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New York – Barnes & Noble yesterday dropped the prices on two carryover tablets as it readies Nov. 8 availability of its first two HD-resolution tablets, the 7-inch Nook HD and 9-inch Nook HD+.
The company reduced the price of its year-old 7-inch Nook Tablet by $20 to $159 for the 8GB model and $179 for the 16GB model. The two-year-old 7-inch Nook Color goes to $139 from $149.
The 8GB Nook Tablet now matches the $159 price on Amazon’s 7-inch 8GB Kindle Fire, an upgraded version of which became available Sept. 14.
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Overland Park, Kan. – Sprint plans Nov. 11 availability of its first 4G LTE tablet, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1 at $549.
T-Mobile and AT&T also plan cellular-equipped versions of the tablet, with T-Mobile having announced Nov. 14 availability and pricing for a version with 4G HSPA+42 technology. AT&T’s version, like Sprint’s, features LTE.
Basking Ridge, N.J. – Verizon Wireless will join Sprint in offering the iPad Mini and fourth-generation iPad in the coming weeks.
The carrier said the tablets will incorporate Verizon’s 4G LTE cellular technology, which is available in more than 410 markets nationwide with download speeds of 5Mbps to 12Mbps and upload speeds of 2Mbps to 5Mbps. The carrier offered no other launch details.
Round Rock, Texas — Dell today fleshed out its consumer Window 8 product line with the addition of a new tablet, Ultrabook and an all-in-one PC.
The new tablet is the $499 XPS 10, which is geared to the mobile professional. The Windows 8, 10.1-inch device is powered by an ARM-based 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor. It will be available in 32GB and 64GB configurations, has a 2-megapixel front and 5-megapixel rear camera, dual stereo speakers, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and a MicroSD card readers.
San Jose, Calif. — The $329 starting price of the 7.9-inch Wi-Fi-equipped iPad Mini will “dramatically increase” iPad demand but will leave room in the market for 7-inch Android tablets priced from $159 to $299 from such companies as Google, Amazon, Kobo and Barnes & Noble, IDC analyst Tom Mainelli told TWICE.
Overland Park, Kan. — Sprint said it would become the latest U.S. carrier to offer cellular-equipped iPads.
The carrier plans “in the coming weeks” to offer the iPad Mini and fourth-generation iPad, both equipped with 4G LTE.
Sprint said it would “offer these new iPads with a range of attractive data plans that will allow customers to connect to its 4G LTE network.”
San Jose, Calif. – Apple unexpectedly unveiled its fourth-generation 9.7-inch iPad and, as expected, debuted the long-awaited iPad Mini, which features a 7.9-inch screen. Both feature the new eight-pin Lightning connector.
The Wi-Fi versions of both products will be available Nov. 2 in multiple countries, and the 4G cellular versions will ship about a week later in the U.S., with other countries coming on board sometime later.
Round Rock, Texas — Dell today fleshed out its consumer Window 8 product line with the addition of a new tablet, Ultrabook and an all-in-one PC.
The new tablet is the $499 XPS 10, which is geared to the mobile professional. The Windows 8, 10.1-inch device is powered by an ARM-based 1.5GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 processor. It will be available in 32GB and 64GB configurations, has a 2-megapixel front and 5-megapixel rear camera, dual stereo speakers, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0 and a MicroSD card readers.
El Segundo, Calif. — If Apple launches a 7-inch iPad today as widely expected, the company will help trigger a doubling of worldwide 7-inch tablet shipments in 2012 and a near-doubling in 2013, said IHS iSuppli Display Materials & Systems Service.
Apple’s move will also trigger a movement by current suppliers of 7-inch tablets to offer 8-inch models to differentiate themselves, iSuppli said.
West Covina, Calif. – E Fun today announced its latest tablet offering, the Premium 10SE.
The $249 Premium 10SE is a 9.7-inch tablet running Android 4.0. It is powered by a 1GHz processor with 1GB of DDR3 RAM and 8GB of memory, which can be expanded to 32GB through the MicroSD slot. The display features a five-point multi-touch display.
The tablet is available starting today at RadioShack and Hastings.
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