A Chinese manufacturer has released a new 7 inch Android tablet with two things you don’t often see from tablets in the West: a removable battery and the Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system. The Hong Kong Sheng 708 tablet has a rather catchy name too. The device has a back panel that you can slide off […]
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How to tell how much power’s left in the Asus Eee Pad Transformer laptop dock
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer gets its name from the optional keyboard dock which turns the 10 inch Android tablet into a laptop-like device. The dock has a keyboard, touchpad, and a separate battery. So not only can you use it to type your heart out, you can also use the dock to extend your […]
BlackBerry PlayBook OS update shortening battery life
While the PlayBook itself has received a mixed bag of praise and criticism, RIM has been lauded for making good on its promise to update the PlayBook OS early and often. It appears, however, that there has been an unwanted side effect to those updates: decreased battery life. PlayBook users have been reporting the […]
Lenovo ThinkPad X220 really does get 20+ hours of battery life (sort of)
The recently launched Lenovo ThinkPad X220 is a business-class laptop with a 12.5 inch display and a starting price of $899. But what really sets the laptop apart from the competition is Lenovo’s claim that you can get up to 24 hours of run time with the optimal battery configuration. The folks at Laptop Magazine […]
Notion Ink Adam tablet: 15 hours of battery life?
Battery life estimates are notoriously hard to predict, which is why we regularly see computer makers promising up to 14 hours and delivering only 7. So I’m going to suggest you take this news with a grain of salt, but Notion Ink’s Rohan Shravan says the upcoming Adam Tablet can run for 15 hours or […]
Windows 7 + Asus Eee PC 1008HA = improved battery life
Update: It looks like these results may have been inaccurate, or at least misleading. I’ve run several other tests that seem to indicate that Windows 7 actually hurts battery life on at least two netbook models, including the Eee PC 1008HA. One nice feature in Windows 7 is that it gives users a bit more […]
Acer to launch 9 cell, 12 hour battery for Timeline laptops
There are two ways to squeeze extra battery life out of a computer. You can reduce power consumption, and you can use a ridiculously high capacity battery. It looks like come December, Acer Aspire Timeline users will have the option of taking both approaches. The Acer Timeline series includes a number of thin and light […]
LG X130 unboxed, reviewed, runs for up to 15 hours…
… with the wireless turned off. To be honest, I’ve never done a battery test on a netbook with the WiFi turned off because this just isn’t the way most people use laptops most of the time. Still, I suppose if you were planning on using the LG X130 as an eBook reader with the […]
A closer look at the Asus Eee PC 1000HE
I got a chance to check out the new Asus Eee PC 1000HE a few weeks ago at CES. But eyeballing a machine on display at a trade show booth isn’t the same thing as testing one in your office – which is exactly what the lucky folks at Laptop Magazine are doing right now. […]
Asus Eee PC 1000HE: Better keyboard, better battery
As I mentioned this morning, Asus has added a few new netbooks to its Eee PC 1000H line, with a new “E” at the end. There’s an Eee PC 1000HE, and an Eee P C1000HAE. Both have the new chiclet-style Eee PC keyboard with the right shift key on the left side of the up […]