What do you get if you take the specs of the latest Android superphones and stuff them into a case that’s nearly the size of a tablet? Apparently ZTE wanted to find out, because that’s a pretty good description of the company’s Nubia X6. The ZTE Nubia X6 features a 6.44 inch, 1920 x 1080 […]
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Hisense MAXE X1 6.8 inch phone launches worldwide in March
Chinese device maker Hisense plans to launch a smartphone that you can also use a tablet… or a smart TV box. It’s called the Hisense MAXE X1, and the company plans to launch the 6.8 inch smartphone in select markets around the globe in March. Hisense started showing off the phone at the Consumer Electronics […]
Hisense X1 is a 6.8 inch smartphone that could replace your tablet
Hisense introduced one of the more interesting tablets of 2013, a low-cost 7 inch tablet that could give the original Nexus 7 a run for its money. So even though Hisense hasn’t announced any new tablets for the US market for 2014 yet, I went looking to see what I could find at the Hisense […]
Acer introduces mid-range 5.7 inch Liquid S1 smartphone
Acer may be bringing the smallest Windows 8 tablet to market this year, but apparently the company doesn’t always believe smaller is better. Acer’s new Liquid S1 is a smartphone with a 5.7 inch display, and it’s aimed at folks looking for something between a smartphone and a tablet. The Acer Liquid S1 has a […]
H7000 is a $190 7 inch Android smartphone, or a tablet that makes calls
Asus doesn’t have the market cornered on smartphones with 7 inch screens. A new Chinese phone called the H7000 is about the same size and shape as the Asus Fonepad. And like the Fonepad you can use the H7000 as a mobile tablet… or you can use it to make phone calls. While Asus doesn’t […]
Nokia may be working on a phablet (tablet-sized phone)
Nokia used to be the world’s top phone maker. But in recent years Apple and Samsung have dominated the smartphone space. Now it looks like Nokia may be planning to fight back by taking a few pages from Samsung’s playbook. The Financial Times reports that Nokia plans to launch a number of high-end phones this […]
Allwinner launches quad-core A31s CPU for phablets
Chinese chip maker Allwinner is launching a new quad-core processor aimed at tablets with 5 to 7 inch displays and cellular capabilities. For reasons that are beyond my control, people seem to like to call these things phablets, and it looks like allwinner wants in on the growing space. The company’s new Allwinner A31s processor […]
Canonical offers guide for porting Ubuntu Touch to run on most Android devices
The Samsung Galaxy S III may not be the only non-Nexus phone running Ubuntu Touch Preview for long. Canonical has posted instructions for porting Ubuntu Touch to run on pretty much any Android phone or tablet. It turns out the process is pretty straightforward: Because most of the hard work has already been done by […]