Intel and its computer on a card wants to make laptops an accessory

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Computers have to continue to evolve, it is inevitable that their conventional form factor is disappearing – we prove it in sales – leaving space to mobile devices and concepts that are transformed, some, with certain doses of modularity. There are several projects today that we must follow, such as the case of Superbook, or the one at hand, NexDock.

It is something more recent than it seems, we see that operating systems like Windows 10 or Android encourage engineers to put the hardware in all kinds of gadgets, making design work more flexible. In the case of the Microsoft system, we even find complete versions, with which we can do anything we would do on the desktop.

NexDock is an accessory, but it really is a laptop that lacks the brain. Well, you have brains since it has been devised so that we can connect a mobile, another computer, a tablet, or a Raspberry Pi plate. In some cases it will make screen, main, in other secondary, but always offering the comfortable control of a laptop: keyboard and trackpad.Continue reading →

Five Latest Smartphone That Worth Paying Money

The beginning of a new year has also boosted the process of new cropping of smartphones from the top companies. Samsung, Nokia and Apple are some of the manufacturers that have planned to launch their new smart devices this year.  The release of the latest phones has also set off many reports pointing to what the new batch of devices will be featuring. However, curving displays, virtual home buttons, wireless charging and 4k screens are some of the latest technology trends that are likely to be added to these smartphones in addition to many other features.Continue reading →

The smartphone is looking for its next revolution, users are taking longer to change their mobile phone

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Is the smartphone facing a stagnant sales phase? That is what IDC data seem to point to, which indicated that the sales estimate for 2016 had grown just 0.6% over 2015. A priori the formidable growth of this market is in danger.

One of the problems is the maturity of a segment in which the innovations in the hardware are increasingly less striking for users, who increasingly change their mobile less frequently. In 2011 they did it in less than 24 months, and currently it is estimated that the user changes average mobile every 31.2 months.Continue reading →

The ultimate comparison of audio in the best smartphones of the moment

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The audio is that eternal forgotten, the ugly duckling of technological comparisons and we think it’s an ideal time to listen to what some of the most advanced and mobile manufacturers of mobile phones have to tell us. And discern if it is siren songs or realities that go beyond the strictly technological part, the acronyms and the laboratory patents.

First of all it should be noted that mobile phones, despite their impressive performance in high ranges, have not been designed to play audio specifically. Let us not communicate with mill wheels: neither its speakers nor its headphones are designed to offer the highest quality. They are multitasking tools, functional and very versatile, but where an audiophile would stumble looking for the champion of perfection.

By the way, let’s define perfection: the quality does not translate to listening to loud bombastic ones that you rebtruenen the ears, nor in a volume that makes to rumble the table where is placed the terminal, but in offering a version as reliable as possible of the song as it is was conceived by composers, producers and mixers.

A music player should indeed reproduce, do a translation of the music studio to our ears. It’s nice when some devices color old songs, yes, but it’s not true. In this comparative we look for that middle point of equity, where the possible “traps” in the sound are avoided.Continue reading →

Dell XPS 27 is the all-in-one computer that wants to win you for your sound system: 10 speakers

Dell XPS 27

Dell has renewed its full range of computers at this CES 2017, we have not only convertibles, 8K monitors and new laptops, there is also room for all-in-one computers like this XPS 27. The equipment has a rather striking feature that is quickly appreciated in the photos: the speakers.

It is a computer that in the industry called all-in-one, with everything that is integrated into the 27-inch monitor. In this case, it does justice to the XPS denomination with some really interesting specifications, for example, the screen has 4K resolution.Continue reading →

Who said smartphone? The CES remains the party of the PC and the laptop

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Studies, industry and the new generations seem to tire of telling us that the PC is a concept that no longer makes much sense in today’s world. Falling sales take years and all we see the smartphone (increasingly) as hyper center of that life.

But the PC continues to have its particular romance with the CES, the fair of consumer electronics that is used by a large number of manufacturers to re-launch news in a sector that far from dying continues to try to prove that it is here to stay. We are looking at everything and everything: even the new smartphones are waiting for another moment to launch, knowing that this is the party of the PC and the laptop.Continue reading →

Lenovo attacks gaming market with its Legion Y720 and Y520

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Nothing, Lenovo goes free and make associations will not see – they talked about Razer – with other brands to get into the world of hard – nosed player. The Chinese firm has determined that this way you can make one, simply had to create a parallel brand called Legion.

The type of product you can already know quickly with the images, computers very flashy – too often – to the taste that is supposed to have users ‘gaming’. I still think that most would be happy with good specifications and a conventional or discrete design, but this is the path taken by Acer, Alienware (Dell) or ASUS, and they seem to not go bad as well.Continue reading →

How to calibrate a mobile’s battery and why you should

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Smartphones contain components that are durable over time, such as processors, screens or cameras, but there is a component inside it that degrades over time, and sometimes has problems when it comes to operating properly. We talk about the batteries, both fixed and interchangeable.

The battery charge of our mobile phone is calculated based on a series of algorithms that the system executes and that are based on the capacity of the battery, the time that we have been charging it and the maximum point of load, that is reached after a while. As soon as some of these factors fail, we can find a deviation in the calculations and, therefore, have before us a battery calibrated. Let’s see how to solve it but before, why it is important to solve it. So, how to calibrate the battery of a mobile?Continue reading →

Asus ZenBook 3 UX390UA, design and power to compete with the MacBook

Asus ZenBook 3 UX390UA

The series of notebooks Asus ZenBook was devised as ultrabooks from the outset, but with the arrival of ZenBook 3 demonstrates that this type of portable no longer need to cut back on power to maintain its thinness and lightness. In many respects, the ZenBook 3 could be confused with a tablet on the table, only 11.9 mm thick and its screen 12.5 inches.

Within the sector ultrabooks, it is more competition MacBook Apple than other similar equipment, while maintaining some of its disadvantages as a single USB 3.0 connector type C. But it has been the first to have one of the new Kaby processors Lake-U, and according to model will have a Core i5-7200U or a Core i7-7500U. But because of the product it is, it is oriented to a professional sector and not the average consumer.Continue reading →

Lenovo ThinkPad Dress Up Silver: a revamp with Intel Optane, better trackpads, no bloatware

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One of the most important catalogs of laptops will be updated shortly, talk about the legendary Lenovo ThinkPad family, once in the hands of IBM. Renewal is at many levels – technology, software and accessories – affecting at least nine different computers.

We started with the operating system and the disappearance of bloatware with the choice of Windows 10 ‘Signature Edition’, versions Pro and Home. Lenovo and Microsoft make an effort to thin the system and eliminate the typical unnecessary applications that laptop manufacturers make.

Another highlight in the entire notebook line is the introduction of the ‘technology Precision Touchpad’, with which Microsoft ensures minimal quality – software and hardware – in this control system. They’ll try to match things with one of the Mac starters.

Apart from new specifications and some hardware, frills not want to miss as important the availability of a new color in a notebook family that had always distinguished by color “black matte”: now there will be a “silver” option for some models. Some will find it strange, but they look quite good in pictures.Continue reading →