Archive for September, 2011 - Page 4

Amazon just launched its $199 Kindle Fire, much to the excitement of gadget lovers. But amid speculation that Amazon jumped onto the Android bandwagon too quickly, there are talks that Amazon is planning to buy Palm from HP for its webOS platform.

This handset made an early appearance with Best Buy earlier in the week, and as of today it has been officially announced by the carrier. The handset is the LG Optimus Slider and it will be arriving with Virgin Mobile next month.

Yesterday we saw iPhone 5 Case-Mate cases reportedly spotted in AT&T’s internal system and today we have more evidence to support that leak. It appears that AT&T retail stores are already receiving iPhone 5 silicone sleeves just a few weeks ahead of the launch of Apple’s upcoming iOS 5 smartphone.

It’s a strange thing watching lawyers go at it. One day you’re watching Apple and Samsung go for each others’ throats like starving dogs who’ve recently drank a whole lot of Red Bull and now, at least on the Australian front, everything’s all nice and quiet. Reports are coming in [...]

It looks like there has been some confusion in terms of the G9 Android tablet lineup from Archos. A confusion dealing with the processors. Originally, when the tablets were first announced back in June it was noted that they would have a 1.5GHz processor. And well, when they began shipping [...]

Well, look what we have here, an Android update that began rolling out only to get pulled. Granted, the update will return, however this seems to be a perfect example of why we often suggest that being first to update is not the best option. Anyway, that update was for [...]

The Kobo Vox was recently outed in an FCC filing and while that was nice to see, it did not give us all that much to go on with the exception of a description of an eReader Tablet. That being said, we sort of suspected that it was going to [...]

This is not the first time we have heard details in terms of a Galaxy Tab Plus, however this time the details are coming in the form of an official announcement from Samsung. The device is the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus and it is expected to arrive in select [...]

Amazon has made a bold move in its Kindle Fire announcement this week. Selling at $199, the company will actually be losing money on each unit sold, but they plan to make up for it through content and e-commerce sales. Will the Kindle Fire be profitable?