A rumor among some tech writers got a little out of hand last month after it was claimed by a website that Google was cutting staff in computer hardware development, which led to speculation that Google might drop all tablets and Pixelbooks altogether at some point. But after a recent Google event called Cloud Next…
I’ll be the first to admit that my investigation has been short on today’s scoop, but it may interest a lot of you that there are Google Octopus benchmarks on the internet and that Google Octopus even runs Android 9.0. Power comes in form of a Intel Celeron N4100 processor with variants of 4GB and…
Google announced their latest tablet Google Pixel Slate today during their annual Google product and service event where they also announced the new Pixel 3 smartphones and the new Google Home Hub smart hub. The price of Pixel Slate will be $599 for the tablet, $199 for the keyboard, and $99 for the stylus when…
According to Android Police editor David Ruddock, Google’s upcoming Chrome OS tablet that have previously been referred to by its codename “Nocturne” will be called Google Pixel Slate when it launches in 2 weeks. The first possible pictures of the Google Pixel Slate along with the Brydge keyboard, have been published on About Chromebooks, which…
The 7-inch Google Home Hub is now leaked in the first picture together with the flyers for it. Google Home Hub is presented as a 7-inch tablet with a speaker and power supply attached to the back of it. Specs provided in the flyers specifies dual-band 802.11 b/g/n/ac Wi-Fi, far field mics, full range speaker,…
October is now lined up to become a potential convergence month in tablet launches from the largest names in the industry, as Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon could all launch new tablets in October. It’s been years since we had the largest tablet brands launch major tablets within days and weeks of each other. Some…
Google haven’t launched a new tablet since their 2-in-1 Android tablet Pixelbook C back in September 2015, but based on some probable third party leaks from peripheral computer manufacturers, there’s evidence to suggest that new Google tablets and 2-in-1 tablets may show up at their October 9 event alongside their new Pixel 3 phone, smart…
Nikkei Asian Review has been in touch with sources in the supply chain who claims that Google is copying smart displays like Amazon Echo Show and the 8-inch and 10-inch Lenovo Smart Displays. And despite Amazon and Lenovo having what would be considered mid-level sales of these types of smart display devices, Google is said…
An old Motorola patent for a foldable tablet phone has hit the news and gained press coverage the last few days, though the patent sketches reveals less than the actual real picture of the tablet already does. The story first originated from the Dutch site nl.letsgodigital.org, where the sketches shows the tablet with a tablet…
HP announced the first Chrome OS 2-in-1 tablet today called HP Chromebook x2. HP says that they expect to launch the Chromebook x2 on June 10 from $599: https://www.amazon.com/HP-x2-2-Chromebook-M3-7Y30-4GB/dp/B07D6FN5RJ/ Specs are a little mixed for a Chromebook, with the Chromebook x2 featuring a 12.3-inch screen with 2400 x 1600 resolution with digitizer and Gorilla Glass…
Google Pixel C was the first tablet to be updated to Android 8.0 back in August and now a even newer update can be tested out, as James Sanders of Android Police notes that with the Android 8.1 Developer preview 2, the Pixel C tablet or 2-in-1 is getting the launcher feature found on Pixel…
The Chromebook app CrossOver Chrome OS in beta, was officially launched for regular download on Google Play yesterday, and it is one of these software that enables you to run apps from a different OS than the one you are running on your computer. And in this case, to run Windows apps on a Chromebook….
Google launched the 12.3-inch Google Pixelbook last week on October 4, a Chromebook notebook with 7th gen. Intel Core i5 and i7 processor options, with a form factor for this notebook being a revolving laptop, but not a 2-in-1 tablet. The only 2-in-1 tablet from Google so far has been the 10.2-inch Google Pixel C…
On November 9 last year, a stealthy device called Google Kevin was leaked for the first time, with what would be slightly above entry level specs and performance if it had been a tablet. Since then, the hexa-core Google Kevin have been benchmark tested regularly, achieving single-core scores of around 1200, and multi-core scores of…
Samsung and Google announced the next generation Chromebooks together at CES in Las Vegas, with the Samsung Chromebook Plus and Samsung Chromebook Pro, and now the cheapest of the new Chromebooks is available for order ahead of the February 12 Samsung Chromebook Plus release date. The Samsung Chromebook Plus pre-order price is $449: https://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Electronics-XE513C24-K01US-Chromebook-Touch-Screen/ So…
Google Kevin has been benchmarked during the US presidential election day, which of course makes it all the more interesting. There are no guarantees that the Google Kevin is a “Chromium” or any other form of Android or Chromebook, but Google Kevin was benchmarked with the same Mali-T860 GPU as the Samsung Chromebook Pro also…