Tablets

A select group of registered users on Notion Ink's company blog will be given first crack at preordering the company's long-awaited Adam tablet today.

The heavily optimized Android-based tablet comes in six models, ranging from a $375 Wi-Fi version with a standard LCD, up to a $549 version using 3G and the coveted Pixel Qi screen technology.

If you're new to the Adam, the mythical tablet sports an Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, a 10-inch screen, a unique rotating camera, and a head-turning design. More importantly, the high-end models are one of the first to offer Pixel Qi … Read more

Though this isn't the official untethered jailbreaking solution for iOS 4.2.1, the iPhone Dev Team has produced a short demo video showing off a workaround method for getting it done now.

Hack-master comex is still working on the permanent untethered jailbreak, but if you've been following the jailbreaking community and happen to have saved SHSH blobs from your iOS device, your device could be jailbroken today.

A more efficient iOS 4.2.1 jailbreak should be just around the corner, so stay tuned. For more information about jailbreaking your iOS device, follow the iPhone Dev Team Blog. … Read more

Intel CEO Paul Otellini said today that its chips will be in more than 35 different tablet designs in 2011, while clarifying that two lines of Atom processors will be used in tablets.

"We're going to make sure we support all of the viable operating systems that are in the marketplace," Otellini said at the Barclays Capital 2010 Global Technology Conference. The conference audio was streamed live over the Internet.

Intel listed more than 15 brands, including upcoming consumer tablets from Toshiba, Dell, Lenovo, Asus, Acer, and Motion Computing. "A number of them on Windows. A … Read more

Last week I posted a video of the Samsung Galaxy Tab (Verizon Wireless) and Apple iPad running through a few quick performance tests. Some of the responses were...fevered to say the least. Just wait until my Galaxy Tab vs. iMac video drops!

In the meantime, Donald Bell and I discuss how the Galaxy Tab's efforts to take over the world are repeatedly foiled by the iPad and how Android, in its current state, may not make for the best tablet OS.

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This week: A Consumer Reports feature on the best and worst phone carriers leads to (another) heated argument; Joey asks everyone for their holiday tech shopping lists; and New York gets buzzed by mini RC copters.

Bonus: You can download the show's theme song as a free MP3 here for a limited time!

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In preparation for the launch of its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet next year, Research In Motion is now allowing developers to submit their applications for approval into the company's BlackBerry App World.

Back in October, RIM announced the release of its Adobe Air software development kit, allowing developers to use that platform to create programs for the tablet. The company's developer page says it will soon offer "support for content and applications using Adobe Flash 10.1 and HTML5."

RIM did not divulge how it will go about accepting programs, nor did it say how many apps … Read more

Natali Morris shows you a few tips and tricks to make typing easier and more efficient on the iPad.

Sure, it's fun to create charts and graphs and tell you how one popular product compares with another popular product (and we do and will continue to do that), but it's so much more fun to show you!

And by "fun" I mean a fracking nightmare! Seriously, recording a testing video is no easy feat (for me that is). These four-plus minutes of footage you see here were compiled from an hour and a half of (mostly useless) raw footage. Much of it included copious amounts of word-stumbling, followed by even more cursing. I learned a … Read more

Research In Motion has acquired user interface specialist The Astonishing Tribe for an undisclosed sum, the company announced on its blog today.

TAT could be a major pickup for BlackBerry maker RIM. The company, which is based in Sweden, makes several different products for mobile device makers, and it's invested in the Android market with its "custom home screen," called TAT Home. That offering delivers gesture navigation and 3D widgets, and according to the company, is designed to give users more control over the "look and feel of the Android home screen."

Another product, TAT … Read more