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by Anton D. Nagy | January 9, 2013 2:00 AMRead OnThe 20-inch monster Panasonic 4K UHD Windows 8 tabletwith a resolution of 3840 × 2160 is not the only tablet announced by the company at this year's CES in Las Vegas. Still Windows 8 but this time the selling point isn't the enormous screen but the words "world's thinnest and lightest" ruggedized tablet (2.4 pounds and 0.75 in thin). The Panasonic Toughpad FZ-G1 runs full fledged Windows 8 and has a 10.1-inch screen with 800 nits of brightness and Full HD 1920 x 1080 resolution. Specs also include a 1.9GHz Intel Core i5-3437U processor Ivy Bridge CPU, 4GB of RAM, and either 128GB or ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 9, 2013 12:00 AMRead OnCellular-connected tablets are great, but if you're not careful, that data plan can end up costing you way more than you ever paid for the hardware in the first place. T-Mobile is interested in giving users a little more comfortable of a way to access its network, and by partnering with some device manufacturers, it's going to start offering some options for completely free cellular data access. With this new 4G Connect program, when you buy a participating device, you'll get up to 200MB a month free T-Mobile data, for up to two years after purchase. If you want more than that, or want the ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 8, 2013 7:25 PMRead OnWindows 8 tablets were all over the CES this year, and with largely similar specs, after a while they tend to blend together. That's not the case for the ASUS ME-400, though, which caught our eye by combining the light weight and slim design of a Windows RT tablet with the software flexibility you only see with Windows 8 Pro. Despite running the full-fledged OS on an Intel Atom processor, the 10-inch ME-400 manages to deliver an RT-level price tag, and will only run you about $500 – that's what Microsoft wants for the Surface RT. That Atom chip means that the ME-400 won't be as brisk to ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 8, 2013 4:42 PMRead OnWe just told you about the stunningly-high-resolution 4K tablet Panasonic unveiled today at the CES. Now we get to spend a little time with the tablet ourselves, and see just what the fuss is all about. The 20-inch prototype sports a massive 3840 × 2160 resolution and runs Windows 8 Pro. It's got a viewing angle of over 170 degrees, and Panasonic envisions it being used by the likes of architects or designers. With a screen this big, though, you've got to expect that battery life will take a hit, and Panasonic says you could hope to get about two hours out of it. The tablet is less than ...
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by Stephen Schenck | January 8, 2013 2:21 PMRead OnWhen it comes to televisions at the CES this year, 4K Ultra HD is king. It seems like every serious TV manufacturer has arrived with some of these incredibly high-res screens to show off, pushing pixel counts well past the now-commonplace 1080p displays. Back when we were covering Sony's press conference last night, we mused that it would probably be some time, if ever, before we saw these same kind of out-of-the-park resolutions come to tablets. It looks like we'll have to eat our words already, as Panasonic just pulled out a 20-inch 4K UHD Windows 8 tablet at its own press event today. ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 8, 2013 3:58 AMRead OnSamsung might have sold a whopping number of 500 handsets per minute in the last quarter of 2012, as we reported yesterday, and today's earnings guidance for the fourth quarter of 2012 issued by the company prefigures yet another record-breaking quarter. The consolidated operating profit is expected to be in the range of 8.6 – 9.0 trillion Korean won, most probably around 8.8 trillion Korean won (8.28 billion U.S. dollars). Consolidated sales for the third quarter of 2012 are at 52.18 trillion Korean won (49.10 billion U.S. dollars) while operating profit is recorded at 8.06 trillion ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 8, 2013 3:45 AMRead OnThe new Lexington platform for mobile devices in emerging markets is not the only thing that came out of Intel's labs at this year's CES. The chip-maker also announced its new line-up of low-power Ivy Bridge processors meant to drive ultrabooks and tablets. Offering five times the performance of the now quite stale NVIDIA Tegra 3, the new processors draw much less power then the current low-power processors, specifically 7 watts instead of 17. The upcoming Lenovo IdeaPad Yoga 11S, shown off at CES, is not the only device that will pack these new processors. Apparently, Microsoft's ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 8, 2013 2:40 AMRead OnThe press is not the only one criticizing Microsoft and its Windows RT platform; a Dell executive tried to warn Steve Ballmer about using the Windows moniker to describe the new RT operating system. On the other end, Acer's President Jim Wong recently defended the Redmond-based company (after criticizing it earlier) just to get its critical hat on again for this year's CES. After unveiling the B1-A71 Android tablet, Wong said that Microsoft is employing a marketing technique for its Surface tablet that is "confusing to consumers". “The promotion of the product is really focused on the ...
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by Anton D. Nagy | January 7, 2013 2:13 PMRead OnThe ASUS Vivo Tab and Vivo Tab RT tablets already in the manufacturer's line-up are being joined today by a new slate, the VivoTab Smart Tablet, running Windows 8 and powered by Intel's AtomZ2760 dual-core processor. Despite a rather lightweight form factor, at 9.7mm thickness and 580gr weight, the battery on the VivoTab Smart Tablet is rated for 9.5 hours of endurance. There's a 10.1-inch LED-backlit IPS screen with HD resolution of 1366 x 768 supporting five-point multi-touch for Windows 8's fingertip control. There's a TranSleeve Keyboard that will be available as an accessory ...
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by Michael Fisher | January 3, 2013 3:26 PMRead OnJust because it's a new year doesn't mean things are changing with the Pocketnow Weekly podcast. We're still shaking up the host roster on occasion, and we're still squeezing more than 90 minutes of discussion out of the mobile-technology news sector, even in the pit of the post-holiday lull. On our first podcast of 2013, Joe Levi joins us to talk Android amid a sea of pre-CES leaks, but not before we dive into a long and detailed discussion about the new mobile version of Ubuntu - a platform we'll learn how to consistently pronounce someday, but not today. We also touch on Sailfish and ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 26, 2012 2:47 PMRead OnA couple weeks back, we learned that Microsoft would be taking steps to dramatically increase the retail presence of its Surface tablet, introducing the product to the shelves of retailers like Staples and Best Buy. Up until then, if you wanted a Surface you had to order online or track down one of Microsoft's own retail locations. In theory, that could have helped Microsoft score some last-minute holiday sales. A report out this week doesn't quite paint that picture, however, and suggests these new retail avenues might not have a huge impact on how the Surface fares. While we don't yet ...
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by Michael Fisher | December 19, 2012 11:45 AMRead OnLast week, we were doing some jawing on the Pocketnow Weekly podcast, debating the merits and pitfalls of the Surface RT. While we've done that on almost every episode of the Weekly since the release of Microsoft's first home-sourced tablet PC, we got more in-depth than usual on last week's episode and I encourage you to check it out. One of the topics we chewed over was that of the Surface RT's actual usability. I remarked that the Surface had so far proven to me more of a novelty than a productivity-enhancer. Despite my feeling that it is indeed a device from the future, I've recently ...
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by Adam Z. Lein | December 19, 2012 10:15 AMRead OnI know what you're thinking… Are you kidding?! They've got tons of apps! Didn't you really mean to say that Windows Phone doesn't have enough apps? That is the general mantra among Windows Phone criticism, but when someone says that, they usually mean that Windows Phone doesn't have a handful of apps that they used on some other device and wasn't able to find on this new device. They didn't actually install hundreds of thousands of available apps to come to that conclusion. Regardless, really I was thinking more about tablets. Apple's iPad certainly has a lot of apps too, but ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 19, 2012 7:04 AMRead OnA couple months back, before Windows Phone 8 had its retail launch, before the Surface RT arrived, our Jaime Rivera took a look at the state of competition in the mobile sector, and made a case for Google and Apple leveraging their current popularity to try and muscle-out Microsoft. Of course, there was always the possibility that Windows 8 and WP8 would go over like gangbusters... but they haven't. And considering what we've seen since, I've got to admit that there are are at least some signs that we could be looking at a concerted effort against Microsoft. Sure enough, Apple and Google ...
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by Stephen Schenck | December 14, 2012 4:27 PMRead OnEver since Microsoft announced its Surface tablets, it's been talking about competitive pricing; before we had official word on the Surface RT and Surface Pro launch prices, we knew the RT would be priced competitively with its tablet brethren, and the Pro would see its own price tag fit in nicely among ultrabook offerings. We've since seen those kind of figures confirmed, but a new hardware tear-down suggests that not only has Microsoft matched its competition's sticker prices, but their mark-ups, as well. Fortune estimates the cost of parts going in to the 32GB Surface RT as adding up to ...
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