With a ship date of October 27th, Future Shop is now taking pre-orders for the new Lenovo Ideapad which runs Android 3.0 (Honeycomb). When Future Shop first announced the tablet it was rumoured to be $499, but has since been dropped to $350 (more competitive market pricing). The IdeaPad is a Wi-Fi only tablet with [...]

HTC has corrected itself and has made it known that the “Flyer” tablet would support the Android 3.0 Honeycomb operating system but would only be available a short time after the launch, which is scheduled for Q2 2011. Lenovo’s “Think Slate” has been shown recently, but it seems that they’re also developing another Honeycomb tablet. [...]

I can’t really say this is the biggest surprise to start the week. With less than stellar sales of their webOS Palm Pre/Pixi (and Plus models respectively). Word on the street is that the troubled phone maker is working with Goldman Sachs and Qatalyst Partners to find a potential suitor to buy them out, with HTC [...]