Acer’s latest laptops come with support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. And Asus and HP announced plans to bring Alexa to some of their PCs earlier this year. Now Amazon says it’s working with ODMs (original design manufacturers) too. The company has unveiled four new PC designs that feature microphones for far-field voice recognition that […]
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Quanta NH2 PC Stick with Intel Cherry Trail hits the FCC
The Quanta NH2 is one of the first PC-on-a-stick computers to feature an Intel Atom Cherry Trail processor. We first learned about the NH2 last month, and now it looks like it could be coming to America. Documentation for a device called the Quanta Smart Stick QCI-NH2 showed up at the FCC website this week. The […]
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Quanta NH2 is a white label Cherry Trail PC stick
Taiwanese device manufacturer Quanta builds computers, cameras, and other electronic devices which are then sold under different brand names. So while you’ll probably never be able to buy a PC-on-a-stick called the Quanta NH2, don’t be surprised if you see a lot of tiny computers that look like this in the future: Quanta’s NH2 is a […]
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Quanta shows a Core M Compute Stick protoype
Later this year Intel plans to launch a PC-on-a-stick with an Intel Core M processor. Code-named Cedar City, it’s not expected to launch until the fourth quarter of the year. But Taiwanese device manufacturer Quanta is already showing off a prototype of a PC stick with a Core M chip. It’s not clear if this […]
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Foxconn Kangaroo, Quanta Compute Plug join the mini PC parade
Microsoft has revealed two new tiny computers coming from Taiwanese manufacturers Foxconn and Quanta. The Quanta Compute Plug is a PC built into a device the size of a power adapter (and which you can actually use as a USB power adapter), while the Foxconn Kangaroo is a pocket-sized desktop computer that you can carry with you […]
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Quanta’s 11.6 inch tablet prototype powered by AMD Temash CPU (video)
Taiwanese equipment maker Quanta is showing off a new tablet prototype featuring an AMD A4-1200 processor. That’s AMD’s new low-power “Temash” chip aimed at low-cost tablets. Quanta doesn’t sell devices under its own brand name, but it’s one of the biggest manufacturers of notebooks and other devices sold by big name companies. The prototype tablet […]
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Sluggish tablet sales leading to Taiwanese factory layoffs?
HP discontinued the TouchPad tablet less than two months after launching it, due to poor sales figures. Now it looks like the BlackBerry PlayBook may be on a similar deathwatch, as Research in Motion offers promotion after promotion in an effort to convince people to buy the 7 inch tablet. We haven’t seen any major […]
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Did RIM just cancel the BlackBerry PlayBook?
Update: RIM says it’s not killing the PlayBook and that the company remains “committed to the tablet market.” Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook is a nice looking little tablet with a 7 inch, 1024 x 600 pixel display and a speedy 1 GHz TI OMAP4 dual core processor. In fact, Amazon apparently liked the design enough […]
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BlackBerry PlayBook orders reduced due to low demand
Research in Motion’s BlackBerry PlayBook tablet isn’t selling very well. While the company had hoped to ship at least 4 million tablets this year, it appears that fewer than 800 thousand BlackBerry tablets were shipped in the first half of 2011, and it’s not clear how many of those are still sitting on store shelves (instead of […]
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Mystery Quanta tablet shows up at the FCC
Quanta Computers is an OEM (original equipment manufacturer) in Taiwan, so you don’t typically see computers sold under the Quanta brand name. Instead major PC makers contract with Quanta to build devices which are sold under different names. But every now and then, an upcoming device makes it as far as the FCC web site […]