We’ve known for a few months that second-generation laptop and desktop computers designed to run Google Chrome OS would use Intel Celeron chips instead of less powerful Atom processors. Now through a series of leaks we have more details. TigerDirect appears to have accidentally sold at least one Celeron-powered Samsung Chromebox a few days early before removing the product listing….
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The Samsung Chromebox is a tiny desktop computer designed to run Google’s Chrome OS, an operating system designed around a web browser. By the time we noticed yesterday that the product had been available for purchase at TigerDirect, the retailer had removed the product page. But this isn’t one of those cases where the product was simply listed before it was officially released….
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Samsung hasn’t said much about that little PC designed to run Chrome OS that we saw at CES in January. But a product listing for the Samsung Chromebox showed up briefly at retailer TigerDirect’s web site today. The page has been pulled, but the folks at Engadget snapped a picture and captured some video. If the listing is accurate, it looks…
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) is an inexpensive 7 inch tablet with a decent screen, a relatively zippy 1 GHz dual core processor, and Android 4.0 operating system. But if you want to get even more performance out of this $249 tablet and don’t mind voiding your warranty (and possibly breaking something in the process), there’s a way to…
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) went on sale this weekend… and it only took a few days for one of the first proud owners of the new $400 Android tablet to figure out how to root it. Xda-developers forum member weltwon has posted instructions for gaining root access to the Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1), which lets you access protected…
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A few years ago Samsung released the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7, making it the first major PC company to launch an Android tablet. Running Android 2.2, it offered a smartphone-like experience in a tablet-sized device. But with prices starting at $350, a smartphone-like experience wasn’t really enough to help the tablet compete with the Apple iPad, and over the last…
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The Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) is now available in the US for $399.999. The new tablet features a 10.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display just like the original 10 inch Galaxy Tab, but it ships with Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and includes an IR blaster and microSD card slot, two features that last year’s model lacked. The…
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The Samsung Series 5 Chromebook is a notebook with a 12.1 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, 1.66 GHz Intel Atom N570 dual core processor, 2GB of RAM and a 16GB solid state disk. Oh yeah, and it runs Google Chrome OS — a fast-booting operating system designed around the Chrome web browser. When Samsung introduced the Series 5 Chromebook…
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It’s only been a few weeks since the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) went on sale in the US, and it’s been even less time than that since hackers figured out how to root the 7 inch tablet. Now one of the first custom ROMs is available for the Galaxy Tab 2. Independent developer xoomdev has ported the popular CyanogenMod…
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You think Research in Motion is the only company handing out prototype phones to developers in hopes of getting them to write apps for its new operating system? Think again. Samsung has started providing developers with smartphones running the Tizen Linux-based operating system. Tizen is the OS that rose out of the ashes of MeeGo (and Moblin and Maemo before…
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Amazon hasn’t released actual sales figures for the Kindle Fire tablet, but the company has repeatedly said that the $199 tablet (sometimes $139) is one of its top-selling products. But according to industry analysts at IDC, Amazon Kindle Fire shipments fell off a cliff between the end of 2011 and the beginning of 2012. IDC says that Amazon moved 4.8…
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Samsung’s latest 10 inch Android tablet is set to hit stores on May 13th. But you can pre-order one at Office Max today for $399.99 or from TigerDirect for the same price. The new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (10.1) is a modest upgrade over last year’s Galaxy Tab 10.1, but there are three significant changes. First, the new model ships with…
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