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by Michael Fisher | November 7, 2012 1:20 PM
Read OnYou know the drill: another week, another overload of tech news for three geeky guys to talk about. On this exiciting episode of the Pocketnow Weekly, though, things are a little different: in addition to the usual news from the three big mobile platforms, Michael, Anton, and Joe discuss issues of major import for the industry in our broadcast's new preshow segment. Today's "Thought Thread" covers the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and its impact on smartphones and tablets, as well as a little invention called CommBadge that has the potential to bring voice interface back into the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | November 6, 2012 5:05 PMRead OnHow large a battery do you look for in a smartphone? Being able to get though a full day of heavy usage can be tricky for plenty of handsets, but luckily we live in a time when there are more options than ever when it comes to battery capacities. It might have been the arrival of the Droid RAZR Maxx earlier this year that really got us thinking about things in earnest, as it marked a major manufacturer giving its users a clear choice between thin phones and those with jumbo-sized batteries, all other things being equal. While the RAZR Maxx (and now, RAZR Maxx HD) topped-out at 3300mAh, ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | September 19, 2012 3:58 AMRead OnOne of the pleasant surprises at this year's IFA was the cornucopia of Windows 8-powered tablets and each and every one of the x86 flavors was running on an Intel architecture, regardless of the OEM that built the slate. Now it seems that Intel is preparing a rather large Windows 8 event for September 27 in San Francisco, as invites start to pop up. With so many Windows 8 tablets in Berlin it was safe to assume that every manufacturer who wanted to announce and showcase their products did just that. However, Intel promises that there will be speakers from manufacturers like Acer, Asus, ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | August 17, 2012 3:54 AMRead OnThe latest rumors regarding the pricing for Microsoft's Surface tablet talks about models as cheap as $199, competing directly with Google's Nexus 7, a budget tablet aimed at power users and fans of the Nexus brand. According to David Schmoock, head of Lenovo’s North America operations, devices running Windows RT will cost $200 to $300 less than those powered by Windows 8. Windows RT will be compatible with ARM processors while Windows 8 will have Intel and AMD chips at its core. Tablets running Windows 8 will cost $600 to $700, said Schmoock, and Windows RT-based slates ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | August 10, 2012 2:54 AMRead OnLenovo announced the ThinkPad Tablet 2, its first slate specifically designed for Windows 8. Since it is powered by an Intel Atom processor, we're looking at a tablet which is running Windows 8 Pro, after the initial ThinkPad was powered by Google's Android mobile platform. It sports a 10.1-inch screen with 1,366 x 768, pen precision input, Intel Atom processor, two cameras (eight-megapixel at the back, two-megapixel on the front), 3G and 4G capability, NFC, fingerprint reader, and measures 9.8 mm in thickness and less than 600 grams (1.3 pounds) weight. There will also be an ...
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by Stephen Schenck | July 4, 2012 7:44 PMRead OnWhen Microsoft announced its Windows Phone 8 hardware partners last month, it named Nokia, Huawei, Samsung, and HTC, all producing phones running Qualcomm chips. Earlier in the year, though, we heard rumors that some additional companies were looking to produce models for the WP8 launch, including both ASUS and Lenovo, and Lenovo has recently confirmed that work is underway on a WP8 model. Now a new rumor says that Lenovo has been in talks with Microsoft about the idea of making this model a bit of a departure from the standard WP8 Metro UI. Supposedly, a Lenovo team traveled to meet with ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 28, 2012 1:25 PMRead OnLenovo may be experimenting with Intel chips in Androids with its K800, but the company's latest handset to cross our path goes with Samsung chips, instead, running the same Exynos 4 Quad as used in the international Galaxy S III. Lenovo's LePhone K860 will apparently be a five-inch model, pushing the upper limits of handset sizes in the same way as the Galaxy Note. Unlike that model, though, with its 1280 x 800 display, the K860 may go with a 1280 x 720 component. The smaller screen combined with the different display geometry means that the K860 should be nearly a centimeter less wide ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | May 31, 2012 6:55 AMRead OnLenovo was the first to announce an Intel Medfield-Based Android smartphone at this year's CES in January but the Lava Xolo X900 was the first Medfield-based device to reach a market. However, Lenovo is still on track with its LePhone K800 plans as it has been just launched in China, as promised for the end of May. The phone packs a 4.5-inch 720p display, 1.6GHz Intel processor, 1GB of RAM and an eight-megapixel main camera. The Intel chip inside the phone is the Z2460, formerly referred to as the “Medfield”, aided by the Intel XMM 6260 platform chip in order to offer support for HSPA+ ...
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by Stephen Schenck | April 17, 2012 7:22 PMRead OnIntel may be a giant when it comes to PCs, and the company once even made a name for itself with mobile devices, producing chips for old Windows Mobile devices. In the years that followed, we saw a shift in power over to ARM and chips based on its designs. Today, Intel is fixing to get back into the game, and see its chips start being used in upcoming smartphones. We heard earlier this year about a number of such models that would use Intel's Medfield chips. Now, it looks like one is finally about to show up, with Intel mentioning the pending launch of the phone during a call with ...
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by Stephen Schenck | April 9, 2012 7:37 PMRead OnWindows Phone 8 Apollo promises to usher-in some of the most substantial changes to platform hardware that we've seen since the operating system's launch. We've already heard about some of the devices we might hope to expect, but a flutter of rumors that went out by tweet overnight may give us one of the more comprehensive glimpses into the lineup yet, looking at devices from multiple manufacturers and for multiple carriers. Nokia's supposed to be working on an Apollo phone for Verizon that will run a speedy new Snapdragon S4 processor. Though the phone would feature PureView tech, instead ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | April 9, 2012 8:59 AMRead OnWe've seen this tablet mid-last month pop up at the FCC but this time the Lenovo IdeaTab S2109 becomes official, and it borrows its main measurements from the iPad; it packs a 9.7-inch display with a 4:3 aspect ratio. It might not pack a super-duper Retina display-worthy resolution -- it can only do 1024 x 768 -- but it will be powered by a Texas Instruments OMAP processor and 1GB of RAM. A 1.3-megapixel front-facing camera is placed at the front, FM radio inside, and a micro HDMI plus a microSD card slot take care of your connection and expansion. Everything is packed in a 8.9mm thick ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | March 13, 2012 7:05 AMRead OnAccording to recent reports the tablet outlined above has visited the FCC and is none other than the upcoming Lenovo IdeaTab S2109, a tablet running Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. It is reportedly packing a 9.7-inch IPS display with a 4:3 aspect ratio -- a la iPad -- and it is powered by a Texas Instruments OMAP processor. It will also purportedly feature four speakers with SRS technology and, according to sources, it should launch sometime this month, with no exact regions being mentioned though. However, the labels inside the FCC archive mention Germany, Canada, US, India, Russia, ...
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by Legacy | March 6, 2012 11:29 AMRead OnEach morning the sun rises up over the east side of campus; long shadows reach like spindly fingers spanning building to building. As the morning breaks, tens of thousands of students march onto university grounds with heavy backpacks containing laptops, chargers, textbooks, notebooks, folders and more. Pupils walk briskly between classes, run to hand in homework on time, juggle multiple notebooks, and combat the countdown clock on their laptop battery. One would think technology companies would be itching to release a product capable of simplifying this routine, lightening the load, and ...
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by Stephen Schenck | February 17, 2012 4:44 PMRead OnThis year, we'll be seeing Intel-made processors start making a comeback in the smartphone market. Thanks to the CES, we've already had the opportunity to see some of this hardware in action, getting some hands-on time with the Intel-based Lenovo K800. More recently, we learned of Motorola's interest in producing an Android handset also based on Intel silicon. Today we may have another such Intel Android on our hands, supposedly arriving as the London on carrier Orange. Information on the London was first revealed by an Orange subscriber who had been asked to participate in a survey about ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | February 7, 2012 6:19 AMRead OnLenovo will be starting the ThinkPad tablet update process -- to the latest Android 4.x Ice Cream Sandwich platform -- in May, according to recent reports. This goes well with rumors we've previously heard of regarding the tablet, Ice Cream Sandwich, and Q2. Expect to see an update notification for an over-the-air refresh on your ThinkPad tablet sometime in May. The roll-out process will span throughout the entire month and it will bring goodies like Face Unlock, an improved browser, voice input, a faster and more stable overall platform and user experience. Source: Slashgear Via: DroidDog
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