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...
NVIDIA Files Patent Infringement Complaints Against Qualcomm & Samsung
In a surprising move this afternoon, NVIDIA has announced that they will be filing patent infringement complaints against both Qualcomm and Samsung. This complaint is centered around the alleged...
77 by Ryan Smith & Jarred Walton on 9/4/2014
IFA 2014 Lenovo Launches More PCs - From Laptops To Tabletops
At the IFA convention in Berlin, Lenovo launched two PCs and a tablet yesterday, and today they are at it again with the new ThinkPad Helix 2-in-1 Ultrabook, HORIZON...
17 by Brett Howse on 9/4/2014
IFA 2014 Lenovo Announcements - Android Tablet, Gaming Laptop, Gaming Desktop
The world’s largest PC maker arrived at the IFA trade show in Berlin with quite a few new products. Today Lenovo announced an 8” tablet, a 17” gaming laptop...
27 by Brett Howse on 9/3/2014
Broadcom Announces BCM4358: Second Gen 2x2 802.11ac WiFi
Today, Broadcom is announcing a new WiFi/BT combo chip that succeeds the BCM4354. According to Broadcom, the key features of this new chipset are enhanced WiFi/BT coexistence performance, integrated...
1 by Joshua Ho on 9/3/2014
A Look at Bioshock for iOS and How it Compares to its PC Counterpart
I originally bought Bioshock for PC a number of years ago during one of Steam's summer sales. It was $2, and I had heard good things about it so...
29 by Brandon Chester on 8/28/2014
Google's News & Weather App Updated to Version 2.0
Today Google has rolled out an unexpected update to an app that seemed long forgotten. It's the News & Weather application that comes on Android phones running software maintained...
23 by Brandon Chester on 8/26/2014
Unity Adds Native x86 Support for Android
Intel is facing an uphill battle in the mobile space from a marketshare perspective, but there's an additional challenge: the bulk of mobile apps are compiled targeting ARM based...
15 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/20/2014
State of the Part: SoC Manufacturers
Introduction A few years ago, it seemed a new System-On-Chip (SoC) design using an ARM-based architecture would pop up every other week. While competition can be great, with so many...
94 by Jarred Walton on 8/19/2014
Samsung Announces Exynos 5430: First 20nm Samsung SoC
While we mentioned this in our Galaxy Alpha launch article, Samsung is finally announcing the launch of their new Exynos 5430 SoC. The main critical upgrade that the new chips...
77 by Joshua Ho & Andrei Frumusanu on 8/13/2014
Short Bytes: Intel's Core M and Broadwell-Y SoC
Intel has slowly been feeding us information about their upcoming Broadwell processors for a couple years now, with the first real details kicking off almost a year ago at...
31 by Jarred Walton on 8/12/2014
Revisiting SHIELD Tablet: Gaming Battery Life and Temperatures
While the original SHIELD Tablet review hit most of the critical points in the review, there wasn't enough time to investigate everything. One of the areas where there wasn't...
39 by Joshua Ho & Andrei Frumusanu on 8/8/2014
Microsoft's Surface Pro 3: Core i3 vs. Core i5 Battery Life
A couple of weeks ago I offered a brief performance preview of the $799 entry level Surface Pro 3 with an Intel Core i3-4020Y. The performance hit in going...
85 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/5/2014
Short Bytes: NVIDIA's SHIELD Tablet
Today's launch of the new SHIELD Tablet with NVIDIA's Tegra K1 SoC has muddied up the tablet waters a bit. We've posted our full coverage of the device, but...
32 by Jarred Walton on 7/29/2014
The NVIDIA SHIELD Tablet Review
While I talked about this in the launch article, the SHIELD Tablet is very much the culmination of lessons learned from 2013. While the Tegra Note 7 was a...
175 by Joshua Ho on 7/29/2014
First Look: The $799 Microsoft Surface Pro 3 with Core i3
Earlier this Summer Microsoft released Surface Pro 3, a fully equipped Haswell ULT based tablet in a chassis that was much more in line with what you'd expect from...
113 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 7/23/2014
NVIDIA Launches Shield Tablet
Today, NVIDIA is announcing the Shield tablet. While normally such launch announcements don’t require much in the way of exposition, NVIDIA is in an odd place. Last year, the...
107 by Joshua Ho on 7/22/2014
Manual Camera Controls and RAW in Android L
For those that have followed the state of camera software in AOSP and Google Camera in general, it’s been quite clear that this portion of the experience has been...
32 by Joshua Ho on 7/20/2014
A Closer Look at Android RunTime (ART) in Android L
With the latest I/O conference, Google has finally publicly made public its plans for its new runtime on Android. The Android RunTime, ART, is the successor and replacement for...
137 by Andrei Frumusanu on 7/1/2014
Google IO 2014 Day 1 Recap Video
I just got back from a day at Moscone West listening to Google present updates on Android on nearly all screens. I recorded a brief video recapping some of...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 6/25/2014
Google Reveals Details About Android L at Google IO
Today at Google I/O many of Google's designers and engineers took to the stage to give the world a few previews of the new design and features that will...
22 by Brandon Chester on 6/25/2014
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