The first Android phones had physical buttons below the screen for home, back, menu, and search functions. More recent phones and tablets are button-free, but feature on-screen buttons which move when you rotate your device. But the developers of Paranoid Android have come up with a novel new way for those on-screen buttons to work. It’s called PIE, and it’s…
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Gigabyte’s S1185 is a powerful Windows 8 tablet with an 11.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel IPS display, support for up to an Intel Core i5 Ivy Bridge processor, up to 8GB of RAM, and up to 256GB of solid state storage. The 2 pounds tablet is expected to go on sale in the US in April for around $1000…
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The HP Envy X2 is an 11.6 inch tablet with an Intel Atom Clover Trail processor and Windows 8 software. An included keyboard dock lets you use the tablet like a notebook. Normally HP sells the Envy X2 for $850, but Office Depot is currently selling the computer for $100 off. HP Envy X2 11.6″ Windows 8 tablet w/keyboard dock…
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Google’s Native Client, or NaCl is a platform that lets the Chrome web browser run certain apps written C or C++ instead of the usual web languages such as HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. In other words, developers can use the same tools to write web apps for Chrome as you would use to write native apps for a PC or mobile…
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If you have an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch and an Apple TV you can start watching videos on your mobile device, hit a button, and continue watching on your TV. Apple calls the service AirPlay. Now Netflix and YouTube are pushing a new service called DIAL (Discovery and Launch) which lets you do pretty much the same thing on…
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Quad-core chips aren’t just for high-end devices anymore. Last year Google started selling the Nexus 7 tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 processor for $199, and since then we’ve seen a number of low-cost quad-core tablets, mostly from Chinese companies you’ve probably never heard of. Now Hyundai (a company you may have heard of, but probably don’t associate with tablets)…
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Research in Motion plans to launch the first BlackBerry 10 smartphones in the coming weeks, and when they hit the streets there will be tens of thousands of apps ready to download from the BlackBerry World store. Over the past few weeks those numbers have gone way up as RIM has held “Port-A-Thons” to encourage Android app developers to port…
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Apple’s 5th-generation iPod touch has the same screen as the iPhone 5, a speedy processor, and the ability to run hundreds of thousands of apps and games. Unfortunately it also has a higher starting price than earlier iPod touch models, at $299 and up. But today you can pick up a new 32GB model for $30 off. Here are some…
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Thought the iPad’s 264 pixels-per-inch or the Google Nexus 10′s 299 ppi screens were impressive? Epson has just introduced a new display with a whopping 2667 ppi. The only catch? It’s not a tablet, phone or TV screen. Instead it’s a tiny display designed to be used as a camera viewfinder. Epson’s new screen is a 1024 x 768 pixel…
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Microsoft’s Surface Pro tablet will go on sale in the US and Canada starting February 9th. The company will charge $899 for a model with 64GB of storage, while a 128GB model will run $999. Both tablets feature 10.6 inch, 1920 x 1080 pixel displays, 4GB of RAM, Intel Core i5 processors, and Windows 8 Pro software. In other words,…
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Samsung has already confirmed plans to unveil an 8 inch Galaxy Note at Mobile World Congress in February. Now we may have an idea what that tablet will look like. Twitter user @Claisifatearg has posted a photo allegedly showing a flyer for the upcoming tablet, complete with pictures of the front and back of the device. If the picture is real,…
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NEC seems to have a thing for dual-screen devices. The company has been showing off dual-screen Android tablets for the last few years, and now the company is bringing its first Android smartphone with twin 4.3 inch displays to market in Japan. The NEC MEDIAS W has two screens which can unfold to sit next to one another, letting you…
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Mozilla plans to start working with wireless carriers and hardware makers to bring Firefox OS phones to market starting this year. Now the software company has unveiled the first phones designed to run the Firefox operating system: a developer phone with very basic specs. That makes sense, since Firefox OS doesn’t really need bleeding edge hardware. Firefox apps are written in…
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MSI is selling a new low-cost 7 inch tablet called the MSI Enjoy 71. It sells for about $172 in Taiwan, but doesn’t seem to be available in the US yet. The tablet features a 1024 x 600 pixel display, a 1.5 GHz Amlogic AM8726 dual core processor, and Android 4.0 software. In other words, if you spend $30 more…
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Several of Acer’s inexpensive 11.6 inch notebooks use the same batter. The Acer Aspire One 756, Acer TravelMate B113, and Acer Aspire V5-171 Windows laptops and the Acer C7 Chromebook all have the same 3-cell battery and typically offer between 3 and 4 hours of battery life. But if you pick up a 3rd party 6-cell battery you can get…
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