Acer executives have recently broken with their ex CEO because the Board of Directors have concluded that the future for Acer depends on tablets and smartphones and not on computers. Acer cannot exceed HP supremacy in computer sales although they managed to beat their American rivals last quarter.
Acer Iconia Tab A500 now on sale, $450 for aluminum-clad WiFi-only model and doesn’t really stray from the Tegra 2 norm when it comes to internal specs, but it does have that brushed aluminum back and a full-sized USB 2.0 port.You’ll get 16GB of storage and 802.11b/g/n WiFi connectivity for your money and though ASUS’ similarly outfitted Eee Pad Transformer should also be prominent on your radar as it’ll ask for an even humbler $399………..
RIM wants Hulu Plus on the Blackberry PlayBook and it also wants everyone to know it wants Hulu Plus on the Blackberry PlayBook, after the streaming video service unceremoniously blocked access to its videos just days after the tablet’s launch.RIM says, we are in conversations with Hulu to bring the Hulu Plus subscription service to BlackBerry PlayBook users……….
The update version of original AppZilla app which is now combined of 100 different programs into one package and the new apps added in here are the location-aware reminder app, barcode and police scanners, face and toon effects apps, frontends to Google Voice and Google Books.
HTC Flyer up for preorder for $499 at Best Buy on April 24th and though our friends across the pond have been able to snag 3G versions, the one about to come stateside just has WiFi.The Flyer is the phone maker’s first tablet and has a 7-inch (1024 x 600) display, aluminum body, 1.5GHz Qualcomm chip, and a version of the company’s Sense UI that was tweaked with slates in mind……………
Dell’s 10-inch Android and Windows tablets get names, specs, release dates and running Windows 7 on those fancy new Oak Trail chips from Intel and the other pushing Android 3.0 with a Tegra T25.On the other hand Wintel powered Latitude ST boasts a resolution of 1366 x 768, 2GB of RAM, up to a 128GB SSD, GPS, an accelerometer, both front- and rear-facing cameras, an 8-hour removable battery and 1080p video output………….
AT&T reports best-ever first quarter for smartphone sales with 5.5 million and 60 percent of them are iPhones.Also interesting is AT&T’s note that somewhere around 40 percent of its smartphone sales come from Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone 7 devices, leaving the iPhone……..
Amazon launches German Kindle Store with 650,000 titles and lots of long words, the German Kindle Store instantly becomes Germany’s biggest e-bookstore.Amazon German Kindle Store also have some 25,000 German-language titles, thousands of free classics and a similarly bountiful collection of independent newspapers and magazines.Customers will also be able to purchase the latest Kindle and Kindle 3G models directly from Amazon.de………..