News type content about announcements or whatnot. Mostly for temporary things.
The Xiaomi POCO F7 Ultra and Pro smartphones have just been announced with their launch scheduled for March 27 and we got our hands on the Ultra version. The new design looks pretty great with the circular camera array housing and a matte finish for the lower part of the phone vs the glossy upper part. Our version is the black model, but the yellow version looks pretty amazing. Stay tuned for a full review, …
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I got to take a look at the new BMW Operating System 9 in some new Mini Countryman and Mini Cooper cars to learn about the new user experience. The most obvious and unique aspect of the Mini brand of BMW OS 9 is the circular screen and interface designed to match the original Mini’s circular center dashboard. Designing and building software for a circular screen certainly is challenging as almost all other touch screen …
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Today Dynabook announces another new laptop computer; this time an updated Portégé X30W-M tablet PC convertible. I’ve been using Windows based tablet PCs and tablet PC convertibles since 2002 when they were first launched with Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, so I always love seeing new Windows tablets come around. This one purportedly even has the excellent Wacom-based stylus pen digitizer technology so that creative drawing programs and note-taking software will work well. Though the …
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A company called Ventiva has created a new type of part for laptop, tablet, and other mobile computing devices that aims to replace the noisy fans that so many computers rely on these days to keep the high performance processors from overheating. Ventiva’s ionic cooling engine is a tiny metal stick about the size of a matchstick that ionizes molecules in order to start air moving in a specific direction. There are 2mm and 5mm …
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The Afeela is a new electric car prototype designed by Sony and Honda. Well, it’s been in the works for a few years, but now we’re finally getting a closer look at the new EV. This is the product of an interesting “half and half” relationship between Sony and Honda, and you’ll see some crazy Playstation integration in the car. There’s not a whole lot we can say about this prototype at the moment though. …
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Today Dynabook announced a new extremely lightweight 855 gram laptop called the Portégé X30L-M; the world’s lightest 13.3-inch premium-performance business laptop. This laptop has a magnesium alloy chassis meeting MIL-STD-810H durability standards. The dark blue color looks great, and the dimensions are 298.8 x 212.0 x 18.7mm | 11.76 x 8.35 x 0.74 in. Yes, it’s lighter than the LG Gram, too! Of course since this is using Intel Core Ultra processors with integrated NPU …
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