POCO is relatively new to the “ultra” high end smartphone market. It was only last year when they released their first, the POCO F7 Ultra (POCO F7 Ultra Review: The first ultra POCO phone). It was one of the first phones to have the new Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite processor, which was the first time in a long time when smartphone processor speeds had a seriously noticeable speed boost. Today’s POCO F9 Ultra uses the …
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It’s been quite a while since I’ve gotten to try an ARM processor laptop running Windows. Probably because I really hated the poor performance, but that was 8 years ago back in 2018 when I last used Windows on ARM and lots has changed since then! My Pinebook Pro Linux laptop running an ARM processor was pretty fantastic back in 2019. Today there are many new laptops, including Chromebooks and even Apple Macbooks running ARM …
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Originally published at Pocketnow on 11/8/2008 – 1, 2, 3 INTRODUCTION As many of you may know, T-Mobile was the first carrier in the USA to release HTC’s first phone (the HTC Wallaby) which was also the first full touch screen smart phone available in North America. It was running Windows Mobile, then known as Pocket PC Phone Edition and, at the time, was the most powerful Smartphone around. That was six years ago. Now, T-Mobile has released …
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The POCO F7 Ultra is the first “Ultra” model for the POCO brand and it’s the top-of-the-line for the F7 series of POCO phones. It’s very similar to the Redmi K80 Ultra in terms of looks but includes some tweaks to the specifications and color options. The lower part of the back of the POCO F7 Ultra has a matte finish that doesn’t attract fingerprints at all and I love it. The upper glossy part …
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The little Asus Chromebook CM3001DM2 is absolutely adorable. It’s a smaller Microsoft Surface style tablet with thin removable keyboard cover and magnetic rear kickstand cover. It runs the regular version of Chrome OS, not the “Plus” version, so there aren’t any “artificial intelligence” features, but most people aren’t interested in those anyway. Specs The Asus Chromebook CM30 has a MediaTek Kompanio 520 2.0 GHz(1M Cache, up to 2.0 GHz, 8 cores) processor with ARM Mali-G52 …
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A rugged hardcore portable computer Panasonic’s Toughbook series of laptop computers are mainly designed for the more rugged dangerous workplaces like military, law enforcement, or construction scenarios. It’s not meant for the indoor desk jobs and design jobs that I’m used to. I did get to use the Panasonic Toughbook FZ-55 a while back though, and that was pretty fun in its extreme modularity and sturdy build. Consumer laptops aren’t built with this kind of …
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