It’s official. Chinese electronics maker Hisense has introduced its first Android tablets for the US market. They’re available exclusively from Walmart, and they’re some of the cheapest tablets around. They’re also surprisingly good devices for the price. Walmart will officially offer a $99 model and a $149 model starting May 24th. The move isn’t exactly a surprise. A Hisense tablet…
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The Asus Q200E is one of the cheapest notebooks available with a touchscreen. Not only does this 11.6 inch Windows 8 notebook normally sell for around $400 and up, but it’s often available for much less — especially if you’re willing to buy a refurbished model. Today Newegg is selling a refurbished version of the Asus Q200E with a Core…
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To nobody’s surprise, the Samsung Galaxy S4 has turned out to be a big hit for the Korean electronics company. Samsung says it’s now shipped 10 million units of the 5 inch handset around the world since it launched on April 27th. While rival HTC’s latest flagship phone isn’t moving quite as quickly, an HTC official tells the Wall Street…
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Apparently all-in-one desktop PCs with touchscreen displays and built-in batteries are a thing now. Sony and Dell have them, Lenovo and Asus have put their own spin on the idea. And now HP is getting in on the action. The HP ENVY Rove 20 is an all-in-one desktop/tablet that will launch in July for under $1000. In some ways the Rove…
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HP has been offering notebooks with 11.6 inch displays and starting prices of $399 as part of the HP Pavilion DM1 line for a few years. Now HP’s low-cost portable notebooks are getting a new name, and a few new features. The HP Pavilion 11 TouchSmart launches June 26th for $399 and up. And for the first time, HP’s entry-level…
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It’s shaping up to be a good year for fans of high-resolution laptop displays. Apple may have kicked things off when the company started shipping MacBook Pro notebooks with Retina displays, but this year we’ve also seen notebooks from Google and Toshiba with higher-than-full-HD screens. Now HP is joining the party with the HP Envy TouchSmart 14. It’s an ultrabook…
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Amazon is taking its Kindle Fire tablet lineup global. Just a few days after updating the Amazon Appstore to allow users in over 200 countries to download Android apps, Amazon has announced that the Kindle Fire HD and Kindle Fire HD 8.9 tablets are available for pre-order more than 170 countries. The tablets will begin shipping June 13th. Amazon’s Kindle…
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AMD is launching three new families of processors, which the company thinks fill a gap in the market. The new Temash, Kabini, and Richland chips are largely aimed at tablets, hybrids, and ultrathin notebooks and performance notebooks respectively. It’s not like market leader Intel doesn’t already have those areas covered, but AMD thinks its new processors will offer better performance…
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It’s an interesting time to be a watchmaker. Big companies like Motorola have been bringing smartwatches to market, and smaller companies like Pebble have raised a lot of buzz for wristwatches with ePaper displays, customizable software, and more. Heck, one of the main characters on a prime time TV show is a clockmaker. Anyway, there’s a new smartwatch in town….
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Asus may already be preparing to launch a follow-up to the MeMO Pad ME301T tablet which launched just a few months ago. A new tablet called the Asus K005 showed up at the FCC website this week, and judging by the label drawing, it appears to be a 10 inch tablet. The same tablet has been showing up at regulatory…
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Sony’s Vaio Duo 11 is a Windows 8 tablet with a slide-out keyboard that hangs out behind the screen when you’re not using it. This lets you use the computer as a tablet or a notebook, and you never have to worry that you’ve accidentally left the keyboard at home. While Sony hasn’t officially announced plans for a larger model,…
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Chip maker VIA is adding another low power ARM-based processor to its Wondermedia Prizm lineup. The new WM8880 is a 1.5 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 dual-core processor with Mali 400 graphics. VIA hasn’t added any information about the new chip to its website yet, but the folks at Chinese site 1pad have posted some details and test results from a 7…
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Google has pushed out an update to its Google Drive app for Android. It brings a new user interface, a new grid view, and the ability to quickly preview images and other files. Google Drive for Android also now lets you scan documents with your smartphone camera, recognize the text in those scans, and search for scanned documents once they’re…
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Who needs a Windows RT tablet when you can get a full Windows 8 model for the same price? When the first Windows 8 tablets with Intel Atom Clover Trail processors launched, they tended to sell for $500 and up, while Windows RT devices with ARM-based chips sold for $500 and less. But prices on both have been falling and now…
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The Acer C7 Chromebook is one of the cheapest laptops money can buy, with a starting price of around $199. But when Acer introduced this low-cost Chrome OS notebook, the company kept prices low by including a hard drive instead of a speedier solid state disk (something found in most other Chromebooks). Now it looks like a model with an…
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