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Lenovo unveils quad-core IdeaTab K2 multimedia tablet

Posted January 8, 2012 - 7:08 pm

Lenovo on Sunday announced the 10-inch IdeaTab K2 gaming and multimedia tablet, which has a quad-core ARM processor and a premium IPS display like the one found on Apple's iPad.
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DataWind plans to sell 6 million low-cost tablets in India this year

Posted January 6, 2012 - 7:14 am

DataWind is targeting sales of about 6 million units of its low-cost tablet in India this year, but it has to arrange additional manufacturing capacity and strengthen its support network to meet what looks like an unexpected surge in demand, an executive of the company said.
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Cisco to introduce larger Cius tablet next year

Posted December 1, 2011 - 12:19 pm

Cisco Systems in the first half of next year will release a tablet with a larger screen than the current Cius, the first move in the company's long-term plans to introduce tablets in multiple sizes, an executive said this week.
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Acer sees Ultrabook shipments on track for Q4, with price drop in 2013

Posted November 30, 2011 - 4:24 am

Acer expects to meet its target of shipping 250,000 to 300,000 ultrabooks in the fourth quarter, it said Wednesday, after struggling with declining PC sales this past year.
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Hard drive shortages will result in more expensive PCs, says Gartner

Posted November 14, 2011 - 9:30 am

Enterprise users and consumers who have held off buying new PCs recently may come to regret their decision as a hard-drive shortage following floods in Thailand is expected to result in higher prices, according to Gartner.
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HTC details first round of Android 4.0 upgrades

Posted November 7, 2011 - 8:54 am

Early next year, seven smartphones from HTC will be upgraded to Android 4.0, also known as Ice Cream Sandwich, the company said on Monday.
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Battle between Samsung and Apple heats up

Posted October 13, 2011 - 10:02 am

The legal battle between Apple and Samsung has reached fever pitch, with Apple getting an injunction to stop the sale of the Galaxy 10.1 tablet in Australia as Samsung launches new versions of its smartphones to keep them on sale in the Netherlands. Both companies are also preparing for a hearing in California scheduled for Thursday.
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What you get with $199 tablets

Posted October 11, 2011 - 1:46 pm

The demand for low-priced tablets has gone up in recent months, as witnessed by the mad rush to buy Hewlett-Packard's US$99 TouchPad tablet. Tablets priced at $199 with Google's Android OS are now becoming available from companies like Amazon and Lenovo. The devices have a simple user interface and provide basic multimedia playback, gaming, application execution and e-reading capabilities. However, at such low prices, these devices lack the speed and graphics found in Apple's iPad or Samsung's Galaxy Tab, which have the latest processors and graphics hardware. But at that price, the tablets are decent entry-level devices for first-time users.
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Close to half the iPads sold in China are from the gray market

Posted October 11, 2011 - 4:47 am

While Apple's iPad reigns as the top-selling tablet in China, half of the sales for the iconic device have come from unauthorized resellers, according to a Beijing-based research firm.
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Samsung, Motorola tablets get Skype video

Posted September 29, 2011 - 5:43 am

Skype has released version 2.5 of its application for Android, which allows Android-based tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 and Motorola Xoom to use its video calling feature, it said in a blog post on Wednesday.
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ZTE releasing new tablets, one with Nvidia Tegra 3 chip

Posted September 28, 2011 - 11:09 pm

ZTE, one of China's largest network and phone suppliers, is working on several new tablets, including one built with Nvidia's newest quad-core Tegra 3 processor.
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Huawei's MediaPad to arrive in US by year's end

Posted September 21, 2011 - 8:33 am

Huawei's 7-inch tablet will be launched in the U.S. during this year's fourth quarter, according to a company spokeswoman.
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Huawei's MediaPad tablet slated for China release in Oct

Posted September 14, 2011 - 9:11 am

Huawei's 7-inch tablet, which it unveiled in June, will be released in China and several other markets in the Asia-Pacific region in October, according to a company spokeswoman.
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Big is not always better with smartphone screens

Posted September 5, 2011 - 11:22 am

Product launches at the IFA consumer electronics fair in Berlin are giving consumers an unprecedented choice of screen sizes. But analysts are questioning whether consumers can learn to love them all.
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Lenovo heats up price war with $199 IdeaPad tablet

Posted September 1, 2011 - 11:07 am

Lenovo announced a new US$199 IdeaPad tablet with a 7-inch screen and Google's Android OS in response to the surge in demand for inexpensive tablets, the company said on Thursday.
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Analysts: AT&T's HTC Jetstream tablet overpriced

Posted August 31, 2011 - 2:13 pm

AT&T and HTC's new Jetstream Android tablet with LTE capabilities is heavily overpriced at US$700 in a market where buyers are looking for discounts, analysts said on Wednesday.
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Sony to ship first Android-based tablet in September

Posted August 31, 2011 - 11:47 am

Sony's Android Honeycomb-based single and dual-screen tablets will be called Tablet S and Tablet P, and cost from €479 (US$690) and €599, the company said on Wednesday at the IFA consumer electronics show in Berlin.
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Samsung postpones tablet launch in Australia

Posted August 29, 2011 - 10:32 am

Due to its ongoing legal battle with Apple, Samsung Electronics decided to delay the launch of its Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia following a hearing on Monday in the Federal Court of Australia, the company said in a statement.
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Focus on smartphone, tablet screen sizes at show

Posted August 26, 2011 - 11:50 am

At next week's Internationale Funkaustellung (IFA) in Berlin, smartphone makers are expected to push the boundaries of the device's screen sizes, while also launching tablets and trying to accelerate the momentum for 3D-capable products.
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Samsung tablet ban lifted in all EU countries but Germany

Posted August 16, 2011 - 10:23 am

Samsung is again free to sell its Android-based Galaxy Tab 10.1 in all European Union countries except for Germany, after a court in Düsseldorf changed its injunction enacted last week.
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Acer ships 7-inch tablet with Android 3.2 for $329

Posted August 12, 2011 - 7:07 am

Acer on Friday started shipping a US$329 Iconia Tab A100 tablet, which the company says is the first tablet with a 7-inch screen to run Android 3.2.
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Lenovo to release new Le tablet and smartphone in Q3

Posted August 9, 2011 - 2:54 am

Lenovo will launch a new tablet and smartphone during the third quarter in the Le series which has so far been launched only in China, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday.
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Dell launches 10-inch Android tablet in China

Posted July 29, 2011 - 1:12 am

Dell launched its newest 10-inch Android tablet exclusively in China on Friday, with the aim of capturing a slice of the country's growing mobile Internet market.
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iPad still top tablet in China despite rivals

Posted July 27, 2011 - 8:25 am

Apple's iPad continues to reign as the top-selling tablet in China while rival Android devices from Motorola, Lenovo and Asus struggle to gain a sizeable presence in the country's market, according to a Beijing-based research firm.
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RIM buys video-editing vendor JayCut

Posted July 22, 2011 - 1:39 pm

Research In Motion has acquired JayCut, a Web-based video-editing software company, to bolster the multimedia capabilities of its PlayBook tablet.
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