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Samsung Takes on iPod Touch with Galaxy S Wi-Fi 5.0
February - 17 - 2011 - Thursday 1 COMMENT
Galaxy S Wi-Fi 5.0 (Picture Credit: Bonnie Cha/CNET)
Samsung announce the Galaxy S Wi-Fi 5.0 at Mobile World Congress which is meant to compete with the ipod Touch. It’s just like a Galaxy S Phone without the phone capabilities. It has access to the Android Maket. Has a front facing camera and support for calls over Wi-Fi through apps like Skype.
- Currently ships with Android 2.2 but is upgradable to 2.3
- 16GB or 32GB Models
- 5-inch WVGA (800x480) TFT Screen
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Samsung Galaxy Tab Price Dropped on T-Mobile to $249.99 w/2-year plan
February - 6 - 2011 - Sunday 1 COMMENT
For those of you still sitting on the bench about if you’d like to purchase the Samsung Galaxy Tab, now might be your best shot at grabbing it at its cheapest. You can now pick up the Samsung Galaxy Tab direct from T-Mobile for $249.99. You’ll of course need to pick up a 2 year agreement with the Tab, locking you in directly past the incoming wave of Gingerbread tablets this Summer.
You can head back to one of our reviews of the Samsung Galaxy Tab here or on SlashGear if you wish, we’ve gotten our hands on at least three different Tabs from three different carriers, and T-Mobile is definitely one of them. What do you think, Community, is it time to pick up a Tab, or is it way too late?
If it’s right on time, head over to T-Mobile now!
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New T-Mobile Tablet will have 3D Tech
February - 2 - 2011 - Wednesday ADD COMMENTS
T-Mobile has given more in-depth info about their latest Honeycomb-based Android tablet, and its been announced that the device will be 3D friendly. It’s known as the “G-slate,” and it has arrived courtesy of LG Electronics. The device will come with required red and blue glasses for seeing in 3D.
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Samsung Galaxy Player Pre-Order Starts February 4, Launch Mid-Month
January - 31 - 2011 - Monday 1 COMMENT
It appears that a pre-order date has been set for the Samsung Galaxy Player, aka the Samsung equivalent of, you guessed it, the iPod Touch. This device is based on the Samsung Galaxy S line of phones and will feature a 4-inch Super LCD screen, 1GHz CPU, 3.2 megapixel camera, front facing video camera, T-DMB, GPS, HD video playback, Wifi, Bluetooth, microSD card slot, and a 1200mAh battery.
The pre-release date is set for February 4th in South Korea, and is expected to be replicated in the rest of the world at a date also soon approaching. The release date for this device is an always seems to have been in the middle of February, pointing toward a definite Mobile World Congress 2011 full reveal. You know what that means? It means we’ll be there to show it to you the moment we get our claws on it.
[Via Samsung Hub]
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Motorola XOOM 3G Launch Might Slip To March
January - 27 - 2011 - Thursday 1 COMMENT
In the same company earnings call that the Atrix and Bionic release dates were revealed, Motorola CEO, Sanjay Jha, announced that the 3G-enabled Xoom will arrive at “the end of February.” However, he then followed up to his comments in the Q&A portion of the call and stated that the release may slip to March.
Although a slip just a few weeks isn’t too dramatic, it means that the company is not as ready as they would like us to think. Even though it’s slipping, Jha states that he is very confident that they’ll make their timeline. We can only hope.
[Via Engadget]
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Forget Dual-Core, Acer Sandy Bridge Android Tablets By Mid-2011
January - 20 - 2011 - Thursday 2 COMMENTS
If you thought the dual-core Tegra 2 Windows and Android tablets that made an appearance at CES 2011 were going to be sitting at the top in 2011, prepare to be sadly mistaken.
2-3 Acer Android tablets with Sandy Bridge coming
“They are aimed at phasing out netbooks. That’s the direction of the market.” – Acer Taiwan sales manager Lu Bing-hsian
via GizmoCrunch
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T-Mobile G-Slate info page teases Android Honeycomb
January - 18 - 2011 - Tuesday ADD COMMENTS
The only mention-worthy Android Honeycomb tablet that’s headed to the US and is not the Motorola Xoom has got to be the upcoming T-Mobile LG G-Slate. Made by LG, the G-Slate will be the first 4G Honeycomb tablet to become available, and Magenta just put up an information page up for the device, in case you’ve been keeping an eye on this tablet.
Just as we saw with the initial T-Mobile G2 teaser site, the G-Slate sign up page gives you a simple silhouette of the device, devoid of any defined features. T-Mobile likes to keep their G-series devices under wraps until they’re good and ready to be revealed to the world. Other devices, like the Dell Streak 7, don’t need to be hidden since T-Mobile saves these kind of hype-building tactics for their flagship devices only. Besides, if you’re in the market for a tablet within the next few months, you’re likely not “getting a Dell.”
If you have yet to purchase some sort of tablet, and you’re looking for the top handful of tablets, then you’ll certainly find the G-Slate on the list. Our list of Top 5 tablets didn’t include some of the tablets we’re looking forward to, and if we were to redo the post, it would probably have to be a top 10 at this point, and the existing tablets on the list would be re-ordered significantly. Until that happens, we’ll have to pencil in the LG G-Slate and the just-announced Motorola Xoom.
Even though we’re still excited to see the iPad 2, Adam, and WebOS tablet, the G-Slate and Xoom have our attention more than anything else at the moment. Of the two, the G-Slate will ship with HSPA+ support out of the box, whereas the Xoom will need a hardware upgrade to get access to Verizon’s 4G LTE. You’re likely going to pay for that upgrade, too. So by default, Magenta’s tablet, even though we have yet to actually see the thing, is getting a big thumbs up from us.
If you’d like to stay up to date with the device, hit up the information page below!
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Freescale Unveils Sub-$200 Tablet Computer
January - 7 - 2010 - Thursday ADD COMMENTS
Bigger Than a Smartphone, Smaller Than a Notebook, But Will it Catch on?
For months, analysts have said that this would be the year of the tablet computer and just one week into 2010, it looks like their predictions may be coming true.
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On Monday, while Apple fans continued to trade rumors about when the company’s long-awaited tablet would debut, Freescale Semiconductor got down to business.
In advance of the Consumer Electronics Show this week, the Austin, Texas, company announced its own touchscreen tablet that it calls the “future of the smartbook category.”
At 7 inches, Freescale’s tablet is smaller than the 10- or 11-inch model expected from Apple and others, but the smaller size comes with a big payoff: A $199 price tag, instead of the thousand-dollar (or more) price tag that will likely accompany Apple’s. | The company said its lightweight device provides four times the viewing area of a typical smartphone, but is about one-third the size and volume of the average netbook.
The tablet is Wi-Fi and Bluetooth-enabled and can be fitted with a modem to run on 3G networks. And it’s ready to serve a wide range of on-the-go needs, from Web browsing and office applications to social media widgets, picture taking and more.
Though Freescale will demo the device, which runs on both Android and Linux operating systems, this week at CES, it won’t be ready for mass consumption until the summer.
[via ABC news]
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ODROID Android Handheld Up for Preorder in China – Gaming System
October - 1 - 2009 - Thursday 1 COMMENT
We’ve been keeping an eye on the ODROID Android-based portable entertainment device over the past few months, and today our source at the company let us know that the developer version is going up for pre-order from today. Priced at the equivalent of around $320, and with deliveries expected to begin from November 5th, the ODROID developer edition has the same 833MHz Samsung S5PC100 processor as in the iPhone 3GS, 512MB of RAM and a 3.5-inch capacitive touchscreen.
[via Slash Gear]
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