Microsoft’s Courier was supposed to be an electronic journal or diary, a piece of hardware purpose-built for applications like OneNote. Two screens with a hinge between them, it opened and closed like a book, supporting both touch and stylus input on both its screens. Lenovo’s new Yoga Book looks like a riff on the Courier …
The Samsung Gear S3. Here’s the “Classic” version. And here’s the “Frontier” version. It’s darker, with a different bezel and button design. A side view of the “Classic.” A side view of the “Frontier.” As usual, the back has a heart rate sensor. A handy spec sheet for the Frontier. Here’s the same for the …
Enlarge / Another Android update means another stack of phones that will never see it. Not all of the big Android phone makers have announced their plans for the Nougat update, but if you look at Sony’s and Google’s and HTC’s official lists (as well as the supplemental lists being published by some carriers), you’ll …
The HTC 10 is by far the best phone I’ve ever owned. It has a colourful, sharp screen that, at 5.2 inches, is big without verging into unwieldy phablet territory, while the all-metal design gives it a premium feel. It’s fast too, thanks to a Snapdragon 820 chip and largely untouched version of Android. Its …
Back in the pen-and-paper days, journaling required loads of effort. You needed to buy a dedicated notebook, keep it shielded from prying eyes, chronicle the day and date of each entry, and carve out a chunk of time to write in it. Things are a whole lot easier now. Aside from the numerous note-takers that …
Behold! The first curved laptop screen! Notice how there are no photos with the lid closed. Here’s hoping it can actually be closed flush… I count… five fans? Acer has unveiled some new laptops at IFA in Germany, including the utterly monstrous curved-display 21-inch Predator 21X. Acer says it’s the world’s first laptop with a …
When Microsoft created Windows 10 it borrowed a few features from the world of smartphones. One of the more obvious ones is Battery Saver. Just as your phone has a low-battery mode, the battery life on Windows 10 laptops and tablets can be extended by turning off things like automatic email and calendar sync, live …
You may recall from our episode on starting your Mac using NetBoot images that using a NetBoot image requires you to go through the setup process every time you restarted your Mac. This sounds useless, on the face of it, but it isn’t when you use this feature in conjunction with a default image that …
Just three months after Nest co-founder Tony Fadell left the company and new CEO Marwan Fawaz took over, Alphabet’s troubled smart home division, Nest, is apparently experiencing another shakeup. According to a report from Fortune, Google is “absorbing” Nest’s software engineers in order to form a “unified Internet of things platform.” Hiroshi Lockheimer, the current …
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