Review: Asus MeMO Pad 8

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The 8-inch tablet market is exploding right now with various Android and Windows 8 models competing with the iPad mini. Asus has been successful with its 7-inch Android tablets, specially its Nexus 7 device which has been a huge hit. How does their 8-inch Asus MeMO Pad device fare? We take a look.

Click to read more ...

Review: Dell Venue 8 Pro Tablet

Text and photos by Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Dell's Venue 8 Pro Tablet represents a new era for both Intel and for Microsoft. This is a full-featured Windows 8.1 tablet that weighs less than a pound and features the latest quad-core Intel Atom processor and the ability to run most desktop class PC applications in the most portable form factor we've seen yet.

Click to read more ...

Quick Contest: Win an exclusive red HP Slate 7 tablet!

Everyone likes a giveaway, right? Right. So, despite the fact that we're concurrently running a contest for not one but two brand new BlackBerry Q10 smartphones, we decided to spice things up courtesy of HP Canada and throw in another contest for good measure.

On the docket today is a brand new Android 4.1-powered HP Slate 7 tablet in exclusive red for our CanadianReviewer.com readers! For those of you not familiar with the HP Slate 7, read some obligatory copy below to getter a better feel for what the tablet is all about:

- 7-inch

- weighs just 13 ounces

- the industry’s first tablet to offer embedded Beats Audio™ for the best-sounding richest audio available.

- front-facing webcam and 3 MP camera on the back.

- Running on Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)

- built-in HP ePrint app that allows you to send important documents and memorable photos to any ePrint-enabled HP printer and have them waiting for you at home or the office.

Intrigued? You should be. Read below on how to attain this hot new tablet from HP:

1. Leave a comment below letting us know "how you would use your new Android-based Slate 7 tablet if you won?

2. Tweet out: "I want to win an exclusive red #HPSlate7 tablet from @hp and @creviewer"

3. Follow @Creviewer on Twitter

4. That's all.

Contest is open to residents of Canada (excluding Quebec) and ends this Friday November 1st, 2013 adn 11:59 sharp.

Good luck to all who enter!

Official Twitter app for Android tablets leaks online

Better late than never, right? At long last, during an IFA presentation no-less, the upcoming 'optimized for tablet' Twitter for Android was revleaed inadvertantly during a slide. Although no release date was given for the official app, an APK is available for download via the link below. Note: the app is optimized for tablets that have 10-inch screens. It's being reported that tablets with smaller screens are rendering a "cluttered" app experience.

Download Twitter for Android tablets here

Via AndroidPolice