NVIDIA already announced that the Shield Tablet would be updated to Android 5.0 (Lollipop) soon. Now it has announced that the update would be available as early as this November, so we can expect the roll out to begin in the next few weeks. It has also released a video that shows the new Android 5.0’s Material UI along with Material redesign for NVIDIA’s Shield Hub and Dabbler apps. Continue reading “NVIDIA to roll out Android 5.0 Lollipop update for Shield Tablet this November”
iBall has launched the Slide WQ149, the company’s latest Windows 8 tablet. It has a 10.1-inch (1280×800 pixels) IPS screen and is powered by an quad-core Intel Atom Z3735D processor. It has a 5-megapixel rear camera and a 2-megapixel front-facing camera. It comes with a magnetic pogo pin keyboard that has a touchpad so that it can double up as a laptop. Continue reading “iBall Slide WQ149 10.1-inch Windows 8 Tablet with 3G support launched for Rs. 21999”
Apple introduced the iPad Air 2, the second generation iPad Air tablet last month. The tablet would go on sale in India soon starting at Rs.35,900. We got to check out the iPad Air 2, which is currently the world’s thinnest tablet. Check out the unboxing.
Samsung has launched the Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Broadband LTE-A in Korea. It the same 10.5-inch Super AMOLED display at WQXGA resolution, powered by a Octa-Core Exynos (A15 1.9 GHz + A7 1.3 GHz) processor and runs on Android 4.4 (KitKat), but this supports Category 6 LTE Advanced support that would offer download speed of up to 225 Mbps, faster than the Cat.4 LTE that supports download speed only up to 150Mbps. Continue reading “Samsung Galaxy Tab S 10.5 Broadband LTE-A (Cat.6) launched in Korea”
Worldwide tablet market grew 11.5% year over year in the third quarter of 2014 (3Q14) with shipments reaching 53.8 million units according to a latest report from the IDC.
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After its 8-inch and 10.1-inch Yoga Tablet 2 models, Lenovo has announced a 13.3-inch model. It has a 13.3-inch (2560 x 1440 pixels) WQHD IPS Display with 178-degree viewing angle and is powered by a quad-core Intel Atom Processor, similar to the 13.3-inch Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 Pro tablet. Continue reading “Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 with 13.3-inch WQHD display, Windows 8.1 announced”
Google introduced the Nexus 9 tablet made by HTC earlier this month. The first Nexus 7, its successor and the nexus 10 had screens with 16:9 aspect ratio, but this has a 4:3 aspect ratio, similar to the iPad Mini and the Xiaomi Mi Pad. We got to check out the latest flagship Nexus tablet. Here is the hands-on and the photo gallery.
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Metis Learning launched Eddy G70, an Android-based learning tablet for kids in partnership with Intel for Rs. 9999 in September. Designed specially for kids, the tablet runs on Android 4.2.2 with an overlay of the proprietary Athena OS. We have already seen the unboxing of the Eddy tablet and now lets take a detailed hardware look at the tablet.
Lenovo has launched the A7-30 3G tablet, few months after launching the 2G variant of the tablet. It has the same 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) capacitive multi-touch display, 1.3 GHz quad-core MediaTek MT8382M processor, 2-megapixel fixed-focus rear camera and a 0.3-megapixel (VGA) front-facing camera. Continue reading “Lenovo A7-30 3G Tablet with voice calling launched for Rs. 9999”
Lava has launched QPAD R704, the company’s latest tablet in the QPAD series. It has a 7-inch (1024 x 600 pixels) display, similar to the QPAD e704 tablet that was launched earlier this year, but this is powered by a 1.2GHz quad-core Snapdragon processor instead of a Broadcom processor. It runs on Android 4.3 (Jelly Bean) that is upgradable to Android 4.4 (KitKat), has a 2-megapixel rear camera and a VGA front-facing camera. It has 3G connectivity via SIM and has voice calling capabilities. Continue reading “Lava QPAD R704 with 7-inch display, quad-core Snapdragon processor launched for Rs. 8499”
ASUS has introduced MeMO Pad 10 ME103K tablet for $199. As the name suggests, the tablet has a 10 inch display with 1280 x 800 resolution and is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro processor.
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Huawei launched the Honor X1 tablet in India last week at a price tag of Rs. 19,990. It is powered by Huawei’s own quad-core HiSilicon Kirin 910 processor based on ARM’s Cortex A9 clocked at 1.6 GHz per core. It has ARM Mali 450 GPU and 2GB RAM. It comes with 7-inch (1920 x 1200 pixels) IPS display and runs on Android 4..2.2 (Jelly Bean) with Huawei’s own Emotion UI on top. Continue reading “Huawei Honor X1 Benchmarks”
Dell introduced new Dell Venue 7 and Venue 8 tablets running Android 4.4 (KitKat) back in June. Now these tablets are available in India from official Dell website. The Venue 7 has a 7-inch HD (1280×800) display, powered by a dual-core Intel Atom (Z3460) processor, while the Venue 8 comes with a 8 inch full-HD (1920×1200) display and a dual-core Intel Atom (Z3480). Both the tablets have 1 GB RAM with 16GB inbuilt storage that can be expanded upto 64GB via microSD slot. Continue reading “New Dell Venue 7 and Venue 8 tablets now available in India, starts from Rs. 11999”
E-FUN has announced a 10.1 inch Windows hybrid tablet that comes with a detachable POGO keyboard. Priced at $179 the Nextbook will be available in mid November.
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In case you are looking forward to buying the latest Nexus tablet from Google in India, we have some good news to share. We just spotted the Google Nexus 9 as coming soon on the India Play Store and the price for the 16GB Wi-Fi only version is listed as Rs.28900 which is a good deal considering the US pricing is $399 but taxes and shipping will bring the price to roughly about Rs.27000 and duties could end up making it even costlier. It seems like the 32GB Wi-Fi only version will not be coming to India. The Google Nexus 9 is made my HTC and packs a 8.9 inch display and is powered by a Nvidia Tegra K1 chip and runs on the latest version of Android 5.0 Lollipop.
Continue reading “Google Nexus 9 India Prices Revealed on Play Store, coming soon”
