Acer Targets Amazon And Google With $99 Iconia B1 Tablet

Taiwanese manufacturer, Acer,  has unveiled a low cost Android tablet at CES 2013. The Iconia B1 is an Android 4.1 7-inch tablet with a screen resolution of 1024×600 pixels. The tablet is  powered by a 1.2Ghz dual-core MediaTex processor,  512MB RAM and 8GB of internal storage. Acer will begin selling the Iconia B1 for $99 in Asian markets this month and can cost up to $149 in other markets. At $149 the Iconia B1 will one of... Read More

Alcatel’s Low Cost One Touch Tab Lineup Runs Android Jelly Bean

Ahead of CES 2013, Alcatel has announced a new line of low cost Android Jellybean tablets called the One Touch Tab. The line of tablets include the One Touch Tab 7, One Touch Tab 7HD and One Touch Tab 8 HD. One Touch Tab 7 Alcatel’s One Touch Tab 7 features a 7-inch, WSVGA TFT display with a resolution of 1024 x 600 pixels. It’s powered by 1GB of RAM, a single-core 1GHz processor and supports up to 4GB of internal storage.... Read More

The One Touch Evo 7 Line From Alcatel Is Not To Be Mixed With HTC’s

Alcatel is really looking to get back into the mobile gadgets race. The company has announced its One Touch Evo along with its One Touch Tab lineup. We’re not sure why they’ve chosen the name “Evo” seeing as HTC already uses this name. The Evo range of tablets run Android and have a special add-on module that let you add suport for mobile data. Alcatel One Touch Evo 7 The Evo 7 is a 7-inch display, Android... Read More

Samsung Teases Hybrid Windows 8 Tablet Ahead Of IFA[VIDEO]

Ahead of the IFA 2012 in Berlin, Samsung has teased a Hybrid Windows 8 Tablet with a YouTube video. The Tablet has the usual touchscreen as well as a thin keyboard. The back of the Tablet seems to be made of brushed metal with rounded edges. We know it transforms because the video shows the screen part of the tablet flipping. Samsung has definitely not given up on the stylus as this device has a stylus port. Samsung says “the... Read More

Lenovo Unveils Windows 8 Tablet: ThinkPad Tablet 2[PHOTOS]

  Lenovo has unveiled the Thinkpad Tablet 2. The tablet will run Windows 8 and be the first tablet to run an Intel mobile chip – the Clover Trail processor. Here’s what’s special about Clover Trail. Earlier, Windows 8 tablets could run Windows RT and Windows RT doesn’t have the ability to run old Windows 7 apps. Enter Clover Trail. Clover Trail enables the ThinkPad Tablet 2 to run Windows 8 Pro, a proper... Read More

CNN Interviews Saheed Adepoju About Inye 2 [VIDEO]

Encipher, the company behind Africa’s first tablet PC – the Inye, launched the Inye 2 last year. In this interview with CNN, Saheed Adepoju speaks about the challenges Encipher faces. He says Encipher sold only 80 units of the Inye 1 and they’ve sold no units of the Inye 2 so far. The Inye 2 has an 8-inch Capacitive and runs Google’s Android 3.0 Honeycomb on a 1Ghz processor with 4GB internal storage and... Read More

Apple Announces iPad 3 Event For March 7

Looks like iPad 3 rumors will finally be put to rest next week. Apple has begun sending out invites to an event on Wednesday, 7th of March at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco at 10AM PST[7PM Nigerian Time]. We’ll be following the event and tweeting live as it’s unveiled. Apple says “We have something you really have to see. And touch”. The Tablet might not actually be called the iPad... Read More

Debonair Bookstore To Launch Bamboo D300 Tablet In March

Nigerian Bookstore, Debonair Books will launch a new tablet in its line of tablets the Bamboo D300. The Bamboo D300 is expected to launch and begin shipping on March 22. The 13mm slim Bamboo D300 is a 7-inch, 1024 x 600 pixel, scratch-resistant display tablet, running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on NVIDIA’s dual-core Tegra 2 CPU. It sports a 3.2 megapixel rear camera, 2 megapixel front-facing camera for video-chat. Connection... Read More

iPad 3 Announcement First Week of March?

This should probably not come as a major surprise, but the Wall Street Journal’s tech blog, All Things D, reports that the 3rd generation Apple iPad is to be announced at a keynote in the first week of March. This would not be unexpected as the previous two generations of iPads were announced around the same time frame, and the iPad is due for a refresh. In fact, the iPad 2 was announced by Steve Jobs around this time last... Read More

Ghana’s Alltel Unveils KPad Range Of Tablets[PICS]

Seems like Ghanians no longer have to worry about high prices of Tablets in the region. Ghana’s Alltel Limited recently unveiled the KPad a range of Tablet devices running Google’s Android operating system as well as Microsoft’s Windows 7. The ‘K’ in ‘K-Pad’ is for Kludgeson. Kofi Kludgeson, the Executive Chairman of Alltel also unveiled the ‘Akasanoma’ PC, Internet and TV system... Read More

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