The Asus MeMO Pad ME172V is a 7 inch tablet that’s a bit like the Nexus 7’s cheaper cousin. It’s about the same size, but it has a lower quality display, an older version of Android, a different processor, and a microSD card slot. Asus loaned me a demo unit to test, and I’ll have […]
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Lilbits (4-12-2013): Buy music or subscribe?
A few years ago if someone asked whether you still bought music or not, they were probably asking if you paid for it, or if you just downloaded songs illegally from the internet. These days, the growth of services like Spotify, rdio, and Pandora have changed the game — now the question is whether you buy […]
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Lilbits (4-11-2013): Exynos 5 Octa benchmarked, Rockmelt reborn
Samsung likes to describe its Exynos 5 Octa processor as an 8-core chip. And technically, it is. But it actually has 4 ARM Cortex-A15 chips and 4 lower-power ARM Cortex-A7 chips. Most of the time you’ll only use one set or the other. So now that the first benchmark results are in, it’s not surprising […]
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Lilbits (4-10-2013): PC shipments decline, Gmail turns 9…
Smartphone and tablet sales continue to climb, but shipments of traditional PCs is dipping. Are we moving toward a world where laptop and desktop computers are niche products for folks that can’t get by with a more mobile device? It’s a bit too soon to tell, but there’s a reason Intel and Microsoft are striving […]
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Lilbits (4-09-2013): Super-fast internet in Austin, Amazon Kindle with a stylus?
This week we found out that Google plans to bring Google Fiber to Austin, Texas. But it won’t be the only provider of blazing fast internet over a fiber-optic network. AT&T wants to build a network there too. While the rest of the US is lucky to get download speeds up to 50MB/s, Austin will […]
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Lilbits (4-08-2013): HP Project Moonshot, 3Doodler handheld 3D printer
It’s been a year and a half since HP announced Project Moonshot with the goal of bringing low-power, inexpensive servers to the market. As the company struggles to with its failed acquisitions of Palm and Autonomy and declining sales in the PC and printer markets, could its new servers pave the way to the future? Here’s a […]
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Lilbits: Haswell is shipping, Alienware gets Ubuntu (4-05-2013)
Intel’s next-generation Core processors will consume less power and offer better performance than today’s chips. Dell is now offering Ubuntu Linux as an option on some of its gaming desktops. And if you don’t like the look and feel of Ubuntu, you might want to try Pear OS 7: It’s basically Ubuntu 12.10 with an […]
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Lilbits: Chrome gets faster, so do smartphone GPUs (4-04-2013)
Y’all seem to like these Lilbits roundups I’ve been posting for the last few days, so I’m going to try to make a habit of keeping them going at least a few times per week. So without further ado, here are some stories from around the web that may be of interest to Liliputing readers. […]
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Lilbits: Battle of the quad-cores, Ouya review and more (4-03-2013)
Chinese site padhz pitted three of the fastest quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 chips against one another, and unsurprisingly the newest came out on top. Somewhat surprisingly, that means Rockchip’s latest processor is kind of king of the hill (until next-gen Cortex-A15 and Krait chips become more popular. Here’s a roundup of some of the stories you’d […]
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Lilbits: News from around the web (4-02-2013)
I spend a lot of time combing over the day’s news to find the best tidbits to bring you… but not everything makes it to the website. So I share some of those stories on our Facebook, Twitter, and Google+ pages. If you’re not already following Liliputing in social media, here are some of the […]