Samsung Galaxy 8-Inch Tablet
With Apple’s iPad mini and Amazon’s Kindle Fire HD blowing up the small scale tablet market, Samsung is eager to show it isn’t to be outdone. According to Sammobile, Samsung has a new 8-inch tablet in the works, the GT-N5100, also known as the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0. Samsung’s more affordable answer to the iPad Continue Reading →
Not These Nano Nails
If you’re a fan of long fingernails you’ve probably already developed special techniques for using touchscreen devices. But Sri Vellanki, the creator of a fingertip stylus called Tech Tips, feels women shouldn’t be limited to what technology they can use because of their fashion choices. So she’s developed a touchscreen-friendly fingernail that works like a Continue Reading →
We’re in the heart of CES 2013, and we’ve seen tons of awesome things already unveiled with many more still to come. There’s been many tablet-related things here that are really exciting. Corning’s showing off its Gorilla Glass 3, the newest in its line of damage and scratch-proof tablet screens. Gorilla Glass was already the Continue Reading →
Lightning Cable
Apple has quietly dropped the price of one of its most expensive accessory cables, along with releasing a shorter, cheaper model. The company now sells its $49, 2-meter Thunderbolt cable for $39. There’s also a new 0.5 meter version (that’s 1.64 feet) for for $29, notes 9to5mac. Thunderbolt is the input/output technology that brings transfer speeds that Continue Reading →
iPad Mini
There are nearly 70 million tablet users in the U.S. alone, a figure that has doubled from the year before. This means that nearly 30% of the country’s Internet users are browsing on a tablet device. Tablet traffic to e-commerce sites grew by 348% from 2011 to 2012, overtaking smartphone traffic for the first time. Continue Reading →
Kindle Fire HD
While many of us are still recovering from New Year’s celebrations, Amazon is considerably clearer-headed: it wants us ready for the winter school term that’s about to start. Appropriately, it’s offering a surprisingly steep discount on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 for students. Americans headed back to class can get $50 off the price of Continue Reading →
Flexible Phone
It seems like only yesterday we were planning for the Mayan apocalypse, but like so many other products, the 14th b’ak’tun (next era) has been delayed due to bugs and lack of pre-orders. Yet if you talked to some pundits back in 2011, they’d have told you that the end of days was coming out Continue Reading →
Windows Store
Windows Phone has had a difficult time battling Android and iOS in the mobile space this year thanks to a glaring lack of apps. Unfortunately for Microsoft, its Windows Phone Store falls short compared to Apple’s App Store, Google’s Play Store and even the Amazon Appstore. Microsoft is gaining ground, however, as the company revealed Continue Reading →