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Notion Ink Adam II: A new Adam?

Paul St John Mackintosh — Tue, 14 May 2013 16:30:48 +0000

Reports on Androidos.in and later picked up on Engadget and elsewhere have outed the Notion Ink Adam II Android tablet, successor device to the much-hyped Adam device produced by India’s Notion Ink Design Labs, and apparently supported by the Indian Department of Science & Technology Technology Business Incubators program. Documents indicate a reasonably specced and very price-competitive tablet, [...]

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E-Book Usability News: Adjustable line spacing now available on the Kindle Fire HD 8.9”

David Rothman — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:30:55 +0000

LibraryCity knocked Amazon for not letting users of the Kindle Fire HDs adjust their line spacing. But guess what I noticed just now within the font-related submenu of my Kindle HD 8.9” model running version 8.3.1 firmware? Alas, on my several files tested, I still couldn’t narrow the spaces sufficiently on the HD even though the Kindle app [...]

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Microsoft Not Buying Nook After All?

Juli Monroe — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:30:15 +0000

And this is why I try very hard not to report on rumors. Last week I wrote about a rumor that Microsoft was considering buying the Nook Media division. Well, the rumor was good for Barnes & Noble stock, which spiked up to $22 a share the day the rumor was announced, and then continued [...]

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7 Must-Have Apps For Your New Nook HD

Juli Monroe — Sun, 12 May 2013 17:43:24 +0000

If you’ve taken advantage of the great sale on the Nook HD (ending today), or if you’ve had one for awhile and recently upgraded to add the Google Play Store, you might be wondering what apps to add. Here’s my list of must-have apps, not available in the Nook App store. 1. Feedly With Google [...]

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Study: 30 Percent of Flyers Have Left on their Electronic Devices

Aggregated Content — Sat, 11 May 2013 02:30:34 +0000

By Stephen Silver Ever reach into your pocket at the end of a long flight to turn on your phone, only to realize it was on all along? You’re not alone. A study released Thursday found that 30 percent of U.S. airplane passengers have accidentally left a personal electronic device turned on while on a [...]

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Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Gets Much Awaited and Oft-Delayed Android 4.1 Jelly Bean Update

Adrian Diaconescu — Fri, 10 May 2013 18:09:52 +0000

Samsung might have already started rolling out the third generation of Galaxy Tabs with the Tab 3 7.0, but that doesn’t mean it has forgotten all about the aging members of the family introduced back in 2011 and 2012. In fact, one of those, the Galaxy Tab 7.7, is reported to be receiving some much awaited [...]

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Forgot to Turn off your Kindle in flight? You’re not alone!

Juli Monroe — Fri, 10 May 2013 16:47:29 +0000

The Consumer Electronics Association released some interesting data yesterday about electronic devices on planes. • Ninety-nine percent of flyers bring a portable electronic device on a flight with them. That’s a lot of gadgets! • Thirty percent of them have forgotten to turn off a device at some time. Whoops! Another interesting breakdown is this: The study [...]

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Amazon Rumored To Be Working On 10-Inch Kindle Fire With Impressive Display

Adrian Diaconescu — Tue, 07 May 2013 01:02:31 +0000

You’re familiar with the saying “Go big or go home?” Well, it doesn’t exactly apply to the tablet market nowadays, but the tide could turn soon enough. One of the biggest ongoing battles is for the small tab crown, with Google, Asus, Amazon, Apple, but also Acer fighting each other guns blazing. Meanwhile, the bigger [...]

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Nook HD as an Android Tablet Contender: Part 2 — Nook HD vs. Nexus 7

Juli Monroe — Mon, 06 May 2013 21:24:33 +0000

Yesterday, I wrote about the Nook HD mostly from a stock OS perspective. But I know the question you really wanted to have answered was this: “Does it work as an Android tablet?” After three days of using it, my answer is a cautious “yes.” Because I still don’t have a tablet case for it, [...]

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Nook HD as an Android Tablet Contender: Part 1 — The Stock Experience

Juli Monroe — Sun, 05 May 2013 18:30:16 +0000

I’ve wanted a Nook HD from the moment they came out. The reviews of the hardware were great, but I swore after I sold my first tablet, a Nook Color, that I’d never buy another crippled device again. The Nook App store is just terrible, and while I tried to make my Nook Color work [...]

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Barnes & Noble Puts the Nook HD Line on Sale for Mother’s Day

Juli Monroe — Sun, 05 May 2013 17:36:02 +0000

Of course they put them on sale two days after I bought one. But my griping aside, this is a great deal. For B&N’s Mother’s Day sale, the Nook HD is priced at $149 while the Nook HD+ is only $179. Those prices are for the lower memory versions, but the higher memory versions are [...]

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Acer Unveils Iconia A1 Tablet, an Excellent iPad mini Alternate

Matthew Marchesano — Sat, 04 May 2013 22:00:50 +0000

A few days ago we caught a few leaked images of Acer’s updated mini tablet, the Iconia A1. A next-generation of Acer’s Iconia B1, the “One-Handed” device features a brilliant 7.9-inch IPS display, arguably better specs, and clearly a better price-point than Apple’s latest iPad mini. If you’re in the market for an ultra-portable slate, this should [...]

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BlackBerry CEO questions future of tablets, says they’re a “bad business model”

Charles Moore — Sat, 04 May 2013 21:03:51 +0000

Bloomberg’s Hugo Miller and Nadja Brandt quote Blackberry CEO Thorsten Heins contending that the popularity of tablet computers may wane, a strong hint that there will be no BlackBerry tablet successor to the company’s ill-fated PlayBook device. Miller and Brandt cite Mr. Heins saying in an interview at the Milken Institute conference in Los Angeles that in [...]

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On my honeymoon, I fell in love all over again… with my e-reader (and my wife, of course)

Brian Howard — Thu, 02 May 2013 19:30:18 +0000

I hope you’ll pardon me as I jog my ocean air- and sun-addled brain back into something resembling normal functioning with a story from my just-ended honeymoon. On Saturday, my newly minted wife and I got back from Tulum, Mexico, where we spent a week on the beach relaxing and—if we’re being completely honest—recovering from [...]

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Pocket Gets Even More Social with ‘Send to Friend’ Feature

Aggregated Content — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:00:13 +0000

By Christina Jones Pocket has added a few new feature for its users. Before, you could share your saved articles to social networks like Facebook and Twitter, as well as through e-mail. Now you can share articles along with a personal comment and highlighted quote to other Pocket users, sending them push notifications and an [...]

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