Welcome to the re-ramping! Spring is a notoriously slow time for technology, especially in releases of the gadgets we so very much love and adore, but by my watch, the truck is revving its engine and has started back out of the truck stop. We've got THREE, count them, THREE contests going on right now, and all of them have prizes so massive, you're going to pee. First, win an Aire LED Black Monitor - then grab yourself a Qualcomm/BSQUARE Mobile Development Platform aka a bad mother with a Snapdragon MSM8660 1.5GHz asynchronous dual-core CPU and Adreno 220 - finally we've got ONE MORE Motorola XOOM to give away - lucky you!
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‘Motorola XOOM’ Stories
The Daily Slash: May 2nd, 2011
The XOOM Contest here on SlashGear Continues!
SO there's been a bit of a situation involving ineligibility with one of our so-called winners of the Motorola XOOM wifi units - and you know what that means! It means we're going to extend the contest till' next week and pick a whole new winner! That's right, if you've already entered our big fat XOOM contest (with prizes from NVIDIA,) you're still in the running. If you wanted to enter but didn't get the chance, now's when you need to make it happen! You've got until Sunday May 8th at 2PM - get entering!
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Forget XOOM, sue your rivals instead analyst advises Motorola
Since you can't beat 'em, sue 'em - that's the advice from one analyst to Motorola Mobility, who calls the Motorola XOOM a failure, Honeycomb "dead on arrival" and the Android Market "a disaster." Global Equities' Trip Chowdry throws out a hugely-ranging estimate for the number of XOOM tablets sold - between 15,000 and 120,000, he reckons - and suggests that, Fortune reports, rather than attempt to compete with Apple and RIM, Motorola should aim to pick off its Android OEM counterparts with patent lawsuits.
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comScore Finds iOS Ownership Double the Size of Android in Europe
That's when accounting for mobile phones, tablets, and other connected media devices - that's the whole barrel! It seems that comScore has released a study which includes results from the EU5 (aka UK Germany, France, Spain, and Italy) which included media tablet owners* and based on data from their own comScore MobiLens service. This report suggests that Apple's iOS platform (on iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch,) has a combined platform reach of 28.9 users in the five European markets in the EU5 - this number outperforming Android by 116 percent.
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Reminder: We Have a XOOM Contest Going On!
There's a big fat XOOM contest going on - did you know? We've got a total of FIVE XOOM tablets to give away - 2 have been claimed, there's 2 left on Android Community, and we've still got just one! That means you've got THREE opportunities to win these crazy awesome Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablets. They're packed with NVIDIA's Tegra 2 dual-core processors and they're just jumping out of the box to land on your laps. Love em!
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Verizon Undecided About Carrying BlackBerry PlayBook
RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook just launched yesterday without much fanfare and doused with lukewarm reviews. And now, it may have a difficult time getting carriers to take on the product. The PlayBook released yesterday was only the WiFi version, with plans for a 4G version to come later. RIM has said that it expected Verizon Wireless to be a distribution partner for its PlayBook, but today the carrier said that it has not yet confirmed the decision.
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PlayBook sales “far exceeding” XOOM demand says analyst
RIM may have sold 45,000 BlackBerry PlayBook tablets on the QNX slate's first day of availability, according to estimates from analysts Jefferies & Co. Surveys among retailers revealed around 20,000 PlayBook sales on the day, reports eWeek, while pre-orders for the tablet are believed to have amounted to a further 25,000 units.
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Motorola’s XOOM 3G arrives in UK from £130
UK retailer Carphone Warehouse has thrown open sales of the 3G-enabled Motorola XOOM, with the 10.1-inch Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet available both SIM-free and unlocked, or subsidized with various data plans. Alone, the XOOM 3G is £579.99 ($948), while you can grab it from £129.99 ($213) if you're willing to commit to 24-months of data.
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A Half-Baked PlayBook is the tip of the Firmware Nightmare
If there’s one message that comes through loud and clear about the BlackBerry PlayBook – both in our review and in others – it’s that RIM’s first tablet is half-baked in its current state. The 7-inch slate is dependent on a phone for half of its key apps, glitchy in more places than it should be, and has left reviewers warning would-be early-adopters that it might even be too early for them to consider, well, adopting. Welcome to the firmware nightmare, where every device is a work-in-progress and nobody is ever quite satisfied.
SlashGear’s Gigantic XOOM Giveaway WINNER #1
Welcome to the very first of two giveaway winner posts – this will hopefully be one of two, that is, because if this winner doesn’t get in contact with us in under 24 hours (give or take a few hours, to be fair,) we’ll be picking again! As you know from our original post, we’ve got a total of 5 tablets – 2 for SlashGear, another 3 for Android Community – we’ve got another winner announcement over there if you care to take a look, feel free to join both contests! Meanwhile, our very first winner goes by the name Andre Phillips!
SlashGear Weekly Roundup Video – April 17, 2011
For this week’s tech news roundup video, we highlight the launch of the HTC Sensation smartphone and their HTC Sense 3.0 UI along with several news items involving Microsoft’s Windows 8 and Windows Phone 7 Mango update. Continue after the jump for the video and the full list.
SlashGear’s Gigantic XOOM Giveaway Reminder [With Comments from YOU!]
Let me let you know what's going on here. We've got these XOOM tablets, five of them - 2 for SlashGear and 3 for Android Community, and we're gonna give them away for free. They're all Wifi-only so you don't have to worry about paying a monthly fee, in fact you don't have to worry about paying for anything, because they're totally, totally free. We've been getting some pretty awesome entries for this contest since it started, and in showing a few classics to you now, we'd like you, the people who haven't joined in the fun yet, to enter!
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