Daniel Tyson
28 April 2014 News and Editorial
After giving up on their own mobile platform – WebOS – HP, one of the largest PC manufacturers in the world, has been dabbling in Android based products in various form factors since their initial foray with the Slate 7. Their recent All-in-One, the Slate 21 showed they felt that …
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Jason Murray
28 April 2014 Tablets, Laptops and Chrome
HP is continuing its line of Android products and Beats-branded products again at the same time, with a new Slate 7 Beats Special Edition tablet. We heard a few rumblings of the new tablet earlier this month, but didn’t have anything official to go on until now. HP added a …
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Alex Dennis
31 March 2014 Android OS and Updates, Mobiles, News and Editorial, Tablets, Laptops and Chrome
Android Central recently noticed that the Samsung Galaxy S5 boot-up screen had one curious addition to the screen, in the form of a somewhat large ‘Powered by Android’ logo appearing on the bottom of the screen. This also seemed the case for the recently launched HTC One (M8) smartphone as …
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Daniel Tyson
27 March 2014 (Legacy - Do not use) Design, News and Editorial, Reviews
HP joined the growing list of OEMs manufacturing Chromebooks with the HP Chromebook 14(14c001tu) back in March last year. They’ve since followed up with the Chromebook 11 and a Chromebook 14 followup the HP 14-Q002TU. It has upgraded hardware and a more interesting array of colour options, but it is …
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Chris Rowland
7 February 2014 News and Editorial, Tablets, Laptops and Chrome
It seems it’s a day for Chrome news, as almost immediately following Google’s announcement about Chromebox for Meetings, HP made some announcements regarding its upcoming Chromebox devices. We don’t know too much yet in terms of pricing, but the HP Chromebox is slated to arrive in the northern spring (so, …
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Chris Rowland
6 February 2014 (Legacy - Do not use) Design, Reviews
The HP Chromebook 11 enters an increasingly crowded market, where there are (at least in Australia) a good number of choices in Chromebooks around the $300-$400 mark. Already we’ve seen the Samsung Chromebook, Acer C7, Acer C720 and glimmers of an HP Chromebook 14, but there is definitely room left …
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Alex Dennis
4 February 2014 News and Editorial, Tablets, Laptops and Chrome
It seems Chromebooks are becoming the flavour of the month at JB Hi-Fi. Joining their existing Chromebook range is the HP Chromebook 11 on sale for $397, and what’s even better is that the Google are offering free 100GB Google Drive storage as part of the package. Just incase …
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Jason Murray
18 January 2014 Podcast
Welcome to the 98th episode of the Ausdroid podcast, and the first episode for 2014! This week Jason, Dan and Adam looked at the Android-related announcements from CES 2014. It’s taken a little while to get back into the podcasting groove and get this episode online. We promise we’ll do …
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Daniel Tyson
9 January 2014 Uncategorised
The idea of an Android based All-in-One Android desktop system really took off over the last week with Acer, Lenovo and HP all announcing units. While the Acer and Lenovo devices have yet to reach our shores, the HP Slate 21 is now on-sale and in-store at The Good Guys, …
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Alex Dennis
9 January 2014 News and Editorial, Tablets, Laptops and Chrome
Looking through The Good Guys website and Catalogue earlier yesterday in which I interestingly came across the HP Slate 21 21.5″ Android 4.2 Touch AIO All-In-One device/PC on sale for $447. The device which seems to bear the code name S100, is the little brother of the recently announced a …
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Daniel Tyson
6 January 2014 News and Editorial
First Acer, then Lenovo, now HP, it seems that CES 2014 is going to see a number of Android based All-in-One Desktops, with HP today announcing the Slate 21 Pro, HP’s first attempt at Android on a desktop PC. The HP Slate 21 is a 21.5″ full HD IPS Touchscreen …
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Daniel Tyson
9 December 2013 Tablets, Laptops and Chrome
Google and Intel have announced some new Haswell based Chrome devices overnight, announced at the Intel Developer Forum which is currently going on in San Francisco they have advised that there will be new devices from existing ChromeOS partners Acer and HP as well as devices from new entrants to …
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Scott Plowman
23 November 2013 Uncategorised
HP today unveiled the HP Chromebook 14 in Sydney, making the long awaited Chromebook available for Australians. While it has been available in the US for a few weeks it is nice to finally be included in the Chromebook release fun. The HP Chromebook 14 has, as the name suggests, …
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Daniel Tyson
17 October 2013 News and Editorial
The recently announced HP Chromebook 14 and Chromebook 11 are both coming to Australia and coming soon, according to HP Australia. Both models are due to begin hitting retailers in the middle of November and will be available where all good HP Laptops are sold. The Chromebook 14, which promises …
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Daniel Tyson
9 October 2013 News and Editorial, Tablets, Laptops and Chrome
Overnight, Google and HP have announced a new Chromebook the HP Chromebook 11. In a range of four colours – Red, Yellow, Green and Blue – or two shades – black and white – the HP Chromebook 11 comes with almost no branding, no HP logos, no Google Logo, just …
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