The GPD Pocket is a tiny laptop with a 7 inch display, a compact keyboard, and a case small enough to fold up and slide into a (fairly large) pocket. Over the past few years GPD and a series of rival companies have released similar mini PCs with more processing power and other upgrades, but […]
Qualcomm is working on cheaper chips for laptops
Qualcomm and Lenovo announced plans to bring one of the first laptops with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx processor to market early next year. The new chip should enable better performance than we’ve ever seen from a Qualcomm-powered laptop. But like most Windows PCs with Snapdragon processors, the upcoming Lenovo “Project Limitless” device probably isn’t going […]
Chromebooks may not get dual-boot Windows support after all
Remember last year when developers started to notice a feature in Google’s Chromium OS code that suggested one day you might be able to dual-boot Windows and Chrome OS on the same computer? Yeah, it looks like that’s not coming anytime soon. Not officially anyway. A recent update to the Chromium Gerrit shows that the […]
Brydge C-type is a keyboard made for Chrome OS
For the most part a Chromebook is just an ordinary laptop that ships with Chrome OS rather than another operating system. But there are a few key differences — many Chromebooks have less storage than typical laptops. And they all have keyboards that are customized for Chrome OS, complete with browser keys for back, refresh, […]
All new Chromebooks will be Linux-ready (and other Chrome OS news)
When Chromebooks made their debut almost a decade ago, they were basically laptops designed to run a single app — a web browser. There’s a lot you can do in a web browser, but folks who prefer running native apps that work offline weren’t impressed. Then Google added support for running Android apps a few […]
Lilbits 365: You’re holding it wrong
The recently released Samsung Galaxy Tab S5e sells for $400 and up and features a 10.5 inch, 2560 x 1600 pixel AMOLED display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 670 processor, and at least 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage, a fingerprint sensor, and quad speakers… all of which make it a pretty attractive option for folks […]
Lilbits 363: Tired of Pixel 3a leaks yet?
Rumor has it that Google will officially launch the Google Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL on May 7th, the first day of this year’s Google I/O developer conference. They’re expected to be cheaper than the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3XL, while offering the same stellar cameras as their higher-priced counterparts. And honestly, there’s not […]
Installing Linux on a Chromebook with Crouton is (a tiny bit) tougher after security update
Google has rolled out a security update to Chromium OS designed to prevent unexpected code running from on a Chromebook. For the most part, that’s a good thing. But it also means that some code that you may want to run may not work anymore… without some small modifications. Case in point: the developer of the Crouton […]
Chrome OS 74 dev channel brings Linux app improvements (Crostini)
When Google first launched Chrome OS, it was only able to run web apps. A few years ago the company added support for Android apps. And last year Google introduced Crostini, a tool that allows you to install and run Linux applications on a Chromebook. For the most part, it works as promised — allowing […]
Lilbits 351: More multi-camera phones
Phones with three rear cameras are becoming common. Even that weird Energy Power Max 18K that was unveiled today has three rear cameras. But right now there’s only one smartphone with five rear cameras: The Nokia 9 PureView. It probably won’t be the last though. Nokia developed the phone using multi-camera technology from Light, and […]
Chrome OS 74 will enable audio for Linux apps
You can install and run Linux apps on most recent Chromebooks thanks to Google’s Crostini software. That makes Chromebooks feel a lot more like “real” laptops, since you can now run desktop software like GIMP or LibreOffice. But there are a few things Linux apps still can’t do. They don’t support hardware-accelerated graphics. And they […]
Lilbits 349: The 5G smartphones are coming
Mobile World Congress is a little more than a week away, and we’ll likely see new phones from companies including Samsung, Huawei, HMD (Nokia), and others, as well as other devices (Microsoft, for example, is expected to introduce its next-gen HoloLens mixed reality headset). It’s likely that we’ll also hear a lot about 5G. Next-gen […]
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