When Microsoft unveiled two dual-screen devices late last year, the company said they would both ship in time for the 2020 holiday season. I guess Microsoft never said which holiday. According to a report from Windows Central, the Surface Duo dual-screen smartphone with Android 10 software and Microsoft’s custom user interface could be ready to ship by […]
Would you miss Windows 10 Live Tiles if they were gone?
Rumor has it that Microsoft may pull the plug on the Live Tiles feature in Windows 10. Actually, that rumor has been making the rounds since last summer when Microsoft (apparently accidentally) released a Windows 10 preview build with a revamped start menu — and no Live Tiles. But a new report from Windows Latest […]
Report: Microsoft Surface Go 2 and Surface Book 3 coming this spring
Microsoft is said to be planning updates to two of its Surface devices this spring. According to a report from Petri.com, the next-gen Microsoft Surface Book will be a 2-in-1 tablet with a 10th-gen Intel Core processor, NVIDIA GeForce 16xx series graphics, and optional support for NVIDIA Quadro workstation-class graphics on a top-of-the-line model. Meanwhile Microsoft’s […]
LG and Samsung may be working on “Cloud Top” portable displays for smartphones
You can do a lot of things on a smartphone — but sometimes a bigger screen comes in handy for watching videos, editing documents, or performing other tasks that you’d normally do on a laptop or desktop computer. One solution is to buy a phone with a big screen — there are plenty of options […]
Apple may be working on AMD-powered Macs
Apple started shipping Mac computers with Intel chips in 2006 and within a few years the company dropped support for the PowerPC processors used in older Macs. But rumor has it that the company has been exploring alternatives — it’s possible we could see MacBooks with Apple’s own ARM-based processors one day. But we might […]
This is (probably) the Samsung Galaxy Z Flip foldable smartphone
Rumor has it that Samsung’s next smartphone with a foldable display won’t be a tablet that folds in half to become a phone-sized device like the Samsung Galaxy Fold. It’s expected to be a foldable flip phone-style device, more like the Motorola Razr. In December the first real-world picture of the rumored phone started making […]
Lenovo may have a Chrome OS tablet on the way
Chrome OS tablets have been a thing for the past year and a half or so, but there still aren’t all that many on the market. Google makes one. Acer and Asus have models. And a few enterprise and education-focused companies including CTL and AOPEN have models. But soon there could be another player: About […]
Intel’s upcoming “Jasper Lake” chips could bring Gen11 graphics to Celeron and Pentium low-power processors
Intel doesn’t use the Atom name very much anymore, but the company still ships a lot of Atom-based, low-power processors for use in low-cost Chromebooks and Windows laptops. Basically if you find a sub-$300 laptop with an Intel Celeron or Pentium processor based on Gemini Lake or Apollo Lake architecture, you’re probably getting the successor […]