Archos 70b IT Arrives with Honeycomb for $200
In our review of the Kindle Fire, we called it the best $199 tablet on the market, but Archos has given us a reason to reconsider that statement with...
12 by Vivek Gowri on 1/4/2012
Quanta Sues AMD For Faulty Laptop Chips
Quanta Computer, a Taiwanese company that manufactures laptops for HP, Dell, Acer, and others, is suing AMD for an alleged breach of contract, claiming that AMD chips used in...
12 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/4/2012
HP Omni27 All-In-One, Pavilion HPE Phoenix h9 Gaming PC Shipping January 8
HP has announced two desktop PCs for the United States ahead of CES next week: the Omni27, a 27" all-in-one that follows the general design of the TouchSmart lineup...
6 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/4/2012
Thunderbolt Goes Universal in H1'12
Thunderbolt initially launched in February when Apple updated the MacBook Pro, but since then the technology has been an Apple exclusive. The understanding was that Thunderbolt would be a...
25 by Kristian Vättö on 1/4/2012
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime Teardown
In researching for my piece on the Transformer Prime's GPS issue I needed to know the location of the GPS antenna inside the Transformer Prime. Given the limited supply...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/4/2012
ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime GPS Issue Explained
An Apology Over the past couple of weeks I've received emails and tweets asking me to look into GPS performance issues with ASUS' Eee Pad Transformer Prime. By the...
67 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/4/2012
ASUS to Issue Bootloader Unlock Tool for Transformer Prime, ICS Update Due January 12
In response to criticism from the modding and open-source communities, ASUS announced today that it would be issuing a bootloader unlock tool for its new Eee Pad Transformer Prime...
13 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/3/2012
Samsung Galaxy Note Gets ICS-based CyanogenMod 9 Build
Work on CyanogenMod 9 continues: yesterday saw the release of an experimental development build for the Samsung Galaxy Note, the first port of the new Ice Cream Sandwich-based OS...
6 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/3/2012
All BlackBerry PlayBook Models On Sale for $299
Research in Motion's BlackBerry PlayBook tablet (read our review) is now on sale for $299 in the BlackBerry Store, a price which applies to the 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB...
12 by Andrew Cunningham on 1/3/2012
Unofficial HTC Super Tool Roots, Unlocks and de-Senses
Brian covered HTC's web-based bootloader unlocking tool previously, and while their efforts are commendable, the limited phone seleciton was frustrating. Frustrating enough that xda developers user frigid opted to...
6 by Jason Inofuentes on 12/28/2011
LG Lays Out Android 4.0 Timeline
Another week, another release regarding Ice Cream Sandwich by another manufacturer. This week, LG announces their first group of phones will be updated sometime in Q2 of 2012. This...
15 by Jason Inofuentes on 12/28/2011
Intel's Atom N2600, N2800 & D2700: Cedar Trail, The Heart of the 2012 Netbook
Netbooks aren't dead, but they're not quite the hip topic of discussion they were a few years ago. The focus on cost conscious computing hasn't changed since the introduction...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/28/2011
Mobile Game Roundup: Dragon Fantasy, Stay Alive, Spelltower, and Time Ducks
It's that time of the year again - this weekend, many of you without smartphones, iPod, or iPads are likely to get one, and those of you who have...
9 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/22/2011RightWare Launches Basemark ES 2.0 Taiji Free for Android, iOS
For a while now we've been using Basemark ES 2.0 in our smartphone reviews and SoC discussions to gauge OpenGL ES performance. For end users however, getting the same...
19 by Brian Klug on 12/22/2011
The Radeon HD 7970 Recap
AMD originally told us that we'd have until January 9th to put together our review of the Radeon HD 7970. For a brand new GPU architecture, about three weeks...
12 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/22/2011
Sandy Bridge E & X79 PCIe 3.0: It Works
At the launch of Intel's LGA-2011 based Sandy Bridge E CPU we finally had a platform capable of supporting PCI Express 3.0, but we lacked GPUs to test it...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/22/2011
Intel Shows Off Competitive Medfield x86 Android Power & Performance
You may have seen some Medfield related news today - I thought I'd chime in with some of my thoughts on the topic. As a recap, in 2008 Intel...
39 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/21/2011
Firefox 9 Released, Brings JavaScript Speed Improvements
Mozilla is in the process of pushing Firefox 9 out to users on its release channel, about six weeks after the release of Firefox 8. The major stated improvement...
34 by Andrew Cunningham on 12/21/2011
Apple Acquires Anobit: Bringing NAND Endurance Technology In-House
I'd seen speculation that Apple was going to drop $500M on Anobit over the past few weeks. Ars Technica also published a piece believing the acquisition to be true...
30 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/21/2011
AMD Intros New Unlocked K-Series Llano APUs: A8-3870K & A8-3670K
When we first reviewed Llano we thought it was a fairly competent desktop part if you needed a solution that didn't rely on discrete graphics. My biggest issue with...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/20/2011
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