At the moment, there are two very similar-looking e-readers with black-and-white Pearl E Ink touchscreens on the market, and now, the smaller and less expensive of the pair is up for grabs. The Kobo eReader Touch Edition went on sale today in the US and Canada for 9.99 (or 9.99 Canadian Dollars) at Best Buy, [...]
The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is finally among us. At noon Eastern Time today, Best Buy’s New York City store at Union Square will start selling Samsung’s extra-slim 10-inch Tegra 2 tablet, with the first 200 buyers also receiving a matching leather pouch to store their precious inside of. Geographically challenged Android tablet lovers will also [...]
Here in the states, Sony’s 13-inch VAIO Z series has been missing from the company’s online store for months, but in Europe, at least, it lives on — a quartet of Z21 series laptops have surfaced on various e-tailers as the possible successor to last year’s Z11. So far, we’re seeing a pair of configurations [...]
ASUS’ Eee Pad Transformer might still be difficult to track down, but at least all systems are go for the company’s other Honeycomb tablet, the Eee Pad Slider. The company confirmed today that the 10.1-inch tablet, originally slated for May, is “coming soon” — no word, of course, on whether it will ditch Tegra 2 [...]
Physical keyboards are old news, right? They will be come January 28, which is when Acer intends to make its dual-screen Iconia laptop available for public consumption. That’s the date we’ve received from the company’s official Spanish mouthpiece, accompanied by a lofty €1,499 (,987). Literal currency translations are as usual unadvisable, but that’s a hefty [...]
Looks like Jolicloud knows how to keep a product under wraps — just ten days after revealing the Jolibook to the world, it’s already on sale at a pair of e-tailers. Yes, it’s just a netbook, and a fairly standard one at that — you can cross the 10.1-inch WSVGA screen, Intel GMA 3150 graphics, [...]
The same Chinese company that took hammers to an apple-shaped ice-sculpture is claiming they have the first color ereader using e-ink, due in China in March. Bet the battery life’s far greater than the color Nook’s, which uses an LCD. More » Gizmodo
Ah, ha! There it is! Way back in March, we had a sit-down with folks from Seven45 Studios about their plans for Power Gig: Rise of the SixString (for PS3 and Xbox 360), focusing mainly on how they intended to rival the Rock Band and Guitar Hero franchises from a peripheral standpoint. The six string [...]
Phones 4u could be sold after its private equity owner received a number of takeover offers. The Sunday Times reports that ‘several suitors’ have made offers to Providence Equity. A source close to the company is quoted as saying: ‘There have been several unsolicited approaches and Providence is considering those. Discussions are at an early [...]
Asking price? Potentially billion at auction. One would have to assume Danica Patrick is already filming a commercial. [WSJ] More » Gizmodo