Google has just announced the Pixel Slate, which is a Chrome OS tablet. It includes Google Assistant and apps from the Google Play. It will retail for $599 and accessories include the $199 Pixel Keyboard and $99 Pixelbook Pen and will be available later this year. Will you buy this or pass? Google says that the … [Read more...]
Will you buy the Microsoft Surface Pro 6?
Microsoft has just unveiled the Surface Pro 6 and this is the first time in the past year and a half that a new model has come out. The inside of the two in one has been totally redesigned, but the outside looks very familiar. The Surface Pro 6 features a 12.3-inch display with a resolution of 2736 x 1824 pixels … [Read more...]
Barnes and Noble is going to release the Nook Tablet 10
Barnes and Noble is going to be releasing a new 10 inch tablet this year and it will be available in all of their bookstores by the end of the year. The only information we know on this new tablet is that it has a 6,300 mAh battery, 802.11ac WiFi, and Bluetooth. Barnes and Noble released their first tablet way back … [Read more...]
Amazon Fire HD 8 will be the first tablet that uses Fire OS 6
The upcoming Amazon Fire HD 8 will be the first tablet that uses a new Fire OS 6 operating system. It will be based on Android Nougat and more specifically Android 7.1.2. This is quite the upgrade from Android 5.1 or 6.0 that Fire OS 5 used. Amazon first debuted Fire OS 6 on the Fire TV 3 and has since also used it on … [Read more...]
New Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet available on October 4th
Amazon has just announced an all-new Amazon Fire HD 8 which is now available for pre-order for $99 and will begin shipping on October 4! It features a vibrant 8-inch widescreen with a resolution of 1280 x 800 with over a million pixels and bright, vivid picture. It is powered by a Quad-core 1.3 GHz processor and 1.5GB … [Read more...]
Yoga Book C930 features an E-Ink Display
Lenovo has just announced the Yoga Book C930, an ultra-slim, ultra-light and ultra-flexible dual display laptop with E Ink technology, and the first successor to the ground-breaking 2016 Yoga Book. As the world’s first dual display laptop with E Ink, the Yoga Book’s 10.8-inch high-resolution IPS display interacts with … [Read more...]
Tablet sales have declined for the past four years in a row
Global tablet sales are in a state of perpetual decline. They have been down spiraling downward for 15 straight quarters, and the second quarter of 2018 there were 33 million units sold. This is an overall decrease of 5 million units when compared to the same quarter last year. In previous years, tablet sales had been … [Read more...]
Will you buy the new Acer Chromebook Tab 10?
Acer has just released the first ever Chrome OS tablet, the Chromebook Tab 10. All of the other devices that run Chrome are laptops and ultrabooks, so this new Acer model is also the first model not to have a keyboard. You can purchase this for around $350 on Amazon and Acer has told Good e-Reader that "the primary … [Read more...]
Amazon has a number of refurbished Fire Tablets on sale
If you are looking for an extra tablet for your kids or for the bathroom, Amazon has discounted a number of refurbished models. The Fire 10 HD is available for $89, which is a savings of $30. The Fire HD 8 is available for $64 and you save $25 vs the normal price. The Kindle Paperwhite is also available for $69, which … [Read more...]
Microsoft Surface Go is available for pre-order
Microsoft has just announced the Surface Go tablet for $399 which is going to compete against the entry level Apple iPad, which currently retails for $329. The Surface Go basically looks like a smaller version of the Surface Pro 3. This device is going to have a 3:2 aspect ratio display and a resolution of 1800 x … [Read more...]
This is why Amazon continues to develop tablets
Amazon has been in the tablet business since 2011 when they started to release products that tried to compete against Acer, Apple, Asus, HP, Samsung and dozens of other companies taking advantage of the tablet boom period. Over the years Amazon went from offering mid-level and high-end tablets and started to develop … [Read more...]
Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 Tablet will be announced soon
The Samsung S3 tablet came out in February of 2017 and the company is going to release a new model sometime in the next few months. The Samsung S4 does not have any buttons on the front of the unit, which increases the size of the screen and removes most of the bezel. Galaxy Tab S4 is expected to feature a 10.3 inch … [Read more...]