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Google seems to have underestimated the demand for its 16 GB Nexus 7 because it has completely sold out the devices in the US. The 7-inch tablet, which sells for US$249 can no longer be purchased in the Google Play store, and all customers can do now is list their names to be notified when the Nexus 7 will be available again.
Customers cannot place orders for the device as well, and if you’re looking to grab a Nexus, you’ll have to settle for the 8 GB version which has a more regular shipping time.
Even retailers of the the 16 GB Nexus 7 has sold out. The strong demands yet zero availability has pushed the price of the device in some online stores, including eBay, where the gadgets is being sold at twice the price in Google Play Stores.
More people are going for the 16 GB version as many customers are unwilling to rely on cloud services for their content, which is what happens with the 8 GB version. The Nexus 7 has also faced critiques for its dependency on internet connection, and absence of a 32 GB version.
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In London, Samsung won a ruling against Apple who filed a patent lawsuit on the Galaxy Tab for copy the design and technology of the Ipad. Judge Colin Birss ruled in favor of Samsung, saying the Galaxy Tablet is not as “cool” as the Ipad.
“The (Galaxy Tab) do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design,” explained Birss.
The ruling marks a victory for the Korean electronics company who has seen its smartphones challenging Apple with its Android-based gadgets. The fierce competition for smartphone supremacy has seen both firms file lawsuits on one another on the basis of “infringement” of design rights.
Read more about the court ruling in favor of Samsung
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Apple generates more gossip than the Kardashians.There’s a constantly spinning mill of rumours about Apple products, most of which turn out to be untrue. What’s unusual this week is that talk has revived of a smaller iPad model, an idea company founder Steve Jobs derided publicly a year before he died.
Big phone? Small tablet? Where does the Samsung Galaxy Note fit in?
Say what you will about Android, but it’s great news for those of us who want choice when it comes to our gadgets. For a while tiny sub-3.5-inch Android handsets were all the rage but then Samsung went large with the 4-inch Galaxy S. At the time it seemed like a freak, a throwback to HTC’s cumbersome i-mate WinMo giants, but the trend caught on
Earlier this month, the New iPad 3 was launched and since then shown record sales with over 3 million units sold by the first weekend already. Unfortunately for Google, hopes for its Android operating system to take marketshare away from the iPad continue to dwindle.
$149 Google Nexus Android 4.0 tablet to bring price wars and fast updates to New iPad 3 battle
Now the folks over at AndroidAndMe claim that Google is secretly working with ASUS to change things around. Despite boasting the latest hardware and features, Android tablets can’t seem to beat the New iPad 3 and it may have to do with some very easy to solve issues - price and operating system.
Within a matter of hours, three methods of jailbreaking the new iPad were unveiled in record time.Only a matter of hours after the release of the new iPad, declarations of successful first steps in jailbreaking it were already sounding off. Fortunately for the new owners of the new iPad, three methods of jailbreaking have cropped up, and now it’s only a matter of time before a downloadable jailbreak is available to the public.
IPAD has new features and a price cut, writes, Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson.
After creating the tablet market in 2010, Apple will seek to lock down its leading position with a third edition of the popular tablet this week.
The company, which has sold more than 55 million iPads to date, will launch the new tablet in Australian stores on Friday, with new features and a lower price.
While experts have labelled the upgrades incremental and the company faces stronger competition than ever, consumers will have the final say, starting in Australia.
Read more of a breakdown of the new iPad’s major upgrades, as unveiled in San Francisco last week.
