Tablets
Minisforum has formally announced its V3, one of the industry's first AMD Ryzen 7 8840U-based hybrid PCs that can serve as a tablet, a laptop, and an external display, which is why the company positions it as a '3-in-1' system. As the machine packs an eight-core CPU, it may offer the performance of some mid-range laptops. Meanwhile, despite being a 'tablet,' it has two USB4 ports and an SD card reader, a rare feature for this class of devices. The Minisforum V3 is closer to a classic laptop than a tablet, but this happens often. The system features a 14-inch detachable multitouch display with a 2560×1600 resolution, a 500 nits brightness, a 165 Hz refresh rate (which will undoubtedly be appreciated by gamers), and a...
Acer Iconia W510 and W700 Hands On at IDF
Intel had Acer W510 (Clover Trail/Atom based) and a W700 (Ivy Bridge based) Windows 8 tablets in its private press demo room at IDF. Both devices are featured in...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/11/2012Google's Eric Schmidt: 1.3M Android Device Activations Per Day, 480M Android Devices in the Market
Some data from Google at today's Motorola On Display event: There are now 1.3M Android device activations per day, as of today. About 70,000 of those device activations per day...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/5/2012Sony Xperia Tablet S: A Tablet and Universal Remote Rolled Into One
The Android tablet market is getting decidedly crowded, with dozens of different offerings from big and small companies alike, in sizes from 5” to 13.3”. How do you make...
16 by Jarred Walton on 8/31/2012Samsung Reveals Additional Details on Series 5 and 7 Slates and Ultrabooks
Along with their ATIV, Smartphone, and Series 9 coverage and their Galaxy Note II, Samsung has released additional details for several upcoming Windows 8 Ultrabooks and Slates. The Series...
18 by Jarred Walton on 8/31/2012Toshiba Excite 7.7 Tablet Review: AMOLED in a Fun Size
While Toshiba's tablets so far haven't been necessarily bad, like most Android tablets they just haven't really set the world on fire. The only breakthroughs in this market seem...
50 by Dustin Sklavos on 8/29/2012Unreal Engine 3 Running on ASUS' Vivo Tab RT
NVIDIA proudly announced today that Epic Games ported the UE3 powered Epic Citadel demo to Windows RT, and showed it running on ASUS' Vivo Tab RT. The Citadel demo...
20 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/29/2012ASUS' Vivo Tab & Vivo Tab RT: Windows 8/RT Tablets Renamed
At Computex this year ASUS unveiled its Windows 8 and RT tablets in a surprisingly mature state. At their introduction ASUS simply named them the Tablet 810 and Tablet...
8 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/29/2012The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 2
We're back! After a false start last week, we have our second podcast. This week Brian Klug, Ryan Smith and myself discussed Thunderbolt, Quick Sync in OS X, Windows...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/28/2012Qualcomm's APQ8064 and GLBenchmark 2.5 - MDP/T Results
A month ago Qualcomm invited us to play with their latest mobile development platform, the APQ8064 based MDP/T. For those of you who have trouble following Qualcomm's naming scheme...
9 by Brian Klug & Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/24/2012The Archos 101 XS Review: Prettier, Faster, So Much Better
We looked at the Archos G9 Turbo devices just a few months ago, and came away . . . impressed. Lofty promises of being “the world’s fastest tablets” haunted...
44 by Jason Inofuentes on 8/22/2012Synaptics Talks In-Cell Touch & The Value of a Good Touch Controller
After Rick Bergman left AMD, a few familiar faces joined him at his new home Synaptics. Godfrey Cheng joined not too long after Bergman's departure as Synaptics' VP of...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/17/2012Live from Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 Launch
We just sat down at Samsung's Galaxy Note 10.1 US launch event. First announced at Mobile World Congress earlier this year, the Galaxy Note 10.1 brings Samsung's Note brand...
43 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/15/2012Microsoft Reveals First Battery Life Specs for Windows RT Tablets
Yesterday Microsoft announced the final roster for ARM based Windows RT tablets expected to launch this year. We'll see Windows RT tablets from ASUS, Dell, Lenovo and Samsung, as...
18 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/14/2012Samsung Announces A15/Mali-T604 Based Exynos 5 Dual
Yesterday Samsung officially announced what we all knew was coming: the Exynos 5 Dual. Due to start shipping sometime between the end of the year and early next year...
36 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/10/2012NVIDIA Q2 FY13 Earnings Report: $1.04B Revenue, Tegra Sales Recover
I don't normally comment on earning's calls, but this is something I've been talking a lot about in meetings offline so I decided to write up a short post...
14 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/10/2012Apple Releases iOS 6 Beta 4, Removes YouTube.app
Earlier today, Apple released iOS 6 Beta 4 to iOS developers, moving the new iOS release one step closer to launch. The update is available for previous iOS 6...
19 by Brian Klug on 8/6/2012ARM Announces 8-core 2nd Gen Mali-T600 GPUs
In our discrete GPU reviews for the desktop we've often noticed the tradeoff between graphics and compute performance in GPU architectures. Generally speaking, when a GPU is designed for...
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/6/2012Anand Chandrasekher Joins Qualcomm
Qualcomm has been on a hiring roll lately. Not only did it scoop up AMD's Eric Demers, but today Qualcomm announced that Anand Chandrasekher would be joining as CMO...
10 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/6/2012The 16GB Nexus 7: Storage Performance
For the first time, in our Nexus 7 review, I started seriously looking at integrated storage performance of tablets and smartphones. I've casually done this in the past, but...
16 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 8/1/2012GLBenchmark 2.5 Performance on iOS and Android Devices
Earlier today we published our first results using GLBenchmark 2.5, the long awaited update to one of our most frequently used mobile GPU benchmarks. In our first article we...
58 by Anand Lal Shimpi & Brian Klug on 7/31/2012