You may have heard that Windows 8 tablets with 7 or 8 inch displays will come with a free copy of Microsoft Office 2013 Home & Student. Clearly Microsoft is trying to make Windows tablets more attractive to some users than Android or iOS devices. But at the same time, it seems Microsoft doesn’t actually […]
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GamePop subscription-based game console will run iOS games (along with Android)
The upcoming GamePop video game console from BlueStacks isn’t just for Android games anymore. BlueStacks has announced that users will be able to play games developed for iOS too. Of course, since all the games will be distributed through the GamePop user interface, you might not actually know (or care) if you’re playing an Android […]
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Ubuntu Phone OS now supports cellular data, social sharing, more
Ubuntu Phone OS is a Linux-based operating system for smartphones and touchscreen devices such as tablets, and it’s still very much a work in progress. When the developers at Canonical started showing off Ubuntu Phone OS in January, it didn’t support phone calls, cellular data, or much of anything else. It didn’t even really run […]
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Lilbits (6-06-2013): Angry Birds on E Ink, Linux on Haswell
I love watching people make hardware do things it wasn’t necessarily designed for. E Ink was designed for reading books, but it turns out you can also use it in a fully-functional tablet. And while Intel’s new 4th-generation Core processors were designed first and foremost to power computers running Windows, you can also run Android, […]
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NVIDIA Shield isn’t just for gaming… it’s also an awkwardly shaped Android tablet (video)
2 Comments on NVIDIA Shield isn’t just for gaming… it’s also an awkwardly shaped Android tablet (video)NVIDIA’s Shield handheld gaming console is expected to ship by the end of the month. The $349 device features a 5 inch, 720p display connected to an Xbox-style game controller. It runs Android, and it’s designed first and foremost to be a portable gaming system. But you can also use it as a general-purpose Android […]
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Android gets cheaper: Meet the $100 quad-core phone, $59 dual-core tablet
There are a lot of very cheap Android phones and tablets out there… but a lot of them have pretty awful hardware. If the Hisense Sero 7 Pro shows us anything though, it’s that the cost of good hardware is falling rapidly. These days you can pick up one of the best 7 inch Android tablets […]
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$123 Pandora TV Box brings Android games, video chat, more to your TV
The Pandora TV Box is a device that sits on top of your TV and turns it into an Android-powered computer. It has a camera that faces forward, letting you use the device to make video calls. You can stream internet video or surf the web. What makes this model special is that it comes […]
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Lenovo unveils MIIX Windows 8 tablets with Clover Trail chips
Lenovo is starting to show off a new line of Windows 8 tablets with Intel Atom Z2760 Clover Trail processors. The company brought a demo unit of the Lenovo MIIX 10 with a 10 inch screen to Computex this week, but Pocket Lint reports that an 8 inch version is also in the works. The […]
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Linux source code for Rockchip RK3188 devices now available
Rockchip’s RK3188 processor is one of the fastest ARM Cortex-A9 chips around. The 28nm quad-core processor outperforms the chips found in the Samsung Galaxy S III and Google Nexus 7, for instance. And it’s a relatively inexpensive chip, which explains why it’s proven popular with Chinese tablet and TV box makers. Most devices featuring the […]
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Inventec shows off 7 inch Windows 8 tablet
Acer may be the first company to unveil a Windows 8 tablet with a screen smaller than 10 inches. But the 8 inch Acer Iconia W3 won’t be alone for long. Taiwanese manufacturer Inventec is showing off a new 7 inch tablet design, and the folks at Mobile Geeks got a chance to spend a […]