Lenovo led the way in sales, followed by Apple

Devices top the Christmas lists along with Lego, robot dinosaurs and Pepper Pig toys Nearly a third of parents are expecting mobile phones or tablets to be at the top if their children’s Christmas lists this year. According to a report from Hotwire Global research 32 per cent of parents are expecting their kids to […]

These days, you will be hard-pressed to find someone who doesn’t own at least one digital device. Using digital devices, whether smartphones or tablets, is a trend that crosses most demographics. After all, technology really has seeped into every aspect of modern society. As such, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to learn that one […]

Imagine if you filled your car with fuel, only used half a tank and then had to throw the rest away before being able to full up again. That would be annoying – and expensive. But that’s just what mobile networks have been doing with their data plans by not letting you roll over unused […]

New research from the think tank Parliament Street has revealed that commuters lost over 26,000 electronic devices on London Transport network last year. The report entitled Identity Crisis: The Risks of Personal Device Security published this week revealed that  26,272  devices were reported lost on busses, tubes and trains between April 2017 and April 2018. […]

Cheap Android tablets have been around for some time. But the market really took off after Amazon launched their budget Fire Tablet. Wal-Mart, Tesco and many other retailers were quick to jump on the bargain tablet bandwagon. Even so, you find can many more cheap Android tablets online if you’re willing to look a little […]

At this years Zen festival in Delhi, India, Asus took to the stage and gave more information on its recently announced tablet line, the Zenpad. The new Asus Zenpad range comes in both 7 inch and 8 inch variants. With a leather finish on the rear and metal edging, they certainly look considerably more premium […]

Amazon Prime subscribers can now stream content from their Android tablets. This news will probably come as a relief to many Amazon Prime subscribers who, until now, have only been able to street Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service to their phones. Users can also launch Amazon’s Instant Video webpage and watch shows from there. Getting […]

Instead of printing a ton of induction packs to help first-year students adjust to higher education, a London university as instead opted to take the free paper-free route of handing out free tablets to newcomers. The University of East London (UEL) is giving a free Samsung Galaxy Note 8 tablet to all its new students […]

In a controversial move that further emphasises the suspicion towards tech in public places, Manchester United has become the first football club to ban iPads and tablets from their home ground of Old Trafford. The new restrictions were relayed to fans via email ahead of Manchester United’s match against Valencia later tonight. The occasion marks […]

In this week’s What Mobile Podcast we discuss the newly launched Samsung Galaxy Tab S tablet and its epic screen resolution, wireless charging comes to Starbucks in the US, the OnePlus One smartphone finally makes it to the UK, Apple’s decision to ban certain apps and our thoughts on the year’s biggest gaming expo; E3 […]

Having announced its G Pad tablet range at its G3 flagship smartphone launch, LG is now releasing the slates globally – beginning with Europe – this week Having already revealed that the new tablets come in three sizes; 7.0 inch, 8.0 inch and 10.1 inch, LG has now also announced the specs for the trio. […]

Who would have thought that of all the revelations at Computex this weekend, two of the most exciting would be budget tablets? Dell’s two newest offerings could be set to completely destroy the low-cost tablet market. The Dell Venue 7 and Venue 8 are their names, and they both boast some stats which, when compared […]

It seems to work well enough for Samsung, so why not give it a go? Three new tablets are on the way from LG, with the only difference between them being the size of their displays. They’re to be named the LG  G Pad 7.0, 8.0 and 10.1 – you can probably guess why. The […]

Halo co-creator Alex Seropian has raised $5 million in funding from venture and growth equity firm  Accel Partners for his mobile gaming firm Industrial Toys. Seropian’s startup is currently hard at work on Midnight Star, a free-to-play shooter game designed for tablets. Seropian believes that hardcore gamers will migrate to mobile games from their beloved […]

It seems that with all the apps and games aimed at children these days, kids are accustomed to growing up around electronic devices. According to a new survey, however, the trend is leading to mobile tech replacing traditional toys in the lives of toddlers. Media research firm The Michael Cohen Group (MCG) released the results […]

Samsung is preparing to unveil a new version of its flagship Galaxy S smartphone this month at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The S5 is rumoured to include a bigger screen, at 5.25in, than its predecessor the S4 and come in two versions – one with metal and one with plastic casing. It is […]

Archos has some new tablets to show off today, although they won’t get tech-heads hearts pumping. The Neon tablet line is designed to be the company’s low-end offerings. It consists of three slates, each with a quad-core A9 processor, 1GB of RAM and 8GB of storage space. The difference comes in the sizes, with the […]

HP has decided that it’s time to grab a slice of the portable devices market. The company has confirmed two tablets that come with voice calling. In other words, the Slate 6 and Slate 7 Voicetabs, both named after their respective screen sizes, are essentially huge smartphones. Both are Android Jelly Bean devices with quad-core […]

Sony’s PlayStation Now service has undoubtedly been one of the biggest reveals of CES 2014. We knew such a system was coming, although the announcement of it heading to TVs, smartphones and tablets was a surprise. So how will you play greats like The Last Of Us on a tablet? Simple – with a DualShock […]

If you haven’t heard of One Laptop Per Child, you should probably be reading up on it. This is an intriguing outfit dedicated to making a difference in the world and it’s unveiled two new tablets at CES this week. The company has partenered with Vivitar to produce the XO-2 and XO-10. The former is […]

Earlier today an advert on the Las Vegas convention centre let slip both the Samsung Galaxy Note Pro and Galaxy Tab Pro. Now the company has officially revealed the new devices within the confines of the show itself. The big surprise here is that the Tab Pro isn’t just one new device, it’s three. There […]

We all know Samsung likes to release a lot of devices, and it looks like the company will be keeping up appearances in 2014. Rumours suggest that there will be not one, not two but four Samsung tablets launching early next year. Sources apparently say that this barrage of slates will launch in the first […]

The holiday season is upon us but for tech nerds like us the festivities are already over. Pretty much every phone, tablet, wearable and and odd sock we’ve been looking forward to this year has been announced and released. So what next? Why, 2014 of course! We’re hoping that next year is a big one […]

What do you expect to pay for a tablet these days? £300? £180? £100? How about £30? That’s the starting price for UbiSlate’s new range of 7-inch educational tablets, coming to the UK soon. The new devices will come in three variants: 7Ci, 7C+ and 7Cz. It’s the first of these three that sets that […]

Board games and handmade gifts will be more popular Christmas presents this year than tablets and smartphones, research from Gocompare has found. According to the comparison website, seven per cent of people in the UK are expecting to receive a tablet for Christmas, with four per cent expecting a smartphone as a gift. This is […]

Grand Theft Auto is no stranger to smartphones, with the groundbreaking GTAIII hitting devices a few years ago and its sequel, Vice City, following soon after. Then there was the GTAV app that launched alongside the blockbuster game back in September. Now another classic is coming to handsets in the form of Grand Theft Auto: […]

Dream of using your iPad while taking off on a flight in Europe? Okay it’s a pretty specific complaint, but we’re sure it bugs some people. You may want to give the European Aviation Safety Agency (or EASA) a big hug, then. The organisation is to publish new guidelines that clears Apple’s tablet and a […]

Without question, the iPad’s biggest rival is Samsung tablets. Sure, Apple’s device is the more talked-about product, but Samsung tablets tend to sell by the barrel as well. In fact, in the US, a recent survey suggests that customers are more satisfied with the Korean’s offerings than they are Apples. The research, conduced by J.D. […]

Samsung has reportedly just struck up a huge deal in advertising. According to The Wall Street Journal, the electronics company has partnered with the NBA to supply courtside TVs and tablets during basketball games. That means you’ll be able to see users flick away on Note tablets during NBA games, which will give the devices […]

This won’t come as much of a surprise to anyone, but an industry analyst is expecting tablets to grow massively in worldwide shipments this year while PCs will continue to decline. So, yes, tablets still dominate PCs and that’s not likely to change any time soon. Gartner expects to see tablet shipments grow by 42.7 […]

Let’s admit it, Windows RT hasn’t been best received — it’s woeful lack of apps being a major reason for the cold reception. If Microsoft could fix that issue, then it may be onto a winner, and one place it can find plenty of the apps that people love is on Windows Phone. According to […]

It was just a few years ago that the iPad made tablets an ‘in thing’ in the UK, but now they’re everywhere. In fact, it’s been suggested that as much as a third of the UK’s population now uses tablets. Yikes. That equals out to a sizeable 20 million tablets currently in use across the […]

Whoever said size doesn’t matter wasn’t on the product teams at Apple or Samsung, with a rumour surfacing this morning that the companies are planning a tablet with a 12-inch or larger display. According to DigiTimes, sources in the supply chain believe that the iPad and Galaxy Tab manufacturers are trying to create a new […]

HotUKDeals has become synonymous with finding the best deals on the web, and with the launch of their mobile app last year, it’s been finding new ways of accessing those deals. Now the company is planning on moving off just the web and the small screen, with the launch of its iPad and Android tablet […]

Despite tablet devices running Android holding a majority share in the market, Google’s Hugo Barra has said “the Android ecosystem has been lagging behind”.

Research has found growth in the Australia and New Zealand tablet market has sky rocketed thanks to Android and Windows tablets.

Just what is the etiquette of tablet viewing in public – can you look at the screen? Can you pull out your own popcorn and join in? Can you lean your e-reader on a stranger’s head? We ask the important questions.

Cyberpunk, first person shooter, augmented humans – Square Enix is bringing Deus Ex to mobiles and tablets this summer, so if you’re a fan of the series, set aside that £5.

Microsoft is bringing Outlook to Windows RT-based tablets, whilst also giving 7 and 8-inch Windows 8 tablet owners a free copy of Office.

We already knew Firefox OS could run on phones, but Foxconn envisions Mozilla’s OS running on tablets, laptops and even TVs.

Toshiba has launched three 10.1-inch Android tablets, the Excite Pure, Excite Pro and Excite Write — the latter of which directly competes with the Galaxy Note 10.1.

A mobile analyst firm is forecasting that more than one billion tablets would be in use globally by the end of 2017.

Are you paranoid when using your mobile device in the street, expecting some low-life to grab it, or worse, beat you up for it?

The supply of lower-priced, smaller devices will increase in 2013, leading to an increase in forecasts for the worldwide tablet market.

The PC market is continuing to flatline as tablet and smartphone sales climb. PC shipment worldwide totaled 89.8m units in the fourth quarter of 2012, down 6.4% compared to the same time last year and worse than the 4.4% forecasted by research firm IDC. Microsoft’s attempt to arrest the decline in sales of its Windows […]

The organisers of the world’s largest consumer electronics show, CES, believe that smartphones, tablets and their integration with other products will dominate January’s show. The Consumer Electronics Association’s Director of Industry Analysis Steve Koenig and Shawn DuBravac, its Chief Economist and Senior Director of Research took the stage at CES Unveiled London to layout their […]

Asus has announced that the Android 4.1 Jelly Bean updare is now officially starting to roll out for the Asus Transformer Pad Prime and Asus Transformer Pad Infinity tablets. It’s believed that Jelly Bean is currently only available on 1.2 per cent of all Android devices, which is a little shocking considering it’s been available […]

The tablet war has taken a new twist as the Barnes and Noble Nook HD+ and Nook HD tablets look set to take on the likes of the Google Nexus 7 and Amazon Fire HD here in the UK. The entry-level model of the range is the Nook HD, which weighs in at 315g and […]

Microsoft is expected to announce its Windows 8 operating system on the 25th October and along with the PC version will come the Windows RT version for tablets, which Microsoft is putting a great deal of faith in. And Asus looks set to launch three new Windows tablets, called the Asus Taichi, Vivo Tab and […]

Scosche Industries has announced the availability of its freeKEY wireless keyboard for the Apple iPad and other Bluetooth enabled tablets. The water-resistant keyboard has a range of 30 feet and can be rolled up for easy storage.

Seagate has today announced the launch of the battery powered, wireless, GoFlex Satellite portable hard drive. With 500GB of storage, it’s designed to add storage of pictures, music and video for the Apple iPad and other tablets and smartphones.

Acer has built two Android Honeycomb OS tablets, the ICONIA TAB A500 with a 10.1-inch screen, and the A100 with a 7-inch screen, each with a dual-core processor and HD output. There’s also a Windows 7 variant coming too.

Three has added three new tablets to its range, including the Samsung Galaxy Tab, the Commtiva N700 (aka ViewSonic 7) and Dell’s notebook/tablet hybrid, the Duo.

Symantec is adding new features to its range of security tools for smartphone users, including a beta release of Norton Mobile Utilities for Android.

Phones 4u will be stocking two Android tablets from Monday. The Samsung Galaxy Tab will retail for £499.95 and the Commtiva N700 for £349.95, with discounts when buying a contract mobile phone.

Archos has announced five new Android tablets starting at £99 and rising to £299. Low-cost tablets are coming thick and fast.

Binatone has surprised us by announcing two Android tablets at amazing prices. Tablets are about to go mainstream.

The next version of Android OS is to be called Honeycomb.