Great review of Amazon’s Kindle Fire. The reviewer gets to the meat of what the Kindle Fire is – a great price on a device for viewing digital media.
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Best Buy swipes Nook Color price down to $200
Best Buy has swiped $50 off the price of Barnes Noble’s Nook Color e-reader, dropping it to $199.99 ahead of BN’s Monday press conference to show off its next-generation Nook gadgets. The price drop was touted in a tweet spied by Engadget and supports speculation that after Monday’s all-but-certain unveiling
Read more HTC Rezound first impressions: Music to my ears
HTC CEO Peter Chou shows off the HTC Rezound. To absolutely nobody’s surprise (twice), HTC today announced the HTC Rezound for Verizon, the first U.S. smartphone to use HTC-owned Beats Audio. Originally known as the Vigor, the Rezound is HTC’s stateside answer to Europe and Asia’s HTC Sensation XL with
Read more It’s official: New Nook Color tablet launching Nov. 7
Barnes & Noble is due to release a new Nook Color on November 7, but can it come close to the Kindle Fire’s $199 price? As we reported last week, rumor had it Barnes & Noble would be launching its next-generation, Android-powered Nook Color tablet e-reader on November 7. Now it’s become
Read more iTunes creator working on Apple TV, report says
What does Apple have planned in the TV space? Apple vice president of consumer applications, Jeff Robbin, is heading up a team at the company that’s working on launching a television, according to a new report. Citing multiple sources, Bloomberg says Robbin’s team has a prototype in the works right
Read more ‘iPad Mini’ to take on Kindle Fire?
“Mini” doesn’t necessarily refer to the size but simply the lower price point, possibly the mid-$200 range.
Read more Verizon Wireless to offer BlackBerry Torch 9850
The Torch 9850 is a slim full touch-screen BlackBerry that’s now available for Verizon Wireless Verizon Wireless has announced it will start offering the BlackBerry Torch 9850 starting September 8 in its online store, and in retail stores starting September 15. It is the same phone that was released for
Read more iPhone 5 launch date: Battle of the Best Buy leaks
When is Apple’s follow-up to the iPhone 4 launching? The answer–well, one anyway–seems to depend on which Best Buy leak you consult. Depending on which of today’s Best Buy-related iPhone 5 reports you want to give the most credence to, the highly anticipated gadget could launch during the first week
Read more Amazon’s Kindle Tablet: An Android fork with disruptive pricing
Amazon’s 7-inch Kindle Tablet has been rumored for what feels like an eternity, but now demo models are making the rounds. The upshot: the Kindle Tablet features a fork of an earlier version of Android, integration with Amazon services, and a price that will garner more than a few orders. TechCrunch’s MG
Read more Smartphones Unlocked: How cell phones get their names
Welcome to Smartphones Unlocked, my new monthly column designed to explain the ins and outs of smartphones to help you better understand how they work. The world of smartphones is fast-paced and can sometimes be confusing and difficult to keep track of all the new technology in these devices, particularly
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