While Android smartphones seem to be getting bigger and bigger displays all the time, a Chinese company has shrunk down the guts of an Android phone and placed them in a wristwatch with a 2 inch, 320 x 240 capacitive touch display. ARMDevices caught up with Shenzhen Phaeton Nice Electronics at CES earlier this month […]
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Polaroid introduces a line of eReaders for some reason
Polaroid isn’t just entering the Android smartphone and tablet business. The company is also introducing a line of underwhelming digital book readers with 4.3 inch, 7 inch and 9 inch displays. The smallest is actually a 4.3 inch “Internet Tablet,” with a resistive touch display, a web browser, support for video playback, and 4GB of […]
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Toshiba Portege M930 convertible Windows tablet
Toshiba is showing off a new convertible tablet-style notebook at CES this week called the Toshia Portege M930. Or rather, Microosft is showing it off — which explains why I didn’t spot it at the Toshiba booth. Fortunately the folks from Engadget, The Verge, and Notebook Italia all found this convertible and posted some hands-on […]
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Tech bloggers of CES 2012 (USB flash drive giveaway)
There are two things that happen every year when I’m at CES, regardless of the mobile devices on display: I run into mobile tech bloggers from around the world unexpectedly, often without even trying. I pick up way more USB flash drives than I know what to do with, since companies love to put their […]
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Sony showcases upcoming ultrabook prototype
Sony is showing a concept design for an upcoming ultrabook. There’s no word on the price, processor, or physical dimensions, but if the new Sony Vaio laptop follows Intel’s guidelines for ultrabooks it will likely measures less than 0.8 inches thick, weigh less than 4 pounds, and have a Sandy Bridge or Ivy Bridge processor. […]
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First look at the Toshiba NB510 Cedar Trail netbook
The NB510 is the latest 10 inch mini-laptop from Toshiba. The new model looks a lot like Toshiba’s last few netbooks but under the hood it has a shiny new Intel Atom Cedar Trail processor. That means it should offer better video performance, which helps explain why there’s an HDMI port on the side of […]
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Skytex X-Series Cedar Trail slate coming in Q2, 2012
Skytex is preparing to launch a new tablet called the SkyTab X Series with a 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N2600 Cedar Trail in a few months. The company already offers a Windows Slate PC with an Intel Atom N550 Pine Trail processor. It’s called the SkyTab S Series, and it has a 9.7 inch, 1024 […]
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Hands-on with the Boogie Board Rip writing slate – video
There are a lot of tablets on display at CES this year, but the Boogie Board Rip is something different. It’s a tablet designed for writing and not much else. Improv Electronics, the company behind the Rip has been offering a simpler device called a Boogie Board for a while. It’s basically a simple LCD […]
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TI OMAP 5 processors coming soon(ish)
Texas Instruments plans to start sending samples of its new OMAP 5 processors to partners next week. The company also unveiled a reference design for an Android phone based on the new ARM Cortex-A15 dual core processor. The 28nm chip is a dual core processor with clock speeds as high as 2 GHz, but it […]
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Polaroid unveils 7, 8, 9 inch uninspiring tablets
Polaroid has introduced a line of Android tablets with a 1 GHz ARM Cortex-a8 single core processor, between 4GB and 16GB of storage and 7, 8, and 9 inch displays. I can’t think of any reason why you’d want to buy any of them though. Eventually the tablets will be available with Google Android 4.0, […]