Google Maps 8-bit version for NES: April Fools arrives a day early in Mountain View
Updated: 2012-03-31 18:39:00
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Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About Lenovo IdeaPad U310 ultrabook arrives at the FCC Tweet Email The Lenovo IdeaPad U310 and U410 ultrabooks are expected to go on sale in May for 799 and up . The company introduced the 13 and 14 inch ultraportable laptops a few months ago , and now it looks like they’re stopping by the FCC for regulatory approval on its way to store . shelves You can find some product details and a user manual for the two new ultrabooks at the FCC website The Lenovo U310 measures 13.1 x 8.9 x 0.7 and weighs 3.7 pounds . It has a 13.3 inch display , 4GB of RAM , and 2.5 inch , 7mm drive bay for a hard drive or solid state . disk The laptop features 2 USB 3.0 ports , 1 USB 2.0 port , and a 3 cell , 46Whr . battery Meanwhile the Lenovo U410 has a
Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About This is what a 50 Android tablet looks like Tweet Email The average price of Android tablets seems to be dropping all the time . Any day now I expect to find companies paying you to take one home . But there’s a pretty big difference between a cheap Chinese tablet and an Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime or even an Amazon Kindle . Fire If you’ve ever wondered what kind of tablet you could buy for 50, the folks at Shanzhaiben have the answer The ESER tablet sells for about 318 yuan in China . That’s about 50 US although I’m not entirely sure that’s the retail price . It might be the wholesale price . But even with a decent markup , this tablet could sell for 75 to 100. So here’s what you get for the : money 7 inch , 800 x 480
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Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About jetBook Color deluxe eReader costs 600, includes a pen-sized scanner Tweet Email With a price tag of 599.99, the new jetBook Color Deluxe might be one of the most expensive eReaders available . But it also offers a number of features you won’t find on other . devices The jetBook Color Deluxe has a 9.7 inch , 1600 x 1200 pixel Triton color E Ink display , which makes it one of the few eReaders with a low power color ePaper screen . But that’s true of the original jetBook Color which only costs 500. What makes the Deluxe model different is the included C-Pen text scanner It’s a handheld scanner that can capture text line by line . Unlike a flatbed scanner or form-feeding scanner , you can also capture text on curved or
Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About Google Drive to offer 5GB of online storage for free Tweet Email Google is expected to launch an online file storage service soon called Google Drive . Actually , Google was expected to launch it several years ago , but the project kept getting put on hold or canceled until now . . Maybe There have been numerous reports recently that Google could launch its Google Drive service this year . Now the folks at Talk Android have allegedly obtained a screenshot showing the landing page for the upcoming Google Drive . service If this is the real deal , it looks like Google will be offering 5GB of storage space for free . Users can pay for additional storage if they need . it The idea is that once you upload files to Google Drive
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Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About LG introduces 6 inch flexible e-Paper display Tweet Email Most popular eBook readers on the market today have the same boring screen : a 6 inch , 800 x 600 pixel e-ink display . Sure , it doesn’t use much power and looks great outdoors . But will it bend I didn’t think . so Enter LG’s new flexible electronic paper display LG’s new screen is a 6 inch , 1024 x 768 pixel e-ink display . It’s a plastic screen that can be bent up to 40 degrees from the center of the . screen OK , so you can’t exactly fold the screen in half or crumple it into a ball . But the technology could allow for eBook readers with more durable screens that can survive a fall onto a hard . surface LG says its screens are also thinner and lighter than typical
, Home Products Top stories Reviews Deals Ultrabooks Contact About Dell smartphones follow tablets , netbooks into oblivion Tweet Email It wasn’t that long ago that we learned that Dell was no longer selling netbooks or Android tablets in the US . While the company does still have a business-oriented Windows tablet in its lineup and plans to get back into the consumer tablet space later this year , it looks like the company is ending yet another consumer electronics . line PC World reports that Dell is no longer selling smartphones in the US Dell’s last two phones were the Venue and Venue Pro . Both ran Windows Phone . software The company is no longer selling either phone in the US , and doesn’t currently have a replacement . It’s not clear whether Dell will offer any other smartphones in