Friday
Jul082011

Video: Behold Lenovo's IdeaPad K1!

Those who have waited for Lenovo to jump into the tablet market can now exhale. The upcoming IdeaPad K1 is expected to have Android 3.1, a 10.1" inch screen, a Tegra 2 Processor, 32GB of storage and dual cameras for video chat. No pricing or availability has been announced but some are saying it will be in the $500 range.
Thursday
Jul072011

SourceCode: TELUS strikes deals with RDIO, Skype to enhance its services

Telus' HTC Status gets you Google and Facebook on one device

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

TELUS held a Back To School Event for the media today to showcase its latest services, recent handsets as well as introduce some of the new service offerings including tighter integration with VoIP giant Skype as well as hot new social cloud music service Rdio.

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Thursday
Jul072011

Review: Facebook on webOS for HP TouchPad

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

One of the launch apps on HP's new TouchPad tablet is a full-scale Facebook application. To date,  the BlackBerry PlayBook and the TouchPad  have device-specific version of the popular (750 million users) social network. Here's a quick review.

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Wednesday
Jul062011

First Look: HP TouchPad 32GB 

We have a review unit HP TouchPad in hand to review for a few weeks. Here are some photos from our earlier unboxing, the keyboard and TouchStone charger boxes as well as some comparative pictures with other 10.1" inch tablets the iPad 2 as well as the Motorola XOOM. Full review to follow as soon as we've had some time to test it out thoroughly.

We found that webOS does translate nicely to the larger screen, the rounded shape makes it a bit easier to carry and that it is fairly intuitive to use. Now that we've seen it, the OS multitasking similarities to the BlackBerry's PlayBook OS are more evident. 

Lucky attendees at an exclusive #touchPadTO event held last night each got a free TouchPad for showing up, so there are some units in the wild.  We also learned last week from the HP Connected event that qualifying webOS developers will get a discount or can sign up for a 60 day  Loaner Program for the 32GB version of the tablet.

The TouchPad ships in Canada on July 15th starting at $499 for the 16GB version.

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Source: Chris Brooker