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Review: Acer Iconia Tab is the Best Android Tablet
PCMag has tested just about every Android tablet on the market, but only now have we found one we really like. Turns out, by sticking to a 7-inch screen Acer has made a device that can actually take advantage of those 200,000 apps developers have written for Android phones. It isn't perfect, but it is the best Android tablet we have seen so far. Check out our full review.
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 | iPhone 5 Rumor Roundup
Despite my abundance of close personal friends and wealth of loose-lipped contacts at Apple, I have no knowledge about its iPhone 5 plans. As far as I can tell, no one in the media does. Does that stop us from inventing and repeating every wild rumor we find online? Sadly, no. Turns out none of us can stop the rampant speculation, so we are just going to have to live with it for now. Geek.com does a great job of rounding up the best and worst guesses so far.
10 Classic Portable Games of the 1980s
Long before the PlayStation Portable and Nintendo DS, kids like me were playing Electronic Baseball and Cosmic 1000 Fire Away on plastic, battery power clunkers from companies like Tiger and Mattel. The screens were so dim, you often could see exactly what was going on, but that didn't keep me from spending hours button mashing. We have collected some of the greatest hits here. See if you recognize any from that days in the backseat of the car.
Chrome 14 Beta Adds Native Client, Lion Support, Web Audio
There is a new version of Chrome 14 Beta and it gives developers full access to the browsers HTML5 functionality According to the blog post announcing the new beta, written by Google software engineer Chris Rogers, native client will enable "developers to build more powerful and more immersive apps and games for the Web." Read on for more details.
New Polarizing Filter Lets LCDs Recycle the Light They Project
Like all great inventions, this polarizing screen developed at UCLA seems too good to be true. Inserting a thin, transparent film over an ordinary LCD and the display can recycle 75% of the projected light? Sounds awesome. Get the details on Geek.com
ExtremeTech's Special Report: 30 years of PCs
I plugged PCMag's 30th anniversary coverage last week, but Extremetech.com has also done a tribute that digs even deeper into the nuts and bolts of the PCs evolution. Check out Sebastian Anthony's story and keep an eye out for the Compaq Portable photo. Geek porn.
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