Gigabyte is launching updated versions of its Intel Atom-based portable computers including its 10 inch Windows slate PC and 10 inch convertible tablet-style netbook. The new Gigabyte S1081 late has an Intel Atom Cedar Trail chip, a choice of a solid state disk or a 500GB hard drive, HDMI, VGA, USB 3.0, Bluetooth 4.0, and […]
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Meet AcerCloud: Acer’s answer to iCloud
Acer is launching a new cloud-based service for synchronizing photos, media, and documents across multiple devices. You can also access your files from a web browser. If the whole thing sounds an awful lot like Apple’s iCloud, that’s because it is an awful lot like iCloud. The difference is that AcerCloud works with Windows and Android […]
Toshiba working on an 11.6 inch Windows tablet
File this one under things-we-totally-missed-at-CES, but it looks like Toshiba is developing a new Windows slate PC with an 11.6 inch display. The folks at Notebook Italia spotted the tablet at the Consumer Electronics Show last month, and report that it looks almost exactly like the 10 inch Android tablet Toshiba was showing off… it’s […]
Liliputing giveaway: Funny shaped USB flash drives
For this week’s I-have-too-many-promotional-USB-flash-drives giveway, I’ve rounded up a couple of the funny-shaped flash drives I picked up at CES this year, as well as one that I actually grabbed a few years ago. The SanDisk drive is a 4GB USB flash drive with a kind of cheap plastic feel to it. The drive on […]
Acer’s upcoming 7 inch Android tablet
Acer plans to launch 7 and 10 inch Android tablets in the not-too-distant future. I got a chance to check out the company’s 10 inch model with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 chipset at CES earlier this month, but I didn’t see the 7 inch version. Fortunately the folks at IntoMobile did, and they’ve posted some […]
4GB USB flash drive giveaway
At CES last week I picked up a few USB flash drives, not because I was looking for swag, but because companies have a tendency to give out press kits on flash drives these days. What’s more, it’s not unusual to find 20MB of documents hanging out on a 4GB flash drive. Score. Anyway, I […]
Hands-on with the LG X170 netbook
I haven’t seen the LG X170 netbook on sale in the US, but I did get a chance to check out the mini-laptop in person at CES last week. This little guy is notable because it comes with an optional 1366 x 768 pixel HD display and an optional 1.5GHz Intel Atom N550 dual core […]
Hands-on with ViewSonic’s new 4 and 10 inch tablets
ViewSonic unveiled two new tablets last week, or a tablet and a phone, depending on how you look at it. ViewSonic calls the 4 inch model a tablet with phone capabilities for some reason, but everyone else in the world is probably just going to call it a 4 inch smartphone. The new tablet is […]
Augen demos its new line of Android tablets
The Augen Gentouch78 got a lot of attention last year as the first sub-$200 Android tablet available from a major US retailer. It’s also a pretty lousy tablet, with a rather unresponsive 7 inch resistive touchscreen display, awkward button placement, and no accelerometer — which makes screen rotation kind of a hassle. But Augen is […]
Asus envisions the future with IRIS
Last year at CES ASUS showed off a futuristic concept called Waveface, that basically consisted of screens you could interact with throughout your life — including wrist computers, personal tablets, and devices hanging on your wall. This year the company is continuing to promote that vision, with something called IRIS, or “Inspirational Research for Immersive […]