This week Google introduced its new 7 inch tablet and a $35 media streaming device. Canonical introduced its first smartphone concept, and is doing its best to get you to help fund the project. And details about Wacom’s upcoming Android tablet may have leaked. Looking back over the week’s news, three of the articles that […]
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Most popular articles from the week of 7-13-2013
Android is about to get (unofficial) support for running nearly any app in a window, sort of the way you would on… Windows. Intel’s upcoming tablet chip gets benchmarked. And the next-generation Google Nexus 7 is coming soon. We think. Here’s a look back at some of the most popular stories from Liliputing from the […]
Samsung Galaxy S4 review roundup
The Samsung Galaxy S4 smartphone hits the streets this week, and the first reviews of Samsung’s new 5 inch smartphone are in. For the most part it’s a phone with a fast processor, a great display, and a whole slew of custom software running on top of Android. It’s probably one of the best phones […]
Lilbits (4-17-2013): Old computers never go out of style
Computer makers may put out new hardware every 6 months, but most users only upgrade every few years… and some folks hang onto older computer for far longer than that. If an old machine still meets your needs, there’s no reason to upgrade — and there might be some good reasons not to, if you […]
Lilbits (4-16-2013): Netflix to go HTML5, Xiaomi to go international
Netflix may have started out as a service that let you rent DVDs through the mail, but these days the company’s better known for its online video streaming service. It’s available on PCs, smart TVs, connected devices like the Roku, and mobile devices including phones and tablets. But if you’re using a PC, you need […]
Lilbits (4-15-2013): $149 tablet form Asus, Windows 8.1 to have off-switch for the Start Screen?
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]