Barnes & Noble might be feeling the heat from Amazon’s $200 Kindle Fire . Although its Nook Tablet is more powerful than the Kindle Fire in virtually every way, it still costs $50 more. A new Nook Tablet with less storage and a lower price tag could make it more competitive with the Kindle Fire.

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8GB Nook Tablet arriving Feb. 22, should carry lower price, too

As we brace ourselves for Mobile World Conference and the impending onslaught of mobile announcements, Samsung has leaked its own Galaxy Note 10.1. That’s a Galaxy Note — not a Galaxy Tab — meaning it’ll probably be similar to the 5.3-inch Galaxy Note . Haha, will it be a 10-inch smartphone?

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Samsung might expand its S Pen to a massive 10.1-inch Galaxy Note

Look what the cat dragged in. Samsung’s finally given its first 7-inch Galaxy Tab Android tablet a proper successor with sharper screen, an additional camera and the delicious Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich . Talk about long overdue update.

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Galaxy Tab 2 is Samsung’s first tablet to rock Ice Cream Sandwich

Not a day goes by without the Chinese coming up with some kind of bizarro iPad clone . According to the Wall Street Journal, an iPad clone called the “Red Pad” endorsing Mao Tse-Tung’s “Little Red Book” of Communism briefly surfaced in China before getting removed.

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$1,600 ‘Red Pad’ is China’s Communist Party-approved iPad clone

Last year was not a great year for RIM. Having launched its PlayBook tablet to lukewarm reviews and not having native email and calendar apps baked in, RIM is rumored to be dropping a new 10-inch PlayBook and another revamped 7-inch PlayBook.

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Rumor: two new BlackBerry PlayBook tablets coming out this year

DigiTimes is at it again, but instead of talking up info on the next iPad or iPhone, it’s reporting that Windows 8 tablets might cost somewhere between $600 and $900. If true, well, Windows 8 tablets could be screwed.

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Windows 8 tablets might cost a fortune, make iPads look cheap

Want an inexpensive tablet that doesn’t compromise on screen size? You’ll want Acer Iconia Tab A200 — a 10.1-inch tablet that runs on Android 3.2 Honeycomb (to be upgraded to 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich) and has a beefy dual-core processor.

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Acer Iconia A200 is 10.1-inches of tablet goodness for $330

You may have heard of Siri, that sultry vixen with the smooth voice who doesn’t know where abortion clinics are but likes to curse out twelve-year-olds . Well, like most sultry vixens (trust me, I know like two… that I saw… on TV… once), she’s not a fan of imitators, and even rival Google will ban a Siri knockoff and its developer from the Android Market.

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Google bans Siri knockoff application and developer

You might know the old trick of bringing your passport to the bar if you’ve forgotten you ID, but what about bringing your iPad to the border if you’ve forgotten your passport? Yeah, it’s a new one. This story has been updated.

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Man tries to enter U.S. using his iPad as a passport (and it works)

What started out as a hilarious joke on The Office , might just become a reality. Eric Calisto is reaching out to the Internet to help him fund the creation of the world’s first tablet shaped like a triangle. This is not an April Fool’s joke.

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This Kickstarter dude wants to build and sell triangular tablets