| The Modbook Pro gets official, CEO Andreas Haas talks success in an iPad world Jun 28th 2012, 15:00  You'd be forgiven for assuming that the ModBook dream died with release of the first iPad. After all, the first version of the hacked notebook predated Apple's announcement by a couple of years. When the iPad finally hit in 2010, it did a lot to address the desire for a slate device running Apple software. Since then, things have largely remained silent on the Axiotron front. In fact, the last time we heard a significant peep out of the company was back in 2009. Its former CEO Andreas Haas assured us, however, that the real reason for the company's silence is a bit more complicated than the story of yet another product falling victim to the Apple steamroller. "Axiotron itself was a great company," says Haas. "Back in 2008, I took the company public, everything was really great. There was one little thing that turned out to be a huge problem, which is that the company was largely bank-financed and 10 days after it went public, Lehman Brothers went belly-up and put the whole financial market in a tailspin. After that was mostly spent on trying to somehow restructure the company, and ultimately there was just nothing that could be done about it." As the newly reborn Modbook Inc. teased via its Facebook page yesterday, however, the name lives on. This week marks the return of the tablet in the form of the 13.3-inch Modbook Pro, a device slated to ship early this fall. Can such a device survive in a world that's been downright flooded by tablets in the years since its predecessor's release? The company clearly feels it can -- that its new product is unique enough to set itself apart in amongst the deluge of slates, calling the new Pro, "the world's most powerful and largest-screen tablet computer." And in a space where hardware and software are relatively neutered, it's understandable how the company might be inclined to make such bold claims about the converted notebook. Continue reading The Modbook Pro gets official, CEO Andreas Haas talks success in an iPad world The Modbook Pro gets official, CEO Andreas Haas talks success in an iPad world originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 11:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | | Email this | Comments | | Lenovo LePhone K860 surfaces with quad-core Exynos processor, 5-inch screen, and Android 4.0 Jun 28th 2012, 14:49  This one isn't fully official just yet, but Blog of Mobile has turned up some pictures and specs for a new Lenovo LePhone K860 that would appear to one-up the company's existing offerings. Perhaps most notably, this one is said to pack a quad-core, 1.4GHz Exynos 4412 processor (the same found in some variants of the Galaxy S III), along with a 5-inch screen boasting a 1280 x 720 resolution. Otherwise, you'll apparently get a 2 megapixel camera up front and 8 megapixels 'round back, 1GB of RAM, and Android 4.0 for an OS (no mention of a 4.1 upgade). No indication of a price, but it looks like it will be hitting China in August.
[Thanks, FT] Lenovo LePhone K860 surfaces with quad-core Exynos processor, 5-inch screen, and Android 4.0 originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:49:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink  Unwired View |  Blog of Mobile | Email this | Comments | | LG VS950 hits the FCC with Verizon LTE, looks suspiciously like the Optimus Vu Jun 28th 2012, 14:42  LG and Verizon have something special in the works, and judging from the information we were able to glean from some mysterious documents submitted to the FCC (and subsequently approved today), it appears to be Big Red's version of the Optimus Vu. While the docs don't come out and specifically mention the Vu name or the phone's iconic 5-inch display, the diagram (seen above) of the LG VS950 shows the exact same speaker grille setup on the lower left as well as the SIM flap on the upper right. But if that weren't enough to clue us in, you can clearly see something that looks curiously like an antenna on the top left -- in the very same place as the Korean Optimus Vu. The VS950 sports NFC and offers LTE band 13 and GSM 850 / 1900. The phone's already received Bluetooth Certification, so we're hoping this means it's in the final stages of testing. Let's just hope it comes with a newer version of firmware than its Korean counterpart. LG VS950 hits the FCC with Verizon LTE, looks suspiciously like the Optimus Vu originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 28 Jun 2012 10:42:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | FCC | Email this | Comments | |
