For anyone that’s dabbled long enough with Sony’s dual-screen tablet as-is, we’ve got good news. The device can now be rooted and — better still — it’s not all that difficult. Pocketables forum member RayIczr goes over the method, which requires an …

Harris makes the tough tech you’d expect to see census takers (leave it), NFL stadiums and public buses toting around. It’s introducing a new 7-inch Android tablet that’s so hard-as-nails it would make a Galaxy Tab go home and call its mother. The Har…

Well, Panasonic’s presser here at CES just ended, and we just got done getting handsy with the company’s Toughpad tablet. As we reported back in November when it was first announced, it’s a 10-inch Android tablet running Honeycomb that’s built to ab…

Xyboard. It sounds like a xylophone made sweaty, mumbly love to a chalkboard. Putting that aside, the Xyboard is a pretty serious tablet with an IR blaster, boom-packing speakers, and hardware that scre…

New year, new pricing strategy? We just got word that Sony’s cut the price of its 9.4-inch Tablet S by $100, so that it now starts at $400 for the 16GB model, and $500 for the 32GB flavor. The move follows a temporary $50 price cut, which Sony ann…

Seven inches or ten inches? Geek rage over which form factor fits best will never end, unless the entire debate is crushed under the weight of this 65-inch Android behemoth. Now you can watch screen l…

For three weeks now, Android fans have been fidgeting impatiently. Specifically, ever since ASUS chairman Jonney Shih took the stage at last month’s AsiaD conference and teased the next-gen Transformer tablet. Though he only gave us a quick glimps…

Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

At AsiaD this week, Google’s Andy Rubin noted that there were at least six million Android tablets in use. That number included only those running Google services. On…

Finally some good news from Netflix, which has been having a sub-awesome couple of months. Their Android app has been upgraded to support 3.x devices, which should mean sweet streaming video for you Ho…

Honeycomb tablet owners have already been able to use Netflix unofficially thanks to some .APKs that have been floating about, but the company has now finally updated the app with some official support for Android 3.x tablets beyond those that shi…