When Samsung and Nook finally unveiled the tablet they were launching together, the only real mystery about the $179 Galaxy Tab 4 Nook was to what extent the Nook software would run the show. I don’t think many people expected to see Samsung hardware and the same Nook version of Android used on older tablets like […]
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Hands-on with the Samsung Chromebook 2 Series
Ready for another round of new Chromebooks? Samsung is launching two new models as its Chromebook 2 series. There’s an updated 11.6-inch version and now a shiny new 13.3-inch version. Both cost less than $400 and both have consumer-ready looks even though Samsung thinks they’re more likely to be used by students than by the […]
Hands-on: Samsung Gear 2 and Gear Fit
The Gear 2 smartwatch that Samsung announced this week is the smartwatch that should have launched first instead of the device we got last year. That watch was very clearly a beta product, despite how expensive it was. It became clearer over time that Samsung was just testing the wearable waters and trying to figure […]
Hands-on with the Samsung Galaxy S5
When Samsung introduced the Galaxy S4 it felt like the company was trying very hard to make a phone that did about 10 thousand things so that every person in the world would find at least one or two of them that they couldn’t live without. The launch of the Galaxy S5 seems tame in […]
Hands-on: Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro and Note Pro Tablets
A few years ago when Samsung first launched the Galaxy Tab line, the company got a bit of a reputation because it seemed to put out a new tablet every other week. For a while there Galaxy Tabs proliferated at a rate only rivaled by ASUS’ netbook output. More recently Samsung backed off from that […]
Hands-on: Dell Chromebook 11 is intended for the classroom
Just ahead of this year’s Dell World the company announced a new 11.6 inch Chromebook, set to come out in January, 2014. As far as Chrome OS machines go, the Dell Chromebook 11 is pretty standard: Celeron 2955U processor, 16GB SSD for storage, 2GB or 4GB of RAM, and 1366 x 768 display resolution. With […]
Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition Review
The Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition is Samsung’s second 10-inch, pen-based Android tablet. Just like last year’s Note 10.1 this premium slate is designed for productivity and not just entertainment. Priced at about $550Â the Note is at least $50 more than it’s closest tablet competition. The higher price isn’t just because of the HD+ resolution […]
5 Tablets that changed the Android landscape
You can’t swing a dead cat5e cable around without hitting an Android tablet these days. It’s almost hard to believe that tablets weren’t always part of the Android landscape. I mean, there were some attempts to put Android on all kinds of platforms in those early days. Later there were a few large-screen Android tablets […]
Handwriting recognition broken on latest Galaxy Note models, here’s how to fix it (maybe)
Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 edition owners may have noticed that one of the more useful features available on these devices doesn’t work. The default Samsung keyboard includes multiple input options, including one that takes handwritten input. Samsung’s been offering handwriting recognition since before the company released the first Galaxy Note […]
Hands-on: the Dell XPS 11 is a sweet convertible ultrabook with a terrible keyboard
When the Lenovo Yoga first came out, the laptop/tablet hybrid turned people’s heads due to the cool 360 degree hinge that gave it the ability to bend over backwards. The main problem with the design is that in tablet and tent modes the keyboard sat exposed. Pressing on the keys wouldn’t do anything since the […]