We’ve seen secondary companion monitors before, but the Cinq puts a twist on the system by attaching to the side of a laptop screen. It can hang vertically or stick out horizontally. It also comes with a stand to let it sit on the desk and has an SD card reader built in. 10.1″ LCD [...]
Got to break some things at CES today: little pieces of glass (in plastic sleeves to keep pieces from flying everywhere). It was a test of other, weaker pieces of glass compared to all-mighty Gorilla Glass, the best kept secret in mobile technology. How secret is it? If you have a Droid, you’re protected by [...]
Lot of activity around the Alex eReader from Spring Design today. I was invited over to check it out, along with offerings from several other vendors, at a luncheon. Before I could get there, I was hit with the official press release (posted in full after the jump). It’s a dual-screen system running Android, similar [...]
Intel showed off a couple of smartphones running the next-gen Intel Atom processor, a.k.a. Moorestown, at their keynote. The first was a reference design from Aava that rocked multi-point video conferencing, showing two other callers on its screen. Looked great. Closer to release, later this year if it stays on track, is the phone from [...]
Several folks around CES2010 today have taken a look at the concept dual screen Tablet from MSI, makers of the Wind. Josh from sister blog, Notebooks.com took a look here. All have walked away saying that it was interesting and repeating the PR mantra that this is a concept with no plans of heading to [...]
My mobile blogging today did a number on my iPhone battery and AA backups. Didn’t think it would make it through the day, but it did. Still, I set up my system so I wouldn’t have to worry about that. Thus, I was glad to meet up with folks at PowerGenix and their nickel-zinc batteries [...]
Tonight at the Intel keynote, one of the major announcements was an app store for netbooks, called AppUp, covered by Amy at Notebooks.com. This is the second app store system announced at CES, following Samsung. Puts new major players in the growing arena of app stores. More interestingly, they’re not major players in the software [...]
Moving faster than I can blog. Dell’s official CES press release after the jump. Lot of notebooks, just a brief mention of the little tablet and Mini 3 smartphone. Hot item is the Alienware M11x, an 11″ gaming laptop that can switch from high performance to low-powered graphics with the press of a button. Promises [...]
I just got back from a meeting with HP and got to take a brief look at the TouchSmart tm2 convertible. Warner ran through the specs in an earlier post and posted a few photos that HP provided. Those photos don’t do the computer justice though. HP’s killed the shiny black plastic and replaced it [...]
The GottaBeMobile & Netbooks.com team is on the scene at the Intel keynote at CES. Place is filing in rapidly. No video recording during the event, but Xavier has us covered with photos and Amy & Josh are splitting content duties. I’ll be taking notes on my tablet and commenting later. Hope to see something [...]
HP is offering the HP ENVY 13″ Notebook for $1,499 including free shipping. The discount is being called the lowest price on the HP ENVY 13 by LogicBuy. The HP Envy 13 comes with a Core 2 Duo processor, 250GB hard drive and 512MB Mobility Radeon HD 4330 graphics processor. Visit LogicBuy for more information.
AT&T released, to quite a bit of mockery, an App (Mark the Spot, iTunes link) for the iPhone that let customers mark and report connectivity issues and now it appears that other smartphone platforms (RIM, WinMo, Android) will be getting a similar App thanks to Root Wireless.
Palm, last year’s big news maker at CES, announced that it will indeed bring the Pre and the Pixi to Verizon beginning January 25. Perhaps that will be a plus for Palm as the buzz over the Pre had started to swiftly fade. New but similar devices will be called the Pre Plus and the [...]
According to TechCrunch, the HP Slate that Steve Ballmer held up during the CES2010 keynote isn’t the only HP Slate in the stable. Apparently there is one very similar to it, only running Google’s Android OS instead of Windows 7. As Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch notes that could be very interesting indeed for those who [...]
Got a chance to play with the Dell Mini 3, their Dell Android smartphone. Quite a compelling little device. Great feel to it. Lighter and thinner than the iPhone but still a sturdiness to it. Not able to get any details on specs for the U.S. model since they’re waiting on AT&T to make that [...]
Below are some press pictures of the Dell Slate concept Sumocat was talking about. Some say it may be called the Streak.
IAdmittedly it would be tough to make a less exciting state tablet announcement than last night’s, but Dell offered a good show for their slate tablet. It’s a 5″ unit running Dell Android. And that’s about all we know. There was a short concept Video showing some amazing sharing and collaboration features, such as a [...]
Yikes! Plastic Logic is unveiling its QUE eBook Reader at CES2010, trying to position it as business class device calling it a “paperless briefcase.” Well the initial pricing certainly is aiming at a class of individuals used to writing off expenses. Try a whopping $800 for a 8GB version. A 4GB version is $649. Now [...]
Dell has a great spread for CES. Took a tour before their big unveiling. Got my hands on their Mini 3 smartphone running Dell Android and grafitti’d an all-in-one. And there was indeed a slate tablet unveiled. Fair warning: more showy than the previous one but about as substantive.
Why is everyone all of a sudden (within the last 9 months or so) excited about Tablets? Why is CES 2010 filled with Tablets everywhere? Those questions puzzle me, especially in light of the fact that every mention of Tablets is followed by a pretty powerful question: what’s the market for these things? That question [...]
Using my restless sleeping to my advantage this morning. Got off to an early start and headed to The Palms for a Dell event. Quite a ways from the convention center and the other hotels have been massive mazes, so I wasn’t taking chances on this. Turns out the meeting area is straight in, so [...]
I’m not sure why I’m interested in this, but I am. Tunebug is made by Silicon Valley Global and it takes any Bluetooth enabled MP3 player and allows you to stream the music to any surface you lay the TuneBug on. Hype is about making is work with cycle helmets and the like, but if [...]
Apple looks to be rolling out a service that allows browser based previewing of music. That comes as no surprise after the Lala purchase recently. The idea is that you can preview 30 seconds of a song in your browser, if you want to buy it, a click takes you to iTunes and, well, you [...]
We all know how much those of us on the GBM Team love the MiFi card from Novatel that both Sprint and Verizon carry. It allows for multiple connections when the service is available and makes mobile computing possible, again when service is available. (From the looks of this GBM video Verizon is doing better [...]
A slow but building trend over the last few years has been the move to wireless charging of devices. We’ve seen these devices slowly start making it to market but there hasn’t been mass acceptance yet, although you can say that Palm made some noise about it with the charging dock for the Palm Pre.
Whoever organized press day at CES forgot to order up a room big enough to accommodate most of the writers attending the event. There wasn’t nearly enough tables or chairs, which meant most people ended up working on the carpeted floor of the Venetian Hotel’s hallways. Here’s a quick look at which devices people were [...]
I showed Nicole Scott from NetbookNews.com what I packed in my ScottEVest to help me cover the show. The ScottEVest Tropical Jacket/Vest can hold a ton of gear and it’s a real back saver.
I spotted a reporter shooting video with the OWLE Bubo tonight at CES 2010. The device improves the quality of videos shot with the iPhone 3GS thanks to a wide-angle lens and microphone. The OWLE Bubo allows users to grasp a firmer grip than just holding an iPhone 3GS at arm’s length, reducing camera shake [...]
All that fanfare and the epic HP slate tablet was demoed for all of 20 seconds and just to see the Kindle app in action. No name, no date, no reason to get excited. They could have run the same demo with any number of existing slates, including the TC1100, albeit without the multi-touch, but [...]
Samsung started their press conference today talking about 3D TV, much like Toshiba did. But where Toshiba put all their bets on one ultimate TV, Samsung showcased their entire line, including a new app market to serve everything from handheld mobiles to massive TVs, a music player with a transparent display for backside control, and [...]
I don’t think this has been revealed on stage at CES2010 yet based on the live blog of the Ballmer Keynote, but this is supposedly a video of the HP Slate that will be unveiled. Here’s a picture. Obviously a rendering. Link here. With more from Engadget after the jump.
Will Microsoft CEO unveil a new slate tablet from HP? Will spend the hour raving about the awesomeness of Windows 7? Will some nutjob charge the stage and get tasered, fulfilling one item from his list of things to do in Vegas? It’s anyone’s guess as I liveblog from the event. Details after the jump.
Our team members covering CES 2010 live from Las Vegas are all wearing various ScottEVests to carry and organize the piles of gadgets we’re using this week. Sumocat and I are wearing the SeV Tropical Jacket/Vest, Amy is wearing the Ladies Essential Travel Jacket and Josh is wearing the Fleece 5.0. If you want your [...]
Toshiba, being a major Tablet PC vendor, was a must-see on my press conference list. Nothing new presented in that area. Rather their focus was on TV, more specifically the CELL TV, the most powerful TV ever made. No, there’s nothing terribly mobile about a 50″ TV, but it could be the most powerful computer [...]
I just ran into Steve “Chippy” Paine of UMPCPortal and Sascha Pallenberg of NetbookNews in the hallway at CES 2010. These two guys are really fun to hang out with. Unlike Warner, they haven’t even started drinking yet. I wonder what they’ll look like when we go our for a beer or ten.
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