Barnes & Noble’s Nook HD and Nook HD+ tablets now available in the UK

For UK folks who are in the market for a new tablet, we’re here to pass along the good news that the Nook HD and the Nook HD+ have officially landed in the country. Starting today, not only can you buy both tablet offerings from Barnes & Noble online, but you can also find them in various high-street retailers, such as John Lewis, Argos, Asda, Dixons, Sainsbury, Waitrose and others.

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New rumor: Samsung to switch to LCD panels only for low-end and mid-range phones

With great success come great expectations, responsibility and a lot of pressure. That’s probably what Samsung officials are feeling right now, near the end of their most successful year in history when talking about mobile devices.

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Samsung rolls out Jelly Bean update for WiFi Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, ICS for WiFi Galaxy Tab 8.9

Well, look what we have here! Two new ROMs for two of Samsung’s WiFi-only tablets, the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0 and the Galaxy Tab 8.9. There’s no prize for guessing which tab will get Jelly Bean and which one will see Ice Cream Sandwich.

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Samsung goes after new iPad, iPad mini and iPod in patent war, the stakes have never been higher

What do you do after you’ve been dealt a very cruel hand by fate (and the legal system), and you’ve apparently been proven as an intellectual thief? Do you retreat, accept your defeat and move on or do you defend yourself and try to counterattack using the enemy’s favorable weapons?

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Want a Nexus 4? You can get it now from T-Mobile, says Google

If you have been eyeing the sexy Nexus 4 this holiday season, there is both good news and bad news in this report. The good news is that, although you can still see a red message saying “Sold Out” on the Play Store Nexus 4 sales page, you can still own Google’s sweet new handset.

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Motorola Atrix HD soak test incoming, might be Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

When Moto updated its Jelly Bean rollout schedule a month ago, we saw that only the newer Droid devices have been promised to receive Android 4.1 before the end of 2012. Phones like the Atrix HD and the Photon Q 4G LTE are expected to get the software bump up as well, but no specific date was shared.

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Pictures of white Asus PadFone 2 and PadFone Station surfaced

It has been over a month since the Asus PadFone 2 has been officially unveiled. We know that the unique smartphone will come in black and white variants, but the latter variant has proven to be quite hard to spot in the wild. It doesn’t help either that the PadFone 2 in white is nowhere to be seen on the company’s website.

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Samsung set to shift over 60 million smartphones in Q4 2012

Leaving all the courtroom drama to one side this has been a good year for Samsung. The company took the lead as the world’s top smartphone manufacturer and it is not letting go. Back in Q1 of 2012 Samsung sold 42.2 million units. Now analysts from investment bank UBS are predicting sales of 61.5 million units in Q4. That figure will be driven by stellar sales of the popular Samsung Galaxy S3 and the Samsung Galaxy Note 2.

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This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for our industry’s remarkable rate of innovation

It’s easy to get jaded as a journalist, and I admit that I used to be that guy, the one who always complained about everything, but these past few years have given me an incredible amount of perspective. Remember the first Nexus device, the Nexus One? It started shipping in January 2010. Less than three years later, we have the Nexus 4. So what’s changed?

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Pay for Nexus 4 with Google Play Store balance? You can’t!

The Nexus 4 isn’t available for purchase for the time being, but as soon as Google starts taking orders again, make sure you have an alternative payment method to Google Play Store credit. Because no matter how much credit you may have accumulated to make sure you have enough money to purchase a new Nexus device, Google won’t take your money that way.

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