If you have been thinking about getting an iPad and wanted a two-line message on the back of it, then we have some good news. Apple is now finally offering free engraving for both the 3G and WiFi models like it does with iPods.

It’s no coincidence that this comes ahead of the holidays. The shipping time is one to three business days. Just make sure you think out the message, you or the recipient will be stuck with it forever. Or at least until you upgrade.

With the release of the Notion Ink Adam Tablet coming closer, founder Rohan Shravan has announced that the battery life on the Notion Ink Adam Tablet will be a minimum of 15 hours +. That’s pretty impressive. There’s even a possibility of up to 20 hours with the 24Wh user replaceable battery.

These are figures for the $498 transflective version, not the $399 LCD model that will use more juice. The most power hogging elements on the Adam are the LCD, Wi-Fi, 3G, and Speakers.

If you don’t know that tablets are the hottest toy around this holiday season, you haven’t been paying attention. Fluid Computer Systems knows this and is working like tired little elves to make sure they can meet a pre-Christmas release deadline for their Windows 7 tablet.

1,000 of the multi-touch screen computers are currently being readied. These will feature a 10.1-inch display, Wi-Fi and Flash-friendly browsing. It’s your call as to whether the $599 pre-order asking price is worth it or not. You get 1GB of RAM, 160GB of storage, an Intel Atom processor and Bluetooth support.

Well, it’s official. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab will be hitting Sprint on November 14th. The carrier has confirmed the date and passed along some pricing details. The Verizon deal is $600 with no commitment required.

Sprint however is offering the 7-inch tablet for $399.99 along with a two-year 3G Tablet Mobile Broadband plan. Phone Scoop contacted the company and also found out that there’ll also be a $599.99 offer with no contract.

Pioneer Computers of Australia is outing their latest Android tablet called the DreamBook ePad P10. The device is based on the NVIDIA Tegra 2 platform and features a 10.1-inch 1024 x 600 multi-touch display and up to a 1GHz SMP Dual Core Cortex-A9 processor.

Other features include 512MB RAM, 512MB ROM, a microSD card slot (up to 32GB), a SIM card slot, a 1.3-megapixel camera, optional 3G and GPS, WiFi, Bluetooth, an HDMI port, a 3300mAh battery and Android 2.2 is running the show.

That title is crazy right? The iPad 3G starts at just $629 and the iPad Wi-Fi is only $630 in Verizon’s own stores when bundled with a MiFi, after all. We’ve learned that Verizon is actually planning to sell Samsung’s Galaxy Tab for $599.99. Crazy!

Are they serious? Apparently so. And there looks to be zero subsidization available. The Android 2.2-based unit, loaded down with V CAST apps, will hit retail on November 11th. A data plan starting at $20 per month for 1GB is optional.

Aimed at professionals and available in two different versions with Windows Mobile 6.5.3 Professional (AT-100P) and Windows Embedded CE 6.0 R3 (AT-100), the PREa is Canon’s new HandyTerminal.

Both models have the same basic hardware with an OMAP3505 CPU @ 600MHz, 256MB of DDR-SDRAM and 256MB of Flash Disk, a microSD slot, a 3.5” QVGA screen, IrDA 1.2 SIR, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, Wi-Fi ABG and a rugged body that can handle a 1.5m fall on hard concrete and it’s IP54 compliant, (Which means that it is protected against dust and against water sprayed from all directions).

We can never have enough storage, so it’s good that Seagate and Western Digital will soon be releasing their 3TB internal hard drives. There hasn’t been an official announcement yet, but pictures of the drives have surfaced of the Seagate Barracuda XT and Western Digital Caviar Green.

The Seagate drive will feature a 7,200RPM speed, along with a 64MB memory buffer, a 6Gbps SATA interface and an access time of 8.5ms. The WD drive will spin at a slower 5,400RPM and offer a 3Gbps SATA interface, a similar 64MB of buffer and an access time of 8.9ms.

If the Samsung Galaxy Tab is your tablet of choice, then you might want to check out the new Samsung KDDI SMT-i9100 Android tablet. The device is sexy looking and is powered by the Google Android 2.2 OS.

The SMT-i9100 features a 7-inch multitouch display with WSVGA resolution (1024×600), Wi-Fi, CDMA 1x, 3G, 4GB of internal memory, 512MB of RAM, Bluetooth, a microSDHC card and a 2MP digital camera.

Remember that ExoPC Windows 7-powered tablet? Well, the company has finally decided to release this touchscreen tablet in Canada and Portugal. Portuguese retailer Probitas has started selling this tablet as the Mobi One for 692 Euros or about US$965.

In Canada, the ExoPC tablet is called the Ciara Vibe tablet and retails for $599. The ExoPC Tablet features an 11.6-inch (1366 x 768 pixel) display with a capacitive multitouch screen, 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, an optional 3G, an HDMI port and an SD card slot.

Another day, another tablet. This latest one comes from China-based manufacturer ONN (OWEN) who has just announced its OPAD N2 7-inch tablet which is powered by the Google Android 2.1 OS.

The device features a 7-inch (800 x 480 pixel) resistive touchscreen display, a Rockchip RK2816 platform with 600MHz ARM9 processor, Wi-Fi, a USB 2.0 port, a microSD card slot, an optional external 3G module, a G-sensor and an accelerometer. It comes in white, obviously.

Nokia just launched their latest inexpensive touchscreen smartphone, the C5-03. This budget phone is powered by Symbian^1. And even though it is a budget phone, it features a compass and A-GPS feature that can be used with the latest version of the free Ovi Maps hands-free navigation service.

The resistive touchscreen instead of a multi-touch capacitive display is lame, but the features aren’t too bad though. You get a 3.2-inch resistive touchscreen display, Wi-Fi, A-GPS, Compass, Ovi Maps, 40MB of user memory, microSD card support up to 16GB, 11.5-hour talktime on GSM, 4.5-hours on 3G, 24-25 day standby time, Symbian^1, and a 5-megapixel camera.

Verizon has gone official with its plans to offer the iPad in its brick-and-mortar stores starting on October 28. VZW will be bundling the WiFi-only iPads with its own MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot with pricing at $630, $730 and $830 for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB versions of the tablet.

There’s just one access plan being offered for now, giving users 1GB of monthly data in exchange for $20 and no contractual commitments. AT&T will match the release date and upfront prices for each model, but its iPads will be the WiFi + 3G versions.

Some stats have been released that indicate that the the iPhone 4 is more prone to cracks than its predecessor, the 3GS. On one hand this is expected since the iPhone 4 has double the glass panes. There are simply more places for it to crack.

According to SquareTrade, 3.9 percent of all iPhone 4 owners reported a cracked screen within the first four months. In contrast the iPhone 3GS only reached 2.1 percent. In fact, 82 percent of all iPhone 4 accidents involve shattering glass panes, compared to 76 percent on a previous iPhone.

Full specs for the Advent Vega Tegra 2 tablet expected to drop at UK retailers PC World and Currys for just £249 have finally emerged. The biggest modification is the size, down to 10-inches from 15, but the 1GHz NVIDIA Tegra chipset is still under the hood, so it does 1080p. However, the 1024 x 600 resolution on the capacitive touchscreen is a bit of a letdown, but the HDMI output makes up for it.

There’s a 1.3 megapixel webcam, 802.11bg WiFi, a 3G SIM slot, 512MB each of ROM and RAM, and microSD expandability, with a 4GB card included. The OS is Android 2.2 and battery life is 6.5 hours of 1080p video.