The Asus Transformer Book Duet is a tablet… and a laptop… that runs Windows… and Android. You can switch from Windows to Android or back again with the tap of a button, and you can switch from a tablet to notebook by clicking the tablet into a keyboard docking station. With a 13 inch screen, […]
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Hands-on with the Asus Padfone mini (video)
Asus is showing off a new Padfone mini at CES 2014, and it’s a new low-cost, low-size model. The phone itself features a 4 inch display and when you want to use a larger screen or extend your battery life you can slide it into a 7 inch Tablet Station and use your phone as […]
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Hands-on with the Asus VivoTab Note 8 Windows tablet
The Asus VivoTab Note 8 is a Windows 8.1 tablet with an 8 inch screen, an Intel Atom Bay Trail processor, and a Wacom digital pen. With a starting price of about $299, it’s about the same price as similarly sized tablets from Dell, Lenovo, Acer and Toshiba — but this is the first model […]
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Alcatel brings tablets, smartphones, and a 4 inch eReader to CES 2014
Alcatel OneTouch is showing off a variety of new devices at the Consumer Electronics Show this year, including new 7 and 8 inch tablets, a 5.5 inch Pop C9 smartphone, and the OneTouch Idol X+ 5 inch phone with a 2 GHz octa-core processor. For some reason, the product I’m most taken with, though, is […]
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Toshiba Kirabook gets a Haswell makeover
Toshiba’s Kirabook line of thin and light laptops were some of the first portable Windows notebooks to offer higher-than-1080p screen resolutions. While the Kirabook has plenty of company in that department these days, it’s still a thin and light laptop with a high-resolution display and decent performance — and now Toshiba is upgrading the Kirabook […]
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Samsung launches Galaxy TabPro, NotePro tablet lineup
Samsung has a habit of releasing tablets and phones with virtually every screen size imaginable — so it probably shouldn’t come as a surprise that the company is launching 4 new tablets at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show. The company unveiled two new lines of tablets. Meet the Galaxy NotePro and TabPro tablets. Samsung is […]
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Corning’s antimicrobial glass could keep your phone from making you sick
Are you sick of your phone? It’s probably better than getting sick from your phone… which is probably covered in bacteria from all those times you tap or swipe the glass screen every day. Corning wants to help you keep your phone germ-free (or at least closer to germ-free than it is now) with a new […]
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Samsung unveils Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 with high-res display
Like Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 Edition tablet, but don’t have any need for an S Pen? No problem. The Samsung Galaxy Tab Pro 10.1 is virtually the same device, but without the digital pen. Samsung’s new 10 inch tablet features a 2560 x 1600 pixel display, an Exynos 5 octa-core processor (or a Snapdragon […]
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Intel RealSense: Embedded 3D camera, software for notebooks, tablets
Intel wants to move computing beyond the mouse, keyboard, and touchscreen and into 3D. The company has developed a tiny 3D camera that’s designed for tablets, notebooks and other products, and companies including Lenovo, Dell, and Asus are starting to show devices featuring the camera. It’s just the first sense of what Intel is calling […]
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Panasonic introduces 20 inch Toughpad 4K tablet with $7K price
Need a new tablet that has a huge, high-resolution display, a rugged case, and a powerful Intel Core i7 processor with discrete NVIDIA graphics? Then you’d best be willing to pay a premium price for it, because Panasonic’s new Toughpad 4K tablet fits the bill… but that bill will cost you $6,999. The tablet features […]