The latest Asus Transformer Pad tablet goes on sale in the US soon, and it’s already up for pre-order from at least one retailer. The Transformer Pad Infinity TF701T is a 10 inch Android tablet with a high resolution, 2560 x 1600 pixel display. Like other members of the Transformer Pad family, the new tablet […]
Lilbits (10-24-2013): if convertible wants to be your phone, tablet, laptop
Tired of carrying a smartphone, tablet, and notebook around? While Asus is trying to simplify things with products like the Asus Padfone that let your phone act as the brains of a tablet, a group called idealfuture has another idea. They’re trying to raise $100,000 through crowdfunding site Indiegogo to build a device called the […]
HP slides two 10-inch slates through the FCC
The HP Slate 10 HD is a tablet with a Marvell PXA986 processor and a 1280 x 800 pixel screen that just barely justifies the HD name. It’s basically a 10 inch budget Android tablet with a few HP extras including Beats Audio. It’s expected to launch in November, and this week it showed up […]
Here’s how Dell’s Wyse Cloud Client works (pocket-sized thin client)
Dell’s Wyse Cloud Connect is a tiny device that you can plug into a monitor or TV to turn it into a thin client device. In other words, you can login to a remote server to run Windows or other enterprise software running on a remote server. Companies could use the stick to basically set […]
First Tizen tablet launches in Japan, it’s aimed at developers
Tizen is a Linux-based operating system for mobile devices that’s backed by Samsung and Intel, among others. The first phones and tablets running Tizen aren’t quite ready for consumers yet, but if you’re in Japan you may be able to pick up a Tizen tablet aimed at developers. The goal is to provide a device […]
Would you pay for a premium YouTube music-on-demand service?
YouTube is reportedly getting ready to launch a music-on-demand service that will let subscribers listen to any song and watch any music video in the YouTube catalog at any time… which is something you can kind of already do for free. But Billboard reports the new service would let you cache music so you can […]
HP could sell off some mobile patents
HP has had a rough time in the mobile space over the last few years. After spending more than a billion dollars to acquire Palm and its webOS software, the company killed its webOS hardware division just months after launching the HP TouchPad tablet. These days HP is banking on Windows and Android for its […]
Lilbits (10-23-2013): Goodbye Surface RT, hello Surface
Last year Microsoft introduced two tablets, the Surface RT and the Surface Pro. This year the company launched two more: The Surface 2 and the Surface Pro 2. Notice something missing? Any mention of RT in the cheaper tablet. Since Microsoft is also continuing to offer last year’s model as an entry-level device, it’s not […]
Faster Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone coming to Europe
The Samsung Galaxy S4 may have been one of the fastest phones around when it launched earlier this year, but these days it’s Samsung Exynos 5 Octa or Qualcomm Snapdragon 600 processors are just considered fast instead of crazy fast. Newer phones like the Samsung Galaxy Note III and LG G2 have faster Qualsomm Snapdragon […]
Deals of the Day (10-23-2013)
The HP Slate 21 looks like a desktop monitor, but acts like an Android tablet. It features a 21.5 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel IPS display with 2-point multitouch support, an NVIDIA Tegra 4 ARM Cortex-A15 processor, and runs Android 4.2 Jelly Bean software. You can use it as a standalone device for surfing the […]