IHS iSuppli Research reports that the Amazon Kindle Fire, priced at $199, has $191.65 worth of parts and has a full manufacturing cost of $209.63. This means that with each machine, the online retailer actually loses a few bucks. Amazon likely intends to pick up the difference with media sales, and it’s not that bad […]
The long-awaited Amazon Tablet is here, and it was outed by Bloomberg a good five minutes before the actual event started. At just 7″, the Android-based dual core tablet lacks cameras and 3G connectivity (there’s Wi-fi though). The Fire resembles RIM’s Playbook (there’s allegedly a reason for that) and is a smart looking piece of […]
Amazon is poised on the brink on making a tremendous impact to the world of tablets. No tablet manufacturer has yet managed to create a product with a cohesive ecosystem, aggressive marketing, and fluidity of operation of the iPad. However, Amazon’s upcoming entry into the market could change all of that. Since the introduction of […]
Tablet watching is turning into a really fun hobby, because there’s just so much going on. As vendors gear up for the holiday shopping season, we’re seeing this particular market segment heat up even more. Take the constantly-delayed Asus Slider, which will allegedly be here by the end of the month. The unique form factor […]
Ah, GameStop — where your old, unloved video games go to die. The retailer, which has built its name by trading on new and used games and game systems, has announced that they plan on selling Android tablets. No specifics as to which tablet they plan on selling, or if indeed they plan on sticking […]
Hey look, a tablet post that isn’t about a TouchPad — it must be Thursday. In fact, it’s also IFA, which means the device announcements are coming faster than I can keep track. Things kicked off with Sony officially branding their new tablets, with the codenamed S-1 becoming the S, and the very cool S-2 […]
The End-of-Lifed HP TouchPad has proven to be insanely popular. So much so that it turns out HP will be re-starting production for a limited run. The really crazy bit is that if they price these at the existing firesale price of $99 for a 16 GB TouchPad, then HP loses close to$200 a system. […]
In the aftermath of HP’s liquidation of their WebOS powered TouchPad, a new initiative has begun to bring alternate operating systems to the shiny new hardware. While efforts to bring Linux flavors such as Ubuntu to the TouchPad already existed, the folks over at hacknmod.com have put together a $1500 bounty to anyone that manages to […]
In the wake of HP’s announcement last week that they were discontinuing WebOS hardware, the tech world has been quick to pronounce the death of the late Palm’s mobile platform. This is, after all, its second fatal blow in as many years. HP wasn’t ready to announce any hardware partners they were licensing WebOS to. […]
HP’s slashing the price of their end-of-lifed TouchPad (and giving price adjustments to those who already bought it) has been quite the news story this week. New WebOS users managed to take down perennial WebOS enthusiast site Precentral for a bit yesterday, and any site listed in the massive Slickdeals thread tends to get overrun […]
