Where Does Your Tablet Stack Up in Terms of Battery Life.

Just Saw this review on the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 Tablet on Engadget, and thought I'd repost this really great graph showing battery life of every major tablet currently out on the market right now.  The Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 holds the top position with over 12 hours of battery life of video playback and 4G LTE usage.  Which, if you own an 4G LTE phone, is no easy task.   So where does your tablet stack up?

Tablet	Battery Life
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (Verizon Wireless)	12:42
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.7 (global edition)	12:01
Apple iPad 2	10:26
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime	10:17
Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1	9:55
Apple iPad (2012)	9:37
Motorola Xoom 2	8:57
HP TouchPad	8:33
Lenovo IdeaPad K1	8:20
Motorola Xoom	8:20
T-Mobile G-Slate	8:18
Samsung Galaxy Tab 7.0 Plus	8:09
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet	8:00
Archos 101	7:20
Archos 80 G9	7:06
RIM BlackBerry PlayBook	7:01
Acer Iconia Tab A500	6:55
Sony Tablet P	6:50
T-Mobile Springboard (Huawei MediaPad)	6:34
Toshiba Thrive	6:25
Samsung Galaxy Tab	6:09
Motorola Xyboard 8.2	5:25
Velocity Micro Cruz T408	5:10
Acer Iconia Tab A100	4:54
Toshiba Thrive 7"	4:42

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Breaking News: New iPads Cannot Charge While You Use Them

Well it seems like Apple has been having a bad week.  First, there have been numerous reports of customers complaining about their New iPads overheating.  The main focus of these reports have been the 4G LTE models, but it still has occurred even in a few Wifi models. Apple also received another devastating blow .  Apparently you cannot use the New iPad and charge it at the same time.  I, myself, did a few comparisons on my Youtube channel and noticed how long it took for the ipad to charge. It took 15 minutes before I began to notice an increase in battery percentage. At the time, I thought the problem was how I was using it, but turns out I was wrong. Make sure you think about that before making any future purchases.



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New Acer Tablet Making News, In Pricing!

Acer had a rough start in the tablet world in 2011.  Acer is known for having a long lasting product for a really low price.  In 2011 however Asus started off with $399 tablet that beat the Acer tablet original price of $449.  Acer didn't sell many of it's tablet till it dropped to $399.  The moral of the story was that if you're going to make a low priced tablet make sure no one else can price it lower than your own.

This time around Acer is planning accordingly.  The A200 is a 10.1 tablet that will be priced at $329.99.  It has it's own interface on top of Android 3.0 and will upgrade to Android 4.0 in mid February.  It also is going to have only 8GB built in as oppose to the standard 16GB, but if you pop your micro SD in there that's not a problem.  Other than that the specs are almost identical to their model from 2011 except with a better new look of course.  Check out the commercial in the article to see the new look.  It's not bad, and for the price it should keep the competition interesting.


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HTC Flyer Gets Android 3.2, Honeycomb Update!

If you have an HTC Flyer, you have had probably the best 7" tablet of 2011.  There has been only one thing holding you back, that is still having an old OS while every other tablet moved on to bigger and better things.  Well finally the wait is over, the HTC Flyer has gotten it's update to Android 3.2.  This update has been long overdue and has been the main reason that HTC did not have a more profitable year with their tablets.

After using the newly updated Flyer I can say it is a much nicer experience overall and does seem to move faster and more fluid.  The best part about it though has to be is can now use all the tablet apps it was unable to in the past.  There are two down sides however.  The first would be a silly one, but still sad nonetheless. You can no longer spin your home screens around like you use to.  It's 5 screens of honeycomb and no spinning with those. I know I know.  The second part is a little more concerning, but my guess is that it will be fixed with an update.  The browser (so far every browser I've used) does not scroll as smoothly as it once did.  Again this might be fixed with an update, but until then just something you should know.

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