The Internet spent Tuesday morning laughing at a suggestion by BlackBerry CEO Thorstein Heins that tablets won't exist in five years, a scenario that is as plausible as it is predictive — in fact, it's as exciting a plan for the future of gadgets as the one Apple built right under your fingertips.
Despite the rise of the phablet and its friends, the battle of the very expensive tablets is very much upon us as Apple announced an $800, 128GB version of its iPad on Tuesday morning — less than two weeks before its enemies at Microsoft will launch a $900, 128GB tablet, the Surface Pro.
Maybe you got a new smartphone or tablet for Christmas, or maybe you're just re-stocking your device. Either way, these are the new essentials for your iPad, Android device, and, in all cases, your iPhone.
Just before Microsoft's Surface goes on sale tomorrow, the gadget professionals have spent time with the hybrid computer tablet, and while everyone is certain that it's different from anything out there, including the iPad, no one is sure that's really a good thing.
A little over a week before its event, Microsoft accidently posted on its website (since now taken down) the prices for its new Surface tablets. At $500 for the 32GB model, it will run $100 less than the 32GB iPad 3.
Microsoft has started sending out invitations for an October 25 "Microsoft Surface Reception," where the company will presumably tell us all the details about its tablet that were left out of the initial announcement back in June.
The kiddie tablet wars aren't child's play. In a lawsuit filed today, the makers of the Nabi accuse Toys 'R' Us of sabotaging their product only to copy it for their own Tabeo device.
There was a time when Google said it would never sully its beautiful white homepage with ads, and today we get a very big one for its new tablet, the Nexus 7.
With the Google Nexus 7 shipped and out of the box (hopefully!), users have had enough time with the device to notice the kinks.
Google's $200 tablet is a better value than Amazon's $200 tablet, not just for consumers, but for Google, too.
Just as Google releases a 7-inch tablet that the techies actually like, the rumor mill has resurrected that old Apple seven inch tablet rumor, making Steve Jobs' nightmare of a smaller iPad seem more likely now than ever.
Following Google's announcement of its own tablet yesterday, reviewers have gotten some hands-on time with the device, finding it a higher quality machine than some other $200 tablets we could name.
At this afternoon's Google developer conference keynote, the company confirmed what all the rumorers had expected, a Nexus 7 tablet, a streaming media player and an Android upgrade. Plus: We also got another look at those Google AI glasses.
At this week's Google developers conference, which begins today and goes through Friday in San Francisco, the company will for sure release a tablet, but exactly what that tablet will look like is less certain.
Microsoft not only dumped all of its hardware partners before making the Surface tablet, like a boyfriend playing his various squeezes, it first forced them into a race to the bottom, leaving them once it had wrung out every last drop of their value.
Looking to (stealing from?) Apple, Microsoft went for a super-secret approach to its tablet launch and it's still paying off, with the Surface dominating today's tech rumor news.
Microsoft's super-secret event delivered a gadget that lived up to tech blogger hype -- almost.
After days of speculation, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced more than the tech bloggers anticipated, with not one, but two tablet products and what it calls "touch covers."
Time to figure out all the possible things that could happen at Monday's mysterious Microsoft event.
With Microsoft putting $300,000,000 into Barnes and Noble's Nook business, the Windows 8 maker just bought itself something that could come in handy with that whole iPad killer strategy it's got going on.
Google's hardware expansion plans into tablet world, like its social expansion plans into Facebook world, will probably fail.
Considering the release of cheaper tablet competitors, among other factors (Foxconn?), this year's iPad 3 craziness makes less sense than ever, yet demand and expectations remain high for the device that Apple may reveal tomorrow.
After a successful developer preview debut last fall, Microsoft has unveiled the consumer preview of its newest operating system.
With more competitors than ever, Apple's tablet supremacy has started slipping, making soon the perfect time to release a hyped-up new offering.
Today Fox News is reporting that Eric Schmidt promised an iPad killer in six months, based on a comment the Google CEO said last week to Italian paper Corriere della Sera.
With the supposed iPad killer making its debut tomorrow, techies have gotten a day-early hands on look at the product, deciding that Amazon's tablet probably won't do too much damage to Apple after all.
Pretty late to the tablet party, Barnes & Noble officially released its Nook tablet today.
Amazon is expected to launch its tablet tomorrow, here's what we know about it so far
The biggest online retailer's website redesign will change the way we shop
HP will manufacture more of its tablets that nobody wanted
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