Samsung has been offering a line of ultrabooks since before they were called ultrabooks. The Samsung Series 9 line of laptops including thin and light cases, solid state disks, and Intel Core family processors. When Intel introduced the ultrabook category, Samsung resisted calling the original Samsung Series 9 an ultrabook — because it was too […]
December 2012
Deals of the Day (12-19-2012)
The Samsung Galaxy Nexus may be last-generation tech… but it’s still a pretty powerful phone that runs the latest version of Google’s Android software. And you can get an off-contract, refurbished model for just $200 today. That’s $150 less than the price of the newer 16GB Nexus 4… which is pretty hard to get your […]
Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 now available for $649 and up
The Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2 is a Windows 8 tablet with a 10.1 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, an Intel Atom Z2760 Clover Trail processor, 2GB of RAM, and 64GB of storage. After showing off the tablet for the past few months, Lenovo is now taking orders for the ThinkPad Tablet 2 for $649 […]
NEC introduces a 15.6 inch ultrabook that’s just 0.5 inches thick
NEC’s newest ultrabook features a big screen… and a small case. The NEC LaVie XÂ measures just 0.5 inches thick, but sports a spacious 15.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel display. The ultrabook is expected to go on sale in Japan toward the end of December. Like most NEC laptops, I’d be surprised if the LaVie […]
Nexus 7 modified to work with Palm TouchStone inductive charger
Google’s new Nexus 4 supports wireless charging — but what about the Nexus 7 tablet that came out earlier this year? Out of the box the only way to charge the tablet is the old-fashioned way: plug in a cable. But that’s boring. Rod Whitby from the webOS Internals team decided to crack open the […]
Now Google Play Books can read books aloud to you
Google has rolled out an update to its eBook app for Android, adding support for pinch-to-zoom, double-tap to zoom, improved text editing when taking notes, and bug fixes. Oh yeah, there’s also a new “Read aloud” option in Google Play Books that lets you listen to books instead of reading them. Google Android has text-to-speech […]
DIY media center PC features a Core i5 CPU, fanless design
There are a few things that can make a computer noisy. The fans that keep the CPU and other components cool can generate some noise. A hard drive has moving parts which can click and whir. And optical disc drives make noise as the spin discs. So if you want to build a silent PC […]
Rumor: Polaroid to introduce high-quality Android-powered camera
Last year Polaroid introduced a point-and-shoot camera with a touchscreen display and Android operating system. It was kind of cool… but also kind of underwhelming, both as a camera and as an Android device. Now it looks like Polaroid is ready to try again — this time with a higher quality camera with mirrorless camera […]
Google Music gets matching feature, saves you from uploading 20,000 songs
Google Play Music lets you upload as many as 20,000 songs to Google’s servers and then stream them to any device with a web browser or mobile app. You can also re-download songs you’ve uploaded, which makes it a useful service for backing up your music collection. But uploading thousands of songs takes a lot […]
Liliputing MINIX Neo G4 mini PC giveaway
Over the past few months a number of companies have put out tiny Android TV sticks featuring low power processors such as the Rockchip RK3066 dual core CPU. But the J&W MINIX Neo G4 stands out from the crowd thanks to sturdy build quality, good power management, and the best WiFi performance of any mini […]