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NVIDIA Web-Based Tegra Zone Launched [Hands-On]

Chris Burns, Aug 25th 2011 Discuss [9]

Today the folks at NVIDIA have announced officially their web-based version of NVIDIA Tegra Zone, a Tegra 2 dual-core tablet and super phone processor specific portal for apps, news, and news about apps. The apps you’re going to be seeing here, as shown in our full review of mobile app version of the market, are on the whole available for NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual-core processor toting devices exclusively, and with this web-based addition to this ecosystem, the Tegra Zone becomes just as versatile as the Android Marketplace itself – or certainly close to it. It’s like a guide for ultimate dual-core wins.

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Acer reports first quarterly loss, victim of iPad success

Rue Liu, Aug 24th 2011 Discuss [6]

Acer is the second largest PC manufacturer in the world with a record winning streak of quarterly earnings only to be dashed with a worse-than-expected quarterly loss reported today. The company has seen its netbook sales eaten away by the popularity of tablets while the company has struggled with internal strategy transitions in the first half of the year. Read The Full Story

Android 3.2 update headed to Acer Iconia Tab A500/A501

Shane McGlaun, Aug 23rd 2011 Discuss [20]

If you have an Acer Iconia Tab A500 or A501 tablet that launched with Android 3.0 Honeycomb onboard an update should be landing soon that will take the tablet to the latest version of Android. The update brings the A500 or A501 to Android 3.2. The update is supposedly rolling out as we speak in Poland. If you have one of these tablets in the US or other countries and have been able to download the update let us know. Read The Full Story

Acer Ultrabook now aiming for September launch

Rue Liu, Aug 19th 2011 Discuss [4]

Acer's rival to the MacBook Air may launch as early as September. According to a report from Digitimes, the Taiwanese manufacturer hopes to launch its ultrabook early to compete against ASUS. Both companies are expected to release ultrabooks in the coming months, which will include Acer's Aspire 3951 and the ASUS UX21. Read The Full Story

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HP TouchPad Lasted 49 Days, Microsoft Kin Lasted 48, IBM Did it Best

Chris Burns, Aug 19th 2011 Discuss [11]

Let me see how simple I can make this because there are just a few facts that you should know, probably the most important facts of the day if you don’t count most of the other facts from the HP/webOS situation everyone was freaking out about earlier today. Head to that link for most the details, then come back and remember this bit: HP is weighing spinning off its PC unit. This basically means that HP is looking to do SOMETHING with its PC unit, also known as HP’s PSG, or Personal Systems Group, this sect of HP responsible for PCs, hand-held PCs such as mobile devices, software for the home, and more. SOMETHING means either a complete selling off of the PSG portion of the company or “spinning it off” meaning it would still sort of be part of the company, but it’d be like Beavis and Butthead’s Daria or Happy Days’ Mork and Mindy or Laverne and Shirley – separate but in the same universe.

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Apple takes top spot for mobile PC vendor with 21.1 percent share

Rue Liu, Aug 18th 2011 Discuss [7]

According to a new report from DisplaySearch, Apple has taken the top spot in worldwide mobile PC shipments in the second quarter of 2011. The company shipped 13.6 million units of mobile PCs, which includes both notebooks and tablets. This amount puts it in the lead ahead of second place HP by 3.9 million units. Read The Full Story

Occasional Gamer Dev app stats out two unknown Windows Phone devices

Shane McGlaun, Aug 17th 2011 Discuss [2]

Geeks that run their own websites know that most of the metrics packages out there that operate on servers to track your visitor data. Metrics software can also grab the device name of the connected gadgets that have a developers games installed. Occasional Gamer Dev Elbert Perez has a stats page that grabs the device ID of the Windows Phone devices that are running his game apps. Read The Full Story

Reviews

Iconia Tab A100 Review

Chris Burns, Aug 17th 2011 Discuss [18]

It is true that Acer only a few months ago brought us one of the first round of Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets In the Iconia Tab A500, a 10-inch tablet with a thin metal backing attached to one of the cheapest prices on the market. What we’ve got now is only the second 7-inch tablet on the market and the first one to carry any version of Honeycomb. Furthermore, this A100 7-inch Acer tablet is the world’s first Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet, 3.2 being the first tablet-oriented Google mobile OS made for tablets of under 10 inches in size. This tablet is not meant to be the thinnest tablet on the market, and neither this nor the original Samsung Galaxy Tab 7-inch tablet are likely to be winning the tablet fashion show, but what we DO have here is a nice little “tween” sized Android device toting NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 dual-core processor – will it carve its own piece out of the tablet market pie due to it’s relatively unique nature?

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SlashGear Weekly Roundup Video – August 14, 2011

Rue Liu, Aug 14th 2011 Discuss [2]

This past week brought more patent litigation drama along with new rumors for the exciting gadgets to come in the next few months. Sales of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab 10.1 have been blocked in Europe after Apple won a preliminary injunction on the tablet. Apple became the world’s largest company briefly when its market valuation surpassed that of Exxon Mobile. Windows Phone Mango is now rumored for a September 1 launch with Nokia confirming closure of its US Symbian and feature phone operations. The first screenshots of Android Ice Cream Sandwich leaked with its roll-out likely in November. And there’s much much more. Continue after the cut for the full video and roundup list.

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Iconia Tab A100 Unboxing and hands-on [video]

Vincent Nguyen, Aug 12th 2011 Discuss [4]

The 7-inch form factor may have opened up the Android tablet market, with Samsung’s Galaxy Tab paving the way even before Google believed the platform was ready for slates, but since then all has been quiet on the tweener front. Honeycomb’s unsuitability for medium-sized screens left several companies with their tablets on the back-burner; those that did launch, like HTC with the Flyer, stuck to smartphone versions of Android rather than risk poor compatibility. Now, bringing Android 3.2 Honeycomb to market comes the Acer Iconia Tab A100, a 7-inch dual-core model promising the performance of its bigger siblings but the pocket-friendliness of a filofax.

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Acer Iconia Tab A100 on sale now

Chris Davies, Aug 12th 2011 Discuss [6]

Acer’s Iconia Tab A100 has finally gone on sale in the US, making it the first Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet with a 7-inch screen to hit shelves. Priced from $329.99, the A100 runs on NVIDIA’s dual-core 1GHz Tegra 2 processor and has a 1024 x 600 16:10 touchscreen, 5-megapixel rear camera with autofocus and an LED flash, and a front-facing 2-megapixel camera for video calls. There’s also WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and MicroHDMI.

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Windows Phone 7 Mango Coming September 1

Rue Liu, Aug 11th 2011 Discuss [5]

Microsoft's major update to Windows Phone 7, codenamed Mango, may be rolling out much sooner than we expected. Fall was the time frame given by Microsoft and along the way evidence has cropped up suggesting an arrival sometime in September. But now, new reports from insider sources claim that the update will be released starting September 1. Read The Full Story