Amazon has announced that it plans to release free Kindle apps for devices running either operating system.The new Kindle apps built for Android and Windows tablet computers will let customers “Buy Once, Read Everywhere”–on Kindle, Kindle 3G, Kindle DX, iPad, iPod touch, iPhone, Mac, PC, BlackBerry, and Android-based devices.
Microsoft is gearing up to unveil its holiday deals. The company will be starting 12 days of deals and promotions starting from Monday. On the first day, Microsoft will be offering the $299 Dell Windows 8.1 slate with a massive discount, priced at $99.
Amazon has decided to leverage its cloud computing end to roll out new services of a similar nature. Called ‘Amazon Workspaces’, the new service essentially brings virtual Windows desktops to Windows and Mac computers as well as a number of tablets including iPad, certain Android tablets and Kindle Fire.
We have been listening many rumors about the Nokia’s upcoming Windows Tablet since last few months. Nokia was preparing to make appearance of its first Windows RT tablet Lumia 2520 at Nokia World in Abu Dhabi, but just a couple weeks before the unveil, famous leaker @evleaks has leaked images of this device.
We were introduced with the Samsung’s Ativ Book 9 Plus Ultrabook earlier in June. Now we have get more details about the device. Besides, we have come to know that Samsung will also release an Ativ Tab 3 Windows 8 tablet along with the Ativ Book 9 Plus Ultrabook. It is being considered that Samsung’s Ultrabook and tab are a direct competitor of MacBook Pro and the newest iPad, respectively.
Windows 8 tablets seems to be heading to the market soon in wide variety. Already Acer has confirmed that its Iconia W3 tablet running on Windows 8 OS will hit the market at the price of $379 very soon. And lately Lenovo has announced Lenovo Miix that runs on Windows 8 OS too.
Until now, there was no Windows RT tablet in the market priced below $300 directly from its manufacturer. Now there is. Dell has cut $150 off on its XPS 10 Windows RT tablet price tag, making it $299.99 only.
Yesterday, Acer held a press event in New York City and revealed some new devices which will be coming to consumers shortly. Among those unveiled devices, the most interesting, attractive and innovative device was Aspire R7, the strangest Windows 8 laptop-tablet convertible. It is called the ‘strangest’ because the display of Aspire R7 laptop-tablet convertible can move around in all sorts of ways!