Spring is finally here, and apparently it’s putting mobile software developers in the mood to redesign the look and feel of their apps and operating systems. Some of the designers of Mozilla’s Firefox OS are providing a sneak peek at an upcoming redesign of pretty much all of the graphics in that operating system, while […]
Posted inNews
Acer Aspire Switch SW5 3-in-1 Windows tablet shows up in Switzerland
The Acer Aspire Switch is a Windows tablet which turns into a notebook when you attach a keyboard dock. It gets the “Switch” name not only because you can switch the system from a notebook to a tablet and back again… but because you can also switch the screen around by flipping it 360 degrees […]
Posted inNews
Dropbox brings Mailbox to Android, launches Carousel media manager for Android, iOS
Online storage company Dropbox provides tools for backing up your data to the cloud, accessing your files from multiple devices, and sharing files with other users. But Dropbox doesn’t just let you store your files in the cloud — it also provides tools for interacting with them. Now Dropbox is adding a few new tools […]
Posted inNews
Asus Transformer Pad TF103C Bay Trail Android tablet
Acer and ECS aren’t the only companies working on Android tablet with Intel Bay Trail processors. Asus is preparing to launch a new 10 inch Transformer Pad tablet with a detachable keyboard dock, Android software, and an Intel Atom Z3745 Bay Trail processor. It’s called the Asus Transformer Pad TF103C, and we first got a […]
Posted inDeals
Deals of the Day (4-09-2014)
The Acer C720p Chromebook is a Chrome OS laptop with an Intel Celeron Haswell processor, a touchscreen display, and a list price of $299, making it the cheapest Chromebook to ship with a touchscreen to date. Now Best Buy is knocking $50 off even that price, making Acer’s Chromebook a little more attractive (for a […]
Posted inNews
Acer A1-840 Bay Trail Android coming soon?
Acer appears to be testing a new 8 inch Android tablet with an Intel Atom Bay Trail processor. Specs and test results for the unannounced Acer A1-840 showed up at the GFXBench website recently, and they paint a picture of a low-cost tablet powered by Intel. While there’s no word on the price or launch […]
Posted inNews
Rockchip RK3288 TV boxes on the way
Rockchip’s new RK3288 processor is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A17 processor with ARM Mali-760 graphics. It’s the most powerful processor from the Chinese chip maker to date, although at the rate Rockchip releases new processors that probably won’t be true for long. Anyway, the first RK3288-powered tablets started appearing a few weeks ago. Now the first […]
Posted inNews
Samsung’s new smartwatches powered by Exynos 3250 chip
Samsung’s Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches are up for pre-order and expected to ship starting Friday, April 11th. The watches are designed to pair with a Samsung smartphone, display notifications on your wrist, let you control music playback, and monitor your heart rate and fitness stats, among other things. While Samsung is emphasizing […]
Posted inNews
ECS TA80TA1 Bay Trail Android tablet hits the FCC
Elite Computer Systems started showing off a reference design for an 8 inch Android tablet with an Intel Atom Z3735E Bay Trail processor at Mobile World Congress. Now it looks like that tablet could be headed to the United States. The ECS TA80TA1 passed through the FCC website this week. ECS is an Original Equipment Manufacturer, […]
Posted inNews, nofollow
Lilbits (4-08-2014): OnePlus One = 3GB (of RAM)
Chinese smartphone startup OnePlus doesn’t plan to officially show us what their first phone looks like until April 23rd. But that’s about the only thing we don’t know at this point. The company had already made it clear that the OnePlus One would have a 5.5 inch full HD display, a 13MP camera, Cyanogen software, a […]