ASUS is launching the 8 inch Eee Note EA800 model in the next few weeks. Prices will start at $261 and go up to $293 when it arrives in Taiwan.

Next year, in January, ASUS will then roll out a larger 12 inch model. The 12 inch Eee Note will be officially announced in December and is expected to run the grayscale LCD display that is on the smaller 8 inch version. [Read more…]

Acer recently confirmed that it would be building a few new devices with one of those being a 10.1 inch tablet that runs Windows 7.

We hear from Digitimes that this tablet will run an AMD Dual-core C-50 Ontario APU (accelerated processing unit). This particular processor is capable of being powered while consuming just 9W of power. [Read more…]

One of the unknowns about the BlackBerry Playbook is its price. All we have officially heard so far is that it will be priced at under $500. What that exactly means is that it could range from anywhere at $499.99 and below.

A website called Mobility Insider claims today to have received specific information relating to the price. That claim says it will cost $399 when launched which is not a bad drop below the $500 ceiling price. [Read more…]

Woow! Digital has announced that it will be launching an Android 2.3 Gingerbread tablet in time for Christmas this year.

Technical specs reveal that inside there’s an NVIDIA Tegra Core 2, 1GB of RAM and 16GB of storage. It has a 10 inch screen that has a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. [Read more…]

As of December this year, those of you in Japan will be able to pick up a Sony Reader device. Sony stopped selling the Sony eReader in Japan back in 2007, but is now returning to that area to start up sales again.

When the eReader launches again, it will compete with the Amazon Kindle as well as other eBook readers that have been selling in that region. [Read more…]

Pandigital has launched another new eBook reader. This time the device has a 9 inch screen and is being dubbed as a multimedia eReader.

The device has a 9 inch TFT colour touchscreen. It has a resolution of 480 x 800 pixels. 2GB of storage can be found inside and an extra 32GB can be added to that via the SD/SDHC memory card slot. [Read more…]

Dell is now selling the Dell Streak pre-installed with the Android 2.2 operating system as standard. The new offerings fall in line with the OTA update that is currently being pushed out to current Dell Streak users in Europe with the US to follow.

As well as offering the tablet with Froyo as standard, Dell is also selling the Streak in a choice of two colors of either red or white. [Read more…]

Acer has announced a couple of new Android based tablets that could arrive as early as April 2011.

The tablets measure 10.1 inches and 7 inches with the 10.1 inch device having a resolution of 1280 x 800 pixels. This particular model will run a dual-core 1GHz processor. The smaller model details are also a little sparse at the moment although we do hear that Acer will be cramming in the same amount of pixels as found on the larger 10.1 inch model. [Read more…]

Back in May, ASUS announced a few new tablet/ebook reader/notepad style devices that had slightly confusing names. One of them had an eInk display and it was called a Tablet.

It seems that to bring the naming schemes back in line with what the products actually are, ASUS has decided to give that particular device a new name. The device will now be called the ASUS Eee Note which better reflects the product you actually are buying. [Read more…]

Some Best Buy ads were leaked recently that indicated a WiFi only version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab was to be launching soon. That particular ad has now gone live. The SKU for this particular Galaxy Tab is 1409447 and according to Engadget, Best Buy is promoting it right now… however there’s one problem, Samsung doesn’t have any stock available to send to them.

The correction says that “the WiFi Only version of the Samsung Galaxy Tab will not be available due to manufacturer delay”. [Read more…]

Dell Streak users are currently getting the Android 2.2 update finally. While this rolls out, Pocket Lint managed to get hold of a Streak running the latest Android 2.2 update to check out if it brings anything good to the 5 inch tablet.

There are some changes such as Dell Stage that is the main user interface on the device. Eight stages are included with the update that bring email, apps, songs, web pages as well as a few other items that you can access. [Read more…]

We are hearing today that Samsung has sold 600,000 Samsung Galaxy Tab tablets within the first month of it being on sale.

These numbers, although I haven’t personally confirmed it, would probably make the Galaxy Tab the most popular Android based tablet in the world. I can believe that as well as I don’t recall other tablets selling this well (the ones with Android on them). [Read more…]