Jul 07

Toshiba Thrive in stock at Newegg and Amazon, is ready to ship free to your door

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You’ll need to wait until Sunday to get your hands on a Toshiba Thrive at Best Buy, but the Honeycomb slate is ready to head out Newegg’s door, with free shipping to boot. $430 nets you an 8GB tablet with two-day shipping, or you can add 30 bucks to get it overnight. That’s unlikely to mean tomorrow at this point, but if you play your cards right, you could be sliding through emails a la Swype before the weekend is out.

Update: Best Buy has confirmed that the Thrive will be available on July 10th, both in-store and online.

Update 2: Looks like it’s live on Amazon, too!

Toshiba Thrive in stock at Newegg and Amazon, is ready to ship free to your door originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 07

Toshiba Thrive in stock at Newegg, is ready to ship free to your door

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You’ll need to wait until Sunday to get your hands on a Toshiba Thrive at Best Buy, but the Honeycomb slate is ready to head out Newegg’s door, with free shipping to boot. $430 nets you an 8GB tablet with two-day shipping, or you can add 30 bucks to get it overnight. That’s unlikely to mean tomorrow at this point, but if you play your cards right, you could be sliding through emails a la Swype before the weekend is out.

Update: Best Buy has confirmed that the Thrive will be available on July 10th, both in-store and online.

Toshiba Thrive in stock at Newegg, is ready to ship free to your door originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 07 Jul 2011 18:17:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jul 06

Another Galaxy S II passes through the FCC, possibly rockin’ a Tegra 2

Posted in: galaxy s ii, GalaxySIi, NVIDIA, samsung, tegra 2, Tegra2, Today's Chili
Samsung GT-I9103

What we have here appears to be some variation of the Samsung Galaxy S II, with support for 850MHz and 1900MHz GSM frequencies, making its way through the FCC. Now, we know what you’re thinking, “didn’t we already see an AT&T ready S II?” Yep, but this one sports a different model number — GT-I9103, and you know where we’ve seen that before? Those mysterious Tegra 2-equipped Galaxy S II benchmarks. The rumblings of Sammy’s flagship handset coming in two versions, one rocking NVIDIA’s mobile chip, aren’t without precedent — Exynos is still fairly young silicon and this could be a way to boost supplies (as we put it, in the most politically correct terms possible) “outside its critical markets.” In other words, don’t expect to pick one of these up at your local AT&T shop, unless your local store happens to be in St. Petersburg Russia.

Another Galaxy S II passes through the FCC, possibly rockin’ a Tegra 2 originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 06 Jul 2011 08:50:00 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?

Posted in: Android, android tablet, AndroidTablet, BestBuy, honeycomb, tegra 2, Tegra2, Today's Chili, Toshiba
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.

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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

Lenovo IdeaPad K1 up for Amazon pre-order, still toting $500 price tag

Posted in: amazon, Android, honeycomb, lenovo, pre-order, slate, tablet, tegra, tegra 2, Tegra2, Today's Chili

The IdeaPad K1 is really living up to its name these days, existing merely as an idea and a visualized concept, but not a real deal purchasable commodity. That’s changing ever so slowly, however, with an appearance among Amazon’s pre-order inventory, where the Tegra 2 Android slate is accompanied by the $499.99 price tag we saw just over a week ago. The major specs are as we’ve heard them before: a 10.1-inch screen with 1280 x 800 resolution and 300 nits of brightness, a microSD card reader, micro-HDMI out, and, interestingly, a SIM card slot. The latter doesn’t quite confirm that we’re looking at a 3G tablet, but comes close to it. Also close should be the K1’s release date, which isn’t spelled out by Amazon, but is expected to arrive any time now.

Lenovo IdeaPad K1 up for Amazon pre-order, still toting $500 price tag originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 01 Jul 2011 04:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 27

Android 3.1 update for Acer Iconia Tab A500 leaks out in China, can be downloaded worldwide

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If you have an Iconia Tab A500 and an unbridled passion for running the latest Android software, we’ve got good news for you. Acer’s 3.1 update for the 10-inch Tegra 2 slate has actually slipped out a little early and can now be downloaded at the source link below. It brings the resizable widgets and other goodies that Xoom and Eee Pad Transformer users have been savoring for a while, though that’s naturally not been enough for some and there are already custom ROMs built off this leak that augment the upgrade with superuser privileges. Alternatively, should you be disinclined to flash your own tablet, you can just wait for Acer to start beaming Android 3.1 over the air to its European A500s on July 5th.

Android 3.1 update for Acer Iconia Tab A500 leaks out in China, can be downloaded worldwide originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 27 Jun 2011 04:22:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 24

Zinio brings Tegra hardware acceleration to Honeycomb tablets

Posted in: Android, android market, AndroidMarket, app, Apple, content, GalaxyTab, Google, ipad, tablet, tablet pc, TabletPc, tegra, tegra 2, Tegra2, Today's Chili, video, xoom


Zinio’s smartphone and tablet apps make it easy to bring a lifetime’s worth of magazine content with you on the go, but performance has been inconsistent, especially when navigating through pages or zooming into photos and text. The company’s latest app improves upon both critical elements, however, taking advantage of the Nvidia Tegra chip in your Mototola Xoom or Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 to smooth out page transitions and pinch-to-zoom. Nvidia posted a side-by-side comparison video demonstrating the improvements on a pair of Xooms, and there’s clearly a noticeable difference. You can try it out for yourself by downloading Zinio version 1.10.3641 from the Android Market, or jump past the break for the demo.

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Zinio brings Tegra hardware acceleration to Honeycomb tablets originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 24 Jun 2011 09:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 22

Lenovo Ideapad Tablet K1 priced at $500 by OfficeMax, inches closer to release

Posted in: 10-inch, dual-core, DualCore, honeycomb, lenovo, price, pricing, slate, tablet, tegra 2, Tegra2, Today's Chili

The Ideapad Tablet K1 is about as well known an unannounced product as there is right now, having been pictured and listed by a couple of online retailers and passed the requisite tests over at the FCC. What we weren’t quite so sure about was its price, which a tipster now informs us is $499.99, and its launch date, which looks to be fast approaching. The OfficeMax placard we’ve been forwarded promises 32GB of storage, Android 3.0 (with a “custom-built” interface on top), 1280 x 800 resolution on a 10.1-inch multitouch screen, a pair of cameras, up to 10 hours of battery life, a weight of 1.6lb (725g), and a thickness of just over half an inch (13.2mm). Not exactly an unorthodox list of specs, but more choice is rarely a bad thing.

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Lenovo Ideapad Tablet K1 priced at $500 by OfficeMax, inches closer to release originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Jun 22

Lenovo Ideapad Tablet K1 priced at $500 by Office Depot, inches closer to release

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The Ideapad Tablet K1 is about as well known an unannounced product as there is right now, having been pictured and listed by a couple of online retailers and passed the requisite tests over at the FCC. What we weren’t quite so sure about was its price, which a tipster now informs us is $499.99, and its launch date, which looks to be fast approaching. The Office Depot placard we’ve been forwarded promises 32GB of storage, Android 3.0 (with a “custom-built” interface on top), 1280 x 800 resolution on a 10.1-inch multitouch screen, a pair of cameras, up to 10 hours of battery life, a weight of 1.6lb (725g), and a thickness of just over half an inch (13.2mm). Not exactly an unorthodox list of specs, but more choice is rarely a bad thing.

[Thanks, GorillazKing]

Lenovo Ideapad Tablet K1 priced at $500 by Office Depot, inches closer to release originally appeared on Engadget on Wed, 22 Jun 2011 04:54:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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