sold at Staples, Best Buy
Apparently it’s not enough for Amazon that the Kindle Fire has been at the top of the bestselling tablets list on their own site, or that around 100,000 pre-orders (probably more by now) have already been made. Amazon has made deals with brick and mortar…
Amazon Kindle Tablet To Be Unveiled in NYC next week
We’ve all been waiting patiently for Amazon to release their tablet this fall, rumors have been heavy that they would release the 10″ Hollywood tablet in September. Now Amazon has sent out invitations to a press conference on September 28. The New York City event…
Radio Shack to Carry Barnes & Noble Nook E-readers in October
While Barnes & Noble’s Nook e-readers have been a runaway hit (which is basically saving them right now), they are still only officially sold in Barnes & Noble stores. Amazon Kindles are sold online as well as other big box retailers like Target and Walmart.…
Barnes & Noble Fast-Tracking Review Process for Appcelerator Apps
Barnes & Noble is making a shrewd move to attract web developers to the B&N Nook Store by fast-tracking the app review process for any apps created with Appcelerator’s Titanium mobile integrated development environment (IDE).
(photo credit: Nook Developer Portal)
Developers who are comfortable with…
PocketBook A10 Quick Walkthrough Video From IFA 2011
Yesterday we reported on an interesting Gingerbread tablet made with e-book readers in mind, the PocketBook A10. It has a 10″, 4:3 aspect ratio screen and hardware buttons for page turning, features chosen because the A10 is primarily an e-reader tablet, with Android tablet functionality…
Pocketbook A10 – Gingerbread E-reader Tablet
With the glut of Android tablets introduced at IFA 2011, it’s easy to get tired of seeing tablets with similar hardware designs. The Pocketbook A10′s design stood out to me among the sea of sameness.
It seems the Sony Tablet S is not the only…
Viewsonic ViewPad 7e Hands-On at IFA 2011 Showstoppers [video]
Andrzej from Tabletblog.de gives us a quick look at the Viewsonic ViewPad 7e, a budget Android tablet that should be available in Europe for around 150 Euros. No word yet on US release date.
Some quick specs:
- 1 GHz, A8 processor
- 7″ resistive touchscreen, 4:3
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Sony’s Reader WiFi – Worlds Lightest Multitouch 6-Inch e-Reader
The Reader Store for Sony’s Tablet S and Tablet P hasn’t quite conquered the market for reader friendly consumers. Thus, the release of the Reader WiFi today at IFA. The lightest multitouch 6-inch e-Reader with “Clear Touch Infrared” technology. Fitted with a complementing stylus, the…
Colour EInk Display Finally Hitting the Market on the Jetbook eReader
We’ve been seeing prototypes of color EInk display’s for a while now, but so far we haven’t seen any products. That’s about to change thanks to the Jetbook Color eReader. The device features a 9.7 inch, 600 x 800 pixel E Ink display, WiFi, a…
HP Makes webOS Play With the 9.7 inch TouchPad
HP has unveiled the much anticipated HP TouchPad Tablet in a pre MWC event in San Francisco. According to Jon Rubinstein, a senior vice president and general manager of HP’s Palm Global Business Unit “Today, HP’s entering the mobile landscape with a breakthrough new product…
Nookcolor Gets Automated Root Installer
The NOOKcolor 7 inch eReader has been a pretty popular device for rooting but up until recently you had to know your way around a command line to make that magic happen. It seems that a member of the xda-developers community has released a tool…
ASUS Eee Note EA800 Unboxing and Hands On
The EA800 was released at IT Month 2010 in Taiwan on December 4th. We’ve managed to get our hands on the ereader on steriods and flashed it with the english operating system courtesy of ASUS. The 8-inch device is equipped with a Marvell processor, Linux…
8″ ASUS Eee Note to Hit the Streets at I.T. Month 2010 in Taipei
If you don’t know much about Taiwan then let me tell you about the biggest tech sale going, its called I.T. Month and its halls upon halls of deals, sales and new tech! Since there is no Black Friday and Christmas isn’t the end all…
