The more interesting bits of these rumors are the alleged Sony VGP-BPS13 battery product details.
According to the Fox News source, Sony VGP-BPS13A/B Battery which supplied a dubious-looking sketch of a product that looks a lot like a rebadged HP slate, the PalmPad will come in three flavors. A fourth model will focus on the education market and be sold to Sony VGP-BPS9/B Battery students.

The consumer PalmPad will supposedly have Sprint 4G connectivity, a mini Sony VGP-BPS9/S Battery HDMI port, as well as front- and rear-facing cameras. Apparently, the PalmPad is thinner than the iPad and lighter (1.25 pounds vs. 1.5 pounds) Sony VGP-BPS9A/B Battery and even features a USB 3.0 port. What’s not clear is what would differentiate these versions, Thinkpad T410 Battery as the source only mentions 9.7 inches as one of the screen sizes, and 8.9 inches for the university Sony VGP-BPS9 Battery version.

All models are said to run a new version sony vgp-bps8 battery of webOS called 2.5.1.
This would be really exciting news–if it were true. According to a Fox News “exclusive,” sony vgp-bps13b/q battery HP-Palm will introduce not one but three models of the PalmPad at CES. This at a show where HP doesn’t even have a booth sony vgp-bps13a/q battery (just a meeting room). Sorry, I just don’t buy it. Do I think a PalmPad is coming soon? Yes, HP has said as much: early 2011. But unless HP-Palm is whipping a press event up at the very last second, I don’t see a PalmPad–nevermind three–materializing sony vgp-bps13/b battery in Vegas.

Really, we’re not sure what to make of these rumors. Given that the source very likely has sony vgp-bps13/q battery the launch window dead wrong, the other details might not hold a lot of water, either.

Engadget, it looks like Sony’s rumored PlayStation Sony VGP-BPS13 battery Phone may be called the “Xperia Play”. Apparently a Sony Ericsson EU trademark filing refers to a device under the Xperia Play moniker. Engadget also reports that Sony Ericsson’s European PR firm has registered a slew Sony VGP-BPS10 Battery of domain names using the Xperia Play tag with various extensions such as XperiaPlay.com, .net, and .org. Perhaps a big CES launch is imminent, Sony VGP-BPS2A Battery perhaps not.

Also known as the Zeus Z1, videos of the alleged PlayStation Sony VGP-BPS2C Battery handset surfaced earlier this month. Greatly anticipated for its reported ability to run Android 3.0 and play Sony PSP games, the device appears to be a touchscreen slider with a 1GHz Qualcomm CPU, 512MB of RAM, 1GB of ROM, Sony VGP-BPS2 Battery and a micoSD expantion slot. The Xperia Play (Zeus Z1) may also feature the familiar PlayStation Portable game controls and buttons in addition to Sony VGP-BPS2B Battery allowing users to download games via a custom marketplace that’s in the works. We’ll certainly be on the look out for this little number at Toshiba PA3534U-1BRS Battery CES in January.

Then again, HP was first to target the toshiba pa3535u-1brs battery education market with netbooks, so it makes sense for them to leverage those relationships with webOS slates. And none of these product details are far-fetched (other than the rehashed design). Stay tuned for more sony vgp-bps21a battery details–after CES

Yesterday Roku told Business Insider that, despite new competition from the release of Apple TV in the fall, sales of its web-enabled multimedia television accessories have actually doubled. Yearly revenue for 2010 will be more than $50 million, and the sony vgp-bps21/s battery company expects to leapfrog $100 million next year.

In related news, Apple announced today that the Apple TV will hit 1 million devices sold at the end of this week. Just slightly ahead sony vgp-bps21b battery of Roku’s projections to hit the mark before the end of the year.
The tit-for-tat nature of the news reflects competition between the two companies, sony vgp-bps21 battery especially during the gift-giving season.

The set-top box race is getting aggressive this holiday season. sony vgp-bps21a/b battery Two popular products in the field, the Apple TV and the Roku Box, are both set to sell their one millionth units soon.

It was expected that the $99 Apple TV would dominate the market with the cachet of its brand and special features like AirPlay (lets you stream music, Lenovo 3000 v100 battery photo, and video from an iPod, iPhone or iPad to the Apple TV device) and Remote Control (lets users control Apple’s set-top Lenovo 3000 v200 battery from a mobile device). But a lack of content partners beyond Netflix may explain why other web-based video fans are purchasing one of the three Roku Lenovo 3000 n100 battery Box options, which start at $59 and end at $99

Several intrepid users have already rooted their Lenovo 3000 n200 battery G Tablets and installed custom firmware that provides a much better user experience. If you own a G Tablet and don’t want to wait for the company’s upcoming software update, you may want to check out the VEGAn ROM and rooting instructions at the XDA Forums

You could say there's a war going on between location-based services right now, what with Facebook Places jumping into Lenovo 3000 c200 battery the check-in war already being fought by such popular services as Foursquare, Gowalla, and Yelp. But only one of those options offers a unique Lenovo 3000 y410 battery combination of plentiful users and local cash incentives, and that is Foursquare.

This past weekend, we reported that Staples had stopped selling the Viewsonic G Tablet Lenovo r51e battery due to a “manufacturing defect,” but now it turns out that stores made the decision to pull the product due to sluggish software and an Lenovo r50e battery overall lousy user experience rather than a hardware problem. In a press release issued today, the company called its slate “one of the fastest Android tablets on the market today,” but said it plans to issue an over-the-air software update later this week that will improve Lenovo x300 battery performance and allow users to disable the proprietary Tap n’ Tap UI that has covered over Android Lenovo x200 battery on the device.

Speaking to Engadget, Viewsonic VP of Marketing Adam Hanin, said the company has thinkpad r61 battery experienced a high return rate due to the Tap n’ Tap UI’s sluggish performance. He also said consumers were upset about the lack of Flash on the thinkpad t400 battery device, a problem which should be solved when Adobe certifies flash for the G Tablet’s Tegra 2 CPU sometime in January. Until then, however, users will be able to download a beta Flash player from the Viewsonic site.
We really can’t blame all the users who have been returning the G Tablet. We reviewed the sluggish slate last month and found that its thinkpad t500 battery proprietary Tap n’ Tap UI slowed the system down to a crawl while also making it ugly and difficult to use. The device’s hardware is decent thinkpad t61 battery and its battery lasts over 10 hours, though the cheap plastic chassis creaks when you hold it. But if it takes several seconds to return to the home thinkpad t60 battery screen after you’ve hit the home button, who cares how long it lasts?

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