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Amazon launches iPad Kindle eBook store

Amazon launches iPad Kindle eBook store

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 by MG15

Amazon introduced a Kindle store optimized specifically for the iPad today. It’s not a native app available in the App Store, so don’t think Amazon gave into Apple’s strict in-app purchasing rules. Rather, the iPad-optimized Kindle store is accessible at amazon.com/iPadKindleStore. It only works when typed into Safari on iPad.
Once there, you are greeted with a horizontal list of book covers representing the editors’ picks. In the left column is all the main categories of eBooks as well as some of Amazon’s featured sections like New York Times Bestsellers, New & Noteworthy, and Kindle Singles. On the right, you’ll find the familiar Top 100 list of current bestselling books. For obvious reaso...

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE coming to Verizon

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 LTE coming to Verizon

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 by MG1

Even before most of the world can purchase Samsung’s first Super AMOLED tablet, the US is getting a version for Verizon’s LTE network. Samsung broke the news themselves in their CES press conference today: the Galaxy Tab 7.7 is getting a localized Verizon LTE model The specifications are the same as the model revealed in 2010, with the obvious addition of mobile broadband.
The most impressive feature of the Galaxy Tab 7.7 is its screen, a brilliant 7.7-inch Samsung Super AMOLED panel. The screen has a resolution of 1280 x 800, matching the Galaxy Tab 10.1 and 8.9, though it has a vertical orientation. The biggest extra feature is a built-in infrared port to control your home entertainment de...

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Motorola and Intel hold hands for multi-year, multi-device partnership, shipments start 2H 2012

Motorola and Intel hold hands for multi-year, multi-device partnership, shipments start 2H 2012

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 by MG15

Well, look who just showed up at Intel's CES 2012 keynote? Motorola Mobility's own Sanjay Jha just grabbed a bit of the limelight -- long enough to announce a multi-year, multi-device agreement that should see Intel's Medfield chips powering Moto's hardware (the second announced behind Lenovo) in the not-too-distant future. Naturally, we're guessing Android will be the OS of choice here, but we can only guess what Motorola's going to do when all of its other chip partners come knocking with new questions.

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Apple chooses Pegatron to make iPad 3, March shipments

Apple chooses Pegatron to make iPad 3, March shipments

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 by MG15

Filed in: TabletsAppleiPad 3

Pegatron Technology has reportedly received a small volume of orders for the upcoming iPad 3, which is set to launch in March, according to Digitimes. Apple has reportedly revamped the company’s outsourcing strategy and will have Pegatron focus on production of the iPad series, with Foxconn serving serving as an auxiliary in 2013. Foxconn‘s primary focus will be the iPhone, with Pegatron only producing a small number of smartphones. The new strategy is meant to decrease risk and increase the quality of products, according to the report. The Cupertino-based company has already visited Pegatron‘s plants in China several times. The publication also claimed that Pegatron is expected to see a “si...

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NVIDIA embraces Ice Cream Sandwich with the Transformer Prime

NVIDIA embraces Ice Cream Sandwich with the Transformer Prime

Posted on Jan 11, 2012 by MG1

In a fully green-lit environment on the first full day of CES 2012, NVIDIA’s Jen-Hsng Huang outlined their 2012 focus, and all was quad-core. The event began with Huang speaking about how they’d be moving through Tablets, a secret additional feature of Tegra 3, and vehicle integration. As tablets are, as evidence shows, the quickest selling device category in mobile history, so too will NVIDIA continue to concentrate on the category for their hero devices.
For the tablets, Huang noted that a big moment in Android was the moment it was revealed that Gingerbread and Honeycomb were combined in Ice Cream Sandwich. All the devices now, he reminds us, are in one single platform. Content developers...

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ASUS Eee Pad MeMO ME370T Shipping in Q2 2012

ASUS Eee Pad MeMO ME370T Shipping in Q2 2012

Posted on Jan 10, 2012 by MG3

ASUS originally introduced its 7-inch Eee Pad MeMO tablet at CES 2011, but today it is announcing that in Q2 of this year it'll be available in North America. The tablet will feature a 7-inch 1280 x 800 IPS panel, a Qualcomm MSM8260 SoC and it will ship with Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0.1 as of now).

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 announced for Verizon

Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 announced for Verizon

Posted on Jan 10, 2012 by MG1

Though Samsung already represents the 7-inch tablet class in the US with the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus on T-Mobile, it's the Galaxy Tab 7.7 we've really been wanting — it's just hard to argue with a 1280 x 800 Super AMOLED Plus display in a 7.9mm-thick shell. That dream is realized today on the news that Verizon is picking up an LTE-enabled version of the device, and amazingly, it's not even a tenth of a millimeter thicker than its non-LTE European cousin. It's got a 1.4GHz dual-core processor, Android 3.2 (no word yet on ICS upgrade plans), 3-megapixel and 2-megapixel rear and front cameras, and 16GB of storage; it also carries over the international model's unusual side-mounted infrared port to ...

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Asus announces unnamed 7" Tegra 3 tablet for $249

Asus announces unnamed 7" Tegra 3 tablet for $249

Posted on Jan 10, 2012 by MG3

Filed in: TabletsASUS

This is kind of a strange announcement. We have all been waiting on the announcement of the pricing for the Asus Eee Pad MeMO, which is a 7" Android Ice Cream Sandwich tablet. We got the specs and release window earlier, but never got the pricing. Then, during the NVIDIA press conference at about 4:45 PM PST, President and CEO of Asus Jen-Hsun Huang, announced the pricing of a 7" Asus tablet, but not the MeMO.

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Vizio VTAB3010 10-inch tablet revealed

Vizio VTAB3010 10-inch tablet revealed

Posted on Jan 10, 2012 by MG1

Vizio has revealed a new tablet at CES 2012, a 10-inch slate with squared-off good looks and the promise of no small amount of power. Details on the Vizio VTAB3010 are still scant, beyond the screen size and the fact that it has WiFi, but we do know that it has front and rear cameras – the latter packing a flash, too.
On the bottom there are two ports, which look to be microUSB and microHDMI, but otherwise the design is clean and clear. No physical controls are visible, though we’re assuming there’ll be at least a power button on either the top or side edges, along with a headphone socket and – most likely – volume controls too.

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer to get Ice Cream Sandwich after January 12th Prime update

Asus Eee Pad Transformer to get Ice Cream Sandwich after January 12th Prime update

Posted on Jan 09, 2012 by MG3

Asus may not have been able to ship its Ice Cream Sandwich update for the Eee Pad Transformer by the end of the year, but that doesn't mean it's not coming. According to a post by the company's UK...

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Velocity Micro unveils 2 new ICS tablets - The 7-Inch Cruz T507 and 9.7-Inch Cruz T510

Velocity Micro unveils 2 new ICS tablets - The 7-Inch Cruz T507 and 9.7-Inch Cruz T510

Posted on Jan 09, 2012 by MG3

We usually don’t think of Velocity Micro as a maker of high-end devices, quite the contrary. However, they are targeting different kind of users and we applaud them for finding the niche where they can compete in.
And the best part is that they keep pushing their agenda and are preparing to unveil two new Android 4.0 tablets at the CES. The two devices are 7-Inch Cruz T507 and 9.7-Inch Cruz T510, both of which (as far as we understood) rock Cortex A8 1.2GHz processor, 512MB of RAM, 8GB of built-in storage, front-facing camera for video calls, HDMI out and preloaded Amazon’s Appstore.

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Apple iPad 3 to arrive in March, followed by iPad 4 in October to fend off the Windows 8 slates

Apple iPad 3 to arrive in March, followed by iPad 4 in October to fend off the Windows 8 slates

Posted on Jan 09, 2012 by MG3

Filed in: TabletsApple

Those talkative "component supplier" sources that are always feeding ideas to Digitimes, are rearing their heads again with the grand scoop that Apple will be outing iPad 3 in March, followed by an iPad 4 in October, which, if true, will shorten the upgrade cycle to half a year.

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iOS 5.1 beta hints at quad-cores for next-gen iPhone and iPad

iOS 5.1 beta hints at quad-cores for next-gen iPhone and iPad

Posted on Jan 09, 2012 by MG3

Thanks to a reference code found inside the beta version of iOS 5.1 it appears as though the next generation versions of both the iPhone and the iPad could be replacing their dual-core processors with quad-cores.
It is believed that the core references Apple uses begins with the number 0 and therefore the single-core processors found in previous iOS devices were referred to as /cores/core.0.

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Pantech Element poster spied at AT&T store, launch coming next week for $300?

Pantech Element poster spied at AT&T store, launch coming next week for $300?

Posted on Jan 09, 2012 by MG3

We've had a pretty good inkling that the Pantech Element LTE tablet would make an appearance at CES in the coming days, and our confidence level just rose another notch. It appears that one corporate-owned AT&T store got the official marketing material for the new tablet a few days prior to the device's launch and was a little too eager to put it on display ahead of time. The tipster also spilled the beans on a few specs, lending credence to earlier rumors: it's a waterproof 8-inch tablet with a 1.5GHz CPU, 16GB of internal storage and LTE, and will go for $300 on a two-year commitment ($450 without).

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Asus says Windows 8 ARM tablet coming; still committed to Android

Asus says Windows 8 ARM tablet coming; still committed to Android

Posted on Jan 09, 2012 by MG3

Filed in: TabletsASUS

At a presentation in Taiwan, Asus confirmed that it will be producing a Windows 8 powered ARM tablet that it plans on launching before the end of this year, although there are already rumors surrounding a September release. But Asus is certainly not giving up on Android. Eee Systems chief Samson Hu said that only weeks after the release of the quad-core powered Asus Transformer Prime, the manufacturer wants to get out ahead of the Apple iPad 3 with a new Android tablet. Hu said this device would have a 10 inch screen with "a high screen resolution". It is unknown whether this will be a totally new model or an upgrade of the Transformer Prime. The latest speculation on the third-gen Apple tab...

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