Jul 11

Fossil won’t ship the Meta Watch until August, Dick Tracy wannabes get antsy

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Some of you with a James Bond complex might have been waiting on Fossil’s Meta Watches, a duo of wristpieces that use Texas Instrument’s CC2560 Bluetooth radio to pull in emails, Facebook updates, weather forecasts, and more — depending on what else developers cook up for it, that is. On top of that, the SDK allows Android smartphones and tablets to register button presses and receive sensor data from the watches, and then respond by sending text or triggering the vibration motor. If you already set aside $200 when they went up for pre-order two months back, you’re going to have to twiddle your thumbs a bit longer. In response to a tweet from a curious customer, Bill Geiser, vice president of Fossil Watch Technology, said that thanks to some part delays, the two are now on track to ship in August, not July. If this is all new to you, that means you’ve got some time to ponder whether you’d rather have the analog / digital version or the fully digital one with a larger memory-in-pixel LCD. Decisions, decisions, folks.

[Thanks, Alex]

Fossil won’t ship the Meta Watch until August, Dick Tracy wannabes get antsy originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 21:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 11

3G ASUS Eee Pad Transformer spotted online, priced starting at 499 euros

Posted in: Android, android tablet, AndroidTablet, ASUS, europe, Google, honeycomb, tablet, tablets, Today's Chili

By this time, hopefully, all of you who were on the hunt for a Transformer finally got your mitts on one. If you were holding out for the 3G version, though, you can stop fidgeting — it’s already been priced in mainland Europe, putting it almost a month ahead of its expected arrival in the UK. Notebook Italia spotted both the 16GB and 32GB iterations listed online, fetching €499 and €599, respectively, VAT included. Notebook Italia also grabbed a screenshot of an updated product page on ASUS’s Italian site, though when we peeped the listing we just found the WiFi-only versions, with predictably lower prices to match. Either way you slice it, though, both the instruction manual and illustrated product guide are alive and well on ASUS’ site, suggesting you should see this on the streets of Milano soon enough.

[Thanks, Marco]

3G ASUS Eee Pad Transformer spotted online, priced starting at 499 euros originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:23:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 07

Lenovo IdeaPad K1’s videos pair easy listening with helpful how-to’s (video)

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Know what really sells a Honeycomb-based tablet? No, not its 10.1-inch display, Tegra 2 processor, nor those 32GBs of storage space — it’s the background music, man. Someone in Lenovo’s marketing department must have an iTunes library chock full o’department store-worthy Lite FM jams, because that schmaltzy muzak is all over its dozen-plus IdeaPad K1 how-to videos. We’re kind of disappointed the company couldn’t get Lisa Stansfield for a voice-over cameo, but hey — who says we’re living in a perfect universe? Prospective IdeaPad owners should check the source, where they’ll be treated to such instructional, chart-topping gems like “Getting to know your Tablet,” or our personal favorite “Adding and Removing Shortcuts.” All kidding aside, we still don’t have a firm date on this tablet’s launch, but with its FCC presence cleared expect to see it sooner rather than later.

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Lenovo IdeaPad K1’s videos pair easy listening with helpful how-to’s (video) originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 07

Augen mysteriously dies, dirt-cheap Android tablets can’t keep it afloat

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Tragic. Just tragic. It seems like just yesterday we were dashing to our local Kmart in hopes of securing one of the hottest, most demanded products on the market. First, it was the $99 GenBook, and days later, it was the Gentouch 78. Now, it appears that neither of those absolutely astounding pieces of kit will ever be produced again, as Augen’s website has been cold and unresponsive for the better part of a month. It’s not picking up the phone, and it’s not replying to emails. We’d bother to weep, but we have to wonder how bad things truly are if it took the world four full weeks to notice one’s disappearance.

Augen mysteriously dies, dirt-cheap Android tablets can’t keep it afloat originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 19:03:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 07

Acer starts rolling out Android 3.1 update for the Iconia Tab A500

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Almost on schedule, Acer has started pushing out an update for its Iconia Tab A500 that will upgrade the 10-inch slate to Android 3.1. If you’ll recall, the update actually leaked late last month, but would have required folks to take the risk of flashing their tablets. As is often the case, it’s unclear how long the roll-out will last, so don’t be crestfallen if you can’t enjoy those resizeable widgets just yet. For those of you who did wake up to an update, have at it — and do tell us how it goes.

Acer starts rolling out Android 3.1 update for the Iconia Tab A500 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 09:56:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 05

Toshiba Thrive tablet on display at Best Buy, possibly on sale too?

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Toshiba Thrive
Yes, what you’re looking at is a shackled Toshiba Thrive tablet out in the wild at Best Buy — not just waiting caged in a cardboard confine in some dreary stockroom. Though the device most likely won’t ship until July 10th, “Dandroid” over at Toshiba Thrive Forums is reporting that his local Austin, Texas location is evidently neglecting that memo. The store apparently has several 16GB and 32GB WiFi models ready to fly off the shelves for $480 and $580, but we won’t hold our breath until we see a proper YouTube unboxing. Still, it may be worth a detour on the way home if you’re feeling lucky or just can’t wait any longer to inspect those full-sized ports.

Toshiba Thrive tablet on display at Best Buy, possibly on sale too? originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 05 Jul 2011 21:39:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 04

Toshiba Thrive WiFi tablet hitting Best Buy on July 10th?

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Toshiba Thrive
Toshiba’s Thrive — the Honeycomb tablet that went so long without a name — has evidently snagged itself a July 10th street date, according to Best Buy’s inventory database. If you’ll recall, pre-orders for the 10.1-inch pad got underway June 13th, and though we’ve long been hearing it would go on sale July 10th, Toshiba has only been giving a loose ETA of mid-July. Our tipster’s informed us that their particular location’s received “quite a few” 16-giggers in-stock, and they’re just waiting to shine under the fluorescent showroom lights. So, it’ll still be about a week’s time until you can get your paws on one, but in the meantime, scoot past the break and you’ll find some Thrive packages in the flesh, er, cardboard.

[Thanks, Anonymous]

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Toshiba Thrive WiFi tablet hitting Best Buy on July 10th? originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 04 Jul 2011 02:30:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 01

Vizio Tablet goes up for limited pre-order, starts shipping mid-July

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Can’t wait to get your hands on Vizio’s upcoming budget tablet? Good news, beginning today, you can put your $400 where your mouth is, by pre-ordering the device straight from the company’s site, starting at 1:30PM ET. That amount will get you the Gingerbread tablet, along with a 16GB MicroSD card, and a folding folio case. Pre-ordered devices will start shipping on July 18th. Those who snoozed and therefore lost will be able to pick one up in stores that same week.

Update: Let the pre-orders begin!

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Vizio Tablet goes up for limited pre-order, starts shipping mid-July originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 13:05:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 30

Sharp sends another Galapagos tablet through the FCC, keeps all the pertinent details to itself

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Over the past six months, we’ve gotten scant few details about when, exactly, Sharp’s Galapagos tablets will at last make the long trip stateside. When they do, though, it might be an even bigger family than we were expecting. We took note when the 10.8-inch EB-WX1GJ slipped through the FCC, making reference to another slate — the 5.5-inch EB-W51GJ — in its user manual. Now, yet another slate has passed the FCC’s battery of tests. It’s called the EB-W71LJ-H, and based on Sharp’s naming convention thus far, we suspect it could have a 7-inch display, which would be a nice, just-right complement to the 10- and 5-inch models we already knew about. Based on the test results, we also know it has a 802.11b/g/n WiFi radio, but other than that, the report is devoid of specs, as Sharp asked the FCC to refrain from playing show-and-tell with its trade secrets. For now, though, you at least don’t have to wonder where the company plans to slap that requisite label.

Sharp sends another Galapagos tablet through the FCC, keeps all the pertinent details to itself originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 30

Sony’s S1 tablet spotted in the wild, S2 captured briefly on video

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We’ve already seen press shots and teaser videos of Sony’s S1 Honeycomb tablet and dual-screen S2 (and had our eyes on them ourselves), but Germany’s Golem website managed to spend a bit of time with both of the devices at an event in Munich, and has now provided what’s surely the best look at them to date. Unfortunately, that’s still not exactly a thorough look — there’s just the single image of the S1 above, and an 18 second video of the S2, which you can check out after the break.

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Sony’s S1 tablet spotted in the wild, S2 captured briefly on video originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:13:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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