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Regarding an Amazon tablet (or, bringing content to an experience fight)

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138 days
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Regarding an Amazon tablet (or, bringing content to an experience fight)
There’s been talk of an Amazon super-Kindle running Android OS since… about 5 minutes after Steve Jobs left the stage following the original iPad introduction. Now that Amazon has launched their Appstore (TM in contention), that talk is heating up again. And why not? It’s an obvious play. I’d be surprised if Amazon hasn’t had one in the labs for a while now (just like I would have been surprised if Facebook hadn’t been working on a phone…) Amazon has content like iTunes, including (in the US at least — and more on that in a moment), ebooks, ···

iPad 2 competition heats up: BlackBerry PlayBook, new Samsung Galaxy Tabs get priced

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145 days
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iPad 2 competition heats up: BlackBerry PlayBook, new Samsung Galaxy Tabs get priced
Just as Apple brings us iPad 2, RIM finally reveals pricing and release information for the BlackBerry PlayBook and Samsung unveils new designs and lower price points for a couple of new Galaxy Tabs.The 7-inch PlayBook Wi-Fi, which is available for order now from retailers like BestBuy and will be in stores on April 19, matches the iPad 2′s storage and price points with 16GB, 32GB or 64GB at $499, $599 and $699. Do the features make the smaller size worth the same price? (And does the BlackBerry logo on the bezel annoy you as much as it does···

TiPb Asks: Are you tempted by the PlayBook or an Android Honeycomb tablet?

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149 days
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TiPb Asks: Are you tempted by the PlayBook or an Android Honeycomb tablet?
If it were possible for the iPad to own 138% of the tablet market it probably would, but competing devices have already launched like the Motorola Xoom, are about to launch like the BlackBerry Playbook, or will be launching later in the year like the HP TouchPad and more Android Honeycomb tablets. Some will be smaller, with 7 or 8-inch screens. Some will be slightly bigger with 10.1-inch screens. Most will have Adobe Flash support to varying degrees. They’ll have more ports (and not require camera kits or AV adapter dongles). They’ll have we···

iPad 2 vs. BlackBerry PlayBook browser battle

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154 days
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iPad 2 vs. BlackBerry PlayBook browser battle
As part of his BlackBerry PlayBook review, CrackBerry.com‘s Kevin Michaluk put RIM’s new tablet browser one-on-one against Apple’s iPad 2. When we put the PlayBook head to head against the iPad 2 in a browser shootout (see below), we saw pretty comparable page load times but did notice on websites where there were flash-based advertisements present, this would slow down the PlayBook by a few seconds while the iPad 2 would serve up a faster loading static image. Disabling flash evened out the load times.Check out the video after the break and···

Apple working on new multitouch gestures for iOS 5, illuminated smart bezel for iPhone 5?

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154 days
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PatentlyApple has uncovered some interesting patent applications from Apple involving new multitouch gestures and smart bezels aimed at making interaction more simple and gestures more memorable.Apple’s patent introduces us to mid-drag gestures, microgestures within gestures, and other gesture modification motions performed contiguously within an overall gesture (i.e., without losing contact with the touch-sensitive input surface during the gesture) to provide intuitive ways to interact with a user interface for varying purposes, such as mod···

iPad competitors: Will the true multitasking please stand up?

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156 days
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One of the most persistent complaints levied against the iPhone and iPad were/are the lack of multitasking. This, of course, has always been silly. However, now that BlackBerry QNX PlayBook>, Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets like Xoom, and HP webOS 3.0′s TouchPad are set to launch, “true multitasking” is again finding its way into the bullet points of competitively positioned slide decks and ad campaigns. It’s still silly but it’s also more complicated now.Does iOS offer “true multitasking”, does its competitors? Let’s take a look, after the br···

Early iPad 2 review round-up

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169 days
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The early iPad 2 reviews are in and as expected it’s getting its fair share of “evolutionary not revolutionary” and “a good thing even better” takes. We’ve already told you what key features might make you want to upgrade from iPad 1 to iPad 2, or to consider an iPad 2 as your first tablet. To hear what everyone else thinks, follow on after the break…Joshua Topolsky: It might frustrate the competition to hear this, but it needs to be said: the iPad 2 isn’t just the best tablet on the market, it feels like the only tablet on the market. As mu···

Jobs: iPad has competitors flummoxed

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171 days
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Jobs: iPad has competitors flummoxed
Apple’s Steve Jobs took the stage immediately today as part of the iPad 2 event with 15 million sold and 90% market share. That’s more than every tablet PC ever sold.Jobs said it “flummoxed” competitors. While some made fun of Jobs calling iPad magical, and others complained about the price, Jobs said to “ask our competitors now”. (Referring to the difficulty in matching iPad’s price point.)Jobs showed off 65,000 apps for iPad and 100 — and they were being generous, he says — for Android 3.0 Honeycomb and then went into a video of Apple exec···

App World to distribute Android apps for BlackBerry PlayBook

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175 days
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App World to distribute Android apps for BlackBerry PlayBook
BlackBerry maker RIM has just announced that they’ll be providing a way for developers to package, sign, and distribute Android apps for the upcoming BlackBerry PlayBook. (They’ll also be able to develop BlackBerry Java and, soon, C/C++ apps). iPad has a huge head start, but this could prove an interesting way to mitigate that lead:“The BlackBerry PlayBook is an amazing tablet. The power that we have embedded creates one of the most compelling app experiences available in a mobile computing device today,” said Mike Lazaridis, President and C···

iPad News: iPads cannibalizing netbooks: ChangeWave

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248 days
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Apple tablet computer iPad is certainly taking a huge bite out of planned sales of netbooks, according to the market viewer ChangeWave, assuring a technique that companies assorting from AMD to Best Buy have mentioned in recent months.ChangeWave Research, in a survey of 3,108 customers last month on their purchasing plans, found the result that just 14% of customers who plan on purchasing a laptop in the coming 90 days state it would be a netbook. It less from 18 percent at the beginning of the year and losing 10 points from the climax netbo···
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