If you’ve bought a tablet or 2-in-1 during the last 10 years, chances are that the memory storage unit comes from either Samsung or Toshiba. This week Toshiba announced their faster new NVMe XG6-P SSD memory with a rated 30% higher write bandwidth. That level of speed increase is significant particularly if your are running tasks that frequently reads or writes data from the memory storage unit, or if you … more…
GSMArena notes that a site called IndiaShopps have noticed that the first photos of the Huawei MediaPad M6 have been published among other Huawei gear at the retailer JD.com. The name of the tablet is even printed In Chinese alongside the upcoming new tablet, and it shows one design change on the Huawei MediaPad M6 8.4 with the removal of the front home button compared to the predecessor. Main specs … more…
Great news this week for owners of the Samsung Galaxy Tab S3, as the Android 9.0 Pie update have been officially certified for the S3 tablet through the official Wi-Fi body. Samsung Galaxy Tab S3 is Samsung’s flagship S-series 9.7-inch Android tablet with digitizer and keyboard cover, launched in 2017, before the S-series grew to 10.5 inches with the other Android 9.0 tablets, Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 and Samsung Galaxy … more…
A new Amazon Echo Show 5 smart display was announced today, for a price of $89. It will be released next month on June 26: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07HZLHPKP/ The Echo Show 5 unit is relatively small, with a screen like a 5.5-inch smartphone, only with speaker and stand in the rear. Amazon have also introduced a physical camera shutter that acts as a privacy feature, placed just above the camera, just like … more…
HP used the COMPUTEX 2019 to announce the HP Elite x2 G4, their Surface Book 2 rival, which will be released in August with an entry price of $1499. The G4 in the model name stands for generation 4, and the new model gets one totally new feature which is the optional folio cover keyboard in leather. The metal keyboard will still be available too though, as this a Windows … more…
Lenovo and Qualcomm jointly announced Lenovo’s first 5G laptop at COMPUTEX 19 today, and they call it Project Limitless. The information provided on the specs today can not be called limitless though, as Project Limitless is only specified as running a Qualcomm Snapdragon X55 5G modem. Also, Lenovo knows that their laptop may not be the first 5G laptop on the market, so while they called it the world’s first … more…
The shock effect after Asus announced its first ZenBook with a screen in the touchpad/trackpad may have settled, but Asus created quite the reaction today when they went even further in this field with the successors. Asus unveiled both a new ZenBook Duo and a ZenBook Pro Duo, both of which features a secondary screen. The Asus ZenBook Pro Duo (UX581) will probably stand to become the most unique Windows … more…
Asus has had a steady commitment to its portable monitors for many years now, and at COMPUTEX 2019 today they announced the latest development in this category with the Asus ZenScreen Touch. So not only is it a 15.6-inch portable monitor you can use with tablets, smartphones, laptops, and some other devices, but this is now also a touchscreen with its own built-in 7800 mAh battery too. Asus ZenScreen Touch … more…
Some of the best tablets on the market are on sale now in May around the May 27th memorial day in the US, with discounts of up to just above $200. So here’s an update on the best May tablet deals. Microsoft Surface Book 2 now starts at a record low $1049 after Microsoft added two Intel Core i5 options during spring. The popular smaller Surface Go is also on … more…
Chuwi has sent out a public update to clarify something on the upcoming 8-inch Windows pocket laptop Chuwi MiniBook we wrote about earlier this week. Chuwi will actually produce two versions of the MiniBook. One is what Chuwi jokingly calls the “deluxe” model with the Intel Core m3 processor, 8GB DDR3 RAM, and M.2 PCIe SSD storage. The other Chuwi MiniBook that will be launched this summer is a cheaper … more…
Teclast have announced the Teclast M89 Pro, a tablet with a more modern processor than the Teclast M89 that was launched in June last year: https://www.gearbest.com/android-tablets/pp_009444807557 The M89 has a MediaTek MT8176 processor, while the new M89 Pro has a deca-core MediaTek MT6797X processor, so it can be a little faster than the predecessor. Other than that they are the same tablets in the same body. For the price, that’s … more…
One of the most interesting mobile computer devices so far in 2019 will launch on June 16, and it’s the the One Mix 3 pocket laptop from One Netbook: https://www.geekbuying.com/item/One-Netbook-One-Mix-3 The Windows 10 operated One Netbook One Mix 3 is available exclusively from Geekbuying ahead of the release on June 16. The juicy main specs are an 8.4-inch screen with 2560 x 1600 resolution and 4096 pressure leve digitizer support. … more…
Someone asked me about the Walmart Onn tablets simply because the launch of the 2019 models have become news, solely because Bloomberg wrote that Walmart was launching these tablets this week and presented it as a scoop. That’s not really the case though. You could actually walk into a Walmart store in Texas 4 weeks ago and pick up one of these Walmart Onn tablets. Not that you would want … more…
Chuwi is getting itself into the hot Windows pocket laptop segment soon, as they will launch their Chuwi MiniBook crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in June. It appears that not everything have been finalized yet, but they should be in time for the funding campaign next month. What’s known about the Chuwi MiniBook specs so far is that it’s an 8-inch Windows laptop with a Full HD 1920 x 1200 resolution … more…
Huawei has several good Android tablets on the market now in Q2 2019 mainly in the 8-inch to 10.8-inch range, and because of that Huawei was the second largest Android tablet manufacturer in the first quarter of this year, only beaten by Samsung. Huawei have come in second place partially because they’ve built great tablets that haven’t cost too much. With 40 000 Huawei tablets sold every day, what will … more…