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T-Mobile announces an enticing promotion for Valentine’s Day, all 4G phones and select tablets for free

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If you’re looking to sign a new two year contract with a carrier, then you may want to consider doing so with T-Mobile on Saturday, February 11th.  The wireless carrier is announcing a new Valentine’s Day promotion, and while the promotion itself does not take place on Cupid related holiday, it still spreads a lot more »

Motorola had a “refurbishment process error” which means they sold refurbished Xoom tablets with the previous owners information

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It looks like Motorola had some issues with sales of refurbished Xoom tablets. Or maybe more accurately, some unsuspecting users may have had some of their information revealed when Motorola began selling those refurbished tablets. And just to clarify, these were the devices that were being sold between October and December on Woot and they more »

ZTE V66 tablet revealed in Bluetooth SIG filing, looks like it is headed to Verizon Wireless

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We have yet to see anything official come from either Verizon Wireless or ZTE, however based on a recent Bluetooth SIG filing it looks like another Android tablet will be coming. The tablet is the ZTE V66 and it will bring features to include a 7 inch display and a dual-core 1.2GHz processor along with more »

Wi-Fi only XYBOARD tablets now available and shipping from Motorola

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At a basic level, tablets are available in two varieties.  Either the tablet comes with cellular connectivity in the form of 3G or 4G (LTE), or the tablet is WiFI only.  Some customers prefer tablets with cellular connectivity so it can be used pretty much anywhere (especially on the go).  However, there is a certain more »

ZTE Optik 7-inch tablet rumored to be coming to Sprint, expected to arrive in February with a $99.99 price point

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While we are still in need of something official from Sprint, these leaked documents appear to be telling much of the story. In short, it looks like Sprint will be launching the ZTE Optik tablet in February. And perhaps a bit nicer, the tablet will launch with 3G network connectivity and a budget price. According more »

Sony is closing down the Dash developers website

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Two years ago, just months before the iPad and long before Honeycomb, Sony announced it’s own tablet, the Sony Dash. Today it seems that the Sony is dashing its dreams of success for the Chumby OS tablet. A developer that has signed up to create apps for the Justin Bieber-backed Dash, an email was sent more »

CES 2012: Check out Coby’s 7-inch Ice Cream Sandwich tablet [video]

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Coby surprisingly had nine Ice Cream Sandwich-powered tablets at CES 2012. As we mentioned in a previous post, all these tablets will have different prices depending on a variety of factors. We didn’t get video footage of all the tablets, be we did manage to get some hands-on time with Coby’s 7-inch widescreen Android 4.0 more »

CES 2012: Hands on with the Octa Whale Tail for tablets and e-readers [Stuff we liked]

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Sure, we cover alot of the more popular items, however that is only a part of CES. If you dive deeper into the halls you will come to some smaller booths and *some* interesting gadgets. That being said, one of those that we spied on the show floor (and found interesting) was the Octa Tablet more »

CES 2012: Coby has nine Ice Cream Sandwich tablets

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Back in December, Coby announced it will be releasing five Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablets in 2012. By the time I was done walking around Coby’s floor space at CES 2012, I came away with information on nine tablets.

CES 2012: Samsung Galaxy Note hands on

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On press day Samsung announced that it would be coming to AT&T with LTE built in, which means it is pushing the device hard at CES 2012. I managed to get my hand around the device (mostly) while on the show floor. As you probably know, the Galaxy Note is a huge device with a more »