ASUS TF300T SPOTTED IN THE WILD: COULD BE A CHEAPER EEE PAD TRANSFORMER PRIME

A new Asus tablet bearing the model name TF300T has been spotted in the wild. It is expected to be a cheaper version of the Eee Pad Transformer Prime.

The new tablet seems to have the same 10 inch, 1280 x 800 pixels display and optional keyboard docking station as the original Transformer Prime. However, there are a few differences as well.


The TF300T has a slightly slower 1.2GHz Tegra 2

LENOVO DISCONTINUES THINKPAD X120E

Lenovo has pulled the plug on its ThinkPad X120e thin and light laptop. The company has already replaced the X120e with the X130e.


The ThinkPad X120e was introduced last year. It was the first ThinkPad laptop to sport an AMD Fusion processor. It is no longer available for purchase from the Lenovo website. The ThinkPad X130e has the same semi-rugged case as the X120e. It is also available with

ARCHOS LAUNCHES ARNOVA 8B G2 ANDROID TABLET

Archos has made yet another addition to its Arnova line of low-cost tablets. The new Arnova 8b G2 is only slightly different from the Arnova 8 G2 which has been available for a while. The new tablet doesn’t have physical buttons for home, back, menu or search buttons.

The tablet runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system at the moment. But the fact that it doesn’t have physical buttons is

ACER ICONIA TAB A100 AND A500 TO GET ANDROID 4.0 IN APRIL

Acer has announced that its Iconia Tab A100 and A500 will get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update in April. The Iconia Tab A100 has a 7 inch display while the A500 sports a larger 10 inch panel. The Iconia Tab A200 has already started getting the Android 4.0 update.


The Iconia Tab A100 and A500 both run Android 3.2 Honeycomb OS at the moment. The Android 4.0 is the latest version of the

BLACKBERRY PLAYBOOK OS 2.0 COULD LAUNCH ON FEBRUARY 21

Research in Motion is expected to launch its BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 on February 21st. This major software update will bring a lot of features that the BlackBerry PlayBook doesn’t have at the moment. For example, it will bring native email, calendar and contact apps to the tablet. It will also give PlayBook the capability to run some Android apps. Of course, it won’t be able to run all Android

AMAZON COULD HAVE SOLD 3.9 MILLION KINDLE FIRE TABLETS IN 2011

Amazon has always maintained that its Kindle line of tablets and ebook readers have been best sellers. The company has never released exact sales figures so we don’t know exactly how many Kindle devices have been sold so far.


Now the folks at iSuppli have done some math and released the estimated sales figures of the Amazon tablets / ebook readers. According to them, Amazon may have moved

ARCHOS G9 TABLETS WITH ANDROID 4.0 UP FOR PRE-ORDER

Archos usually shipped its tablets with Android 2.3 or earlier versions of the OS. The Archos G9 tablets were the first tablets from the company to launch with Android 3.2 Honeycomb operating system. They also had access to Google Android Market. Now they are getting even better.

The 8 and 10 inch tablets will soon get Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Dynamism has already started taking