Tablets

Acer's Small Screen Windows 8 Tablet Leaked; uses Full Windows 8 OS

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Mon, 05/06/2013 - 12:57

Amazon accidentally leaked images of Acer's new Small Screen Windows 8 tablet on its website after what is being reported as "confusion" over product management and sales.

Following Acer's release announcement of several new Tablets, Amazon posted for sale the Iconia W3-810-1600, except that model was not among those mentioned in Acer's release announcement.

It is a 1.1 pound tablet with an 8.1 inch screen and an x86 processor that will on a full Windows 8 OS, unlike current Windows tablets which run on Windows RT.

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Samsung Posts Huge Profits, Beating Apple On Smartphone Sales

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Fri, 01/25/2013 - 11:53

Samsung's fourth quarter profits are up 76%, surpassing expectations and continued to sell more smartphones overall than Apple. Popularity of its Galaxy smartphones and growing share of low end smartphones and prepaid phones helped push the electronics maker into the number slot again.

When only the Galaxy SIII smartphone is compared to Apple's popular iPhone, Apple still beats Samsung, but that lead is also starting to become smaller.

Samsung raked in a net profit for the fourth quarter of $6.6 billion.

HHGreg Makes Things Right

Submitted by TAC 1 on Fri, 06/29/2012 - 10:57

[Opinion Article]

About The Anonymous Customer - This column was started after we noticed just how far customer service has slipped in America, and felt consumers should know. We also wanted to highlight to businesses how easy good customer service can be done, easily and cheaply. We'll write about both the good and the bad in product quality, customer service and other experiences.

-- A recent trip to "hhgreg", the electronics retailer trying to take a bite out of Best Buy.

All Tech: New iPad Specs, Wireless 5G Networks, Smart-Clothing, Data Prioritization, Enhanced Mobile GPS

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Thu, 03/08/2012 - 10:38

Apple yesterday unveiled it's new iPad, complete with the new "retina display" packing a 9.7-inch, 2048 x 1536-pixel screen which has a higher resolution than a standard 1080p HDTV, and four times as many pixels and 44% greater image saturation than the iPad 2. The device also comes with an A5X quad-core graphics chip.

Adobe Stops Flash on Mobile Devices, Says Apple Won

Submitted by News Desk 2 on Mon, 11/14/2011 - 14:41

Adobe has announced that it will stop development and production of its popular Flash for mobile devices and possibly Flash in general and admitted that Apple won the battle.

In making this announcement, Adobe said HTML5 was the future and that it can no longer fight a battle with Apple who absolutely refused to put it on the popular iPhone and iPad. Some industry experts said it is very possible Adobe will cease Flash altogether. Flash has been common for laptop and desktop computers.