ASUS on Wednesday announced a pair of tablets designed to combine its renowned hardware with Microsoft’s upcoming Windows 8 experience. If ASUS can manage to replicate the beautiful slates it put out running Android, I’d be comfortable in saying these will be ones to watch out for in the coming months. Surface should be shaking in its boots. First up is the ASUS Vivo Tab, a...
HTC has announced the Desire X, the latest addition to its smartphone lineup, at IFA 2012 in Berlin this morning. We had expected the announcement to come after the handset — which was codenamed the HTC Proto — appeared in a number of leaks that surfaced over the past four weeks or so. In addition to a 4-inch 480 x 800 Super LCD display, the Desire X boasts a 1GHz dual-core Snapdragon...
Sony has been impressively bulking up its beautifully designed NEX lineup, and the company on Wednesday announced yet another addition that includes improved autofocus and Wi-Fi connectivity. Dubbed the Sony NEX-5R, following up to 2011’s NEX-5N, the new cam is introducing a “Fast Hybrid” autofocus that promises you’ll never miss a split-second of action ever again. Let’s get the...
I never really thought I'd like a big phone. Then the original Galaxy Note hit the market and changed the smartphone market forever: for the first time (that I can think of) we had a phone with a display that measured more than the standard 3.5 – 4 inch screen. It was a little too big for me at first. I felt kind of goofy trying to make a phone call while holding a 5.3-inch display to...
Sony on Wednesday announced a bonafide GoPro alternative that may just turn the action cam scene on its head. First you need to know that this thing is just $200 a pop — $270 for the Wi-Fi version. The second thing you need to know is that it’s extremely light, weighing in at just three ounces with battery. Third: This thing, at least on paper, is oh-so satisfyingly powerful. I want....
The Sony VAIO Tap 20 will let you enjoy Windows 8 in multiple angles and in all-in-one convenience. With the touchscreen interface in Windows 8, there are going to be a host of new computing scenarios, and the VAIO Tap 20 seems to take a lot of those into consideration. One of the biggest concerns we’ve heard from consumers is how tiresome it may get to use a touchscreen when arranged...
Sony has taken the wraps off of the VAIO Duo 11, a Windows 8-powered tablet hybrid, at IFA 2012. Windows 8 tablets are about to be showing up everywhere, especially ones that will have keyboards along for the haul. The Sony VAIO Duo 11 hasn’t had a price or launch date announced yet, but its looking like a pretty good addition to the VAIO line up. Options will allow you to trick out...
Sony took the official wraps off of the Xperia S Tablet at a press conference at IFA 2012 today. Images of an unknown quad-core Sony tablet have been floating around since earlier this month, and now we have all of the details. The Sony Xperia Tablet S will be available next month running on Ice Cream Sandwich (4.0.3) and powered by an NVIDIA Tegra 3 chip. The 9.4-inch tablet will come...