Now that the Blackberry PlayBook can run some Android apps and has native email, calendar, and contact apps, the tablet looks a little more attractive — especially when you can pick one up for $200 instead of $499. There are also pretty good deals on a few notebooks including the ultra-sleek Samsung Series 9 and […]
NOOK Touch hack speeds up E Ink, shows why it’s not ready for tablets
E Ink is a pretty fascinating display technology. Designed for eBook readers, E Ink screens look a lot like ink on paper. But there’s a down side – most eReaders have slow screen refresh rates which means you can’t use them for video or even smooth scrolling in web browser or other applications. That’s not […]
HP Mini 210 gets the Cedar Trail treatment
HP has quietly updated the HP Mini 210 netbook by adding Intel’s latest Atom processors. You can now order the Mini 210 with either a 1.6 GHz Atom N2600 chip or a 1.86 GHz Atom N2800 processor. The new HP Mini 210 model has the same $299.99 starting price as the older models which had […]
CyanogenMod 9 coming soon to the Eee Pad Transformer Prime
Now that Asus has provided a way to unlock the bootloader on the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, we’re starting to see people loading custom firmware on the tablet. Earlier we showed what Ubuntu Linux looks like on the Transformer Prime. Now the folks at Androidroot.mobi have posted a tool for installing ClockworkMod Recovery and […]
HaiPad launches Android 4.0 tablets
Chinese tablet makers HaiPad is better known for making cheap Android tablets than good ones. I wasn’t particularly impressed with the HaiPad M701 I reviewed a few years ago. But the company’s latest tablets look a bit more appealing thanks to capacitive touch displays and Android 4.0 software. Haipad A10A10 The Haipad A101 is a new […]
NEC unveils dual-screen smartphone
NEC has been offering a dual-screen Android tablet in Japan since last year, and the company plans to launch a new version internationally this summer. But the Cloud Communicator may not be the only dual screen device on NEC’s roadmap. The company plans to show off a new dual-screen Android smartphone concept at Mobile World Congress […]
Cheaper ultrabooks with hybrid storage on the way?
It’s no secret that Intel is pushing its ultrabook platform hard… and that customers are more likely to buy the thin and light laptops the cheaper they get. But how do you offer premium features such as a super-fast solid state disk without charging an arm and a leg? One way is to use hybrid […]
Asus Eee PC 1025C Cedar Trail netbook up for pre-order for $300
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer 1025C is one of the first netbooks from Asus to feature an Intel Atom Cedar Trail processor. The mini-laptop isn’t shipping the US yet, but you can place a pre-order at J&R for $299.99. The netbook has a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N2600 dual core processor, a 10 inch, 1024 […]
Asus Eee Pad MeMO 171 website goes live (last year’s model)
Asus introduced a new 7 inch Android tablet at the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in January. It’s called the Eee Pad MeMOÂ and it has a 1280 x 800 pixel display, an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad core processor, and a $249 price tag. Recently Asus added a product page for the Eee Pad MeMOÂ to its website… […]
Future versions of Adobe Flash for Linux to be Google Chrome only
Adobe has laid out a roadmap for future development of Adobe Flash, and one of the things that caught my eye is that Flash Player 11.2 will be the last official standalone version of the browser plugin for Linux. While Adobe will continue to support Flash Player 11.2 for Linux with security updates for several […]