This holiday season is all about ebooks. With the Amazon-powered Kindle Fire, the Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet, and (the hardware-agnostic) Google Books showing up on everything from the ultra-cheap iRiver HD to every Android device on the market,... 

Smartphones have changed the way we handle many situations in our day-to-day lives. Soccer practice, an unfriendly run in with police, catching that moment when your best friend proposes to his future wife… all moments that can be quickly snapped... 

It looks like Motorola is a fan of the old adage If at first you don’t succeed… The original Xoom was hotly anticipated, voted the Best of Show at CES 2011, and was the vanguard of growing buzz about the considerable potential of Android... 

It looks like Motorola is a fan of the old adage If at first you don’t succeed… The original Xoom was hotly anticipated, voted the Best of Show at CES 2011, and was the vanguard of growing buzz about the considerable potential of Android... 

Once again, Microsoft has padded its revenue stream with an Android patent license deal. This time around, it’s Compal Electronics — another name you might not be familiar with, but it’s a very significant win for the crew in Redmond.... 

HP issued an update for the HP TouchPad this morning. It brings the now-defunct tablet up to version 3.0.4, and offers some performance enhancements for those who might be enjoying a heavily-discounted tablet. The update, which was detailed by webOS... 

Whether we’re aware of it or not, most of us are carrying around a computer that can act as the brain of a robot. That’s right, we’re talking about your smartphone. Engineers Peter Seid and Phu Nguyen, the duo behind Romotive, decided to quit... 

Early yesterday, someone at Microsoft accidentally pushed an update to the Zune website that removed references to the Zune Player line from its pages. The update caused several blogs to announce that Microsoft had killed off its PMPs, though a Zune... 

Last night Samsung officially unveiled the Galaxy Tab 8.9, the Galaxy Player 4 and the Galaxy Player 5. These are all devices we’ve heard about and seen before, but this is the first time that Samsung has shown them off in the United States, and... 

When a tablet or smartphone accessory is described as “universal”, it’s usually not very good. There’s just just too wide a difference between all the smartphones and tablets for many of the peripherals described as universal... 

Having your phone run out of juice may soon mean more than not being able to make calls or surf the mobile web, it could result in being locked out of your own home. Yale, one of the oldest brands offering locking solutions, has come bang up-to-date... 

On many occasions since the inception of the phrase, I have taken issue with the notion of “post-PC“. Maybe it’s because I’m a multi-monitor user with delusions of productivity, or maybe it’s because I’m stuck in the... 

So you’ve decided to fork Android and now you’re looking for a hardware partner to build handsets and tablets… Who better to tap than a company that has a burgeoning market share in China and has produced a pair of Android tablets? Baidu... 

Sure, the Motorola Atrix is a pretty slick piece of mobile hardware with that fancy lapdock, but why content yourself with a single conversion? The KT Spider takes things even further, offering both a tablet dock and a clip-on game controller. Like the... 

Is it a giant smartphone or a very small tablet? The Samsung Galaxy Note sits squarely on the fence, much like the original Dell Streak did before it. At 5.3 inches, it’s probably safest to call the Galaxy Note a phoneblet. Samsung thinks it’s...