The PinePhone is an inexpensive smartphone designed to run free and open source operating systems including postmarketOS, Ubuntu Touch, Mobian, Sailfish, and Manjaro. Pine64 began shipping the first version of the phone at the start of this year, and since then the company has offered several additional batches of phones, often involving “Community Edition” versions […]
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Lilbits: The tiniest “iMac,” Android for PCs, and Surface Duo unboxed
Apple sells iMac computers with a choice of 21.5 inch or 27 inch displays. Want something a bit smaller? Then you’re just going to have to build one yourself… like YouTuber The Casual Engineer did. Kind of. The “World’s Smallest iMac” looks like an Apple computer, but behind the 7 inch display is a Raspberry […]
One Mix Yoga 7 inch convertible laptop unboxing and first look
The One Mix Yoga is a laptop computer with a 7 inch touchscreen display. It’s small enough to slide into a pocket… if you have fairly large pockets. But it’s a full-fledged Windows PC with an Intel Atom Cherry Trail processor, 8GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage. Oh, and it’s also a tablet. The […]
First look: Google Nexus 6, Nexus 9, Nexus Player (unboxing)
Google’s latest Nexus smartphone is the company’s biggest and fastest yet, with a 6 inch, high-resolution display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 805 processor. The latest Nexus tablet sports an 8.9 inch screen and and NVIDIA Tegra K1 64-bit processor, making it one of the first devices to ship with that CPU. And the new Google […]
Samsung Chromebox unboxed a little early (video)
The Samsung Chromebox is a tiny desktop computer designed to run Google’s Chrome OS, an operating system designed around a web browser. By the time we noticed yesterday that the product had been available for purchase at TigerDirect, the retailer had removed the product page. But this isn’t one of those cases where the product was simply […]
Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet: Unboxing and first look (video)
The Barnes & Noble NOOK Tablet doesn’t officially go on sale until tomorrow, but customers that pre-ordered the tablet for in-store pickup are already able to get them at B&N locations around the US today. In fact, some people got theirs last night. Home delivery should also start today. If you’re lucky, your local store […]
Asus Eee PC X101H MeeGo netbook unboxed in Vietnam
The Asus Eee PC X101 hasn’t gone on sale in the US yet, but it’s expected to hit the streets in September. Meanwhile, the folks at Vietnamese site Tinhte.vn have already managed to get their hands on the mini-laptop. The Eee PC X101 is one of the first netbooks from a major computer company […]
HTC Flyer tablet unboxing and first look
The HTC Flyer goes on sale at Best Buy this weekend for $499.99, and the folks at HTC were kind enough to loan me a demo unit to test out in advance of the US launch. The Flyer is one of the most intriguing Android tablets to hit the market in recent months for a […]
Asus Eee PC 1215B unboxing and first look
The Asus Eee PC 1215B is a laptop with a 12.1 inch display and an AMD Fusion processor. With a starting price of just $379, the laptop is priced just a bit higher than a typical netbook, but it packs higher performance graphics, a higher resolution display, a larger keyboard, and Windows 7 Home Premium […]
Asus Eee Pad Transformer unboxed – Video
The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is now shipping in the UK and Taiwan, and YouTube user realparadyne has posted one of the first unboxing videos of the 10 inch Android tablet. The retail packaging looks nice, and the tablet itself doesn’t look too bad. The tablet comes with a power adapter, USB cable, user guide, […]