The Kindle Fire was designed to be a simple, no-frills tablet, with limited complexity, so it’s not likely that the Tab 2 7.0, running a full version of Android will best it in doing what it does best. The real question is, how close can it come to matching what the Fire offers. Josh Miller/CNET …
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The Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 is like the alternate dimension Kindle Fire. Josh Miller/CNET The Kindle Fire. Sure, it’s low-priced and has a built-in Amazon content ecosystem that conveniently delivers movies, music, books, and apps through a simple, if stripped-down, interface, but there are quite a few things it doesn’t do that have stopped you short of actually buying one. …
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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 gets a slight performance downgrade and a decent price. Josh Miller/CNET SAN FRANCISCO–The announcement that Samsung’s follow-up to its Galaxy Tab 10.1 would be receiving some downgrades from the previous entry, filled me with a mixture confusion and disappointment. I just couldn’t wrap my head around why the sequel to one of the premiere Android tablets …
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Samsung will be the first major vendor to release a tablet full-featured tablet that can compete with the Kindle Fire on price. The company’s Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 (pictured) makes only a few sacrifices to get under $300. Josh Miller/CNET SAN FRANCISCO–Going into today’s Samsung media event in San Francisco, there was one device that I was having trouble wrapping …
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Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 7.0 breaks the sub-$300 tablet price barrier. Samsung Today at a Samsung media event in San Francisco, the company unveiled pricing and release dates for both its Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 tablets. We took a brief look at both tablets at Mobile World Congress in February, but this is the first time they’ve been officially shown in …
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The Excite 7.7’s AMOLED screen is, quite likely, the same fantastic screen used in the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7. Donald Bell/CNET With its Excite 10 LE, Toshiba offered a well-designed tablet with disappointing performance, and (in my opinion) too high a price tag for what was offered. With the company’s announcement of new 10-, 7.7-, and 13-inch tablets today, it …
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The behemoth. Big Daddy Don Bodine (look it up, kids) would be proud. Donald Bell/CNET Tablet screens are evolving. So far in 2012, we’ve seen the iPad double its resolution to 2048×1536 and the AMOLED-based Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 reach black-level depths that were previously unheard of (but, thankfully becoming more common) on a tablet. So where do we go …
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Last week, Lenovo took to YouTube to unveil its first ICS-based tablet. The new tablet sports a 9.7-inch, IPS screen with a 4:3 aspect ratio and an iPad 2-matching resolution of 1,024×768 pixels. This obviously falls short of the new iPad’s 2,048×1,536-pixel resolution and even most Android tablets, which usually top out at 1,280×800 pixels. The S2109 includes Micro-USB, a …
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Asus’ rumored GPS dongle should hopefully allow for stronger satellite connections for the Prime. Josh Miller/CNET According to a post on the Transformer Prime XDA Developers forum, Asus will soon release an attachment for the Prime that will “address the GPS function and be a fully usable GPS that will lock onto many satellites and keep their lock with Wi-Fi …
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The system lock, um lock, protects gamers from their careless selves. Eric Franklin/CNET I had the chance to briefly play around with the latest Transformer Prime update. My impressions are thus: System bar lock By enabling the system bar lock, the system bar (which lies across the bottom of the screen) will be unavailable until unlocked by the user. This …
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