LG has officially taken the wraps off the LG G2 Mini. It looks like a smaller version of last year’s LG G2, complete with the power and volume buttons on the back of the phone. But it’s a smaller and significantly less powerful phone. Note that “smaller,” doesn’t necessarily mean small. The LG G2 Mini […]
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Lenovo Yoga 2 11 convertible now available for $520 (again)
The Lenovo Yoga 2 11 is a notebook with an 11.6 inch display that becomes a tablet when you flip the screen 360 degrees so that it’s resting opposite the keyboard. Introduced at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, the Yoga 2 11 is now available for $520 and up. Lenovo’s been offering Yoga tablets […]
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Lilbits (2-18-2014): Pack your media PC in a lunchbox
A home theater PC is, by definition, a computer designed to hang out near your TV so you can send videos, music, or photos to the big screen. But just because the natural habitat of an HTPC is the living room doesn’t mean you can’t move it from place to place. Hackaday found one hacker […]
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Report: Samsung Galaxy Gear 2 smartwatch to run Tizen
The future of Tizen as a smartphone operating system may be in question now that Samsung has delayed the launch of its first Tizen phone yet again. But the electronics company seems intent on putting Tizen on just about everything other than phones. Samsung launched a Tizen-powered camera in late 2013. Now USA Today reports that […]
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Rockchip quietly releases slower RK3188T chip (you may already have one)
Chinese chip maker Rockchip’s RK3188 processor is one of the fastest ARM Cortex-A9 processors on the market. It’s a 1.6 GHz quad-core chip with Mali-400 graphics and it’s proven a popular choice with Chinese tablet and TV box makers over the past year or so. Rockchip is expected to release a faster RK3288 ARM Cortex-A12 […]
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Opera Max makes mobile data go further by compressing all your Android app data usage
The makers of the Opera web browser have been offering optional data compression for almost a decade. Enable compression and Opera will use remote servers to shrink the file size of images and other online content before sending it to your browser in order to cut down on your bandwidth usage. Now Opera is getting […]
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Deals of the Day (2-18-2014)
Want the latest Google Nexus 7 tablet with 32GB of storage? You can pay $269 to pick one up from the Google Play Store. Or you could save $30 by shopping at Amazon. For $239, you can pick up a tablet with a 7 inch, 1920 x 1200 pixel display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro […]
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Asus Padfone Infinity Lite on the way
The Asus Padfone Infinity is a line of Android phone/tablet hybrids with HD displays. The latest model consists of a 5 inch smartphone with a 1080p display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 800 CPU which can become a 10 inch tablet with a 1920 x 1200 pixel display when you slide the phone into a tablet […]
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More Android tablets with Bay Trail chips on the way
Intel’s “Bay Trail” chips are low-cost, low-power processors designed for tablets, notebooks, and desktops. Since the first Bay Trail chips launched in late 2013 they’ve shown up in a number of inexpensive Windows tablets and notebooks such as the Dell Venue 8 Pro tablet and Gateway LT41P notebook. But Intel is also taking aim at […]
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ZTE is bringing new Android, Firefox phones MWC 2014
Chinese device maker ZTE plans to unveil several new smartphones at Mobile World Congress in Spain this month. One is a new Android phone with a 6 inch display called the ZTE Grand Memo II LTE. The company will also launch an updated version of its first Firefox phone, the ZTE Open. ZTE is starting […]