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...
HP Chromebook 11 with LTE Arrives at Best Buy, Altair's LTE Modem Inside
We reviewed HP's Chromebook 11 a while back in the WiFi-only variety and found it to be an interesting value play for Chromebooks, even though the Exynos 5250 left...
6 by Brian Klug on 1/15/2014AnandTech Mobile Show at CES 2014 Video Live Now
Earlier this week, Brian and I sat down at recapped some of the recent mobile announcements at CES, as well as other things we'd been working on over the...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/13/2014Lenovo Digital Home, AIOs, etc.
Wrapping up the tour of Lenovo (and by no means capturing everything they had to display, I’m going to keep this short. Lenovo had their latest rendition of their...
1 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2014Lenovo: Yoga, Miix 2, and ThinkPad Tablets; Vibe Z and K900 Smartphones
Moving along in our Lenovo coverage, there were a couple of smartphones as well as quite a few tablets on display. The Yoga Tablet 8 and 10 promise up...
11 by Jarred Walton on 1/10/2014Audience Announces its Fourth Generation Voice Processor - eS700 Series
We've been covering and tracking ambient noise reduction technologies in smartphones for a while now, and one of the players in that space, Audience, is announcing its fourth generation...
4 by Brian Klug on 1/6/2014NVIDIA Tegra K1 Preview & Architecture Analysis
NVIDIA has taken to using CES as its platform for launching members of its Tegra mobile SoC family. This year was no different as it shifted branding a bit...
88 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/6/2014NVIDIA Announces Tegra K1 SoC with Optional Denver CPU Cores
At its CES press conference, NVIDIA finally revealed the marketing name for Project Logan - NVIDIA's latest mobile SoC: Tegra K1. NVIDIA hasn't said much about the architectural details...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/5/2014Best Tablets - Holiday 2013
We've covered quite a few laptop options last week for those looking for something mobile for the holiday season, but one area we haven't touched on yet is tablet...
108 by Jarred Walton on 12/19/2013Google Play Edition LG G Pad 8.3, Sony Z Ultra, White Nexus 7 Announced
Today Google dropped by news of three new products hitting the Google Play store's device section, Google Play editions of LG's G Pad 8.3 and Sony's Xperia Z Ultra...
39 by Brian Klug on 12/10/2013Smartphone Audio Quality Testing
We spend a lot of time watching and listening to our smartphones and tablets. The younger you are the more likely you are to turn to them for watching...
188 by Chris Heinonen on 12/8/2013Futuremark Begins Delisting "Cheating" Mobile Devices from 3DMark Database
Over the summer, following a tip from @AndreiF7, we documented an interesting behavior on the Exynos 5 Octa versions of Samsung's Galaxy S 4. Upon detecting certain benchmarks the...
46 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/26/2013Qualcomm's Snapdragon 805: 2.5GHz, 128-bit Memory Interface, D3D11-class Graphics & More
Qualcomm has had an incredible year. It wasn’t too long ago that I was complaining about Qualcomm’s release cadence, the lull between Scorpion and Krait allowed competitors like NVIDIA...
105 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/22/2013iPad mini with Retina Display: LTE Hotspot Battery Life
As I promised in our iPad mini with Retina Display review, I put the new mini through our LTE hotspot battery life test. As connected tablets are effectively smartphones...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/22/2013Qualcomm Atheros Announces New Internet Processor Category - IPQ8064 and IPQ8062
Today Qualcomm Atheros is announcing two new products and an entirely new category on its roadmap, the Internet Processor, prefixed IPQ (Internet Processor Qualcomm). The two new SoCs are...
22 by Brian Klug on 11/20/2013Apple iPad mini with Retina Display: Reviewed
I suppose there’s only one way to start this review, and that’s by looking back at last year’s iPad mini review. In that review I had a section dedicated...
349 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/16/2013Android 4.4 Factory Images Now Available for Nexus 4, 7 (2012 and 2013), and 10
Although Google started its official rollout of Android 4.4 KitKat over the air updates to Nexus devices a few days ago, it always takes days or weeks before the...
33 by Brian Klug on 11/14/2013NVIDIA Tegra Note 7 Review
NVIDIA has been doing something interesting of late by making and releasing its own devices with Tegra SoCs inside. We first saw Shield, a handheld gaming console with Tegra...
87 by Brian Klug on 11/12/2013Qualcomm's Modem Workshop - Lots of Comparisons
Last year Qualcomm flew me out to their San Diego headquarters to talk about modems and transceivers, and what ended up being of the biggest public disclosures made from...
18 by Brian Klug on 11/8/2013Microsoft Surface Pro 2 Firmware Update Improves Battery Life
Shortly after general availability of the Surface Pro 2, Microsoft pushed out a firmware update that allowed the Marvell WiFi solution to drive down to even lower power states...
63 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/2/2013iPad Air Delivers 24 Hours of Battery Life as LTE Hotspot
A year ago during my review of the LTE iPad 3 I decided to find out how long the iPad would last as a personal hotspot. With the display...
56 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/2/2013