The LG Z360 is one of the thinnest and lightest ultrabooks I’ve ever seen. It measures 0.5 inches thick and weighs 2.5 pounds, which makes it one of the most portable 13.3 inch laptops around. The only other models in its class that I’m aware of are the Samsung Series 9 and maybe the MacBook […]
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KindleFree makes Fire HD launcher apps easier
You can root the Amazon Kindle Fire HD or install custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod on the tablet. But if you want the best of both worlds, there’s a new app called KindleFree which simplifies the process of installing an alternate app launcher on a Kindle Fire HD running Amazon’s stock software. KindleFree installs a […]
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LG reveals Tab Book Z160 Windows 8 slider
The LG Tab-Book Z160 is a Windows 8 tablet and ultrabook rolled into one. Or rather, it’s an 11.6 inch tablet that hangs out on top of a keyboard. When you want to use the computer as a notebook, just press a button on the side of the device and the screen pops up and […]
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Hands-on with the XO Tablet (cheap, but uninspiring)
The XO Tablet is a new 7 inch tablet that the One Laptop Per Child Foundation hopes to sell this year for around $200. While it runs educational software designed by OLPC, it doesn’t have the same kind of rugged design as the XO Laptop. Instead, it appears to be a cheap tablet with a […]
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Closer look at the Archos TV Connect Android TV box (video)
The Archos TV Connect is a box you can plug into a TV to run Android apps on a big screen. We’ve seen a lot of those in the past year. But the Archos model is designed to sit on top of a TV, points a webcam at you for Skype and other applications, and […]
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Dell drops the starting price of a Latitude 10 Windows 8 tablet to $500
Dell has dropped the starting price of its 10 inch Windows 8 tablet. The Dell Latitude 10 recently went on sale for $649 and up, but now the starting price for a 64GB tablet is $599 and soon Dell will offer a $499 model with 32GB of storage. In order to trim the price, Dell […]
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Giada is bringing its dual, quad-core tablets to the US
Giada has been offering tiny desktop computers in the US for the past few years, but now the company also wants in on the budget tablet space. Giada is showing off several new tablets at CES this week, which it hopes to bring to US retailers in the next few months. While pricing hasn’t yet […]
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Hands-on with the Samsung Series 7 Ultra
Samsung’s Series 9 ultrabooks are some of the thinnest and lightest laptops on the market — and they also offer nice keyboards, trackpads, and all-around performance. But if you’re looking for a model with more ports, maybe an optical disc drive, and don’t mind going heavier, Samsung offers the Series 5 line of ultrabooks — […]
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Samsung introduces Exynos 5 Octa CPU with 8-cores… kinda
Samsung has announced plans for a new chip it’s calling the Exynos 5 Octa. It’s sort of an 8-core processor, but it’s really probably better to think of it as a quad-core ARM Cortex-A15 processor with some extra power saving features. That’s because the Octa uses ARM’s big.LITTLE architecture to pair four high-power CPU cores […]
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Boogie Board expands writing tablet family with new 4.5 inch, 9.7 inch models
Improv Electronics plans to offer two new Boogie Board tablets later this year. Boogie Boards are inexpensive tablets designed for writing — and nothing else really. You can write a note or draw a picture on the low power LCD display and it will stay on the screen until you erase it. The new models […]