TechnoBaboy Philippines
Acer’s cheap Android tablet offering is now official. Acer formally announced the Iconia A1 tablet and also revealed its pricing. The Acer Iconia A1 runs on the Jelly Bean version of Android, with a display that measures 7.9 inches. It’s almost the same size as the Apple iPad mini and the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 Read »
Get ready to welcome another Note in the already extensive line-up of Samsung Galaxy devices. The Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 was recently unveiled and it apparently has an identity crisis. It’s a tablet, alright but it also has a phone functionality, so is it a huge smartphone or is it simply another mid-sized tablet? Read »
I just got an invite from Cherry Mobile for a launch event that will feature a quad-core device. The invite is in the nature of a teaser so it’s not clear if what will be unveiled at the event is a smartphone or a tablet. Cherry Mobile is slowly building a reputation of offering Read »
Torque, the other aggressive local brand apart from Cherry Mobile, just launched another Android tablet for the budget-conscious Filipinos. Torque currently has the Droidz Flash, Droidz Portal and Droidz View Android tablets in the market but there’s always room for another one. The new Android tablet is the Torque Droidz Race and it’s another Read »
We’ve heard about the Asus Memo Pad, the soon-to-be-released cheap tablet from the Taiwanese manufacturer. The tablet measures 7-inches and is priced at $150, a price point that makes the Nexus 7 look like it’s overpriced. The Asus Memo Pad is not like the Nexus 7, though, even if it’s also Asus who made Read »
You’ve got to appreciate what Ainol is doing to the Android tablet scene in the Philippines. The brand has been offering affordable Android tablets with decent specs and the recent one to have been announced in the Philippines is a feature-packed 10-incher. The new Android tablet I’m talking about is the Ainol Novo 10 Read »
The Sony Xperia Tablet appears to be real. Leaked photos have been circulating online and the recent crop of photos to have surfaced show all angles and sides of the tablet. The Xperia Tablet is admittedly beautiful and sexy, showing off curves that scream Sony. It shares the wedge design of the previous Sony Read »
Samsung started the “phablet” trend with the Galaxy Note, LG followed with the Optimus Vu, and now HTC is rumored to be preparing its own version of the hybrid phone/tablet device. The Verge reported that HTC will be launching a 5-inch device in September or October of this year. If this is true, HTC will be Read »
Samsung has officially announced the Galaxy Note 10.1. As the name suggests, this is the 10.1-inch version of the smaller 5.3-inch Galaxy Note and like its smaller sibling, it also features an S-Pen stylus. Samsung has improved the design of the tablet since it was first revealed to the public months ago. This time Read »
LG just launched its very first LTE tablet called the LG Optimus Pad LTE. The tablet boasts of a True HD IPS display measuring at 8.9 inches with 1280 x 768 resolution. The tablet is rather slim with its 9.34mm frame and is also light at only 497 grams. The LG Optimus Pad LTE should be Read »
And I thought Cherry Mobile is the only local company capable of coming out with Android devices. Torque also had two Android handsets in its lineup, particularly the Droiz Tandem and Droidz Dual, but these were released months ago and the company’s silence seemed to indicate that it would be dropping its Android efforts. Read »
Cherry Mobile continues to surprise us with newer and cheaper product offerings. The company released a slew of android phones and tablets and one of them is a contender in the 10-inch category to which the iPad 2 and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 belong. Cherry Mobile is therefore up against formidable products but Read »
ViewSonic is known for making affordable tablets. It’s latest creation is the ViewSonic ViewBook 730, an Android tablet with 7-inch touch screen display (800×480 resolution) with Rite Touch technology for stylus input. The ViewBook 730 has a slim and lightweight design, weighing only 0.95 lbs. and measuring 0.55 inch thick. It sports an 8 Read »
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer may have a funny sounding name but its specs and features make it a real winner. The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is an Android 3.0 Honeycomb tablet. And at an announced price of US$399 (about Php17,000), it is the cheapest Android Honeycomb tablet to date, about US$100 cheaper than Read »
Apple very recently made the iPad 2 official. It’s touted to be thinner, lighter and faster. From the released specs sheet, it there is no doubt that the iPad 2 has what it takes to back up these claims. Let’s look at the impressive list of features of the iPad 2. From the above Read »