The Acer Iconia Tab A200 may have gone up for order in the UK this week, but it’s not the only new tablet Acer will launch in early 2012. We’ve already seen a few clues that the company was working on an A700 model with a 1080p HD display, and now the folks at Russian site NoMobile.ru have some more…

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We’ve seen plenty of indications that Android tablet makers are readying new devices with 10 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel displays. But BGR reports Samsung may be preparing to go a step further by launching a tablet with an 11.6 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel display. That would give the Samsung tablet a pixel density similar to the Retina displays…

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Acer appears to be working on a new Android tablet that will feature an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor and a screen that will really take advantage of the Tegra’s graphics power. According to details found on the Acer support website, the upcoming Acer Iconia Tab A700 tablet will have a 1920 x 1200 pixel display. There’s no word on…

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The Acer Aspire One 522 is the first netbook to ship in the US with a 10.1 inch display and an AMD C-50 processor with Radeon HD 6250 graphics. If it weren’t for the high resolution 1280 x 720 pixel display, you’d probably have a hard time telling this mini-laptop apart from any other netbook. It’s about the same size,…

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Chip maker Marvell is starting to show off a rather exciting reference design for an Android tablet. Powered by a Marvell Armada 600 chip, the tablet has a 10 inch, 1280 x 720 pixel HD display and support for 1080p HD video playback and 3D graphics acceleration. I got a chance to check out a prototype this evening, and I…

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It looks like the Samsung NF310 and HP Mini 5103 have some competition: They’re not the only netbooks avaialble with dual core processors and HD displays anymore. LG has introduced the X170 netbook which packs both of those options. The LG X170 is available with either a 1.66GHz Intel Atom N455 single core or 1.5GHz Atom N550 dual core processor….

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If you’re only going to watch one video of something being taken out of a box today, may I humbly suggest you make it this one? The folks at Samsung sent me the new NF310 laptop to review this week, and after the break you can check out my unboxing and first look video. On paper, the Samsung NF310 is…

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Samsung’s first 10 inch netbook with a dual core processor is now shipping in the US. The Samsung NF310 has the same curvy design as the Samsung NF210, but while the NF210 is available exclusively through Sam’s Club in the States, the NF310 is starting to pop up all over the place. Amazon and TigerDirect are both offering the netbook…

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Last month I got a chance to check out one of Samsung’s newest mini-laptops, the NF210. Aside from a few snazzy design choices which probably make the NF210 a love it or hate it machine, the Samsung NF210 doesn’t have much to set it apart from earlier Samsung netbooks. It has the same display, processor, and other specs as pretty…

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NEC is the latest PC maker to get in on the dual core Atom action. The company has just introduced a new netbook in Japan with a 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 dual core CPU, 2GB of memory and a 320GB hard drive. The NEC LaVie Light BL550 netbook also has a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel HD display and…

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The HP Mini 5103 is the latest business-class netbook from Hewlett Packard. Physically it looks almost exactly like the HP Mini 5101 and 5102 which precede it. The primary difference is that in the US the netbook is only available in a new dark brown “espresso” color. Under the hood, the HP Mini 5103 has all the things that made…

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The HP Mini 210 HD is a small laptop that’s both stylish and a bit more capable than many other 10 inch netbooks thanks to its high resolution 1366 x 768 pixel display. HP first introduced the Mini 210 series earlier this year, but after phasing out the budget model with a lower resolution screen, the HP Mini 210 HD…

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