It’s tough to find a high quality tablet for less than $100 now that HP has cleared its inventory of discontinued TouchPad tablets. But there are a growing number of not-entirely-awful tablets that can be yours for less than a hundred bucks. One of the latest additions to that category is the IdolPad form Idolian. It’s a 7 inch tablet…

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Microsoft’s Kinect system adds motion-sensing technology to the Xbox 360 game console, allowing you to use your entire body as a game controller. The software company will start shipping a Kinect for Windows system in February for $249, allowing new forms of input for Windows-based software. Now Microsoft is also reportedly working to develop a Kinect system that works with…

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Research firm Strategy Analytics estimate that about 10.5 million Android tablets were shipped in the fourth quarter of 2011. That’s more than a 300 percent jump from a year earlier, and the increase in Android tablet shipments means that Android devices now make up about 39 percent of overall tablet sales. But one thing that wasn’t in Strategy Analytics original…

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Motorola started taking pre-orders for its latest Android tablets a few weeks ago. Now the company has actually started shipping the Motorola XYBOARD 8.2 and 10.1 tablets. Motorola is selling the WiFi-only versions of the tablet, but Verizon will also offer models with 4G LTE mobile broadband. All told there are four different models available: 8.2 inch tablet with 16GB…

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The HP TouchPad tablet hit the streets last summer for $499 and up, but after HP discontinued the tablet in August it slashed the price by as much as 80 percent, selling the 16GB model for $99 and the 32GB version for $149. While the TouchPad had suffered from poor sales up until that point, they sold out almost instantly….

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You know those 10.5 million Android tablets that shipped in 2011? It looks like about a million of them came from Motorola. The smartphone and tablet maker reported its quarterly earnings this afternoon, and Motorola says it shipped a million tablets in 2011, including about 200 thousand tablets during the last quarter of the year. Motorola was the first company…

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The Lenovo ThinkPad X130e us the latest 11.6 inch member of Lenovo’s business-focused ThinkPad family… but this model isn’t really aimed at business. When the company introduced the laptop late last year, the goal was to position the X130e as a laptop for students. The laptop was supposed to be available in December, but that didn’t happen. Now the ThinkPad…

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The Samsung Series 5 Ultrabook is a thin and light laptop with an Intel Core i5 processor, quick boot and quick resume technology. Samsung will offer three models, with prices ranging from $900 to $1100, and it looks like the first two are already available for pre-order. Amazon and J&R are both taking pre-orders for Series 5 ultrabooks with 13.3…

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The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is Google’s latest flagship Android smartphone. It ships with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, has a button-free front panel, and a large 4.65 inch 1280 x 720 pixel Super AMOLED display. Normally it runs $300 when you sign up for a 2-year Verizon contract — but today Amazon is offering the phone for just $100 on-contract….

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Chinese phone and tablet maker ZTE has been threatening to enter the US market for a while… and now it looks like the time has come. Sprint will begin selling a 7 inch ZTE tablet for $99.99 starting February 5th. Android Police has details and more photos. In order to get that price you’ll need to sign up for a…

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Research in Motion is expected to launch an updated BlackBerry PlayBook tablet in a few months. We’ve heard a lot about the tablet already thanks to some leaked information over the last few weeks, and now someone has gone and leaked a whole slideshow to BGR with the company’s smartphone and tablet plans for 2012. The new BlackBerry PlayBook could…

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Qualcomm may be known first and foremost for making the processors that power millions of phones and tablets. But the company also has a display division… and it’s about to get a little bigger. EE Times reports Qualcomm has acquired display company Pixtronix for about $175 million. Pixtronix is a startup working on MEMS display technology which can offer high…

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