Polaroid may be best known for making cameras… and this year the company has a rather intriguing mirrorless camera running Android 4.1 on the way. But the company has been offering low-cost Android tablets since last year. So far we haven’t seen particularly good tablets from Polaroid. But the company does know how to make a […]
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Hands-on with the Gigabyte S1185 Windows 8 tablet (video)
The Gigabyte S1185 is a Windows 8 tablet that should ship soon for about $1000 and up. It features an 11.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel IPS display and an Intel Ivy Bridge processor, but those aren’t the only things that set the S1185 apart from most other Windows 8 tablets on the market today. […]
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Hands-on with the first quad-core tablets from Archos (video)
Archos is going quad-core with two of the newest members of the Archos Elements tablet line. The Archos 80 Platinum is an 8 inch tablet with a 1024 x 768 pixel display, while the Archos 97 Platinum HD features a 9.7 inch, 2048 x 1536 pixel screen. Both will be available with Allwinner-A31 ARM Cortex-A7 […]
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Gigabyte tweaks Intel NUC, designs mini-desktop with up to Core i7 CPU
The Intel NUC (Next Unit of Computing) is a platform for a tiny desktop computer that measures just over 4″ x 4″ and which features an Intel Core i3 processor. But that’s not good enough for Gigabyte. The PC maker has taken Intel’s design and tweaked it by adding support for Core i5 or Core […]
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Samsung shows off flexible displays (again), this time with a working phone prototype
Samsung has been showing off flexible display prototypes for years, but so far we haven’t seen a phone, tablet, or other mobile device hit the streets with a screen that you can roll up and put in your pocket. But now the company is showing off a bit more than a flexible display — the […]
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LG reveals Tab Book Z160 Windows 8 slider
The LG Tab-Book Z160 is a Windows 8 tablet and ultrabook rolled into one. Or rather, it’s an 11.6 inch tablet that hangs out on top of a keyboard. When you want to use the computer as a notebook, just press a button on the side of the device and the screen pops up and […]
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Hands-on with the XO Tablet (cheap, but uninspiring)
The XO Tablet is a new 7 inch tablet that the One Laptop Per Child Foundation hopes to sell this year for around $200. While it runs educational software designed by OLPC, it doesn’t have the same kind of rugged design as the XO Laptop. Instead, it appears to be a cheap tablet with a […]
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Closer look at the Archos TV Connect Android TV box (video)
The Archos TV Connect is a box you can plug into a TV to run Android apps on a big screen. We’ve seen a lot of those in the past year. But the Archos model is designed to sit on top of a TV, points a webcam at you for Skype and other applications, and […]
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Dell drops the starting price of a Latitude 10 Windows 8 tablet to $500
Dell has dropped the starting price of its 10 inch Windows 8 tablet. The Dell Latitude 10 recently went on sale for $649 and up, but now the starting price for a 64GB tablet is $599 and soon Dell will offer a $499 model with 32GB of storage. In order to trim the price, Dell […]
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Hands-on with the Samsung Series 7 Ultra
Samsung’s Series 9 ultrabooks are some of the thinnest and lightest laptops on the market — and they also offer nice keyboards, trackpads, and all-around performance. But if you’re looking for a model with more ports, maybe an optical disc drive, and don’t mind going heavier, Samsung offers the Series 5 line of ultrabooks — […]