Spam — it’s terrible stuff. Not so much the potted meat product — I don’t want to get sued, although I don’t much like that either. But sometimes Spam turns up unintentionally hilarious nuggets, like this firm offering customised tablets, direct from China. More »
Compared to 10 per cent in mid-December, over 19 per cent of US adults now own a tablet, according to Pew. There was an identical trend with ereaders, too, and there’s not as much overlap as you might expectr: 29 per cent own one or the other. That is a lot of new iPads and Kindles. [Pew via Electronista] More »
The PlayBook was bound to go on sale again… and now it has! In fact, RIM is selling all its models for $US299. Yes, the 16GB version costs the same as the 64GB model. AU: It’s still $485 on the Aussie store. Contacting RIM to find out why. More »
Good news, fandroids! Steve Jobs’ best friend Eric Schmidt says that Google is readying its own high-powered tablet to compete with the iPad 3. This Nexus tablet was rumored back in 2010, but he says it’s now only six months away. More »
Dr. Raymond Soneira of DisplayMate Technologies has made it his mission to suss out the best smartphone, tablet, HDTV, and multimedia displays from the worst with his Display Technology Shoot-Out series. Here, the best of the tablet readers fight. More »
Prone to dropping your electronics? Watch this pair of awkwardly dressed tech journalists dropping tablets onto concrete. Yes, it’s annoying. Yes, it’s waste. No, it’s not actually journalism. But it does turn out that the Nook Tablet is best if you’re a klutz. More »
Look, I’ve got to come clean; I too got excited about the Kindle Fire — both the initial announcement, all the stuff about Silk and even the review we ran yesterday. Then I realised that the Kindle fire is nothing that Australians should get all hot under the collar about. More »
Keyboard cases for iPad are nothing new, but Logitech’s latest takes a different tack; it’s a keyboard for iPad in its own case. More »
I got to spend some time with Toshiba’s new smaller tablet offering yesterday. Here’s my initial thoughts. More »
Not much to the story beyond the headline, really; if you’ve been hanging out for Sony’s uniquely shaped Tablet S, it’s been announced that they’ll be on sale tomorrow. More »
