The Digital Reader

Did you get an Android tablet or iad for Christmas? You’re not alone. Flurry, a market research firm that specializes in tracing app sales, has just released some figures for new device activations On Christmas day alone, they recorded 6,800,000 new devices installing an app for the first time. That’s over 6 million iPhones, iPads, [...]

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It is my pleasure today to tell you that you can now fly a little safer. You no longer have to worry about some terrorist using their Kindle during takeoff and crashing the plane. Do you remember the last time you flew and you were told to shut off your e-reader during takeoff? Well, it [...]

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The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet might be getting all the attention from the tech blogs, what with the ongoing hacking efforts and all, but those tablets aren’t the only ones getting attention from hackers. It’s not getting much attention, but the Vox was hacked some time ago.

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JXD is back again, only this time they’ve swapped their usual knockoff handheld with an Android tablet. The JingXing S7100 might look odd for a tablet at first, but it has decent power under the shell. It’s built around a 7″ capacitive touchscreen, and it’s running Android v2.2 on a Cortex A9 CPU with an [...]

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For the past few months now I’ve been toying with the idea of buying a cheap Android handheld to use as a pocketable media player and ebook reader. I still haven’t found one, but today I came across another 4.3″ tablet that almost met my needs. My target device would best be described as the [...]

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