Forget Slates: Sony’s Android Tablets Come in Funky Shapes
Sony's two new Android tablets, codenamed S1 and S2, come in form factors different than most others on the market. Photo: Mike Isaac/Wired.com Sony is betting you’ll buy one of its upcoming tablets...
View ArticleToshiba Tablet Stumbles Out of the Gate
While the device worked during Wired.com's testing period without issue, numerous customers have experienced problems with Toshiba's new Thrive tablet. Photo: Jim Merithew/Wired.com Toshiba confirmed...
View ArticleLenovo Storms Tablet Market With a Triple Threat
Lenovo's ThinkPad comes complete with stylus. (Photo courtesy Lenovo) Better late to the tablet game than never, Lenovo announced three new tablet offerings Wednesday, officially unveiling designs and...
View ArticlePiano Keyboard for iPad Teaches You to Tickle Those Ivories
Piano Apprentice is a different kind of external keyboard for your iPad Here’s one for all the luddites who whine that “the iPad doesn’t have a proper keyboard.” Piano Apprentice is an external...
View ArticleApple Halts Samsung Galaxy Tab Launch in Australia
Only their mother can tell them apart. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com As part of the ongoing lawsuit between Samsung and Apple, the launch of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 has been delayed in Australia. A court...
View ArticleTwo-in-One Tablets Sport New Looks to Lure Customers
The Eee Pad Transformer is one of many Android tablets aiming to stand out amongst the crowd. Photo courtesy of Asus If you’ve seen one tablet, you’ve seen ‘em all: a flat slab with a glass front.
View ArticleGoogle Rallies Tablet Troops With App Workshops
Currently, there are plenty of Android tablets. The problem is the lack of tablet apps.
View ArticleIn Search of Buyers, HP Slashes TouchPad Prices
HP is pushing its new TouchPad tablet in any way it can, including discounts and coupons to its app store. Photo: Jon Snyder/Wired.com HP needs to get its tablet in your hands, and the company is...
View ArticleWith iPad Included, Apple Dominates the Notebook Market
To include the iPad, or not include the iPad? It makes a big difference in notebook market shares
View ArticleTablet Makers Hope Cheaper Means Better Sales
If you can’t beat ‘em, undercut ‘em. It’s the new slogan of tablet and smartphone manufacturers trying to push products into an already packed space
View ArticleHands On: Fusion Garage’s Funky ‘Grid’ Tablet and Smartphone
Fusion Garage has been working quietly on its new Grid 10 tablet and Grid 4 smartphone ever since the atrocious JooJoo Tablet fell flat on its face last year. They’re slick gadgets and a huge...
View ArticleClever Stand Clamps Keyboard to iPhone, iPad
The WINGStand will help you write the Great American Novel. On a phone I would have started writing my novel by now, but of course I need just the right app/gadget/learn-to-write-novels-book to do it....
View ArticleModders Slap Popular Android Hack on HP’s TouchPad
It was only a matter of time before the hacks for HP’s now defunct tablet started to roll in.
View ArticleSeniors, Women Embracing Tablets, E-Readers
Mobile devices aren't just catering to the under-35 set now. Image: Nielsen If you thought tablets were being used only by Angry Birds -flinging youngsters or guys between 25 and 34, think again....
View ArticleUltimate SleeveCase Fits Any Tablet, Even Ones You Haven’t Heard Of
This is the rare, little-seen Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet next to a case that fits it perfectly.
View ArticleHands-On With Sony’s New Wedge-Shaped Tablet S
> > View all Still got tablet fever? Somebody must, because they just keep coming.
View ArticleReport: The Kindle Tablet Exists, And It’s a Big Deal
Amazon's third generation Kindle will reportedly be joined by a new 7-inch tablet later this fall. That rumored Amazon tablet we’ve been hearing about for months and months? It’s real, and at least...
View ArticleReport: GameStop Developing Android Tablet
Sony's wedge-shaped Tablet S is a PlayStation-Certified device.
View ArticleFusion Garage Tablet Jumps on the Price-Slashing Trend
Fusion Garage's Grid 10 tablet is now set to launch October 1.
View ArticleSamsung Windows 8 Developer Tablets Appears on eBay
Yes, they can go as high as $4000 each, proof shown as below. And here is the complete list that shows this developer model made specifically for Build conference is red hot. It’s a machine that is...
View ArticleFirst Look: Up Close and Personal With Amazon’s Kindle Fire
> Amazon dropped a bomb on the mobile industry on Wednesday morning; Four of them, to be exact. Three brand new Kindle e-reader smart missiles -- which aim to dominate the e-ink publishing industry...
View ArticleSamsung Series 7 Slate on Pre-order at Microsoft Store
Remember the Samsung Slate that was given away to the attendees in //builder conference, and later showed up on eBay on sale that went as high as $4000? The same or even slightly better version is now...
View ArticleT-Mobile’s SpringBoard Tablet Aims to Snuff Amazon’s Fire
SAN DIEGO, California — 2011 was supposed to be the year of the tablet. After the 2010 launch of the iPad demonstrated there was a lucrative market for consumer-class slates, all the key consumer...
View ArticleViewSonic Budget Tablet to Battle Amazon Fire
Amazon’s upcoming Kindle Fire aims to upend the tablet industry with its low cost and smaller form factor. The Fire has been dubbed the one serious contender to the iPad, which should have a holiday...
View ArticleTablet Wars: Why Amazon Doesn’t Scare Apple (and B&N Scares No One)
Ever since Amazon unveiled its 7-inch Kindle Fire tablet in September, a lingering phrase has been attached to the low-cost, high-profile device: ”the iPad’s first true Android competitor .” Unlike...
View ArticleNook Fires Back: Tablet & E-Reader Family Aims at Amazon and More
NEW YORK — A year after the release of the Nook Color, Barnes & Noble returns to a market suddenly crowded with “reader’s tablets,” including the red-hot Kindle Fire from its top competitor....
View ArticleNook Tablet: ‘Hands Off’ First Impressions
Photo Credit: Tim Carmody Tech companies can sometimes be touchy about letting journalists get their hands on brand-new devices. At today’s Barnes & Noble event, representatives demoed working...
View ArticleRugged Panasonic Android Tablet Doesn’t Shy Away From Danger
Tough guys don’t need to pussyfoot around with a dainty, iOS-running iPad in hand. No, you want something rugged, something extreme…something that runs the equally wild and rugged Android OS....
View ArticleNvidia Unveils Tegra 3, World’s First Quad-Core Mobile Processor
The Eee Pad Transformer Prime by ASUS is the first tablet to run the Tegra 3 processor. Photo courtesy of NVidia Nvidia has unveiled its long-anticipated Tegra 3 processor, the world’s first quad-core...
View ArticleGadget Lab Podcast: Galaxy Nexus, Google Music and the Kindle Fire Tablet
This week on the Gadget Lab Podcast, the gang talks Android updates, competing music services and Amazon’s hot new tablet. Products editor Michael Calore kicks off the show as Gadget Lab...
View ArticleNook Tablet Teardown Reveals a Near Impenetrable Fortress
Sometimes the best part about a getting a hot new gadget isn’t actually playing with the device. For inveterate hardware hackers, it’s taking the thing apart
View ArticleHacker Ports Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ to Kindle Fire Tablet
Leave it to the Android community to hack a new device.
View ArticleMotorola’s Tablet Do-Over Is Ready for Pre-Order
Look familiar? The Xyboard tablet is not all that different from the Xoom.
View ArticleFirst Look: Motorola’s Xoom Sequel, The Xyboard Tablet
Motorola's Xyboard tablet is the follow-up to its Xoom tablet.
View Article‘Ship Today, Update Tomorrow’: The Modern Tablet Credo
The Kindle Fire has suffered from a clunky, sluggish UI since its launch.
View ArticleKindle Fire Software Update Doesn’t Fix Laggy Browser
As reported earlier Tuesday, Amazon has released a software update for its Kindle Fire tablet, promising enhanced “fluidity and performance” and improved “touch navigation responsiveness.” But nowhere...
View ArticleFoam Wrist Rest for Tablets. Wait. What?
Pretend your tablet is an uncomfortable-to-use laptop with this great wrist rest You know what your tablet needs?
View ArticleCES Preview: Ultrabooks to Dominate the PC Landscape
The Toshiba Portege Z835 made its debut to the ultrabook sphere in 2011. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired At last year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, you couldn’t throw your schwag bag across...
View ArticleVideo: Hands-On With the Fujitsu Arrows 10.1 Tablet
LAS VEGAS — Letting CES attendees drop your smartphones and tablets into a giant bowl of water is certainly one way to make waves on the show floor.
View ArticleWhat Google Must Do to Keep Android Tablets Alive
Motorola's Xyboard, one of many Android tablets to come to market in the past few months. Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired Already skirting the edge of irrelevance, Android tablets are at risk of being...
View ArticleWindows 8 Metro Theme Created for Rooted Android Tablets
I assure you, this is Android. Photo: BroBot175 Custom OS themes provide a great way to test drive a UI without emptying your bank account on new hardware
View ArticleAmazon Rumored to Be Readying a 10-Inch Kindle Fire
Amazon could be stoking a bigger Fire. Photo: Victor J
View ArticleNvidia Reveals Kai, the Blueprint for a $199, Kindle Fire-Killing Tablet
Nvidia revealed its $199 Kai as a part of its future tablet strategy.
View ArticleMicrosoft Announced Its Own Windows 8 Tablet Named Surface
A good day like this means miserable to all its partners who are betting on its next version of Windows. A new fresh looking of Windows Tablet built by Microsoft itself will kill off a lot of its...
View ArticleGoogle+ Gets a Tablet-Friendly Redesign, Events Support
Google updated Google+ for tablets and gave it a slick new UI. Google updated its Google+ app for Android smartphones and tablets Wednesday with a slick new UI and new features announced at its annual...
View ArticleWhy Microsoft Should Screw Its Hardware Partners
Steve Ballmer caresses Microsoft Surface, his company’s ambitious new Windows 8 tablet platform. Image: Damian Dovarganes/AP This week, an audacious Steve Ballmer predicted Microsoft will sell...
View Article3 Million Surface Tablets in 2012 Means What, Exactly?
Just imagine this, multiplied by hundreds of thousands. Image: Alexandra Chang/Wired Microsoft is set to build slightly more than 3 million Surface tablets by the end of 2012, analyst Bob O’Donnell...
View ArticleBring on the Hybrids: Lenovo Reveals Slew of Convertible Windows 8 Devices
Lenovo’s IdeaPad Yoga folds back 360 degrees, from ultrabook to tablet.
View ArticleAs Surface Goes On Sale Today, Microsoft Seeks to Reinvent The Tablet
Microsoft Windows president Steven Sinofsky and Surface general manager Panos Panay make their pitch. At 9:00 this morning, Pacific time, Microsoft’s future goes on sale. The first Surface tablet,...
View ArticleReview: Acer Iconia W510 Windows 8 Tablet
It’s a full-blown computer jammed into a teeny, tiny frame. How does Acer do this? Through sacrifices. Tweet this!
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