The LG Gram line of laptops are known for their featherweight designs, and the 2021 lineup continues the trend. LG unveiled 5 new models during this year’s virtual Consumer Electronics Show including models with 14, 16, and 17 inch displays. The two smaller sizes are also available in convertible tablet configurations, with touchscreen displays and […]
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Lilbits: A color E Ink phone, Intel’s new CEO, and more CES product launches
Chinese electronics company Hisense is one of the only companies in recent years to sell smartphones with E Ink displays. Until recently, that meant phones with black and white screens, but now that color E Ink is a thing, Hisense unveiled a color model last year, and a YouTuber has posted a new unboxing and […]
Asus introduces a 2.4 pound laptop with a 13 inch OLED display
The new Asus ZenBook 13 OLED UM325 is a laptop that sort of gives away its most distinctive feature in its name. It’s a notebook with a 13.3 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel OLED display featuring vivid colors, up to 400 nits of brightness, and 100-percent DCI-P3 color gamut. But the notebook is also noteworthy […]
New Asus ZenBook Duo notebooks are dual-screen laptops
A day after introducing an update to its dual-screen gaming laptop, Asus is turning attention to its ZenBook line of general purpose computers. The new Asus ZenBook Duo 14 (UX482) is a 14 inch notebook with support for up to an Intel Core i7-1165G7 Tiger Lake U-series processor and NVIDIA GeForce MX450 discrete graphics, while the Asus ZenBook […]
Asus launches two Chromebooks with Intel Tiger Lake processors (and one with AMD)
Asus has launched two new Chromebooks, both powered by 11th-gen Intel Core “Tiger Lake” processors. The new Asus Chromebook CX9 (9400) is a 14 inch laptop with a starting weight of less than two pounds, and the Asus Chromebook Flip CX5 (CX5500) is a 15.6 inch convertible with a touchscreen display that weighs in at 4.2 pounds. […]
Crowdfunded Astro Slide 5G smartphone ships in June, has a physical keyboard, and promises Linux support
The Astro Slide is a 5G smartphone with a 6.5 inch display and a physical keyboard that slides out from behind the screen, allowing you to use the phone like a tiny laptop computer. It will ship with Android, but the plan is to also make GNU/Linux distributions including Debian and Ubuntu Touch available for […]
MSI Stealth 15M is a 3.7 pound gaming laptop with RTX 3060
The MSI Stealth 15M is a gaming laptop with a 15.6 inch, 144 Hz display, an Intel Core i7-11375H Tiger Lake H35-series processor, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 graphics. It’s also the thinnest and lightest gaming laptop from MSI to date, measuring 14.1″ x 9.76″ x 0.63″ and weighing less than 3.75 pounds. Prices are […]
Planet Computers Astro Slide 5G smartphone coming in June (following a spec change and pandemic-related delay)
Planet Computers has been making smartphones with physical keyboards, unlocked bootloaders and support for Android or Linux software for a few years. I went hands-on with the Gemini PDA at CES 2018 and the Cosmo Communicator at CES 2019. Now the company is getting ready to ship its third phone. Planet Computer introduced the Astro […]
Lilbits: TCL’s flexible displays, more NVIDIA RTX laptops, and new 4G for an old Chromebook
LG has been grabbing a lot of headlines for providing a sneak peek of its upcoming “LG Rollable” smartphone during the company’s CES event this week. But LG isn’t the only company working on rollable displays that could be used in phones that stretch to become tablets. TCL rollable AMOLED display (6.7 to 7.8 inches)TCL […]
Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 and G15 laptops with Ryzen 5000H and RTX 3000 coming soon
The Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 was one of the most widely praised laptops released in 2020 thanks to a combination of its compact design and impressive performance thanks to a Ryzen 4000HS series processor and NVIDIA RTX 2000 graphics. The fact that it also has a grid of LED lights on the display giving it […]