The current ban only affects flights from 10 airports in the Middle East coming into the US, but ISIS attacks have worried Homeland Security.
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Convertibles, Project Treble and Fear China! | #PNWeekly 254
We discuss how portable Windows 10 PCs have underwent a transformation in the past year or two on our show. Also, Android O's fragmentation magic wand!
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Chuwi SurBook, light on its feet, stomps all over Indiegogo goal
The Chinese manufacturer is headed into the Windows 10 convertible tablet arena with a lighter-weight device that keeps up in finish and battery life.
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Huawei MateBook E announced with a vastly improved Folio Keyboard
The MateBook E takes on from the original MateBook and improves every last detail of the Folio Keyboard that needed improving.
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BlackBerry KEYone shipments now due in May, tablets and smartwatches may come
Other news from the fourth quarter earnings call include shipments of the BlackBerry Aurora and more hardware licensing coming soon.
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Wacom MobileStudio Pro 13 Review
Pen enabled tablets are very popular these days, but what if you really need the best tool for creativity? Find out how the Wacom MobileStudio Pro handles all of your creative needs.
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Convertible PC craze catches on with Alcatel PLUS 12
You won't be able to chug power on the go with this Windows 10 convertible, but the PLUS 12 does offer LTE in its complementary keyboard.
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The OverDryve 7 Review: It’s the thought that counts
In our OverDryve 7 review, we look at a navigation system built by one of the big names in mapping. Can Rand McNally successfully adapt to a changing world?
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Introducing the Lenovo Yoga A12, or, the Yoga Book lite
It's a $299 Android tablet that has the keyboard of a $500 Android tablet made by the same company. There are some obvious trade-offs to be had.
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18-inch Nokia tablet on the docks at GFXBench
We aren't exactly sure it's a Nokia tablet, but it is supposedly related to one of its associated entities for mobile: Foxconn.
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Eve and Indiegogo lead joint AmA on Reddit
First availability of the crowd-designed Eve V convertible PC is just about to wrap up on Indiegogo. At this point in time, the project that started its life as the “Pyramid Flipper” has been marked as a success in breaking fundraising milestones of amount and time that Europe has not seen.
In the wake of all this, Eve co-founders Konstantinos Karatsevidis (the media face of the company, image right) and “Mike” (image left) as well as Joel Hughes who manages the UK and European operations of Indiegogo have decided to come together for a Reddit Ask me Anything session.
Questions are being answered as we head to press with this post, so if you’d like to get in a question or two with the crew, you can definitely try for an answer. They’ll be taking questions through about 2:30pm Eastern.
You have until 2:59am tomorrow to make a reservation for an Eve V on Indiegogo.
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LG Pad III 10.1 leaked, looks like half a laptop
LG’s Android tablets haven’t been the most spectacular things. If anything, they’re just hunks of LTE capability that get sold with a service package alongside a phone at a local carrier.
But somewhere around halfway interesting, you’ll find this one of many @evleaks from Evan Blass. He purports to be showing off the LG G Pad III 10.1, what looks to be a 10.1-inch Android tablet with a design that seems to be inspired from convertible tablets.
LG G Pad III 10.1 pic.twitter.com/j6mvXOHV95
— Evan Blass (@evleaks) December 18, 2016
The corner treatment of the LG logo out on front is imprinted on some heavily grained material while a more matte-looking material behind the screen is carved up to feature a hatch of some sort. Is it a kickstand? Does it hold a stylus? Does it matter at this point?
The tablet bear little resemblance to its G Pad II predecessor and has even less of one when compared to the G Pad III 8.0.
We have no other information about this tablet other than this is just a photo leak from a fairly reliable source.
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The complete Pocketnow Black Friday 2016 deals watchlist
In at least the tech world, Black Friday has come forward by a few days or, in some cases, even several weeks. No more is it just a deals day for us as it is a four-day weekend chock full of savings you can get around to. Oh, and there’s a little breadcrumb trail of discounts leading up to the big shebang, too.
You know who made a bigger deal about Black Friday sales than the US this year? Amazon.co.uk. That site had weeks of featured discounts under that banner.
We’ve been covering all these deals and we have quite a few more to talk about as a few Cyber Monday press releases have just begun to pop up. But since most of these campaigns have been lumped in to include both Monday and Tuesday anyways, we’re going to give you a little taste of what you might be able to find for deals as of this post, all of these are guaranteed to go through Sunday, November 27 or later — exceptions will be duly noted.
With that, let’s start from the top end of mobile and move our way down. We’ll give you links to extensive US carrier deals near the end.
Top-end
- The Google Pixel really shouldn’t be on sale at this point, but we have to mention the crazy $400+ discount on Verizon. That said, you’ll have to be on a device payment plan with the carrier.
- No real deals have popped up for the Galaxy S7 and Galaxy S7 edge, though if you’re going the unlocked route (no US warranty), you can find S7 units at around $530 and S7 edge units near $600: Amazon / Newegg / B&H
- All versions of the Moto Z (Play, Force, Droid and unlocked) is best served with a Hasselblad True Zoom or Insta-Share Projector Moto Mod on the side, at $250 off list.
- LG has distributed deals through carriers, including tablet add-ons and a free pair of B&O Play H3 earbuds for the V20.
- The HTC 10 is $200 off while the One A9, One M9 and other accessories are at deep discounts.
Mid-range
- The Honor 8 is going $100 off in both of its storage options: 32GB for $299.99 and 64GB for $349.99.
- The ZTE Axon 7 and Axon Mini are also going for $50 off, too, at $349.98 and $299.98, respectively.
- $350 Sony Xperia X Compact and $300 standard Xperia X? We wouldn’t exactly call them steals, but those are their lowest prices yet.
- BlackBerry has cut the prices of the PRIV, DTEK50 and BB10 devices to well under $300.
Budget
- Believe it or not, last year’s flagship is this year’s low-cost champion, as the unlocked LG G4 sets you back $250 across retailers like Amazon, Newegg and B&H, free leather covers occasionally included.
- At $150, the Asus ZenFone 3 Max doesn’t need additional markdowns. The ZenFone 3 Laser could use a little deal sweetener, and both Amazon and B&H have your back.
- Missed out on the $170 Sony Xperia XA promo? $200 is a pretty good price as well.
- No Honor 5X love? Not yet, but after selling the Full HD 5.5-incher for $120 several months ago, you have to figure Amazon is again cooking up something special… and extremely time-sensitive.
- The best Moto G4 deal is still exclusive to Amazon Prime members, at an irresistible $150. And then there’s the ad-feeding $100 G4 Play.
Tablets & Convertibles
- The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 with an Intel Core i5, 4GB of RAM and 128GB of storage is $200 off at $799.
- The Surface Book is also on discount in two models. They are the Core i5/8GB/128GB ($250 off) and the Core i5/8GB/256GB/dGPU ($400 off).
- The Huawei MateBook is going for $200 off if you grab a Portfolio Keyboard or $300 if you get the board, the MatePen and the MateDock.
- Not in the mood for Windows? The Huawei MediaPad M3 is $50 off on Amazon at $249.
- Amazon‘s hot Fire tablets start at $33.33 for the 7-inch versions. The Kindles start at $49.99.
Other Notes (incl. carriers)
- AT&T, not really in a position to divvy deals out for the S7, is bundling several Galaxy S6 models with the Gear S2 and the Galaxy Tab E for free. Those two devices need to be on service contracts.
- Sprint has its exclusive HTC Bolt for half-off today and Black Friday, now at $300. Also through the 25th, you can grab a free LG TV with the purchase of the G5 or V20. You can also get five lines for the price of two through December 1.
- T-Mobile is going for the jugular with a free iPhone 7s.
- Verizon is also posting up to $200 discounts on new Android phones priced $400 or more and $200 gift cards per new line activated today and tomorrow.
- The Google Home smart speaker is $30 off pretty much anywhere you can purchase it.
- That’s not to do Amazon, however. Its own Alexa-powered speakers are going for at least 20 percent off, starting with the Echo Dot at $39.99.
- The HTC Vive (typically $799) and the HP Envy 750 bundle ($1,499) are both $100 off, in stores or online. At the Viveport, you can get $5 app bundles and half-off 20 various titles. The deals begin at 2:59am Eastern on Friday.
- Select Huawei Watch models are $200 off, wherever you can find them (here’s a Google Shopping link for you to sort out which model and store you want it from)
- Target is taking 15 percent off almost everything in its store on November 27 and 28. The exceptions, thankfully, don’t hit all Apple products as well as smartphones and tablets on sale.
We hope you have a pleasant Thanksgiving and a safe, fun time shopping this weekend. And the next few weeks. Don’t forget to buy ugly sweaters on your way out!
Adrian Diaconescu contributed to this article.
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Dell Stack is/was the Intel x86-powered Windows 10 “phone”
The pictures of a thin phone running some version of Windows 10 on an Intel x86 processor as provided by Evan Blass now have a backstory, but as provided by Evan Blass.
Blass reported on VentureBeat that the device, non-cellular as it turned out to be in uncovered documents, may have just been the integral piece to an ecosystem of Windows 10 desktop and mobile devices envisioned from Dell. Thanks to Continuum and Universal Windows Platform apps, users would be able to move all of their computing tasks between a core phablet-sized device, other tablet form factors (such as the one pictured above next to the core device), a laptop and a desktop. The project was called Stack.
Documents showed that the tablet was originally envisioned as a 6.4-inch tablet with a full HD screen that could be equipped with an Intel Core processing unit built on the Kaby Lake architecture. Mind you, it wouldn’t be a full-blast U-series processor, but a more conservative dual-core Y-series processor (then using the Core m branding). Still, the design of x86 would give the tablet more power than an ARM chip (such as Qualcomm’s Snapdragons) to push more apps with Continuum. Docking the tablet to a desktop unit would allow Stack to harness more power — 12 watts instead of 3.5 watts.
The renders we saw seemed a little too optimistic on getting this device as thin and mobile as possible — the goal was apparently to keep the tablet under 9mm in thickness. That was until blueprints were revised to reflect Dell’s design language and the size of phablet grew to 7 inches in diameter. Complicating the space were other specs like either 4GB or 8GB of RAM and solid state disks with 128GB or 256GB of room, plus a microSD card slot to boot. A five-megapixel selfie camera would double as an iris scanner. All of that would take up a lot of room and leave less of it for heat dissipation.
Stack was conceptualized in the middle of 2014. The company bet on a commercial launch by spring of 2017. There was even a cell-enabled 6-inch planned as a second-generation device. But at this point, it’s unclear if the project is still alive or dead and for what reason.
While Intel did cancel its recent mobile chipset efforts, it is still working on propagating Kaby Lake while also selling more fitting Apollo Lake chips. Did HP’s Elite x3 chill Dell’s plans by providing a satisfying Continuum experience with the help of an ARM chip? With Microsoft interested in keeping Windows 10 on ARM and cellular connectivity, perhaps the Stack would be going too far off the grain to garner it full-throat support?
There are plenty of questions, but only so much storyline. What is clear is that there is consumer interest for hub-distributed computing. It will be realized by a supplier at some point — Neptune wants to do it for Android — and if Dell doesn’t do it first for Windows, perhaps another OEM or even Microsoft will.
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Lenovo 2Q17 earnings continue sliding, net income achieved
The challenge for Chinese manufacturer Lenovo is progressive. PC and tablet sales continue to sag worldwide while the smartphone market seems to be peaking at this point. But it has been able to struggle through its second fiscal quarter with multiple innovative if somewhat gimmicky product launches.
Revenue compares 8 percent poorer from a year ago to $11.2 billion. While the number is up 12 percent from the sequential quarter, that number compares to a 14 percent gain from last year. There was net income of $157 million, compared to a loss of $714 million last year.
Income from PCs in North America bucked the market trend, growing 14.7 percent year-to-year and 5.2 percent worldwide. Gaming sales jumped 36 percent, detachable solutions rose 52 percent while so-called “millennial” or affordable PCs tripled.
The company was happy to proclaim that Motorola is now able to make some major stat gains including sequential volume — up 25 percent in general and 39 percent for Moto-branded phones. Operating margins inched up by 4 percent from last quarter while average sales price stepped up by 18 percent annually. Units-wise, 14 million smartphones were sold, a 25 percent annual improvement with most of it in the Asia Pacific and Indian regions.
While the Mobile Business Group reported a 12 percent decline in revenues, the unit is expected to “turn around” by mid-2017.
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