The upcoming GPD Pocket 3 is will be a tiny laptop computer with a small screen, a touch-typeable keyboard, and a brand new design. Concept drawings released by GPD show a compact computer that has a few features the original GPD Pocket and the Pocket 2 lacked, including a touchpad and webcam. There’s also a […]
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Latest Chromium OS build for the GPD Pocket 1 and 2 brings hardware, software fixes for these mini-laptops
The GPD Pocket and Pocket 2 are tiny laptops small enough to fold up and slide into (some) pockets… thus the name. With 7 inch touchscreen displays and QWERTY keyboards, they’re about as small as you can get while still supporting touch-typing on a laptop. GPD ships the Pocket mini-laptops with Windows 10 software, but […]
Updated ChromiumOS builds turn GPD Pocket and Pocket 2 into tiny Chromebooks
Last year Keith Myers ported the open source version of Google’s Chrome OS so that it could run on the GPD Pocket and GPD Pocket 2 mini-laptops. But the software was a bit buggy at the time, with issues affecting audio, screen rotation, and other hardware. Now Myers is back with a new Chromium OS […]
The littlest Chromebook: GPD Pocket gets an unofficial ChromiumOS port
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 […]
GPD brings Pocket 2 Max 8.9 inch mini laptop to Japan IT Week
The upcoming GPD Pocket 2 Max is a tiny laptop by modern standards… but the 1.5 pound laptop with an 8.9 inch display is actually the largest computer GPD has launched to date. The larger screen and keyboard should make it easier to get work done. And GPD is adding features like a webcam and […]
GPD Pocket 2 Max is an 8.9 inch laptop with Core m3-8100Y
The GPD Pocket line of computers have earned a cult following in recent years thanks to their compact size and decent performance. With 7 inch displays and QWERTY keys, they’re some of the smallest laptop-style computers that you could be reasonably expected to touch type on. But typing can still be a bit of a […]
Lilbits 359: Google Pixel 4 “Coral” and “Flame” smartphones coming this year?
If history has taught us anything, it’s that Google will probably launch a new set of flagship smartphones sometime around October… although we may see the mid-range Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL much sooner than that. While we still don’t know very much about what the Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL will look […]
Official Ubuntu MATE for GPD Pocket handheld PCs updated to versions 19.04 and 18.04.2
The GPD Pocket line of pocket-sized, laptop-like computers ship with Windows 10, but folks have been figuring out how to run GNU/Linux on them since day one. Last year the developers behind Ubuntu MATE made things a little easier by offering official versions of the operating system optimized for the GPD Pocket and GPD Pocket […]
GPD Pocket 2 handheld PC now available with 8GB RAM, Celeron 3965Y processor
GPD continues to iterate on its Pocket 2 line of handheld computers. A top-of-the-line model with an Intel Core m3-8100Y processor, 8GB of RAM and 128GB of storage continues to sell for $669Â to $750, depending on where you buy it from. But late last year the company introduced a cheaper model with a Celeron 3965Y […]
GPD has big plans for next-gen little computers
Chinese device maker GPD has made some of the most interesting little computers in the past few years. The GPD Win line of handheld Windows gaming PCs are unlike anything else currently on the market, and the GPD Pocket line of pocket-sized laptop computers have inspired a series of clones and a bit of a […]