What Android laptops need to succeed

Smartphones are great and useful tools, but until you get a bigger screen on them, they’re never going to replace your laptop computer. Tablets are gaining in popularity and in functionality. They’re doing so well, in fact, that many smartphone makers are pushing the limits of what can be called a “phone” by making screens bigger — much bigger. At Pocketnow we call them “phablets”. When we started we were sort of making fun of the huge-screened phones, but despite our mocking, the phrase suck — and we learned that, when done right, phablets ...

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Hey Dell: we don’t need any more mediocre tablets

Last week, one of the older players on the mobile scene stepped back into the spotlight with some new products: Dell. My very first PDA was a Dell Axim X30, so the company’s held a special place in my heart, and it was great to see it take another stab at mobile devices. After all, the Dell Streak 5 was a bit of an innovator in its own right, paving the way for phablets, and the Dell Venue Pro was an ...

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Dell announces four Venue tablets: two Android, two Windows 8.1

After seeing Dell turn its backs on the smartphone market last year, the company’s been repositioning its mobile efforts to focus on tablets, instead. Right at the end of August, we heard that the company might have a couple new Windows-based models launching before the end of the year, including both an 8-inch and 10.6-inch device. Sure enough, today Dell comes through with the announcement of not just those two models, but a pair of Android tablets, as well. On the Windows side, we have the Venue 8 Pro and Venue 11 ...

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