Maybe HP Release New Smartphones Before Year Is Out

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD4oP6fOXfCOcCtKZKyDh3qwBWsUaWM_EWlcA9rAeXRQAnQyzzg9biCY6H3ymKrvZ_HxQHu-yGSwadJiVF_hV1r-fkh_2oktxTU4boucUZ-oWTRcRn-DbLNJfTiWmQKaOanMOKuL1BPTE/s1600/hp-corporate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhD4oP6fOXfCOcCtKZKyDh3qwBWsUaWM_EWlcA9rAeXRQAnQyzzg9biCY6H3ymKrvZ_HxQHu-yGSwadJiVF_hV1r-fkh_2oktxTU4boucUZ-oWTRcRn-DbLNJfTiWmQKaOanMOKuL1BPTE/s400/hp-corporate.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Hewlett Packard is rumored to be planning a return to the smartphone business in the coming days with a pair of low-priced devices aimed at China and other Asian markets.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The two rumored phablet-sized smartphones would be priced between $200 and $250 as off-contract, unlocked devices and could appear before the end of 2013, <a data-ls-seen="1" href="https://www.theinformation.com/HP-Makes-Another-Phone-Call" style="border: 0px; color: #007ba1; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">according to The Information</a>.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The tech site reported this week that HP CEO Meg Whitman is "taking another stab at the crowded mobile-phone industry as she tries to turn around the company." The rumored "affordable" smartphones for markets like China, India, and the Philippines are purportedly a 6-inch device and a 7-inch handset that would push the envelope on the line between phablets and full-blown tablets.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Details on these devices are pretty spare, but the assumption is that they would run Google's Android operating system and sport an ARM-based application processor. HP already has the Android-based Slate 7 <span class="zdcse-wrapper" id="zdcse_wjbxpn_undefined" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">$139.99 at Sears</span> tablet powered by a dual-core 1.6GHz Rockchip Cortex-A9 chip in its portfolio.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"> It could get interesting if the company goes in a different direction—HP plays in the mobile device market with products like its Envy X2 <span class="zdcse-wrapper" id="zdcse_lcttdj_undefined" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">$611.99 at Amazon</span>, which runs Microsoft's Windows 8 and has an Intel Atom chip under the hood. It seems unlikely that the company would test the waters with its first stab at a smartphone in several years with devices running Windows Phone 8 and/or featuring Intel inside, but you never know.</div> <div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #3b3b3c; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 9px; vertical-align: baseline;"> <i>Source : <a href="http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2428718,00.asp">PCMag</a></i></div>

Maybe HP Release New Smartphones Before Year Is Out

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HP Chromebook 11 now ships with an all-new charger after official recall

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs__haQNd4pVMniFJMp6Ed7bhGyG9pzbjMfo836suOejIvi3LzxvplJrPZLR1EzgbVbtEhHVKrtNnChaFXiK1CFGTvB7J5Pu8Siynx7otmytTrAAfChyphenhyphend5bQ_zpusc5AnhU-tYaxsnyuAU/s1600/img_0403.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs__haQNd4pVMniFJMp6Ed7bhGyG9pzbjMfo836suOejIvi3LzxvplJrPZLR1EzgbVbtEhHVKrtNnChaFXiK1CFGTvB7J5Pu8Siynx7otmytTrAAfChyphenhyphend5bQ_zpusc5AnhU-tYaxsnyuAU/s320/img_0403.jpg" width="320" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;">HP Chromebook 11</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A month after HP and Google put the kibosh on Chromebook 11 sales due to overheating chargers, and the laptop is now available with a brand new power adapter. According to<em> <a href="http://9to5google.com/2013/12/19/after-recall-google-releases-updated-hp-chromebook-11-with-newly-designed-power-adapter/" style="text-decoration: none;">9to5Google</a></em>, it looks like a smaller version of the one for thePixel except it has a micro-USB tip instead. If you already have a Chromebook 11, do remember that you should be sending yours back in exchange for a new one due to a company recall issued a couple days ago. But if you haven't already pulled the trigger, now is definitely a safer time to do so for one of the best Chromebooks we've seen so far.</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">[Image credit: <a href="http://9to5google.com/2013/12/19/after-recall-google-releases-updated-hp-chromebook-11-with-newly-designed-power-adapter/" style="text-decoration: none;">9to5Google</a>]</span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Source : <a href="http://9to5google.com/2013/12/19/after-recall-google-releases-updated-hp-chromebook-11-with-newly-designed-power-adapter/" style="background-color: white; line-height: 16px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">9to5Google</a></span></div><div style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Via : <a href="http://www.engadget.com/2013/12/19/hp-chromebook-11-new-charger/?ncid=rss_truncated">Engadget</a></span></div>

HP Chromebook 11 now ships with an all-new charger after official recall

HP Chromebook 11 A month after HP and Google put the kibosh on Chromebook 11 sales due to overheating chargers, and the laptop is now availa...

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