This week’s tech news is topped by our HTC Thunderbolt review along with product announcements from Samsung, new pricing and availability for the Motorola XOOM WiFi-only version, subscription service changes with the New York Times and The Daily, a new live TV streaming Time Warner Cable iPad app, BlackBerry 6 security problem, rumored G2X and G-Slate dates, review of the Infinity Blade iPad 2 game, and unboxing of the HTC Arrive.
European retailer Phone House - aka the European arm of Carphone Warehouse - has thrown up pricing information for the incoming batch of Android 3.0 tablets. The XOOM, ASUS Eee Pad, LG Optimus Pad and Acer Iconia Tab A100 have all been spotted in the retailer's online catalog by AndroidGeek, with no release dates bar "coming soon."
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Motorola's XOOM has been caught in the wild apparently wearing Sprint branding, more indication that the carrier expects to launch its own version of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb slate. Leaked by SprintUsers' r0fl, the slate has no 3G or 4G branding; however, rumors yesterday suggested that Sprint was readying both a WiMAX-equipped XOOM and a WiMAX version of the Motorola ATRIX 4G.
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Motorola has been muttering about the WiFi-only XOOM for months now, but the company has only just got around to making its release schedule official. As of March 27, the XOOM WiFI Edition will arrive at US retailers, priced at $599 with 32GB of onboard storage.
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Motorola's XOOM WiFi - the much-anticipated 3G-free version of the Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet - is now expected on March 27, thanks to information spotted on a Staples flyer. Scanned by Droid Life, the flyer suggests the XOOM WiFi will be $599.98 when it hits shelves. That's the same as Verizon's subsidized price for the XOOM 3G - albeit with a new, two-year data agreement - and $200 less than the unsubsidized XOOM 3G.
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The long awaited Samsung Galaxy Tab may finally be on its way. Well, at the least the WiFi-only version, if what's purported to be a flyer handed out by a Samsung rep is true. An image of the flyer obtained by Droid-Life indicates that the Samsung Galaxy Tab WiFi version will ship on April 4th for about $399.
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Adobe has announced that the Flash Player 10.2 update for Android 3.0.1 Honeycomb tablets such as the Motorola XOOM will be released on March 18. Made available through the Android Market, as with the current Flash Player 10.1 release for Android smartphones, the updated version will be the production version for Android 2.2 and 2.3 devices and the beta for Honeycomb slates.
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The iPad 2 may be polished but Android 3.0 Honeycomb slates are arguably more flexible, at least once the hacking community gets its hands on them. Motorola's XOOM has been granted USB Host support, allowing it to access USB drives and peripherals like wired keyboards.
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Motorola has begun pushing out a new update for the XOOM tablet, which updates the slate to Android 3.0.1. The new firmware, build number HRI66 - which Motorola tweeted was to pave the way for the incoming Flash Player 10.2 update - currently lacks a build log, so it's hard to know what else may have changed.
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There’s just a day to go until the Apple iPad 2 hits US shelves on March 11 2011, and we want to know if you’re tempted by the updated slate. Our full review of the iPad 2 went live yesterday, finding it to be a faster, slimmer and generally more appealing – though not perfect – update to the original; now it’s your turn to tell us how you’ll be voting with your cash.
With all the rage that is the Apple iPad 2 and rival tablets such as the Motorola Xoom, Samsung Galaxy Tabs, HP TouchPad, to name a few, you would think that a good number of people have already bought into the whole tablet craze. But a recent report shows that the market still has plenty of frontier land to stake with 99.7% of the Earth's population not having bought a tablet device yet.
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After concerns that rooting the Motorola XOOM would leave owners of the tablet ineligible for Verizon's 4G LTE upgrade later in the year, the manufacturer has stepped in to reassure would-be buyers that they can hack their toys and still get high-speed access. According to the official Motorola support forums, the company promises that XOOM slates that have had "the original factory software reinstalled" and have been "relocked" will be updated as normal, while it will "attempt to complete the upgrade" on those returned rooted.
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