Wednesday, October 26, 2011

Deals of the Day (10-26-11)

Asus Eee PC 1001pxdGeeks.com is running a Halloween clearance sale and has some pretty amazing deals on computers and peripherals -- especially refurbished models. You'll notice an awful lot of great deals from Geeks in today's mobile tech bargain roundup, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. You should hit up the Geeks website to find more deals on refurbished devices....

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Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime smiles for the camera

Asus Eee Pad Transformer PrimeAsus is set to launch an updated Eee Pad Transformer tablet on November 9th. Chairman Jonney Shih flashed the new device at a conference recently, but we hadn't gotten a good look at it... until now. Photos uploaded to a Chinese forum give us a much better idea what the new Eee Pad Transformer Prime will look like. The photos...

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Motorola XOOM 4G LTE tablet now available for $500 and up

Motorola XOOMSure, it looks like a second-generation Motorola XOOM tablet is on the way, but if all you're looking for is a XOOM with a 4G LTE wireless radio, it looks like the wait is over. Last month Motorola finally started offering 4G upgrades to customers that purchased 3G XOOM tablets. Now you can go ahead and buy a brand new...

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Samsung shows off a 10 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel display

Samsung displayLast week Toshiba introduced a 6 inch display with a ridiculously sharp screen resolution of 2560 x 1600 pixels. Today Samsung introduced something slightly more likely to make it to market in the not-too-distant future: a 10.1 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel screen. The screen is an IGZO TFT LCD display which has the same physical dimensions as the screens found in many netbooks...

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Deals of the Day (10-25-11)

Zotac ID31Intel Atom-powered nettops aren't the most powerful desktop computers you can find -- but they are among the smallest. And the Zotac ZBOX ID31 has a DVD player and NVIDIA graphics to boot - which makes it a pretty decent choice if you're looking for a computer to stick by your TV for music, video, and internet media playback on the big...

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Windows XP turns 10, still refuses to die

Windows XPTen years ago today Microsoft released Windows XP. And around the world, millions of people are still running the aging operating system on desktop, laptop, and tablet computers even though Microsoft stopped selling Windows XP directly to consumers a few years ago. You could probably make a case that Windows XP changed the way we think about operating systems. Or...

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T-Mobile SpringBoard tablet coming November 9th

T-Mobile SpringBoardT-Mobile has unveiled the ship date for its upcoming SpringBoard tablet. You'll be able to grab the 7 inch tablet starting November 9th. Unfortunately there's still no word on the price. The T-Mobile SpringBoard is basically a rebranded Huawei MediaPad tablet. It has a 1.2 Ghz Qualcomm Snadpragon dual core processor, a 7 inch capacitive touchscreen display, GPS, and front...

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Study: Tablet users read news, don't necessarily pay for it

Tablet newsThere's been a lot of talk about tablets such as the Apple iPad and Android tablets saving the news industry. Apple incorporated a Newsstand into iOS 5, which lets customers subscribe to digital magazines and newspapers and keep them organized. Zinio and other companies have created periodical stores for tablets. And a number of publications including the New York Times,...

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Samsung Galaxy Note goes on sale... in the Netherlands

Samsung Galaxy NoteThe Samsung Galaxy Note is one of the most unusual Android devices to hit the streets this year. It has a 5.3 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display which is just the right size for a smartphone... if you're over 7 feet tall and have huge hands. Or maybe it's the right size for a tablet if you think a...

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Amazon building "millions more" Kindle Fire tablets due to strong pre-orders

Amazon Kindle FireClearly Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos was hoping he had a hit on his hands when he introduced the $199 Amazon Kindle Fire tablet last month. But pre-orders for the device have been far better than anticipated, and as part of today's third quarter earnings report, Bezos says the company has already increased capacity and is "building millions more than we'd already planned"...

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