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HTC Rezound Available at $79.99 From Amazon

Jeff Baker — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:28:15 +0000

Amazon is nice enough to come forth at various times to give us a great deal on some of the hottest phones. Today such a thing has happened with the HTC Rezound which Amazon has dropped to just $79.99 with a 2-year contract. If you’re not familiar with this device it features a 4.3-inch display [...]

Amazon Offers Samsung Galaxy Nexus for $99.99

Jeff Baker — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:20:35 +0000

Samsung’s Galaxy Nexus is one of the more popular Android powered phones on the market right now. Not only is it the next addition to Google’s official Nexus smartphone line up but it was also the first device to ship with Android ‘Ice Cream Sandwich’ 4.0. Unfortunately, much like other high powered smartphone, the Galaxy [...]

RIM flirted with Amazon in potential buyout

Edwin Kee — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:07:51 +0000

Amazon could have been the new owner of Research In Motion, or better known as RIM in short, but it seemed as though whatever potential deal there was to be had, it petered out eventually. This is because RIM decided to turned down takeover overtures from Amazon, as well as interest from other potential buyers [...]

ASUS Transformer Prime Pre-orders Now Shipping

Jeff Baker — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 22:51:53 +0000

Not too long ago we let you know that Amazon had put the highly anticipated ASUS Transformer Prime up for pre-order after it had quickly sold out. At the time, these orders were quite obviously not shipping seeing how it was available for pre-order and not actual order. Lucky for you, Amazon has once again updated their [...]

Amazon Posts 64GB ASUS Transformer Prime For Pre-order, Again

Jeff Baker — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 20:49:09 +0000

ASUS is among the few manufacturers who have seen success in the Android tablet market. Their debut Android powered tablet, the Eee Pad Transformer, gave consumers the option to either use it as a slate or as a laptop with optional keyboard dock. Due to this, coupled with high end hardware, ASUS saw enough success [...]

Report: Amazon Kindle Costs $201.70 to Build Despite $199.99 Price Tag

Jeff Baker — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 23:48:42 +0000

Amazon has recently made a very big move into the tablet market with their Kindle Fire. This heavily hyped device features a 7-inch display with 1024 x 600 resolution, 1GHz dual-core processor, 512MB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage alongside a modified version of Google’s Android. But when compared to other high end tablets [...]

Kindle Fire Source Code Released, Hackers Start Your Engines

Jeff Baker — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:20:20 +0000

Amazon’s Kindle Fire is now out and available for purchase at just $199.99. Reviews have been mixed with some saying the device is amazing while others have said it’s too heavy and the operating system is too clunky. Whatever the case may be there’s no denying the fact that there is massive hype surrounding the [...]

Analyst: Amazon Smartphone Probably Coming Next Year

Jeff Baker — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:56:38 +0000

Amazon has been one of the big names in tech alongside behemoths like Google, Microsoft, Apple and more for quite some time now. However, up until 2007 Amazon was largely an online retailer selling pretty much everything rather than just books as was the case when the company was founded. But in 2007 Amazon came [...]

Kindle Fire to receive Hulu Plus app as well

Edwin Kee — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:31:28 +0000

The e-book reader market is certainly a hot one to be involved in, as things are certainly very exciting with plenty of developments happening in this scene. Barnes & Noble recently announced that their latest Nook tablet will support Hulu Plus – which clearly makes it to have the upper hand over Amazon’s Kindle Fire. [...]

Amazon ramps up Kindle Fire production

Edwin Kee — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:03:27 +0000

Amazon has plenty of cause to be extremely optimistic about their upcoming tablet device, also known as the Kindle Fire. After all, this is the tablet that actually got people thinking, stopping any movement or action that would lead them to purchase the Apple iPad 2 instead, as they remain curious to see how the [...]