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A tablet computer, or tablet, is a mobile computer, larger than a mobile phone or personal digital assistant, integrated into a flat touch screen and primarily operated by touching the screen rather than using a physical keyboard. It often uses an on-screen virtual keyboard, a passive stylus pen, or a digital pen.

The term may also apply to a variety of form factors that differ in position of the screen with respect to a keyboard. The standard form is called slate, which does not have an integrated keyboard but may be connected to one with a wireless link or a USB port. Convertible notebook computers have an integrated keyboard that can be hidden by a swivel joint or slide joint, exposing only the screen for touch operation. Hybrids have a detachable keyboard so that the touch screen can be used as a stand-alone tablet. Booklets include two touch screens, and can be used as a notebook by displaying a virtual keyboard in one of them.

— Wikipedia

ASUS Confirms Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF201 Release Date for USA and UK

By Jack Smith | December 18, 2011

The year 2011 is almost over. I guess some of you have already grown tired of waiting for the ultimate quad-core NVIDIA Tegra 3 (Kal-El) powered Android tablet to become available.

Many review websites had nothing but praise for review units of the new Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF201 Android tablet that graced their expert hands and eyes. Most of them agreed that it is indeed the best Android tablet in the market right now, which will eventually lead to a tsunami of pre-orders for it.

ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF201 (Amethyst Gray)

And ultimately, lead to the untimely cancellation of pre-orders! I’m fairly sure that a lot of people (including myself) got sorely disappointed when Amazon began to outrightly cancel their pre-orders for the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime TF201 32GB tablet last month. With the original Eee Pad Transformer’s previous supply issues, it seems like history will repeat itself.

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GameStop Holiday Sale — Give More For Less

By Jack Smith | December 17, 2011

GameStop is constantly coming up with great budget-friendly gift options to help you out this holiday season. With more than 2,500 game gifts available for less than 20 dollars, it’ll take considerable time to look through everything and decide which items to pick! Though, this also opens up more opportunities for you to give more for less. Fortunately, you can use the Holiday Gift Finder. It can help you find gifts that are relevant and best fit the intended recipients.

GameStop Holiday Sale - Give More for Less

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How to buy Android apps from the Android Market using unsupported device

By Jack Smith | December 13, 2011

You saw that some of the best selling games and apps that you really, really wanted from the Android Market are now on sale for just 10 cents and for a limited time. But, you also found out that the stubborn Android Market won’t let you buy those apps because your current phone or tablet is not supported? I know exactly how you feel!

A lot of people (including me) may still want to buy the apps, specially now that the Android Market is loaded daily with 10 cents deal on top premium apps, for use with a newer or future compatible device that they will soon own.

Android Market AppsIf you’d ask Google support, they will immediately tell you that it is not possible to buy apps for an unsupported device and that there’s nothing they can do about it right now. Maybe, the Android Market is designed this way to hide away the horrors and frustrations of fragmentation (read: hardware incompatibilities) from the users.

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Kindle Fire gets a taste of Android 4 (Ice Cream Sandwich)

By Jack Smith | December 7, 2011

Amazon Kindle Fire is getting a lot of attention lately — but, for good reasons.

The Kindle Fire tablet is powered by a heavily customized operating system based on the open-source Android version 2.3 (Gingerbread) that is intimately locked to Amazon Appstore and Amazon services.

With more than 5 million Kindle Fire reportedly sold for the break-even price of $199, this tablet has become an instant favorite among developers, racing against each other, to unlock and turn the Kindle Fire into a full-blown Android Tablet — escaping from the Amazon Kindle experience.

XDA Developers forum member, by the user name of JackpotClavin, was the first to demonstrate CyanogenMod 7 (CM7) running on the Kindle Fire. CyanogenMod 7 is the most popular custom Android firmware that is based on the open-source Android version 2.3 (Gingerbread).

Now we have another XDA Developers forum member, by the name of Steven (forum username g1011999), showing us Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) running on Kindle Fire. However, it is still unstable at the moment. The accelerometer and light sensor aren’t working. It can’t connect to Wi-Fi, either. And lastly, there’s no sound.

Kindle Fire running Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich

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A Faster Facebook App for Android

By Jack Smith | December 7, 2011

There’s a new update for the official Facebook App for Android going live today. According to the Facebook, it has made it faster and easier to navigate around the app.

Check the “WHAT’S NEW” tab on the Android Market for the Facebook app and you’ll only see:

What’s in this version:

  1. Various bug fixes

Not very helpful, right? Apparently, someone got a little lazy — or there were just too many bugs to list down!

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