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Apple iPad dominates South Korea with 80% market share
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South Korea, the country that Samsung and LG call home, apparently doesn’t care about either of those two companies’ Android tablets. According to The Korea Herald, sales of Apple’s iPad recently surpassed 1 million units, which to put into some perspective, means Apple owns somewhere between 70% to 80% of the tablet market in that country. Assuming that 75% is the real figure, that would mean Samsung’s and LG’s combined tablet sales don’t even add up to 350,000 units. Kind of pathetic when you think about it, but then again we’ve played with Android and we can see why it’s struggling in the market. Now all that being said, let us remind you that we filed a report a little over a week ago th...
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ViewSonic Planning to Jump on Windows 8 Tablet Bandwagon
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Count ViewSonic among the manufacturers who fully intend to build a tablet or two around Microsoft's upcoming Windows 8 operating system, though a launch in the U.S. might depend on how many Windows 8 tablets ViewSonic is able to sell in Taiwan. Max Liu, product marketing director of ViewSonic Asia Pacific, reportedly confirmed a Windows 8 tablet is in the company's cards and that it would ship in the second quarter of 2012 at the earliest.
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Apple CEO Tim Cook comments on Amazon Kindle Fire and pre-paid Apple iPhone
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Apple CEO Tim Cook made some comments today at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference, on a few subjects ranging from pre-paid versions of the Apple iPhone to the Amazon Kindle Fire. Speaking about the latter, Cook says that there is no doubt that Amazon has and will "sell a ton of units," and pointed out that the low priced tablet has carved out a niche for itself. The executive said that the low $199 price of the tablet is not the only factor behind its success, although he did say that some Kindle Fire buyers "soured" on the device after buying it and taking it home. "People feel great when they pay from their wallet, but when they get home and use [the tablet], the joy is ...
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Gigabyte Details the S1081 Cedar Trail Slate
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Showcased at CES last month, the S1081 tablet PC/slate based around the Intel Cedar Trail platform has now found its way onto its maker's (Gigabyte) website for a full reveal of its specs. Seen below, the mobile device measures 270 (W) x 173 (D) x 14.94 (H) mm, it weights between 790 grams (when equipped with an SSD) and 850 grams (with a HDD), and features a 10.1-inch (1024 x 600) LED-backlit capacitive touchscreen, and a 1.86 GHz Atom N2800 processor. The S1081 also packs 2/4 GB of RAM, up to a 500 GB HDD or up to a 256 GB SSD, an SD card reader, a 1.3-megapixel webcam, dual 1.5 W speakers, Gigabit Ethernet, 802.11 b/g/n WiFI, Bluetooth 3.0, optional 3.5G, one USB 3.0 ports, D-Sub and HDM....
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RIM extends free PlayBook offer for Android developers
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Earlier this month, Research in Motion began to offer free BlackBerry PlayBook tablets to any Android developers that repackaged their apps for App World. Due to overwhelming interest, the Monday deadline for registration has been extended to February 15th and all developers will have until March 2nd to submit their apps. As of last Friday, there had been more than 1,500 app submissions and over 6,600 new developers registered in the BlackBerry App World according to RIM. According to a post on its blog late Monday, the company is “working around the clock to approve vendor registrations and app submissions.”
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Apple's iPad outsells Galaxy tablets on Samsung's home turf
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It is estimated that Apple has sold more than 1 million iPads in the South Korean market, reports Korea Herald. The Cupertino-based company is outpacing Samsung by a wide margin, cornering 70% to 80% of the tablet market in South Korea according to the paper. The iPad 2 debuted in April 2011 and saw roughly 700,000 units sold by year’s end. Most South Koreans prefer to not be attached to a carrier’s data plan, as two out of three iPads sold are Wi-Fi only models. Many early adopters bought the iPad overseas before the device was formally available on the local market, so Korea Herald notes that the actual number of iPads in use could be far more than 1 million. Apple is expected to launch it...
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Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 delivers entry-level Ice Cream Sandwich
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Samsung has outed its latest tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), the Ice Cream Sandwich successor to the original Galaxy Tab model from 2010. Built around a 7-inch 1024 x 600 PLS LCD display, the new Galaxy Tab 2 has a 1GHz dual-core processor paired with 1GB of RAM, along with WiFi and a 3-megapixel rear facing camera.
There are several signs that this is a budget model, targeting the entry-level in Samsung’s expansive tablet line-up. For a start, the main camera is fixed-focus, and has no LED flash; the front-facing camera, meanwhile, is VGA resolution rather than the more typical 1.3-megapixel or above. It’s also 10.5mm thick, not vast in the grand scheme of things, but still chubbier...
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Samsung unveils Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0), offers Ice Cream Sandwich on a seven-inch platter (Updated: video)
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It looks like Samsung has just taken the wraps off its latest tablet offerings, with the Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) -- an ICS-laced follow-up to the company's original seven-incher. Available in both 3G and WiFi varieties, this redux doesn't mark a huge departure from its predecessor, packing a 1GHz dual-core processor, 1GB of RAM and a 1024 x 600 LCD. The big changes, however, come in the software department, with the Galaxy Tab 2 shipping with Android 4.0 straight out of the box. Other than that, you'll find a three-megapixel rear-facing camera, a VGA shooter up front, Bluetooth capabilities, and HSPA+ connectivity. No word yet on pricing or availability, but it's worth noting that we first saw th...
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HP releases Android kernel for TouchPad, makes hackers' lives easier
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You may remember that during the TouchPad fire sale, a few slates slipped out with a rather primitive Froyo build on them. Well, HP doesn't seem to know how the tablets hit shelves with Android on board, but its decided to release the source code for the OS nonetheless. Devs had previously called on the company to hand over the code, but the request was refused since HP had never intended for TouchPads to ship with Android, and thus were not obligated to abide by the open-source requirements. As a gesture of goodwill to the community (and under a certain amount of pressure from it) the former purveyor of all things webOS has reversed course though, and let the TouchPad-specific kernel loose ...
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HP releases Android kernel source for TouchPad to CyanogenMod team
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When the HP TouchPad was released in the summer of 2011 it did little to impress consumers, leading to the tablet being discontinued after a mere 49 days on the market. Remaining TouchPad stock received substantial price reductions, dropping to as low as $99 dollars during a huge fire sale. Shortly after inventory ran dry, crafty hackers had announced their intention to run the Android operating system in replace of WebOS on the TouchPad, and progress thus far has been slow, with alpha versions being released that are fairly stable but have serious bugs. In an act of good will, HP has now released an Android kernel source code to the hacking community. Read on for more.
The source code appea...
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Sony Tablet S root available
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Sony Tablet S owners can now obtain root access on their device thanks to a gentleman named Dan Rosenberg. Rosenberg was finally able to hack the device and package everything into an easy to use package.
The Tablet S just needs to be put into USB debugging mode and have a Windows batch file run. Everything you need to have full access to your Tablet S is available over at XDADevelopers.
As per usual, this is run at your own risk, although many are boasting success with this technique, and of course any OTA updates will most likely remove your root access, so be sure to read up before installing updates.
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Amazon announces content agreement with Viacom for Kindle Fire, Prime customers
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Amazon on Wednesday announced that it has entered into a new agreement with Viacom to provide a larger selection of television content to its Kindle Fire and Amazon Prime customers. Under the deal, Amazon’s customers will have access to episodes of The Real World, Chapelle’s Show and the The Sarah Silverman Program from Comedy Central, as well as a number of hit shows from Nickelodeon. “This deal with Viacom brings Prime customers and Kindle Fire users thousands of comedies, kids’ shows, reality TV and much more from some of the best cable networks available,” Amazon’s director of video content acquisition Brad Beale said. “We now offer more than 15,000 movies and TV shows in Prime Instant V...
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HP releases Android on TouchPad code to happy hackers
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If you follow the tablet market closely, you’ll be familiar with HP TouchPad that launched packing webOS and met a quick demise when sales were not good, and the tablet received some poor review scores. Some will also recall that during the TouchPad blowout sale, a few of the tablets allegedly shipped and were running Android out-of-the-box. The version of Android that those tablets were running has now been gifted from HP to the open-source geeks of the world.
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Nokia Lumia Tablet concept looks pretty cool
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There is something to be said for having a consistent design language, and this concept Windows 8 Nokia tablet certainly takes its cues very well from the much lauded Nokia Lumia 800 design.
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Huawei MediaPad hits AT&T's tablet offering
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AT&T is adding another tablet to its portfolio – Huawei MediaPad, which is already available in the U.S. as T-Mobile Springboard. Unfortunately, the device AT&T is selling comes with Honeycomb (rather than Ice Cream Sandwich) on board, though we’re sure Android 4.0 update will be released shortly. Moreover, the press release doesn’t mention multiple color options, hinting us the only version the carrier will offer is silver (which BTW looks pretty cool to me).
AT&T has already started selling the MediaPad to its enterprise users at varying price points depending on the business account. As for consumers, guess they’ll have to wait for few more days — I couldn’t find the tablet on AT&T’s webs...
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