As spring reaches full blossom, it’s not just the flowers that are beginning to show — so are the new slates heavy hitters teased back at CES.
Which devices have Ice Cream Sandwich?
It’s mid-May — do you know where your Ice Cream Sandwich update is? Six months after Android 4.0 made its debut on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus , millions of owners of legacy Android devices are still anxiously awaiting the day the new firmware gets downloaded on their own electronic real estate. At least the scene today is much more pleasant than it was just a few months ago, as ICS is finally rolling out to several popular devices.
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Which devices have Ice Cream Sandwich?
Editorial: Thin laptops are the new mainstream, but what about battery life?
Bandwagons, trains and Tranes. Can’t say that these three have a heck of a lot in common in most regards, but one thing’s for sure: trying to stop this trio would be a Herculean task
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Editorial: Thin laptops are the new mainstream, but what about battery life?
ASUS PadFone gets benchmarked: a mere teaser of what’s to come
It was only last week that we learned of the varied battery life of ASUS’ phone that would be a tablet that would be a laptop . Now, a further trickle of its performance might has passed our way, giving us insight into the real-world chops of its dual-core S4 processor and companion Adreno 225 GPU.
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ASUS PadFone gets benchmarked: a mere teaser of what’s to come
AMD reveals Trinity specs, claims to beat Intel on price, multimedia, gaming
Itching for the details of AMD’s latest Accelerated Processing Units (APUs)? Then get ready to scratch: Trinity has arrived and, as of today, it’s ready to start powering the next generation of low-power ultra-portables, laptops and desktops that, erm, don’t run Intel. The new architecture boasts up to double the performance-per-watt of last year’s immensely popular Llano APUs, with improved “discrete-class” integrated graphics and without added to the burden on battery life.
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ASUS teases mystery product on its Facebook page (update: it’s a 3D Blu-ray writer!)
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ASUS teases mystery product on its Facebook page (update: it’s a 3D Blu-ray writer!)
ASUS PadFone’s real world battery life: 14.1 hours of 3G browsing in laptop mode
Since the official launch at MWC, ASUS has been mum on how many hours its upcoming PadFone can stay on the treadmill for, but earlier today, we spotted an official promotional video — which has since been removed from ASUS’s YouTube channel — that mentioned 16 hours of battery for the phone itself, 63 for tablet mode and 102 for laptop mode.
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ASUS PadFone’s real world battery life: 14.1 hours of 3G browsing in laptop mode
ASUS Zenbook UX32VD unveiled, packs discrete graphics to flaunt that 1080p screen
New high-resolution Zenbooks are on their way , but ASUS has now revealed another addition that’s packing its own discrete graphics. Like its recently unveiled siblings, the Zenbook UX32VD still packs a 1920 x 1080 IPS panel and “the latest Intel Core processor” — likely something from the Ivy Bridge family, although ASUS is keeping schtum on the details for now.
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ASUS Zenbook UX32VD unveiled, packs discrete graphics to flaunt that 1080p screen
New promo video for ASUS N-Series Notebooks makes us want to hug it out
Nothing stokes the emotional coals like slow-mo drops of water and orchestral strings. That’s at least what the team behind this ASUS promo video seem to think
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New promo video for ASUS N-Series Notebooks makes us want to hug it out
ASUS Zenbook Primes with 1080p IPS panels and (probably) Ivy Bridge are real, coming to Taiwan in June
We’ve already seen spec sheets suggesting that ASUS’s 11.6-inch and 13.3-inch Zenbooks are being fattened up for a major update, but now Engadget Chinese has glimpsed the new devices in their cold aluminum flesh. Tentatively called Zenbook Primes, or the UX21A and UX31A respectively, they both have 1920 x 1080 IPS panels with a matte finish and excellent viewing angles (please, ignore the dumb 1024 x 768 screen-saver in the pic, it doesn’t do it justice). Judging from the fact that ASUS refused to let us go hands-on in case we identify the internals, we can be pretty confident that these beauties are running on next-gen ULV Ivy Bridge processors, which — unlike their more powerful brethren — have yet to be formally announced.
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ASUS Zenbook Primes with 1080p IPS panels and (probably) Ivy Bridge are real, coming to Taiwan in June











