Research In Motion (RIM) is gearing up for an all out tablet war against both Android and Apple with its BlackBerry PlayBook but it might have a trick up its sleeve—the Wi-Fi only, 8 GB model of the PlayBook is rumored to be priced at $399. The $399 price is a good hundred bucks less ...

Acer has just announced three huge, new Android OS powered devices for early 2011. When I say huge, I really mean huge. While Acer has not yet announced the names yet for its new smartphone and two new tablets, it has released plenty of information on them. The smartphone has a 4.8” screen at a resolution of 1024×480 pixels. Full details after the jump!

With the release of Android OS version 2.3 ‘Gingerbread’ just around the corner, Google has been getting ready. Changes to Google apps on some devices have already got some slight tweaks and now Google is revamping its Android Market. The Android operating system has seen its number of available apps explode to the 100,000 range ...

Apple’s follow up to its insanely successful iPad tablet could be a lot closer than we all thought. According to Digitimes sources, three suppliers for the printed circuit boards (PCBs) in the iPad 2 have already been named and the device will start shipping in February when four more suppliers will be added to keep ...

  The highly anticipated BlackBerry PlayBook tablet has received its first rumored launch date—March 2011. Digitimes is reporting that Research In Motion (RIM)’s Regional Vice-President Gregory Wade has told them that the PlayBook will hit the market by the end of the first quarter of next year. Yep, that means by the end of March 2011. Wade ...

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) has put a video on YouTube showcasing just how fast its coming PlayBook tablet will be at loading and rendering web content. The PlayBook’s competitor in the video? None other than the iPad. You might be surprised at the result. Video after the jump! PlayBook versus iPad So what do you ...

Smartphone manufacturer HTC has just filed for trademarks for “HTC EVO Shift 4G” and “HTC EVO 4G Shift” in the US. As you are probably aware, HTC makes the EVO 4G smartphone for Sprint. However, the company also makes the HTC Shift (an ultra portable that dual-boots Windows and HTC’s SnapVUE PDA OS) so this might mean HTC wants to merge the two into some type of hybrid device. We can certainly hope so can’t we?

The new Galaxy S Tab from Samsung will be launching at AT&T on November 21st according to a source at the company. BGR’s AT&T source is most likely correct, since the Tab really needs to start hitting stores. Even the BlackBerry PlayBook has managed to generate more buzz around it lately and it isn’t due ...

  Starting in the first quarter of 2011, the BlackBerry PlayBook will be sold for less than $500. Bloomberg also quoted Co-CEO of Research In Motion (RIM)—Jim Balsillie—saying that the PlayBook tablet will be “very competitively priced.” It is unclear if the presumable $499 price tag for the tablet refers to the Wi-Fi only model that ...

How is this for a rumor? The maker of the BlackBerry smartphone series—Research In Motion (RIM)—might be the target for a takeover.  Shaw Wu, an analyst for Kaufman Bros., claims that while it is a possibility that is helping fuel RIM’s stock price (RIMM) rise of 12% over the past couple of days (along with ...

It’s official—the Verizon Galaxy Tab by Samsung has a November 11th launch date and a $599 unsubsidized price tag. Verizon Wireless now has two tablets in its arsenal: the iPad with a Mi-Fi tether to get 3G via Wi-Fi and the Samsung Galaxy Tab. Which one is the better deal? Here is an overview of ...

Leave it to Apple CEO Steve Jobs to anger people and companies. The man is almost as good at the art of infuriating as he is at developing high tech products people are willing to wait in line hours for to get their hands on. His latest comments that have set the internet abuzz? He ...

  Gotta love concept artwork and videos. The iPad 2 has gotten its own such special treatment from Joy Studios. I have to say, the concept video—which is actually a pseudo advertisement for the coming iPad 2—is very well done. If you didn’t know any better, you might think that it was a real Apple ad ...

The Samsung Galaxy Tab might be coming as Early as November 1st  through Verizon Wireless, and a leaked information sheet for Verizon employees outlines the Android powered tablet. AndroidCentral got the info on the Samsung Tab from an anonymous source, but it looks quite genuine. The information page is labeled “Samsung Galaxy Tab: Top Things ...

The CEO of QNX Software Systems—Dan Dodge—has been talking on the official BlackBerry Developer's Blog regarding the new OS his company has developed for Research In Motion (RIM) and its coming PlayBook tablet. Remember, QNX was purchased by RIM to develop the OS. Here is a quick summary of what he said about it. First off, ...