Most people are familiar with the Splashtop app on their Apple and Android devices. If you are not familiar with it, Splashtop is the easiest and fastest way to access your Windows PC or Mac remotely from your Apple and Android tablet, anywhere, anytime! So it shouldn’t be news that the company has been developing its application for its next platform. Splashtop has prepared an application for the eventual release of Windows 8. Although the –> Read more
Apple has done a phenomenal job at marketing iPads and iPods to school districts accross the United States. The company has done such a phenomenal job that most schools do not know what to do with them.
One school district that has struck the nation by surprise is McAllen ISD, located in south Texas. According to The Monitor, this “district has drawn praise and criticism for its decision to spend more than $20 million –> Read more
Rumors will finally subside tomorrow with the announcement for new and madly hyped iPad 3. We are all suspecting that the new iPad is going to be between 1 and 1.5 millimeters thicker and boast many of our favorite iPhone 4S features. It looks like Apple will have much of the worlds attention tomorrow with their announcement. Apple’s share price closed $2.90 short at $530.26 today at the end trading hours. –> Read more
There is speculation that Apple will be revealing a mini version of its infamous iPad in the second half of this year. The “iPad mini” is rumored to have a 7.1-inch display an will help regain any of the iPads market share that Amazon’s Kindle Fire and Barnes & Noble’s Nook Tablet have closed in on. –> Read more
An XDA developer forum member has posted the photos of a Nook tablet running CynaogenMod9 with android 4.0 also running. The workaround was made possible by using a microSD card to install CynaogenMod9, which enabled the tablet to be booted from there instead of the built- in storage without erasing the –> Read more
This has definitely been a huge and very busy week for Lenovo. First came the companies S2 smartphone and now here comes the IdeaPad S2. The IdeaPad S2 seems to be packing some pretty impressive specs and a keyboard dock to boot which could bring some competition to the Transformer Prime! –> Read more
After the iPad 3 rumors and reports, its time for the iPad 4. Yes, according to Digitimes, iPad 4 will be arriving around October while iPad 3 will be unvield around March with “killer applications.” The production of iPad 2 is said to still continue but be sold at a much lower price point. –> Read more
This holiday season has been a good one with the exchanging of many electronic gifts. If you received a Kindle Fire this holiday season, you may have thought about rooting the device. Want to know how hard the process may be? Well lets just say it’s a one click process and here’s everything you need to know: –> Read more
Were you one of the ones that missed the HP TouchPad when it went on sale for $99? If so, your chance to gain an HP TouchPad for $99 may arise tomorrow starting at 6:00 PM central time. HP will be stocking both the 16 GB and 32 GB devices depending on your personal preference. Each eBayer will will be able to purchase up to two of the devices and mandatorily must check out using PayPal. If you are really wanting one of these things –> Read more
According to a post on the official Amazon forum, the new Kindle Touch 3G will only be capable of full web browsing over it’s WiFi connection:
We apologize for the confusion. Our new Kindle Touch 3G enables you to connect to the Kindle Store, download books and periodicals, and access Wikipedia – all over 3G or Wi-Fi. Experimental web browsing (outside of Wikipedia) on Kindle Touch 3G is only available over Wi-Fi.
While this appeared in the forum, the official product page for the Kindle Touch 3G has no mention of this stipulation. The previous version of the Kindle, now called the Kindle Keyboard 3G, will still offer the full browsing experience. –> Read more
But rumors are coming about a mystery deal offered by Samsung to allow them to launch their Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the Australian market. So far none of the court hearing have spoken of any such deal, hence the settlement between the two giants has been done outside the court. –> Read more
Today, AT&T has released the HTC Jetstream and the LG Thril 4G. The HTC Jetstream is a 10.1-inch touchscreen display and features a 1.5-GHz dual-core Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8660 processor. The tablet is featuring the Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS with the HTC Sense UI. TheLG Thrill 4G on the other hand is AT&T’s first 3D smartphone and has drawn some serious attention due to it’s brilliant and responsive touchscreen display. The Thrill 4g features a 4.3″ TFT capacitive touchscreen and a 1GHz Dual-Core, Dual-Channel RAM processor. We know many of you are excited for both of these devices. –> Read more
Amazon is entering a different tablet market now with it’s Kindle. Trust me, this is not the ordinary “kindle” that we’re used to. The new Kindle tablet has a 7 inch capacitive color display and will be running the Android OS.The report was leaked over at TechCrunch, by MB Siegler, and was not allowed to leak any pictures of the tablet. Siegler did mention that the form factor of the new Kindle tablet is much like the Blackberry PlayBook, in size and shape.
Siegler also stated that “the device is a 7-inch tablet with a capacitive touch screen. It is multi-touch, but from what I saw, I believe the reports that it relies on a two-finger multi-touch (instead of 10-finger, like the iPad uses) are accurate. This will be the first Kindle with a full-color screen. And yes, it is back-lit. There is no e-ink to be found anywhere on this device.” –> Read more
If you thought a 4.5-inch screen was to big for a smartphone, this post isn’t or you. How would Samsung describe their newest creation? Exactly like this: “GALAXY Note combines the market’s largest HD Super AMOLED display, supreme portability and advanced S Pen interface, creating a new type of smartphone.” –> Read more
While the U.S. is still awaiting the arrival of Samsung’s Galaxy S II, the rest of the world is ready to see an upgrade. This week, Samsung is set to “unveil the Galaxy S II LTE at IFA in Berlin this week, alongside an LTE version of its still elusive Galaxy Tab 8.9.” The new upgraded LTE version of the Galaxy S II and Galaxy Tab 8.9 will be upgrading to an all new 1.5GHz dual-core processor. The LTE version of the Galaxy S II will also be getting a facelift with an all new 4.5-inch Super AMOLED Plus touchscreen display. –> Read more
So we would like to think that none of our readers would have actually believed that you could score an HP TouchPad for less than $99 right? Well some people did.
Two days ago, a website by the name of Hewlett-packard.org.uk, attracted visitors from all over, to purchase the HP TouchPad, at the amazing price of $49.
Anyone who tried to buy the TouchPad on this site got Rickrolled. What’s Rickrolled mean? Well Robert McMillan of ComputerWorld said: “It’s a popular type of Internet prank where the victim clicks on a seemingly irresistible link… — and ends up instead sitting through a YouTube clip of schmaltzy soul singer Rick Astley singing his 1987 hit, “Never Gonna Give You –> Read more
Two days ago, we brought you breaking news with an article in reference to Hack N Mob’s $1,500 HP TouchPad Android Port contest. Well the bar has been raised an there is now $2,110 at steak. Hack N mob has been receiving additional donations to make this thing happen.
Tasks:
Hack N Mod mentions that to get the prize money you must:
“Complete one (or several) of the tasks above and let the world know! Post your source code on GitHub and paste links to your pictures and videos in the comments below (or email us). All work must be documented under an open source license. The first person or group to successfully complete a fully functional task above wins the corresponding prize. The only condition is that your port must have a user-friendly installation process (such that the average user can easily install it).”
Good luck Dev teams… We hope the Android Port is figured out and released to the public soon.
SOURCE Hack N Mod
Last Friday the HP TouchPad saw a price drop from $399 to $99.99. It took many stores a lot of time to figure out exactly what was going on. Initially, Best Buy was going to send their full inventory of TouchPad’s back to HP but later was instructed sell them.
So with the huge popularity that the HP Touchpad gained over the weekend, there is now a new task for every Dev team out there: Develop Android Port for the HP TouchPad.
To expidite the development of this Android Port, Hack N Mod is holding a contest with a total bounty of $1500.
How will you make money off of this? Well its a group contribution. They have broken the tasks into sections and are offering a reward for each different task.
Tasks:
Hack N Mod mentions that to get the prize money you must:
Good luck Dev teams… We hope the Android Port is figured out and released to the public soon.
SOURCE Hack N Mod
The truth is nobody wanted an HP Touchpad at $499. What does a company do to try and sell more product? They drop the price. A couple of weeks ago HP dropped the price by a hundred bucks to try and penetrate the tablet market. Did it work? Of course not, webOS is webOS.
Now what happens when you drop the tablet $400 from it’s original retail and charge $99 per tablet? Well you definitely get the sold out message or come accross a message that keeps saying the site is down. If you were like us, you saw a message that looked like this:
or like this:
Well the true reality is that everybody and their mom is on the site and will be for the next couple of days.
Here’s some steps if your still eagerly on the hunt:
If you don’t need one immediately, HP has said that “More would be coming soon.” Don’t sweat it.
If you managed to get one, make sure you head over to BOX and signup for their latest offer. They stated that BOX has worked with HP “to bring 50GB of free cloud storage to TouchPad users, which lasts the lifetime of the Box account.”
P.S. We seriously think HP has been able to piss off every consumer that previously purchased a touchpad. Dear, HP… I wouldn’t expect those consumers to ever buy a product with your name on it again.
HP is offering refunds to those who purchased it within a 30-day window. If you’ve had it longer, take the beef up with HP.
SOURCE BOX
AT&T will be releasing its first 4G LTE-powered tablet known as the HTC Jetstream (formally codenamed the HTC Puccini). These new screenshots taken by PocketNow confirm the tablets 4G capabilities.
The rumored spec sheet seems pretty impressive for the HTC Jetstream. I guess we have to wait a while before we hear anything solid. It is possible that we may be seeing the HTC Jetstream hit store shelves by the end of this year.
Rumored Key Features and Specifications:
SOURCE PocketNow
