$200 PLAYBOOKS TO BE AVAILABLE AFTER CHRISTMAS

The BlackBerry PlayBook was available for as little as $200 in November, but those folks who didn’t manage to buy the tablet during that promotional window don’t have to lose to heart. The tablet will be on sale again after Christmas.

The US wireless carrier Sprint will be selling the tablet for $200 from December 26th and January 7th as part of its after-Christmas sale promotion.


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AMAZON SELLING A MILLION KINDLES A WEEK

Amazon is not known for providing precise sales figures of its Kindle line of tablets and ebook readers. However, according to a major announcement the retailer made yesterday, the Kindle products are fast flying off the shelves.

Amazon reportedly sells more than a millions Kindles per week. That figure includes all products bearing the Kindle name.


A number of Kindle devices are available at

APPLE COULD BE BUILDING A SMALLER IPAD

Apple could be working on a smaller iPad. The company’s flagship iPad has a 9.7 inch display. Not so long ago, Apple CEO Steve Jobs had rubbished rumors that his company would build a smaller iPad. Jobs had said that existing iPad apps wouldn’t run well on tablets with smaller displays.

At that point the iPad faced hardly any competition in the market. The only other tablet that was selling

850,000 BLACKBERRY PLAYBOOKS SOLD THIS YEAR

Research in Motion shipped 850,000 BlackBerry Playbooks this year 150,000 of which were sold during the quarter ending on November 26th. That is not a huge figure and clearly shows a remarkable dip in sales.

RIM has been aggressively promoting the tablet for a few months. The PlayBook launched earlier this year with a launch price of $499.99. Interestingly, during the quarter the tablet launched

TOSHIBA INTRODUCES 10 INCH WINDOWS TABLET IN JAPAN

Toshiba has already launched a few Android tablets, but the company’s latest runs Windows 7 Professional operating system. It is aimed at business customers and will be available in Japan sometime soon.

The Toshiba Dynabook WT301/D has a 10.1 inch display with a resolution of 1366 x 768 pixels. It is powered by an Intel Atom processor. Other specifications include 2GB of RAM and a 64GB solid

ARCHOS TABLETS WITH 1.5GHz DUAL CORE PROCESSORS COMING SOON

The Archos 80 and Archos 101 G9 tablets will hit the market in time for Christmas. The Archos 80 has an 8 inch display while the Archos 101 G9 has a 10 inch display. Both models have 1.5GHz dual core processors. Archos already offers tablets with 8 inch and 10 inch displays. But these models have either 1 GHz or 1.2GHz processors.


The new Archos 80 and 101 G9 tablets run 350 Euros or less in

TOSHIBA Z835 ULTRABOOK SELLING FOR $700 THIS WEEK

The Toshiba Z835 ultrabook is now available for as little as $699.99. It looks like it is a promotion which may not last forever, but this week you can pick up the Z835 for the afore-mentioned price.

Ultrabooks are ultrathin notebooks sporting Intel’s latest processors and fast and durable SSDs. They have fast boot and resume-from-sleep speeds. They aren’t exactly cheap: prices usually start at

SAMSUNG BUILDING 14 INCH ULTRABOOK

Generally speaking, ulltrabooks are ultrathin laptops with 13.3 inch or smaller displays. But they can be larger too. Samsung has just announced that it is building ultrabooks with 14 inch displays. The new laptops will be part of Samsung’s Series 5 lineup. The company will reportedly offer 2 models.


One of these Series 5 ultrabook has a 14 inch display, an optical drive, 8GB of RAM and an

CLOSER LOOK AT THE SAMSUNG SERIES 7 SLATE PC

The Samsung Series 7 Slate PC is one of the few Windows tablets on the market. With a starting price of $1149, the Slate PC isn’t cheap. On the bright side, it has the hardware that kind of justifies its huge price tag. It is also designed to take full-advantage of the touch-based features of Windows 7 OS.


Since the Series 7 Slate PC runs Windows 7, it is capable of running all desktop

7 INCH TOSHIBA THRIVE NOW AVAILABLE FOR $380

The 7 inch Toshiba Thrive Android tablet is now available for purchase for $379.99. At the price point it is kind of costly. Some big name companies like Amazon now sells decent tablets for as little as $200. That said, the Toshiba Thrive has better specifications than Amazon’s Kindle Fire.


The Toshiba Thrive is powered by a 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 dual core processor and runs Google Android 3.2

AMD WORKING ON ITS OWN VERSION OF 'ULTRABOOKS'

Intel was the first to coin the term ‘ultrabook’. These are ultraportable laptops featuring Intel’s newest processors and solid state disks. They also feature fast boot and resume-from-sleep speeds. Ultrabook is now a registered trademark of Intel. That means you will never find an ultrabook with an AMD processor. That, however, doesn’t mean that AMD is taking things lying down. The company is

BLACKBERRY PLAYBOOK GETS MAJOR SOFTWARE UPDATE

At the BlackBerry DevCon Asia 2011 developer conference BlackBerry announced that a major software update to its PlayBook tablet OS is ready. The PlayBook OS 2.0 will bring in folder support, Android app support and better user customization. That means, now you will be able to run Android apps on your Playbook. Another notable feature is the new customizable ‘favorites’ strip which allows you to

ASUS EEE PC X101CH CEDAR TRAIL ATOM LAPTOP UNBOXED

The Asus Eee PC X101CH sporting an Intel Cedar Trail processor has been caught on a video. It is an update to the previous generation Eee PC X101/X101H netbooks which had the Intel Atom N435 or N455 single core processors.


The Eee PC X101CH has an Intel Atom N2600 dual core processor. It runs Windows 7 Starter edition. A notable feature of the laptop is its HDMI output which allows you to

SONY VAIO VPCEL22FX/B NOW SHIPPING FOR $350

The 15.5 inch Sony VAIO VPCEL22FX/B is now available for just $350. At that price point it is the cheapest VAIO on the market. Sony is not known for launching affordable laptops. Although the VAIO VPCEL22FX/B is cheap for a Sony laptop, many laptops having comparable specs are available on the market for less. But if the Sony brand name is important for you, this is a good opportunity to own a