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 …

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 …

When it comes to consuming newspapers on an iPad, I’ve long preferred PressReader to individual newspaper apps (like, say, USA Today and my local Detroit Free Press). With the latter, I’m just sifting through headlines. But PressReader makes me feel like I’m actually “reading the paper,” mostly because it provides a picture-perfect digital reproduction of the real thing. Now it’s …

The Nokia Lumia 610 NFC will be launching in Europe later this year, with Orange set to be the first to flog the budget Windows Phone blower. Unveiled earlier today, the Lumia 610 NFC is a version of Nokia’s wallet-friendly Lumia 610 smart phone, but comes with near-field communication tech that lets your phone talk to other technology when you …

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 …

commentary When it comes to mobile devices — specifically tablets — size certainly matters. Toshiba has apparently forgotten this concept with its new Excite 13 tablet. The new tablet comes in at a whopping 13.3 inches. And it has the price to match its supersize frame: $650 for the lower-end 32GB model and $750 for double the capacity. Related stories …

Now playing: Watch this: Comparing the different typefaces on phones 2:31 Steve Matteson holds up the Nokia Lumia 900, a Windows Phone that features his Segoe UI typeface. Josh Miller/CNET What makes a great font for a smartphone? Aside from legibility, is it its simplicity, its brand recognition, or the way it influences people’s feelings toward the product? From neutral …

Now playing: Watch this: HTC One S 2:29 If we were to play Top Trumps with Android phone spec sheets, the HTC One S would not be the mobile to propel you to victory — that honour might just belong to its beefy brute of a brother, the One X. Nevertheless, we bestowed a respectable four and a half stars …

Tumblr, arguably the hippest blogging platform on the Web these days, just unveiled version 3.0 of its Android mobile app, which not only looks better, but also loads faster than before. First thing you should notice about the fully refreshed Tumblr app is its brand-new interface. The new Post screen, with its large, colorful icons, is sexier, there’s improved photo …

The Nokia Lumia 900 may be topping the charts at online retailer Amazon, but a quick check of AT&T stores in Manhattan right after the launch shows that AT&T, Nokia, and Microsoft still have a long way to go in educating AT&T’s salesforce on how to sell the device. The newly launched Windows Phone topped the cell phone bestseller list …