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After a few teasing sessions of its upcoming 8.9 inch tablet Samsung finally announced officially the Galaxy TAB 8.9 tablet at CTIA 2011. It's amazing how far Samsung managed to get in just a few months, as their new tablet features an extremely slim design: only 8.6 millimeters, that is thinner than the iPad 2 (8.8 mm), which makes it officially a true competitor to Apple's tablet, being slimmer and also cheaper, but more on pricing a few paragraphs down.Wow, that's amazing I hear you say, ...

Opera is one of the most important apps you can download on your mobile phone or tablet: it's the third party web browser that brings desktop like navigation of small(er) screen devices. Opera has just released its latest version of the two browsers it currently develops: Opera Mini 6 and Opera Mobile 11. I know it's confusing, but the differences between those two are very easy to understand. Actually it's only one difference: Opera Mini uses company's own servers to compress web pages that are...

One of the most anticipated tablets of this year is RIM's Blackberry Playbook, a 7 inch tablet with lots of multimedia capabilities and a strong business presence, due to RIM's commitment to the business world through its smartphones. As with all tablets presented in 2010 the Playbook was delayed lots of times from various reasons, the most important reason being the development phase of QNX based operating system, a completely new version from the one used in current Blackberry smartphones....

If you want to get a cheap Android tablet these days and you don't want to pay for a no-name model then Archos is your only option. They've established themselves as cheap tablet manufacturers, with a clear orientation towards media playback, whether you talk about video, audio playback or photo viewing.The French company has some interesting plans for 2011 that are worth mentioning, plans that concern the Gen 9 tablet series, slated for June release. First, the cheap part of their brandin...

Now that tablets are catching up with consumer preferences it seems that netbooks are falling back in sales and user interest. Sure  a netbook is flexible in the sense that you can do pretty much everything with it that you would do with a normal computer, it lasts a lot, comparable to some tablets, but it's not as speedy at those tasks and you can't use it without standing at a desk or on a chair/sofa. Plus netbooks are bigger and heavier that tablets. Now throw into the equation the fact netb...

One of the best Windows 7 tablets to date is the EEE Slate EP121 from ASUS. It's for sale right now and there should be quite a few people interested in it. I'm not talking about the iPad 2 loving crowd, but consumers who need a flexible operating system that allows them to install any app they want (like any Windows version) and the ability to work on a mobile device without having to carry around a lot of weight (2.53 lbs) and without giving up on performance at the same time (the Core i5 CPU...

We all know the story with the Motorola Xoom, which didn't get Adobe Flash support at launch a few weeks ago, somehow nullifying the biggest advantage of Android tablets over the iPad. We've reported at that time that Adobe is working on bringing Flash support to Honeycomb as soon as possible and apparently it did just that, as of today you can update/install Adobe Flash 10.2 on your Android devices.Currently only versions 2.2, 2.3 and 3.0.1+ are supported, with the first two benefiting fr...

We've have a few posts here about the Dell Streak 7 tablet, the latest Dell tablet and we weren't too impressed with battery performance. This doesn't mean the Streak 7 is not a tablet worthy of your attention, especially since you can now pre-order it from Amazon for just $270.That's for the WiFi only version, the one I would buy no matter what tablet I would be choosing. $380 is a lot cheaper than what others are charging for tablets those days, getting closer to the pricing sweet spot I l...

Toshiba is not the company it used to be 10 years ago, at least when it comes to gadgets. Unfortunately we haven't seen too many amazing devices from Toshiba in a long time. They're still good when it comes to reliability, but something is missing and their latest tablet, still called Toshiba Tablet doesn't do anything to push the company to the top of the crop. Yeap, Toshiba wasn't able to come up with a good name after more than two months since the official presentation at CES 2011.What's...

As a normal person that I am, I'm not always right. This is true for matters not related to tablets, but also for tablet stuff. Of course I'm happy when I get predictions right, and the one about tablet pricing levels was just confirmed by various sources that come into possession of  the pricing scheme planned by iPad 2 competitors for 2011. All important tablets that will launch this year will align their pricing to the 16 GB WiFi only iPad 2, the cheapest tablet from Apple right now (not ...