According to CNET’s sources, the first wave of Windows 8 based tablets will be hitting stores in November. It had been widely expected that Microsoft would be pushing Windows 8 devices out before the end of 2012, and the Redmond company may not disappoint after all.
Windows 8 poses a significant challenge to the engineers at Microsoft as it isn’t just a restricted mobile operating system on the lines of iOS and Android.
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Google’s exact plan of action in the tablet market is still shrouded in mystery. Plenty of conjecture and rumors surmised that it’d try to give a fillip to the struggling market share of Android tablets by launching a low cost ($149 to be exact) ‘Nexus’ tablet of its own.
This would be directly influenced by the strategy it has followed for Nexus smartphones so far – they’d tie up with a single vendor (Samsung was their latest associate), and offer a phone with stock Android and quick updates.
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After a lot of initial buzz from the MWC 2012, the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 went into a strange state of stasis. It didn’t help that there were multiple lawsuits that Samsung had to deal with (primarily owing to Apple accusing Samsung’s entire Galaxy Tab series to be clones of the iPad).
Rumors about Samsung being shaken enough by the new iPad (and hence delaying the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1′s launch) to fit in a quad core processor meant that this tablet would have a long way to go before it saw the light of day.
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Barely 3 weeks since launching a comprehensive update for its official app across all iOS and Android devices, Twitter Inc. has launched a new version of its Twitter app for the Android platform.
While the update isn’t as wide-ranging as the one launched at the end of April, it has a rather nifty couple of tweaks.
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Amazon has had an overwhelming lead in the eReader market for a while now, as its closest competitors – Barnes & Nobles’ Nook and the Kobo reader simply couldn’t integrate their ebook stores into their eReaders as well as Amazon.
However, one of the traditional issues against the Kindle eReader is also its USP – its electronic ink (or E-ink, as it is better known) display cannot display any colors apart from black and white. This makes it ideal for keeping the strain on your eyes minimal, but it also makes the functionality of the Kindle painfully limited.
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Toshiba has started shipping its newest generation of tablets this week, starting with the Toshiba Excite 10. It is part of the series of slates that will replace Toshiba older gen products, such as the Thrive and the X10.
The Excite 10 had been announced just about a month back, along with a 7.7 inch version, and a gargantuan 13 inch one as well (interestingly enough, the latter has been called the ‘Galaxy Note’ of tablets by TechRadar as it seems to be way too big to be a portable tablet, like the Note seemed to be too big to be a phone).
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It’s been a good few weeks for Android device owners who’d been looking forward to their tablets and smartphones being updated to the latest and greatest Ice Cream Sandwich, or Android version 4.0.
Since the middle of last month, the likes of Sony’s entire Xperia series of smartphones, its flagship Tablet S, and even the phenomenally popular Samsung Galaxy S II have received upgrades to ICS.
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The Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 has been mysteriously in and out of the news in the time following the Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2012 in Barcelona. Launched as an incremental update on its flagship slate, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, the Tab 2 has kept getting delayed again and again, but the wait for it may about to end.
Office Depot is offering preorder for the Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 over here.
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There had been rumors that Google’s store for its Android devices – Google Play, was closing in on 15 billion downloads. In fact, a UK newspaper called the Independent published a report about the same feat about a couple of days back.
The folks at TechCrunch went on to contact Google to ask for confirmation about where the total download figure stood, and, according to a spokesperson from the Mountain View company, Google Play surpassed the 15 billion download milestone a few weeks ago, without anyone even knowing.
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The Amazon Kindle Fire has just been updated to version 6.3.1 and adds in a number of much awaited features such as password protection on your purchases, and parental controls that make the Kindle Fire much more family friendly than before.
The new Kindle Fire update makes it possible to block access to the Amazon Silk browser outright, and hence you can keep out unwanted intruders into your privacy with this feature. On a similar note, you can disable access to particular content libraries that may be inappropriate for family use.
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