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New Kindle is smaller, cheaper, faster, offers better contrast

New Kindle is smaller, cheaper, faster, offers better contrast

As many people predicted due to the Kindle 2 selling out of stock yesterday, Amazon has released information on the next version of the Kindle eReader. In addition to the new version of the Kindle being 15% lighter, 21% smaller, page turns 20% faster and featuring the same 6-inch screen but with 50% better contrast [...]

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Motorola working on a Gingerbread tablet for November release?

Motorola working on a Gingerbread tablet for November release?

According to The Street, Motorola is working on a 10-inch tablet for November release that will run Android 3.0 (Gingerbread). This is all based off of information from analyst Ashok Kumar who says the information is garnered from those “close to the project.” Translation: this is strictly a rumor.
What is interesting is Motorola’s partnership [...]

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E-Noa Interpad sports Android Eclair and Tegra 2 power

E-Noa Interpad sports Android Eclair and Tegra 2 power

Here’s another Android and Tegra 2 coupling being brought to us by German-based E-Noa. The E-Noa Interpad features a 10.1-inch capacitive multitouch screen powered by a Tegra 2 processor, 16GB of storage and 1GB of RAM. If it looks somewhat familiar (and really, what Android tablet doesn’t at this point), it’s most likely because the [...]

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Toshiba SmartPad coming in October with Windows 7 and Android versions

Toshiba SmartPad coming in October with Windows 7 and Android versions

If Toshiba’s previous tablet entries were to crappy or to expensive for your tastes, maybe their latest tablet offerings will be right up your alley. During a celebration of Toshiba’s 25 years in the computing field, Mark Whittard, Toshiba Australia’s Managing Director, showed off the Toshiba SmartPad prototype. These new tablets will be coming in [...]

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Sharp is developing a multimedia eBook format

Sharp is developing a multimedia eBook format

Like Godzilla, eBook format XMDF is huge in Japan. The format has been around since 2001 and has gained popularity for displaying novels and manga. Now Sharp has announced that the next-generation of XMDF (standing for “ever-eXtending Mobile Document Format”), which they are cleverly calling “next-generation XMDF,” will be launched within the year.
Next-generation XMDF (or [...]

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Gemei GM2000 eReader gives you color LCD or E-Ink on the cheap

Gemei GM2000 eReader gives you color LCD or E-Ink on the cheap

Don’t expect the Asian eReader market to take a breather despite the recent American market price shakeup (which is far from over). Although most of these eReaders have been in planning for months (or, as is the habit from some Shenzhen companies, weeks), there won’t be much, if any, ebb in the tide in the [...]

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The iPad Clone Hunt: Greed Does Not Equal Good Karma

The iPad Clone Hunt: Greed Does Not Equal Good Karma

Editor’s Note: a few weeks ago a Best Tablet Review reader asked us about the slew of iPad clones selling cheaply through Alibaba.com. He was looking for something affordable but functional. It wasn’t the first (or last) time we’ve been asked about these cheap “iPads” and we responded with the customary “buyer beware.” Well our [...]

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The eReader pricing shakeup spells doom for everyone but the big three

The eReader pricing shakeup spells doom for everyone but the big three

Barnes & Noble struck first with a brilliantly thrown sucker punch followed up by a groin shot to hit Amazon where it hurt — right in the bottom line. Less than three weeks ago the eReader market was a familiar place with established price points. We were eeking down to the $99 eReader with the [...]

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1&1 releasing the SmartPad Android tablet to Germany in July

1&1 releasing the SmartPad Android tablet to Germany in July

Germany sure is getting its fair share of tablet releases. The Neofonie WePad WeTab will soon begin accepting preorders and now das Deutsch appear to be getting another tablet this July in the 1&1 SmartPad Android tablet.
The 1&1 SmartPad runs off an ARM11 500MHz processor with 256MB of RAM and 1GB or storage. It runs [...]

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Cisco introduces the Home Energy Controller – a fourth-screen tablet running Linux

Cisco introduces the Home Energy Controller – a fourth-screen tablet running Linux

We’re getting close to the “make it so” days where we can sit in one area of our house and have complete control of everything in it. Cisco is helping out by releasing a tablet that can easily be labeled Star Trek rather than high tech. Following on the heels of the Cius tablet announcement, [...]

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