2011 is quickly becoming the year for the tablet, and Leapfrog, the renowned child edutainment company, has decided to join the craze. The LeapPad Explorer will be a multifunctional touch-screen tool that will offer both educational and entertaining programming for children. Leapfrog is one of the leading software companies for children, and became very successful […]
Archives for 2011
Kno Student Tablet Being Shelved for Software?
As we have all come to realize, the “tablet” is a hot commodity that many different companies are trying to get their hands in. Microsoft, Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Dell, and Google are just a few of the major companies competing against each other in the mobile computing device market. However, there is one company that, despite […]
Notion Ink Adam Video Review and First Impressions
I finally received my Notion Ink Adam yesterday after being one of the unlucky 5.31% that pre-ordered on December 9th and then got delayed all the way until mid-February. I’ve been testing the Notion Ink Adam all day yesterday and today to see how it handles. I put together a video walkthrough and posted some […]
Buying a Tablet with a 2 Year Contract is a Horrible Idea
2011 is going to be the year of the tablet, and the wireless service providers are looking to cash in big. A lot of the new tablets coming out have options for 3G and sometimes 4G wireless in addition to WiFi. At the time of purchase, many of these new tablets require you to sign […]
The Alex Reader is Being Phased Out
If you haven’t been following the ebook reader industry carefully, you’ve probably never heard of little-known ereader called the Alex Reader from Spring Design. The Alex Reader was supposed to be the first ebook reader with two screens, one E Ink and the other LCD. Barnes and Noble beat Spring Design to the punch, however, […]
Aluratek Libre Color eReader Review and Video Review
Here’s the link to the Aluratek Libre Color review. A big thanks to Christopher Carvalho for writing the review and for shooting a detailed video walkthrough. The Libre Color is a relatively new ereader from Aluratek. It first started selling a couple months ago in very narrow markets and is just now starting to become […]
ZTE Light 2 Android Tablet with Pixel Qi’s 7″ Sunlight Readable Display
Last week ZTE unveiled a new Pixel Qi-equipped tablet called the ZTE Light 2 at the Mobile World Congress convention in Barcelona. The ZTE Light 2 is the first device to use Pixel Qi’s new 7″ screen that was on display at CES 2011. The 7″ screens have a pixel resolution of 1024 × 600, […]
OverDrive Adds Disney Digital eBooks to Libraries, Updates iPad App
A couple of announcements this week from the OverDrive blog, they’ve released an ebook and audiobook app for the Apple iPad and are adding a collection of nearly 700 classic and new Digital Books from Disney to library’s digital catalogs. The OverDrive Media Console iOS app has been optimized for the large screen of the […]