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Samsung Galaxy Note 8 Australian Review: Expensively Excellent

Samsung’s not done inventing new form factors for its best devices yet. Not by a long shot. Meet the Galaxy Note 8: an 8-inch version of the Galaxy Note we loved from last year. Can it pull off the same trick in this new form factor?


Reuters: Google To Launch Second-Gen Nexus 7 In July

Reuters is suggesting in a report today that Google will launch a new version of its Nexus 7 tablet in July. It will bring with it a decent spec bump, if the rumours are to be believed.


Lunchtime Deal: Nexus 7 16GB $226

Bing Lee’s currently selling off the Nexus 7 16GB for $226, a fair saving off Google’s RRP if you’re in the market for a small and powerful tablet.


Weirdly, Asus Has A 7-Inch Tablet To Compete With The Nexus 7

Mobile World Congress always gives us a slew of awesome announcements and a handful of slightly weird ones. This one is in the latter category: Asus has just debuted and priced the MeMo Pad 7 — a tablet it presumably hopes to use to compete with Google’s Nexus 7, despite the fact that Asus builds both devices. Um…


HP’s Going Android With $US169 Slate 7 Tablet

The HP Slate 7 is beyond fashionably late to the Android tablet party, but it tries to make up for its tardiness with a very low price. When the device arrives in April, HP’s first Google-powered tablet just announced at this year’s Mobile World Congress will cost just $US169. So how does this value-priced device stand out? HP is playing up the Slate 7′s Beats Audio sound and wireless printing capabilities.


Lay Waste To Wireless Networks With This Hacktastic Nexus 7

Tablets are great for slouching on the sofa and checking your Facebook, but they can also be super sleek hack-machines. Take the new Pwnie Express Pwn Pad as an example; it’s a fully-loaded hacker suite designed to puncture any network.


10 Great Back To School & Uni Gadgets

It’s time to head back to school for another year. Whether you’re studying for a degree, mastering your Masters or just doing the HSC, these are the best gadgets to help you hit the books.


Kobo Arc Tablet Review: And Now For Something Different

Let’s face it: Kobo’s last tablet — the Vox — was rubbish. It was a DOA tablet and not something worth our time, unfortunately. Now, though, Kobo has a new tablet called the Arc. We were excited when the Arc was announced, because it sounded like something that might actually be amazing enough to wash the Vox-taste out of our mouths. It has damn-near the same specs as crowd-favourite and defending champ, the Nexus 7, and it’s nice and cheap to boot. Fight!


Nexus 7 With 3G Finally Available In Australia

The Nexus 7 is an amazing tablet, but imagine if it had 3G HSPA+? Imagine no longer, gadget fans: it’s finally on the Google Play Australia store!


Here’s HP’s WebOS Running On A Nexus 7

Remember WebOS? That dinky little operating system seemingly abandoned by its parent, HP during a mid-life tech company-style crisis? After HP started to recover from its slight brain explosion, it open-sourced the WebOS platform, and now the first untethered alpha version of the software has been spotted on one of the best tablets around: the Nexus 7.