According to a number of sources, Amazon may be releasing an 8.9-inch tablet next year. This model of Kindle Fire will be produced to avoid competition with larger tablets. The news come from supply chain makers for Amazon who say that the device may hit the markets in the second quarter of 2012.
According to the market estimates put forth by a research firm, Kindle Fire is selling like hot cake!! It is already the best selling device right now and the sales are expected to surge further while the holiday season lasts. However, sales of iPad 2 continue unaffected.
Nook Tablet has finally been launched and is available for purchase. This tablet by Barnes & Noble has been getting fairly good reviews from the critics. And now that it is here, some say it may put up a stiff fight to Kindle Fire.
Microsoft launches the second-generation model of Table computer, named SUR40. You can order it now, if you can spare a few thousands bucks. This new model comes with a Samsung flat-screen panel and costs $8400.
Within a few days of it’s launch, it is being reported that Kindle Fire is experiencing a number of problems. With its exquisite looks and very luring price-tag, analysts had predicted that this device will certainly experience a wild-fire sales. Can the reports issues and bugs dampen this fire?
Adobe has finally launched a number of Touch Apps for tablets. Adobe has been working on these applications and the launched apps are still in public beta. Available with a few Android tablets, the Touch apps are priced at $9.99 for now.
HTC has decided to launch yet another tablet, hopefully during the Mobile World Congress 2012. HTC launched two tablets earlier which were a failure in the tablet market. However, HTC is hopeful this time with the Nvidia quad-core CPU, adding some extra power to it’s next release.
Kindle Fire with it’s sleek design, better-than-before OS and competitive prices may put many contemporary tablets to test. With Apple iPads still safe with their superior performances, Kindle Fire is most likely to affect the Android tablet market. In the long-run, it may pose a threat to Apple’s iPads too.
The iPhone Dev-Team’s MuscleNerd posted a screenshot to Twitter hat showed Cydia running on a jailbroken iPhone 4S and now MuscleNerd then posted a video to YouTube that shows an iPad 2 running both iOS 5 and Cydia. Apple has patched the exploitation holes used to hack previous devices, which explains why the new hardware (iPhone 4S and iPad 2) jailbreak is still delayed and in case you want to jailbreak the iPhone 4S and the iPad 2, then all you have to do is wait a while longer, not that we’d ever advise you to go for such procedures……………….
ViewSonic announced on Monday that its ViewPad 7e Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) tablet will be available in North America by the end of October for $199.99 and the ViewPad 7e offers a 7-inch display with an 800 x 600-pixel resolution, a user interface with 3D holographic visual effects, a 1GHz processor, 4GB of storage, a micro-HDMI port, a 3-megapixel camera, a 0.3-megapixel front-facing camera for video chats and a microSD card slot for adding up to 32GB of additional storage. As is often the case with low-end tablets, one key omission is official support for the Android Market, but you do at least get access to Amazon’s Appstore and plenty of pre-loaded apps including Twitter, Kindle and TuneIn Radio…………………..
Enjoy a fully immersive tablet experience with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for Verizon Wireless, which combines the power of the Android Honeycomb operating system with the ultra-fast Verizon Wireless 4G LTE mobile broadband network. With its brilliant 10.1-inch display, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 is the thinnest and lightest large-screen mobile tablet. Its 1 GHz Tegra 2 dual-core processor makes running multiple applications a breeze, and it offers support for Adobe Flash Player 10.3 for an optimized web experience.
Samsung officially announced the upcoming availability of its Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus tablet featuring the Peel Smart Remote TV appliation and the 7-inch slate will hit retailers on November 13th for $400, four days before Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet starts shipping. Running Android Honeycomb, the Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus is small, weighs a mere 12 ounces, is just a trim 0.39-inches thick, and features a 7-inch display and there’s no word yet if the slate will use an LCD screen or an AMOLED, but Samsung’s Touchwiz UI should be installed. The 16GB is the only version arriving so far, the 32GB flavor later this year or early 2012 and will begin taking pre-orders of the slate on October 23rd……………….
Apple’s iPad 1 gets video mirroring and multiasking gestures, which was only available for iPad 2 and now you can enable the new multi-touch swipes and mirroring on your first generation iPad with iOS 5, no jailbreaking required. Apple added some slick multitasking gestures to the iPad that allow you to four-finger swipe to pull up the multitasking drawer, swipe left and right between apps and five-finger pinch to view the homescreen and also added AirPlay mirroring, which allows you to view your iPad’s screen on an Apple TV, with the release of iOS 5……………….
Sony has launched their subscription based music service for Android and their own Sony Tablet S Android 3.1 Honeycomb tablet and the new service charges you a monthly fee to access some 10 million music tracks using your Android device or any other Sony Music Unlimited approved devices. A tablet version of PlayStation Store has also been released, allowing officially certified games to be purchased and downloaded to the device, the music service was offered on its new tablets slightly after they were launched because more time was required for development……………..
E-reader maker Kobo is following in Barnes & Noble’s and Amazon’s footsteps and releasing its own low-priced Android tablet, announced the Kobo Vox tablet on Wednesday, coming in at a Amazon Kindle Fire-matching price of $199.99 and it inspired by the idea of the Vox Populi or voice of the people, Kobo Inc. belives it can change the conversation in the tablet world. This is a 7-inch Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet that has a resolution of 1,024 × 600, Wi-Fi, 8GB of internal memory, a microSD slot, access to 2.4 million books, access to the 15,000 apps in the Android Market, overall dimensions are 0.53 x 5 x 7.57-inches, battery life is 6 hours and it weighs 400 grams, if you do pre-order this you’ll get 3 free colour books and shipping starts October 28th…………….
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