Looking for a place to check out the Dell Streak 5 inch Android tablet in person? Starting October 24th you’ll be able to find one at Best Buy stores around the US. The Dell Streak is a bit of a cross between a tablet and a phone. With a 5 inch, 800 x 480 pixel […]
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LG plans to launch smartphones with NVIDIA Tegra 2 chips
NVIDIA’s Tegra 2 chipset combines a low power dual core ARM-based processor with powerful graphics capabilities. The result is a low power platform that can handle 3D graphics and HD video playback. So far we’ve seen the Tegra 2 chipset in the Toshiba AC100 smartbook and upcoming Toshiba Folio 100 tablet, but not much else. […]
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Who needs a smartbook? Asus planning a netbook with pull-out phone
HP, Lenovo, and other companies may be introducing so-called smartbooks, which combine some of the elements of a smartphone and netbook into a single laptop-like device. But according to the Inquirer, Asus is taking a slightly different approach by developing a netbook that has a mobile phone that fits into the laptop. Not only will […]
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P72: Huge iPhone clone that runs Windows XP, makes phone calls
Tablets with 7 inch displays are a dime a dozen these days — in China, anyway. A cellphones with 7 inch screens, on the other hand… there’s something you don’t see every day. In fact, I’m still not entirely sure I’m looking at one, even though the 7 inch P72 can make phone calls. That’s […]
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Intel Atom Z6xx processor to power tablets, smartphones
Intel has officially unveiled a new line of low power processors designed for mobile devices including smartphones and tablets. The Intel Atom Z6xx series chip (PDF Link) has a 45nm processor core, and 3D graphics and video capabilities.The chip has 512K of L2 cache, 24K of L1 Data and 32K instruction cache. Intel says the […]
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HP to buy Palm… WebOS tablets on the way?
Hewlett Packard is shelling out $1.2 billion to purchase Palm. While HP used to be a pretty major player in the mobile device space, over the past few years the company hasn’t shown much enthusiasm for the cellphone market, offering just a handful of iPaq-branded Windows Mobile phones and PDAs. But it looks like that […]
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Leaked Samsung roadmap shows new ARM CPUS for smartphones, smartbooks
The performance gap between ARM-based processors and x86 chips is shrinking. Intel is starting to design Atom chips for smartphones, while ARM-based processors have already hit the 1GHz mark with support for HD video playback and dual and even quad core processors on the horizon. A leaked product roadmap from Samsung shows a series of […]
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Dell Mini 5 preview: Oversized phone or tiny tablet?
The upcoming Dell Mini 5 has all the makings of a great smartphone. It has a powerful 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon chipset, 3G connectivity, a multitouch touchscreen display, and the ability to last most of the day on a charge, and Google’s Android operating system. There’s just one catch: It’s kind of huge for a smartphone, […]
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WOOGA concept turns your phone into a netbook/game console
Smartphones are getting more and more powerful. I’ve been playing with a Google Nexus One phone for the last few days, and thanks to its 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, it loads web pages over WiFi almost as fast as a netbook. It can also handle audio and video playback with ease, and the Google Android […]
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AT&T to launch $99 3G netbook without Windows
Word on the street is that AT&T will begin offering customers a $99 netbook with a 3G modem (and probably a 2 year service plan) this summer. It’ll be the first netbook offered by the company that doesn’t run Windows. AT&T had previously partnered with Radio Shack to sell 3G netbooks from Acer and Dell. […]