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Tablets to outship desktops this year, notebooks next year
- According to the latest data from IDC, global shipments of smart connected devices exceeded a billion units in 2012, an increase of 29.1% from the previous year and representing a value of $576.9 billion. Although plenty of smartphones and other…
Windows 8 Mail app gains desperately needed features, breaks Google Calendar support
- As promised, Windows 8 and Windows RT's native productivity apps have finally received some update love. Although severely spartan in both design and features, Mail, Calendar and People now boast a number of new tricks which aim to make your…
Samsung adds 4G to ATIV Win8 hybrid, Series 9 gets 1080p screen
- Samsung has announced a couple of updates to its mobile Windows 8 PC lineup that adds some higher-tier options to the company's ATIV Smart PC Pro and Series 9 Premium ultrabook ranges. First up, the ATIV 700T can be equipped…
Buy a 9-inch Nook HD+ for $269, get a $79 Simple Touch ereader free
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If you're shopping for a budget tablet but still value the superior contrast of E Ink displays for lengthy reading sessions, Barnes & Noble has an offer it hopes you can't refuse: pony up for a Nook HD+ slate and you'll get a Nook Simple Touch ereader free of charge. The Nook HD+...
Pentagon to order 650,000 iOS devices, replace aging BlackBerries
- Update: In an exchange with Wired, Lt. Col. Damien Pickart dismissed the notion that the DoD is replacing its existing BlackBerry devices, though he didn't outright deny that the department is looking to order a large quantity of iOS devices. …
Wacom unveils the Cintiq 13HD Pro Pen Display for artists on the go
- Wacom has unveiled the latest addition to the Cintiq line of artist and designer pen displays, aptly known as the Wacom Cintiq 13HD. As the name suggests, it carries a 13.3-inch Full HD display (1,920 x 1,080) with a 178…
Tuesday tech deals: 3rd-gen 64GB iPad for $530 shipped, $500 pickup
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Breed via eBay offers the 3rd-generation Apple iPad 64GB WiFi 9.7" Tablet in Black, model no. MC707LL/A, for $529.99 with free shipping. That's the lowest total price we could find by $49 and the best shipped offer we've seen for this model new, although we saw it for $30 less...
AT&T adds 30GB, 40GB and 50GB shared data tiers starting at $300
- AT&T has expanded its shared data services to include several new packages that are better suited for data-chugging businesses and consumers. When the company first introduced its group data plans last summer, it offered bandwidth in blocks ranging from 1GB…
"Designed by Abble": UL warns USB chargers bear counterfeit UL mark
- Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has issued a public notice, warning consumers about an untold number of counterfeit iPhone, iPad and iPod USB power adapters for sale. These unauthorized adapters bear a counterfeit "UL" certification mark and have not actually been tested…
Microsoft sells 400,000 Surface Pros despite $899+ price tag
- Despite its rather steep $899 entry price -- and Microsoft's inability to keep the tablet in stock -- the company has moved more than 400,000 Surface Pro tablets since its February 9 debut. This information comes from anonymous sources in…
Acer Iconia W510 Tablet: Making Windows 8's Dichotomy Shine
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Microsoft’s answer to the changing computing landscape is Windows 8, an operating system that attempts to balance the demands of traditional productivity-oriented desktops with the mobility of, well, mobile devices.
Hybrids thus appear to be the optimal home for Windows 8 as both aspects of the OS are in use and get to shine as they were designed to. That brings us to the Acer Iconia W510 hybrid tablet, which can be essentially converted into a full-fledged PC with its keyboard dock – no Windows RT here, folks.
Kindle Fire HD 8.9" launches overseas, price cut $30-$100 in the US
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Amazon has announced that folks in the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan can now purchase the 8.9-inch Kindle Fire HD, with prices starting at £229.00, €269 and ¥15,800. At the same time, the company says consumers in the US can expect to receive a healthy discount...
Dell XPS 18 all-in-one doubles as Windows 8 tablet for home roamers
- With the arrival of Windows 8 we've seen a number of manufacturers pushing out hybrid designs that combine the portability of a tablet with the full-featured experience of a laptop. But more recently a new category appears to be emerging,…
Survey finds considerable increase in teen smartphone adoption rate
- A new report from Pew Research Center takes a look at technology use among America’s youth. The survey found that 78 percent of people between the age of 12 and 17 said they owned a cell phone and nearly half…
MobileBurn asks: who wants to make phone calls on a 7-inch tablet?
- Smartphone screen sizes have reached ridiculous levels since the so-called "phablet" era began, but few sights are as bizarre as the idea of making phone calls on a tablet. That doesn't mean that making phone calls on an Asus FonePad…
Android set to overtake iOS on tablets this year
- The dominance of iOS will be challenged later this year as Android hurdles toward becoming the most-used mobile operating system on tablets, according to IDC. The researcher has updated its forecast to reflect the surging interest in slates such as…
Windows 8 / Office bundle costs OEMs $30 after Microsoft slashes prices
- Deep price cuts for Windows 8 are being given to Microsoft's OEM partners who manufacturer touchscreen-enabled computers and devices, or at least that is according to anonymous sources trusted by the Wall Street Journal. The report indicates that a $120…
Microsoft's plans for Kinect include future laptop, tablet integration
- Microsoft’s chief research and strategy officer Craig Mundie recently spoke at the company’s TechForum in Seattle, revealing where Redmond hopes to take Kinect in the coming months and years. The long-term goal is to make the device as cheap and…
Tablets of 2013 Rundown: Nexus vs. Surface vs. iPad
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The tablet market doesn’t look very different than it did a year ago from the perspective of who’s doing well and who’s not. Perhaps the most exciting developments came towards the end of 2012 and beginning of 2013 from the usual big guys: Google released the Nexus 10 and updated the Nexus 7, Apple launched a smaller and cheaper iPad mini, while Microsoft went all in with the Surface RT and Pro.
As usual, we've compiled a comparative table with what we consider are the best options either currently available or announced so far, complete with metascores from our Product Finder engine and review links.
Samsung intends to double their tablet sales this year
- Almost exactly one year to the day, Samsung product strategy executive Hankil Yoon told reporters during a media roundtable meeting at Mobile World Congress that his company wasn’t doing very well in the tablet market.
Adobe Photoshop Touch arrives on iPhone, Android phones for $4.99
- Adobe has released a version of Photoshop Touch for the iPhone and Android smartphones. The robust photo editing application shares an almost identical set of features with the tablet app although the overall experience has been designed specifically for smaller…
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