CES
Motorola Defy Mini – Preview
Motorola unveiled the Defy Mini handset at CES 2012, a robust entry-level smartphone that lives up its name – it features a diminutive 3.2-inch HVGA touschscreen. Typing on the screen is of course practically impossible, at least in portrait mode. Other features of the Motorola Defy Mini reflect its budget price-point – a front-facing VGA [...]
Huawei P1 S – Preview
Huawei launched a new line of Ascend handsets at the Consumer Electronics Show CES 2012 in Las Vegas. The Huawei Ascend P1 and Huawei Ascend P1 S are almost identical, both sporting 4.3-inch Super AMOLED 960 x 540 pixel screens. The only real difference is the slimmer profile of the P1 S, a full millimeter [...]
Lenovo Racer-A – Preview
The Lenovo Racer-A is the newest addition to the Idea Smart Phone K line and features a 4.5-inch 720p multi-touch screen. The Racer-A can play 1080p video at 30 frames per second, and also boasts 720p WiDi, a full 3D media center, and a rear-facing 8MP autofocus camera. And the Lenovo Racer-A packs a 1.6GHz [...]
ARM CEO Criticizes New Intel Medfield CPUs
Mobile chip heavyweight ARM has criticized Intel new Medfield architecture Atom Z2460 as only ‘roughly good enough for mobile phones’, even though it is will soon appear in Motorola and Lenovo smartphones. However ARM sees Intel as ‘a serious competitor’ according to CEO Warren East, speaking at CES earlier this week at CES 2012. Mr. [...]
Samsung Series 9 Notebook – Preview
The main focus of CES 2012 so far has been a battle between ultrabooks and high-performance tablets. Ultrabooks in CES 2012 entered new territory with dedicated graphics cards being factored into the equation and tablets came of age as quadcore processors coupled with Android’s Ice Cream Sandwich OS took the tablet experience to a new [...]
LG Z330 and Z430 – ‘Super Ultrabooks’
CES 2012 has seen a few manufacturers entering sectors in which they previously were unknown. Fujitsu wowed with its underwater tablet, and Dell made a belated entrance to the ultrabook market with the Dell XPS 13. Now Korean giant LG has launched two ultrabooks at CES 2012. But this is no shrinking wallflower entry to [...]
Fujitsu Arrows waterproof tablet
Fujitsu party piece for the CES 2012 (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas was a waterproof tablet going by the name of the Fujitsu Arrow, a robust Honeycomb slate whose seamless premium plastic shell is intended to withstand water, dirt and high pressure. Not only is it fully waterproof to a depth of five metres(!), [...]
Lenovo IdeaPad K2 – Preview
From as far back as November 2011 there were reports that the new Lenovo IdeaPad K2 tablet would run a quad-core NVidia Tegra 3 processor and would support a full 1080p HD native resolution. Now at CES 2012 the same LePad K2010 has appeared but it will be limited to availability in mainland China only. [...]
Archos 70b IT – Preview
Archos has updated its 70 IT gen 8 budget tablet to give users the Archos 70b Internet Tablet (IT) at CES featuring an improved 1024 x 600 capacitive screen, a 1.2 GHz CPU and 512MB RAM. It now runs Android Honeycomb 3.2. As a Google-certified device the 70b IT offers full access to the Android [...]
Toshiba new tablet concepts
Toshiba has improved on the blocky Thrive 7-and 10-inch tablets design with the ultraslim Excite X10 earlier this week. Now Toshiba is parading designs for a load of other slates, with displays ranging from 5.1-inches, through another 7.7-inch effort, to a whacking great 13.3-incher. At this point in time, the slates on show are early [...]
