At first glance it’s hard to tell the Bookeen Cybook Odyssey apart from any other eBook reader with a touchscreen E Ink display. But the Odyssey has a faster processor than most eReaders and that lets the device refresh the screen much more quickly. The slo sceen refresh rate we usually associate with E Ink […]
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Ectacto Jetbook Color eReader already available in Russia
The Ectacto JetBook is one of the first eBook readers with a color E Ink display. Basically it has a standard E Ink display with a filter on top which adds color without using much more energy than a grayscale E Ink screen. In other words, battery life is measured in weeks rather than hours. […]
Next-gen Samsung Chromebook ditches Atom for Celeron
Samsung is updating its Series 5 Chromebook by swapping out the Intel Atom N570 dual core processor for a faster (but still hardly top-of-the-line) Intel Celeron processor. The new Chromebook will still have a 16GB solid state disk and Chrome OS operating system, which means that basically the laptop will run nothing but a web […]
Archos 70b $199 Honeycomb tablet with Android Market – video
The Archos 70b is a 7 inch Android tablet with a 1.2 Ghz single core processor and 8GB of storage. It’s the first 7 inch tablet from Archos to ship with Android 3.2 Honeycomb — and since it’s been certified by Google to support the operating system, it also comes with the Android Market, Google […]
Kupa X11 tablet getting Windows 8 update later this year
The Kupa X11 is a Windows tablet with a 10 inch, 1366 x 768 pixel display, a 1.5 GHz Intel Atom Z670 Oak Trail processor, and up to 10 hours of battery life. What sets the X11 apart from most entry-level Windows tablets is that it has a capacitive touchscren for finger input and an active […]
NEC dual-screen tablet going international this summer
The NEC Cloud Communicator dual-screen Android tablet made its first appearance in the US during the 2011 Consumer Electronics Show. But while the tablet went on sale in Japan last summer, it’s not yet available outside of that country. But the dual screen tablet has come a long way since I saw it last year. […]
Rockchip Android 4.0 tablets at CES 2012 – video
Chinese chip maker Rockchip promised to bring more than 30 tablets to the Consumer Electronics Show, and while I didn’t do a complete tablet count, the Rockchip booth was choc full of tablets and handheld devices including phones and media players. The big news is that a number of tablets using the company’s latest 1.2 […]
Giada adds Cedar Trail, Sandy Bridge nettops to its lineup
Giada is updating its line of mini-desktop PCs with a handful of new models with the latest Intel processors. The Gigada 135G, for instance, has an Intel Atom Cedar Trail processor, but packs a bit more graphics power than you’d typically get from an Atom-based system thanks to NVIDIA GF119 graphics. The 135G also has […]
Ramos introduces budget tablets with Android 4.0 – video
Chinese tablet maker Ramos is showing off a whole new crop of inexpensive devices running Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. What’s particularly interesting is that even the leas expensive of the bunch look kind of decent. The Ramos W6HD, for instance, is a 7 inch tablet with an Amlogic 8726M3 1 GHz ARM Cortex-A9 […]
BlackBerry Playbook OS 2.0 with calendar, contacts coming in February
Research in Motion will roll out BlackBerry PlayBook OS 2.0 to the public in February. The OS has been in public beta for months, but RIM is showing off the new software on tablets at the Consumer Electronics Show this week in Las Vegas and plans to roll out the update to everyone starting next […]