AT&T's Pantech Element and Burst with LTE available now

Pantech's newest Android devices made for AT&T - the Element tablet and the Burst smartphone - are now available for purchase, and you can get them either separately, or bundled (which will let you save $100). The Pantech Element costs $299.99 on contract, and is an Android 3.2 Honeycomb tablet packed in a splash-proof case. It features an 8 inch display with 1024 x 768 pixels, LTE connectivity, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, HDMI, 5MP rear camera, 2MP front-facing camera, 1GB of RAM, 1.5GHz dual-core processor, 16GB of internal memory, MicroSD card support, and a 6400 mAh battery. You can go here to buy the Pantech Element right away. The Pantech Burst runs Android 2.3 Gingerbread, and features a 4 inch WVGA AMOLED display, LTE, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth 3.0, 5MP rear camera, front-facing camera, 1.2GHz dual-core processor, and a 1650 mAh battery. The Burst is available here in Titanium and Ruby Red, for $49.99 on contract. Customers who buy the Pantech Element bundled with the Pantech Burst will pay just $249.99 for them (but you'll have to sign a new contract for each).

Amazon Kindle is most unloved Christmas present in the UK

How many of you out there know of someone who has yet to open his or her Christmas presents? Well, that might sound rather strange to most of us who cannot wait to tear those presents out from their wrapping paper prison, but here is another rather disturbing statistic if you are an Amazon executive. It seems that in the UK, the Amazon Kindle is the most unused Christmas present, where 22% of folks in a survey who received it as a gift have not used it yet, leaving it as a rather expensive paperweight. Not only that, out of the 48% of people surveyed (no idea on how large the total pool is, and how true to real life demographics the figures represent) who have yet to use their Christmas presents after opening them, 9% of them who received the iPad 2 did not bother to even use it. Sounds rather ridiculous, no? I guess if it was the Amazon Kindle Fire that was unwrapped, the statistics would have seen the pecking order change in terms of unused Christmas presents. Any idea what was going through these peoples' minds when they looked at the Apple iPad after unwrapping it?

Notion Ink Adam 2 tablet announced

Looking forward to the sequel tablet to the Adam from Notion Ink? Well it looks like the tablet is in its planning stages. The folks over at Notion Ink have announced on its blog its new partnership with Texas instruments for its next generation Adam 2 tablets. The Adam 2 will be using an OMAP44xx processor along with other Texas Instruments components like Wi-Link 7.0 and Phoenix Audio Power Amplifiers. The tablet will be designed specifically for “best power performance and multi-tasking experience” and will ship with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. No word on the other features of the tablet (i.e. PixelQi display etc) but I guess it's too early to tell. Either way, let's hope the second tablet from Notion Ink will help put the company's name on the map as it is still a relatively unknown brand at this point in time. Anybody excited about the Notion Ink Adam 2?

Acer Iconia Tab A200 now available at Best Buy USA

Acer's affordable Iconia Tab A200 tablet was supposed to be released in the US on January 15. However, it's only now (January 20) that it's actually available for purchase. Only Best Buy seems to have the Iconia Tab A200 in stock for the moment. The retailer is asking $349.99 for the tablet's 16GB model – go here to buy it. The 8GB model, which should cost $329.99, is not available yet (but I assume it will be soon). The Acer Iconia Tab A200 features a 10.1 inch display with 1280 x 800 pixels, Wi-Fi, Facebook and Twitter integration, USB (full size), 1GHz dual-core Nvidia Tegra 2 processor, 1GB of RAM, and a 2MP front-facing camera. The tablet currently runs Android 3.2 Honeycomb, but it will be updated to Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich starting mid February.