We know smartphone and tablet owners like to buy games . But if you go by a new ABI exploration of user habits, most of us aren’t buying much of anything.
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More than 70 percent of mobile users pay little for apps, big spenders make up for us cheapskates
Regular readers will know that the FCC is a bit of a virtual whistle-blower, alerting tech-hungry Americans to when new goodies might soon be landing on their shores. Other times it coughs up the odd thing we weren’t even waiting for. Today’s offering appears to be a 3G tablet from NEC.
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NEC tablet with GSM and HSPA breaks cover at the FCC
Coloring and Math is a new player on the scene that mixes up the fun of a coloring book with the educational value of deciphering shapes, learning numbers and practicing arithmetic.
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Coloring and Math is an Educational Game for the BlackBerry Playbook
It’s been a little less than a month since Toshiba unveiled its trio of Ice Cream Sandwich slates, the Excite 7.7, 10 and 13 , and starting today you’ll be able to grab one of these for yourself.
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Toshiba Excite 10 ICS tablet goes on sale, prices start at $450 for 16GB model
Toshiba’s 7.7-inch and 10.1-inch Excite tablets (known also by their respective model numbers, AT270 and AT300) have had their time in the FCC spotlight, and now it’s the 13-incher’s turn. The ARM-powered AT330 looks to be on track for its on-sale date of June 10th, so it has a good month to sit tight alongside its 7.7-inch sibling. As for that FCC report, no surprises there: Toshiba hasn’t slipped in an LTE radio without warning us or anything scintillating like that — just Bluetooth and WiFi tests here
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Toshiba AT330 gets FCC approval, on track for June 10th launch date
Back in 2008 , a nifty little box of tricks elbowed its way onto the market — the Tonium Pacemaker . A gadget about the size of an OG PSP, with a complete DJ set-up hidden inside
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Pacemaker DJ app for BlackBerry PlayBook impressions (video)
The iPad was made to do many things, but windowed multitasking wasn’t one of them. Leave it to the Cydia Store to provide a new app that delivers individual, rotatable, scalable, untabbed windows.
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Quasar gives the iPad untabbed windows for ten dollars and a jailbreak (video)
MIT’s Media Lab is chock-full of cutting-edge tech projects that researchers create, then often license to manufacturers and developers.
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NewsFlash uses high-frequency light to transmit data from iPad to smartphone, we go hands-on (video)
Is your notebook still your preferred second TV? Well, it seems you’re now in the minority. The hip new way of consuming the drug of the nation — after the ‘ole tube itself — is on a tablet, according to a recent Viacom study
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Study shows more people watch TV on tablets than computers, still nothing on
The United States Patent and Trademark Office recently published details on a Microsoft patent relating to a two-sided smart device display system for phones and tablets, PatentBolt reported on Friday. The invention features an integrated second low-power, possibly E Ink, display on the back side of a smartphone or tablet that would contain certain types of information. The secondary display could provide vendors with an opportunity to move standard items like a clock off of the main display to free up space, or it could display a variety of other information that might otherwise not be shown.
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Microsoft may be working on a two-sided smartphone display system