(Kindle Fire Tablet Review) – Tablets have become the latest “must have” gadget to own, and for good reason. They are light-weight, extremely portable, easy to use and visually awesome! The Amazon Kindle Fire hopes to appeal to both new and established tablet owners. The Fire has already pre-sold an estimated 250,000 units in just the first [...]

We hear from two professionals about why they chose to go with Windows-based tablets instead of iOS or Android. The consumer tablet market is ruled by the iPad. Apple pointed out at its iPhone 4S reveal that three out of every four tablets sold are iPads, with the rest we figure as mostly Android devices. In the consumer [...]

By David Zielenziger | October 21, 2011 12:26 PM EDT Now that both Apple and Google have refreshed their operating systems for smartphones and tablets, could the next big and successful refresh come from Microsoft?

BY CASEY TSCHIDA Having a rough history, The Weather Channel app for iPad gets a completely new design as the company hopes to revive confidence in its viewers. TWC’s new UI appears to have been strongly influenced from more popular iOS weather apps, such as Weather HD and Living Earth HD. The weather pane now consists of a horizon photo, animated [...]

Tablet shipments for the second quarter totaled 13.6 million units, or nearly double the 7.3 million netbooks that shipped as Apple’s (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad continued to disrupt the media market, according to ABI Research. ABI Research analyst Jeff Orr said that in the first quarter netbooks paced the mobile-device market with 8.4 million shipments, compared with [...]

Apple CEO Tim Cook made an interesting prediction yesterdayon the company’s earnings call: That the tablet market will eventually be larger than the PC market. Here’s what Tim said, via Seeking Alpha’s transcript: We thought… from the beginning of this that it would be a huge market, and it has been even greater than we thought. And [...]

By Donald Melanson We’ve already gotten some information about which phones will be getting the Ice Cream Sandwichupdate and when, and we’re now starting to get some official word on tablet upgrades as well. Speaking with Pocket-lint, an ASUS rep said that the Eee Pad Transformer ”will be getting [the] update to ICS,” but that the company “can’t provide a schedule at this [...]

By Oliver VanDervoort Contributing Writer   There is very little doubt that the tablet PC is extremely popular. Otherwise known as Ultra-Mobile Devices (UMDs), a new report shows that 37 million UMDs will ship into the United States by the end of this year. The expected revenue from UMD shipments through 2015 is expected to top a whopping [...]

CHICAGO, Oct 6, 2011 (GlobeNewswire via COMTEX) — U.S. Cellular USM -0.33% is providing its customers with another mobile tablet to choose from in its portfolio of cutting-edge devices, the 7-inch HTC Flyer(TM). The Android(TM)-powered tablet is small enough to hold in one hand and powerful enough to run all of the e-mail, web, entertainment and productivity applications [...]

By Brian Heater  posted Oct 6th 2011 1:36PM A Blurrycam-equipped tipster sent in the above images of what’s purported to be a 10-inch Windows 7 tablet from Dell. There’s not a lot of info on the thing at the moment, and what we do have ought to be taken with a few pinches of salt. But here’s the breakdown, [...]