Kindle Fire

You'll never guess what kind of tablet Google CEO Larry Page wants to build. Give up? The chief exec says that his company is focused on creating lower-priced tablets. "Obviously, there's been a lot of success on some lower-priced tablets that run Android, maybe not the full Google (NASDAQ: GOOG...

The Retina Display, long battery life and 4G LTE capability are among the iPad's most beloved features. But the thing that people dislike the most could boost the Kindle Fire 2. Due for release sometime this year, the not-yet-announced Kindle Fire 2 – or Kindle Fire HD, depending on who you talk...

Amazon's first tablet sold on price alone. Can a high-def screen give it an extra boost? Now that the "new" iPad is in stores, breaking sales records, and supplying consumers with another reason to talk about the Retina Display, media hype is slowly shifting to other devices. And since Samsung...

Apple's toughest competition in 4Q 2011 was Apple, iSuppli claims. The IHS (NYSE: IHS) research firm has released a report (via Barron's) on the tablet market, revealing that Apple may have actually cannibalized sales of the iPad 2 with the release of the iPhone 4S. This might explain why the...

When hundreds of thousands of consumers purchased a Kindle Fire last Christmas, they had no idea what they were getting. It turns out that the $200 tablet they acquired just happens to be a slightly modified version of a $500 tablet that no one wanted: the ill-fated PlayBook from Research in...

Ironic, eh? On a day when love is in the air, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is showing American job-seekers a little affection by announcing a new one-million-square-foot fulfillment center in Middleton, Delaware. According to TechCrunch, the center will create approximately 850 full-time jobs and cost $...

Thousands will wait in line. Several will stay overnight. Some might even camp outside an Apple Store for a week. Will you be one of them? If not, don't expect to get an iPad 3 this spring. The highly anticipated device is expected to be unveiled during the first week of March, AllThingsD reported...

It's the number-one reason that consumers buy the Kindle Fire. But is it enough to stop Apple from maintaining its lead in 2012? According to a new survey from ChangeWave Research, 59% of Kindle Fire users bought the tablet not for the screen, book selection, battery life, or the size/weight of...

Get a Nook Tablet for the low-low price of just $199. That's $300 less than the iPad, for those of you who forgot that Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL) leading tablet still retails for $500. And still rules the marketplace. And still forces new competitors to retire. Among the tablets on the lower end of...

The third iPad is getting one upgrade consumers won't be able to refuse. A battery that packs more than twice the capacity of the iPad 2. That's according to this DigiTimes report (via Business Insider), which claims that the battery capacity for the “high-end” version of Apple's (NASDAQ: AAPL)...