Jan 10, 2013 11:59 AM EDT by LAPTOP EditorsThe best mobile products at CES 2013 have much to tell us about the year ahead in tech. Based on what we’ve seen in Las Vegas, 2013 will see many new players enter the mobile gaming space hoping to make Windows gaming portable or Android achieve gaming parity with PCs and consoles. Your smartphone may even end up parking your car.
Now that you can get a watch that measures your heart rate, the market for fitness-enabled wearable technology will continue to explode, while both standalone cameras and hard drives become even more tightly integrated with your smartphone and the Web. LAPTOP’s Best of CES 2013 winners also demonstrate that the most exciting innovations can come from both the largest companies and the scrappiest of startups. Here are our top picks.
Best Laptop/Convertible: Lenovo ThinkPad Helix
If you’re going to make a detachable Windows 8 convertible for business users, it had better offer more than Live Tiles when you pop the screen off its base. The ThinkPad Helix (coming this spring) does just that with a versatile design that enables users to flip the 11.6-inch touch screen around easily for giving presentations and a built-in digitizer pen for converting your notes to text. We also love the brightness and sharpness of the Helix’s 400-nit, full HD display. When you combine the slate and keyboard dock, this hybrid promises up to 10 hours of battery life. Despite its slim profile, the Helix’s keyboard offers a comfortable typing experience along with a roomy and responsive glass touchpad. While we wish Lenovo included an SD Card slot, the ThinkPad Helix has all the makings of being the dream notebook-tablet combo for road warriors.
More: Lenovo ThinkPad Helix Hybrid Can Put Its Screen on Backward
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January 13th, 2013 at 9:06 pm
CES was a great show
January 13th, 2013 at 9:08 pm
One Android tablet maker worth a look at in 2013 is Ainol Electronics – which recently introduced a number of impressive, well-priced Android tablets and is also noted for winning Runner-Up for “Best Tablet of the Year” at CNET 2012 —
One of the first U.S. resellers to carry the new Ainol – Novo brand tablets is a site called TabletSprint — and this week the Novo 7 VENUS launched — a 7 inch tablet with a QUAD CORE processor for only $149 that takes on the Google Nexus 7 and other competitors for a lot less and offers a lot more — with Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OS, a high resolution 1280×800 IPS screen, 16GB memory, a 4000 mAH battery, both front and rear cameras, a MicroSD memory card slot for unlimited storage, Google Play with access to 400K+ Apps, a MicroUSB port for connection to printers and other electronic devices, HDMI – to view personal videos and to download movies and watch in full 1080p (HD) on to a large screen TV, WiFi, Ethernet, and an option for 3G/4G connection. It’s also a great gaming device with its high resolution screen and motion gaming sensor. The site TabletSprint also offers a 7″ Compact Case with built-in Keyboard ($22) which easily transforms a tablet into a mini-laptop–
TabletSprint offers a few other brand new models with most launching in January, including the Novo 10 Hero – a
full-size 10 inch tablet packed with impressive features for only $219–
TabletSprint also includes $25 in quality Bonus Apps with all tablets available through their site…. both these new models and a few others are certainly worth checking out and comparing to other major brands.
February 13th, 2013 at 8:47 am
That Mio Alpha sports watch is exactly what Ive been waiting for. Not only is my current sports watch starting to fall apart from wear and tear the chest strap smells like its over 100 years old. Thank you for the information I will do more research to try and find where I can buy.