Sometimes a manufacturer is able to release a piece of budget-priced hardware that, despite decisions made to keep costs down, still ends up being a quite capable (and consequently successful) device; when it comes to tablets, we need look no further than Amazon's Kindle Fire. For every model like that, though, there are plenty of others that hit their low price points by making so many compromises that the product ultimately ends up becoming quite unattractive. Today, Idolian Mobile announced its IdolPad Plus, a seven-inch Android 4.0 tablet for a mere $98. Is this going to be another ...

While HTC dipped its proverbial toe in the Android tablet swimming pool, releasing the Flyer and Jetstream, it's far from the most prolific tablet manufacturer around. Now a new rumor suggests that this inexperience the company has with tablets ended up hurting its chances at getting in on the ground floor of Windows 8 tablets, with Microsoft withholding the early access to software it would need in order to prepare a launch device. Supposedly, a combination of HTC's tablet inexperience and some disappointing sales figures in general are what prompted Microsoft not to extend an early look ...

ASUS has been coming out with some pretty interesting devices over the course of the past several months, from the first quad-core tablet with its Transformer Prime, to the unusual design of its new Padfone. We're hoping that trend is set to continue, as the manufacturer has been teasing the announcement of what may be its next tablet design, set to be revealed at Computex 2012 on May 31. One of the more recent rumors to deal with ASUS and its upcoming tablets concerns the possibility of working with Google to build a tablet for the company to call its own. Some of those claims have looked ...

NVIDIA had some interesting things to say about Android tablets back at the beginning of April, looking towards a future where it saw quad-core devices falling to the $200 mark. That sounded more than a little optimistic, especially if overall build quality was to remain high, but CEO Jen-Hsun Huang seemed quite enthusiastic about it becoming a possible reality. Now we're starting to see just what the company was talking about, upon revealing its Kai reference design. According to NVIDIA, Kai leverages the abilities of the Tegra 3 to allow manufacturers to put together tablet designs that ...

For as similar as smartphones and tablets are, sharing operating systems, apps, and a good deal of their hardware, we don't use them all in the same manner. That's hardly surprising, as some tasks just lend themselves better to one form factor or the other; you might be more likely to watch Neftlix on your tablet, just as you'd be more likely to run some UPC-scanning price-comparison app on your phone. How do those different usage patterns end up affecting mobile data consumption? One recent report claims some pretty big differences between how much data we use on tablets versus ...

Sierra Wireless today announced that it has signed a supply agreement with Bell Mobility to deliver the AirCard(R) 510, a wireless PC Card modem based on Code Division Multiple Access technology.