In January this year at CES 2012 Acer introduced the 13-inch Aspire S5 ultrabook which costs $1,399. One of the highlights of this slim and light laptop would have to be the MagicFlip I/O Port which is a small motorized door located at the back of the bottom panel that can be opened by a simple touch of a button, exposing a ports & connections block where you will notice the HDMI and Thunderbolt. This […]

The Samsung Galaxy Player 5.0 is an interesting device designed for those that want to try out Google’s operating system but without having to buy a smartphone. This has a large 5.0-inch touchscreen display and runs on Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread. It is powered by a 1.0 single core processor and comes with 8GB of built-in memory which can be expanded up to 32GB via a microSD card. Those of you with small hands will have […]

What can you buy these days for $300? A possible answer to this question would have to be the Pantech Element which is a waterproof eight-inch tablet available at this price tag at AT&T. It is an Android-running tablet that can withstand spills and it offers support for those very fast 4G LTE speeds. For $449 you can buy it without having to sign a two-year contract. The front of the Pantech Element is dominated […]

The first tablet to run on Android Honeycomb was Motorola’s Xoom which although had an attractive user interface, it failed to impress due to its high price tag, bulky design and the choppy performance. A new model coming from the same company is the Droid Xyboard 10.1 which can be considered as a thinner and lighter successor of the Xoom, offering support for Verizon’s 4G LTE, along with universal remote control capabilities and a powerful […]

The Acer Iconia Tab A700 is one of the few tablets on sale today that has a high resolution display which could make it a worthy adversary of Apple’s third-gen iPad which has the gorgeous Retina Display. The new A700 is basically the A510 mode but with a 1,920 x 1,200-pixel resolution display. However, it seems that Acer did not provide additional hardware power for the tablet in order to handle the new high-res display, […]

This week we reviewed the recently introduced Acer Iconia Tab A700 while today we have a look at another tablet from Acer which came out in the first part of the year. It’s the more affordable Iconia Tab A200 model which comes with a dual core CPU unlike the A700 which packs the quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 chip. When it came out it had a retail price tag of $349 but now you should be […]

If you are in the market for a business laptop that has a nondescript design, have a look at the Lenovo ThinkPad T430 which is following the company’s tradition of valuing form over function. As you would expect from a ThinkPad model, the build quality is excellent and the exterior of the laptop is wrapped around in a carbon fiber reinforced plastic that does not show any signs of flex. The lid’s back is a […]

Those of you who have been looking for an affordable Ice Cream Sandwich-running tablet should have a quick look at this Ematic eGlide XL Pro II. Priced at just $174, this is one of the cheapest ICS tablets money can buy right now. It has a 10-inch display and comes with a wide array of ports that some other more expensive tablets don’t have, including a miniHDMI port. However, the tablet is far from being […]

Can this be the first 17-inch ultrabook on sale? Although it isn’t marketed as an ultrabook with a 17-inch, the revised version of the Samsung Series 7 does certainly meet the requirements to fit in this category. It has a starting price of $1,499 and for this money you’ll be getting a quad core Ivy Bridge Intel Core i7 processor and a dedicated GPU from Nvidia, a GeForce 650M, all wrapped in a body which […]

Many people have been eagerly waiting for Google to release its first tablet. Manufactured by Asus, the Nexus 7 has finally arrived and it will go on sale later on this month for just $199 for the 8GB version. This is without any doubt the best 7-inch tablet available right now as it manages to combine great hardware specs with the latest Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS, all wrapped around in an appealing design. Google […]