Tablets
Minisforum has formally announced its V3, one of the industry's first AMD Ryzen 7 8840U-based hybrid PCs that can serve as a tablet, a laptop, and an external display, which is why the company positions it as a '3-in-1' system. As the machine packs an eight-core CPU, it may offer the performance of some mid-range laptops. Meanwhile, despite being a 'tablet,' it has two USB4 ports and an SD card reader, a rare feature for this class of devices. The Minisforum V3 is closer to a classic laptop than a tablet, but this happens often. The system features a 14-inch detachable multitouch display with a 2560×1600 resolution, a 500 nits brightness, a 165 Hz refresh rate (which will undoubtedly be appreciated by gamers), and a...
Nook Tablet Beats Expectations, B&N Considers Nook Spin-off
Barnes & Noble announced via a press release today that sales of its Nook lineup, including the new Nook Tablet, the older Nook Color, and the Nook Simple Touch...
15 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/5/2012
Acer Iconia Tab A200 On Sale January 15 Priced At $329
Acer has formally announced the US pricing and launch date details for the Iconia A200, the follow up to the Iconia A500 tablet it launched mid-last year. The A200...
6 by Vivek Gowri on 1/5/2012
5th Generation WiFi: 802.11ac, "Gigabit" WiFi Primer
Five years have passed since the first 802.11n devices implementing a draft of the now-finalized specification hit the market. Over the years 802.11n support has become ubiquitous in the...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2012
Broadcom Announces Family of 802.11ac Chipsets & 5G WiFi Brand
If you've read our 802.11ac primer you already know that the fifth generation of WiFi is something to be excited about. At 433Mbps of bandwidth per stream with expected...
7 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2012
Scaling to 802.11ac Speeds in Smartphones and Tablets
I promise this is the last thing I'll write about 802.11ac today, but it is very relevant to our smartphone and tablet coverage. If you've followed any of our...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2012
Archos 70b IT Arrives with Honeycomb for $200
In our review of the Kindle Fire, we called it the best $199 tablet on the market, but Archos has given us a reason to reconsider that statement with...
12 by Vivek Gowri on 1/4/2012
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Teardown
In researching for my piece on the Transformer Prime's GPS issue I needed to know the location of the GPS antenna inside the Transformer Prime. Given the limited supply...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/4/2012
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime GPS Issue Explained
An Apology Over the past couple of weeks I've received emails and tweets asking me to look into GPS performance issues with ASUS' Eee Pad Transformer Prime. By the...
67 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/4/2012
All BlackBerry PlayBook Models On Sale for $299
Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet (read our review) is now on sale for $299 in the BlackBerry Store, a price which applies to the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB...
12 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/3/2012
Apple Acquires Anobit: Bringing NAND Endurance Technology In-House
I'd seen speculation that Apple was going to drop $500M on Anobit over the past few weeks. Ars Technica also published a piece believing the acquisition to be true...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/21/2011
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Review Part II: Battery Life & More
In our original review of the ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime I did the best I could do given limited testing opportunity with the platform before the NDA lifted...
58 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/15/2011
ARM & GlobalFoundries Demo 2.5GHz+ 28nm Cortex A9 & 20nm Test Vehicle
GlobalFoundries sent over a PR showcasing two significant milestones in its march towards being a major foundry player in the mobile space. The first is the announcement of a...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/14/2011
The New Intel Mobile Division
Intel's haphazard ultra mobile strategy is finally getting some much needed consolidation. We got the first hints of this at IDF where Intel announced a restructuring that would combine...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/14/2011
Performance-Fixing Kindle Fire Update Due in Less Than Two Weeks
Amazon will be releasing an over-the-air software update for its Kindle Fire tablet in less than two weeks, company spokesman Drew Herdener revealed to the New York Times yesterday...
11 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/12/2011Ice Cream Sandwich Previewed on the Archos G9
When we posted about the launch of the Archos G9 Turbo, we mentioned that Archos was aiming for a Q1 2012 release date for the G9's Ice Cream Sandwich...
5 by Vivek Gowri on 12/12/2011
Toshiba Thrive: Honeycomb Hits $300
It appears that this is the season of inexpensive Android tablets, and with Christmas less than two weeks away, a well-discounted Honeycomb tablet is an interesting gift idea. When...
33 by Vivek Gowri on 12/12/2011
webOS Goes Open Source
HP has finally decided what it's going to do with webOS: the software will be made available under an open source license. This likely signals the ultimate end of...
19 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/9/2011
Dell Kills 7-inch Streak Tablet
Dell has discontinued its 7" Streak tablet in the United States, the bigger brother of the 5" Streak that it discontinued earlier this year - the official product page...
18 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/5/2011
CyanogenMod 9 Should Support Most CM7-Compatible Devices
In an update on the CyanogenMod blog today, Cyanogen gave us our first details on device support for the forthcoming Ice Cream Sandwich-based CyanogenMod 9: the first SoCs supported...
11 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/2/2011
Archos G9 Turbos On Sale Next Week, OMAP 4460-based G9 At CES (Updated)
The saga of the Archos G9 tablets, once dubbed the world's fastest, has been a little drawn out. Archos originally intended to have 1.5 GHz variants out by this...
9 by Jason Inofuentes on 12/2/2011
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