Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime: The Rolls-Royce of Android tablets With its quad-core CPU and keyboard dock, Asus’s Transformer Prime tablet is truly in a league of its own. But all that power comes at a cost. The good: The Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime sports an iPad 2-inspired design that’s even thinner and nearly [...]
Hardware-wise, the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet is similar to other Honeycomb tablets on the surface — same CPU, RAM, display resolution, and basic functionality — which is why there’s so much intense interest in one of the features that makes it stand out: the stylus. When Lenovo announced a pair of Android tablets this summer, [...]
This week the folks at Lenovo are revealing a handful of devices for those that love their computers to fly away at a gust of wind – first of all there’s the “spectacularly slim” U300s Ultrabook, a luxury accessory as Lenovo puts it, powered by 2nd generation Intel® CoreTM i7 processor with Intel® Turbo Boost [...]
Much has been made of Intel’s plans to promote a new laptop designation, the Ultrabook. The initial pitch was something along the lines of an 11-to-13-inch laptop, less than 18 millimeters thick, with SSD storage, running on current-gen Core i-series processors, and selling for less than a comparable MacBook Air–the clear example the Ultrabook design [...]
One of Lenovo’s first 2 Android Honeycomb 3.1 tablets, called the ThinkPad Tablet has finally gone on sale. Designed for the enterprise market, the ThinkPad Tablet can be used with an optional digital stylus for both handwritten text input as well as document mark-up and drawing. The first press images were leaked back in July [...]
HP Pre 3 will become the Pre-3-to-never-be, in the US at least. The computer giant has said that the HP Pre 3 will not make it Stateside, and will be significantly discounted in the European markets where it has already gone on sale. The $99 HP TouchPad isn’t the only amazing deal coming out [...]
A first-time walk through of the BlackBerry Torch 9860 Smartphone from Research In Motion. Here we take a first look at it, and compare it to the Storm 2 and iPhone 4. Where both Storm handsets were chunky and masculine in their styling, the BlackBerry Torch 9850 flexes some curves. It’s a lightweight phone, at [...]
The BlackBerry Bold 9930 is the successor to the aging Bold 9650 for Verizon Wireless. It sports many upgrades, including a larger keyboard, VGA touchscreen, faster, 1.2GHz processor, and the all-new BlackBerry OS 7. The Bold 9930 (and its 9900 GSM counterpart) is the thinnest BlackBerry ever at 10.5mm. Its 5 megapixel camera has a [...]
LA Times tech reporter Nathan Olivarez-Giles takes a look at the HTC Status — a new Android-powered smartphone hitting AT&T stores and Best Buy on July 17. The HTC Status‘ claim to fame — a Facebook button that will automatically allow users to share what they’re doing to Facebook with a simple tap. The HTC [...]
HTC boats that this dual-core, 4G QWERTY baddie has “the most advanced camera of any smartphone.” Is HTC right? Earlier this month, T-Mobile announced the latest addition to its myTouch family, the myTouch 4G Slide. The specs look pretty standard for this summer’s slew of high-end smartphones: 4G connectivity, a 3.7-inch Super LCD display, Android [...]