Author: Jim Miller

Jim's passion for Apple products ignited in 2007 when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. This was a canon event in his life. Noticing a lack of iPad-focused content that is easy to understand even for "tech-noob", he decided to create Tabletmonkeys in 2011. Jim continues to share his expertise and passion for tablets, helping his audience as much as he can with his motto "One Swipe at a Time!"

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Samsung Galaxy S23 Series Of Three Smartphones Priced From $799 With February 17 Release Date In Shops After February 1 Unveiling
ByJim Miller January 18, 2023 4:34 PMJanuary 18, 2023 4:34 PM

Samsung will unveil their new Samsung Galaxy S23 series flagship smartphones through the first Galaxy Unpacked 2023 event on February 1. They’ll also unveil a new Galaxy Book laptop and some smaller peripheral. So now I’ve found a price leak, along with a $100 credit for those reserve a device ahead of the launch: https://www.samsung.com/us/smartphones/the-next-galaxy/…

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Teclast Upgrades Their 2023 Model Tablets Teclast T40 Pro – M40 Pro – T50 – P25T
ByJim Miller January 17, 2023 3:35 PM

Teclast is launching upgraded versions of some of their existing tablets in 2023, but without changing the names much other than adding the 2023 moniker to the existing name, similar to what we have seen from Samsung a couple of times. Teclast T40 Pro 2023 Originally launched in November 2021, this 10.4-inch tablet has been…

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Amazon’s Fire Tablets On Sale Today With Up To $60 Off
ByJim Miller January 16, 2023 2:39 PM

If you’ve been waiting since Christmas for Amazon’s tablets to go one sale again, all but one of the Fire are on sale for the holiday today: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B099Z8HLHT/ Right now the Fire HD 8 costs $59, the 10.1-inch Full HD tablet costs $85, with an additional $20 for the Plus models with more RAM and…

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60% Sized Roccat Magma Mini Keyboard Launch February 9
ByJim Miller January 15, 2023 2:45 PMJanuary 15, 2023 2:50 PM

Roccat, one of the world’s largest computer gaming peripherals brands is launching a new smaller keyboard next month called Roccat Magma Mini, and it has and interesting set of features: https://www.amazon.com/ROCCAT-Magma-Mini-Programmable-Anti-Ghosting Roccat Magma Mini may just look like another gaming keyboard, but the combined features together with a price of $50 makes it interesting. For…

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Quad-Band Wi-Fi 7 Router TP-Link Archer BE24000 Launching In March
ByJim Miller January 14, 2023 2:27 PMJanuary 14, 2023 2:30 PM

Chip manufacturer MediaTek announced two Wi-Fi 7 chipsets during CES a few days ago, with the Filogic 880 and 380 chipsets. Some of the first computers with MediaTek’s Wi-Fi 7 chipsets will be Lenovo Legion devices. So naturally we will be seeing some cutting edge Wi-Fi 7 routers launch this year, and here’s one of…

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OtterBox uniVERSE Wireless Charging Stand For Tablets Launched
ByJim Miller January 13, 2023 3:12 PM

OtterBox already has something called the uniVERSE Case System for tablets, first of all for Apple iPads, Samsung Galaxy tablets, and Surface tablets. So now they’re expanding on the use of these modular cases systems by adding the OtterBox uniVERSE Wireless Charging Stand for USB-C enabled tablets. The wireless charging stand adds three features, which…

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8-Inch 4G Tablet TCL Tab 8 LE Launching For $169
ByJim Miller January 12, 2023 2:25 PM

The new 8-inch TCL tablet announced during CES last week is now launching from wireless carriers such as T-Mobile and Metro where it’s launching for $159. TCL Tab 8 LE is the new 2023 model 4G version of the TCL Tab 8 which is a bit cheaper, and it’s an alternative to the Samsung Galaxy…

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10.1-inch Android Tablet Ulefone Tab A8 Launching In January For $199
ByJim Miller January 11, 2023 3:31 PM

Ulefone used to be a smartphone brand with emphasis on rugged smartphones until June last year when they launched their first tablet. And now they’re finally ready to launched their second tablet. It’s the Ulefone Tab A8, which will be launched soon for $199. But despite being a Ulefone device, this is not a rugged…

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Xiron Apple Pencil Launching January 23 For $29
ByJim Miller January 10, 2023 3:20 PMFebruary 27, 2024 6:23 AM

Another cheap alternative to the Apple Pencil is launching this month, when Xiron launches a new Apple Pencil 2nd generation digitizer with support for 12 different iPads: https://www.amazon.com/Magnetic-Wireless-Charging-Generation-Upgraded/dp/B0BRN5C1ZM It mostly has the pencil look of the original Apple Pencil too, as opposed to the look of a digitizer pen that most digitizers have. And it…

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Chuwi HiPad XPro 10.5 Launching – Alternative To Samsung Galaxy Tab A8
ByJim Miller January 9, 2023 3:23 PMJanuary 9, 2023 3:24 PM

Chuwi is launching a new mid-range tablet on AliExpress in January called Chuwi HiPad XPro, which is a direct competitor to the Samsung Galaxy Tab A8 10.5 in the same price range. Chuwi HiPad XPro is also a 10.5-inch Android tablet featuring a 1920 x 1200 Full HD resolution display with 360 nits brightness. And…

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8-Inch Tablet, 14-Inch Flexible OLED, And Smart Tech Ecosystem Integration Also Announced By TCL At CES 2023
ByJim Miller January 7, 2023 2:50 PM

While TCL took the wraps of two new tablets at CES this week, with the Android tablet TCL NXTPAPER 12 Pro and the Windows tablet TCL Book X 12 Go, they also had more tablet related stuff up their sleeve. One of them was the quiet unveiling of the 8-inch mid-range tablet TCL TAB 8…

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12.2-Inch Windows 2-In-1 Tablet TCL Book X 12 Go Unveiled – Launching In Mid-2023
ByJim Miller January 6, 2023 3:12 PMNovember 28, 2023 1:23 PM

One of the other TCL tablets announced at CES is the Windows tablet TCL Book X 12 Go, which is the second Windows computer launched by TCL within the last year. The TCL Book X 12 Go is a Windows on ARM powered tablet, in this case powered by the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 7c chipset…

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12.2-Inch Android Tablet TCL NXTPAPER 12 Pro Unveiled
ByJim Miller January 5, 2023 4:15 PMMarch 5, 2023 7:30 AM

TCL have announced the TCL NXTPAPER 12 Pro at CES, which is a tablet that TCL wants to launch around March-April for $499, and as a 5G version later in 2023 for $549. This is a 12.2-inch Android 12 tablet powered by an octa-core MediaTek MT8771 processor, with 8GB of RAM, and 256GB storage. The…

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Lenovo Tab Extreme Unveiled – 14.5-Inch Android 2-In-1 Tablet With High Specs
ByJim Miller January 5, 2023 3:07 PMAugust 13, 2024 8:41 AM

Lenovo used the CES 2023 to unveiled the previously leaked Lenovo Tab Extreme, which with a 14.5-inch screen will become Lenovo’s largest tablet computer at the moment: https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/p/coming-soon/lenovo-tab-extreme/ Lenovo Tab Extreme is also the first tablet to feature the hot new 3.05 GHz octa-core MediaTek Dimensity 9000 chipset, and the RAM is good too with…

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LG Showcase Foldable 8-Inch OLED And Flexible Displays In Cars
ByJim Miller January 3, 2023 2:20 PMJanuary 3, 2023 2:21 PM

LG Display is using the CES 2023 to showcase their present products available for anyone in need of foldable and flexible OLED displays. For starters it showcased a 360 degree folding 8-inch OLED display that can be used for the next foldable smartphone. But Korean companies such as LG and others are also working with…

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HP FreeDOS Laptop Launching In 2023
ByJim Miller January 2, 2023 2:01 PMJanuary 2, 2023 2:09 PM

Here’s a leak we can share on an upcoming HP laptop that will be launched this year, and it’s a HP computer that will ship with FreeDOS installed. Yep, no Windows or Chrome on this model out of the box, just the DOS-compatible but open source operating system that’s free. Though it has a Windows…

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