T3 managed to get some details of the Samsung Galaxy Tab UK price, revealing that it will cost £599 SIM free.

Confirmation of the contract price has also been found as being £199 on a 24 month contract. The 24/month contract will cost £25/month to get it at £199 for the tablet.

Pricing seems a little off to us though as I doubt many, if any, would class the Samsung Galaxy Tab as a mobile phone (even though it does do voice and text messages) as it’s just a little too large for that. With this in mind, I expect that people would much prefer to pay closer to £10/month for a contract that comes with data only. [Read more…]

The Advent Vega is an Android 2.2 tablet that will begin to ship in the UK on October 18th. The tablet specs were put online at Modaco and the tablet will be launched by PC World and Currys with a price tag of £249.

The technical specs of the Advent Vega Tablet show that it runs an NVIDIA T20 Tegra 2 chip inside. It is clocked at 1GHz. RAM and ROM are 512MB each and the included micro SD card has a capacity of 4GB. [Read more…]

We know a lot of things about the Samsung Galaxy Tab now. However, pricing is still a little unknown in some areas. We hear reports today that the Galaxy Tab on T-Mobile in the US will have a price tag of $399 after a $50 mail in rebate. This looks to be a subsidized price as the full price is listed as $649.99 as seen in the image below.

Specs are also confirmed (again) on the image below and confirm that it has a 7.0 inch multitouch screen with a resolution of 1024×600 pixels. It will run the latest version of Google Android which is 2.2. It will have a rear facing 5 megapixel camera and a 1.3 megapixel on the front of the device. [Read more…]

When the HP Slate was first unveiled at the beginning of the year over at CES we expected that it would be available a few months after. But as we now know, Apple announced the iPad shortly after and released it a couple of months after that. We are still waiting for the HP Slate.

HP then purchased Palm which included webOS and the Windows powered Slate kind of dropped of the radar a little. We are still unsure of HP’s plans and if they are to launch a Slate or not, but Steve Ballmer mentioned yesterday that a Slate would arrive by Christmas. [Read more…]

After a month or more of waiting, Samsung has now revealed the price of the Samsung Galaxy Tab in the UK. SIM free the Galaxy Tab will cost £599.99 which makes it around £70 more than the equivalent iPad 3G+WiFi model.

Although its difficult to put the two together in terms of features, a lot of people still use the iPad as a benchmark for pricing. In this case the Tab is higher although you do get cameras and the ability to use it as a phone should you wish. [Read more…]

Barnes & Noble has announced PubIt! PubIt! is a self-publishing portal that allows writers to get ebooks out to the world.

When using the system, user will upload content which will then be converted to the ePUB format by PubIt!. The ePUB format will then be compatible with a number of readers such as the Nook.

Once books are uploaded and converted to the correct format, they will then become available within 24 to 72 hours on the Barnes & Noble eBook store. [Read more…]

Corning has announced that its Gorilla Glass is being used for the new Samsung Galaxy Tab.

The Galaxy Tab is a 7 inch screen tablet that runs Android 2.2. With Gorilla Glass on the front, it protects the device. The glass its self is four times stronger and more durable than regular glass used in screens and therefore, can take a bit of a beating without damage (although we don’t recommend you try that any time soon). [Read more…]

Recently, Google [GOOG] commented that Android 2.2 was not designed to be run on tablet devices. This hasn’t stopped the likes of Samsung releasing the Galaxy Tab amongst a few others.

What Google recommended was that manufacturers wait for a more suitable version of the operating system, which we believe is Android 3.0, codenamed Gingerbread. The new version has no release date just yet although it is expected early next year. [Read more…]

The Notion Ink Adam is almost here. In a new blog post, the company behind the tablet show a few more details about the user interface and what can be expected from the UI.

The UI will be using various 3D effects and will be based around the OpenGL engine. It will use heavy acceleration to make it smooth.

“The UI is totally unique and calls for a very small but crucial change in the Application Architecture to use the UI to the fullest of the extent. [The] UI is largely inspired from real world metaphors like magazines, wire-frames, newsletters. Even the color you will find will remind you of paper” Rohan Shravan, Notion Ink

[Read more…]

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is nearing launch. Over in the US, a webpage on the T-Mobile site has been uploaded to show some details about the new tablet device.

Unfortunately, T-Mobile do not list the full details which everyone wants to know… ie, the price. We have seen leaks up to this point showing it to have a subsidized price tag of about $200 to $300 (perhaps even $400) but nothing actually set in stone. [Read more…]