Review: ASUS ZenFone 2

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

The Asus ZenFone 2 is clearly designed as the company’s best vision for a modern Android smartphone. That they have managed to make it affordable and available contract-free, really shakes up the market and puts the ZenFone 2 at the very top tier of available affordable Android devices.

ASUS has made one of the most compelling 5.5-inch smartphones in the market today. The Zenfone 2, which comes to Canada this June, is designed as an affordable and contract-free option for anyone looking for a larger Android smartphone with all the power and functionality to match more expensive models from established competitors. 

A product of many firsts, the ASUS ZenFone 2 eschews the usual Qualcomm or NVIDIA processor for one of the first Intel Atom mobile processors designed for high-end smartphones and tablets. Both ASUS and Intel are avowed PC companies, so seeing them team up to take on the North American mobile market in this one device is surprising and very exciting.

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Microsoft's new Surface 3 comes in May, will run Windows 8.1 on Intel Atom for CAD $639.00

Just when I thought I was out... they pull me back in.

           Michael Corleone (The Godfather, Part III)

Microsoft just refreshed its smaller Surface hybrid line and finally buried Windows RT (running on ARM). The Surface 3 looks like a smller Surface Pro 3 and even takes stylus input. Featuring a 1.6GHz Intel Atom Processor, 64GB of storage and 2GB of RAM. Interested users will still have to cough up an additional $159.99 for the smaller, redesigned Type Keyboard and $49.99 for the Surface Pen (which now ships in a bevy of colours).

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ASUS' Intel Atom powered MeMO Pad FHD 10 comes to Canada for $349

More tablet news this morning as ASUS’ new 10-inch tablet has just hit shelves in Canada. ASUS MeMO Pad FHD 10 features a powerful Intel Atom Z2560 (1.6GHz) processor and 2GB RAM for a smooth gameplay, social networking and multimedia experience. It retails for $349.

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Review: Samsung N220 Intel Atom powered Netbook

By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla

Buying a netbook in 2010 has become an extremely tedious task. Most netbooks offer similar features, run on ideantical Atom powered processors and offer the same lightweight mobile computing options at very similar prices. Samsung's a bit newer to the game than older players like MSI, ASUS, Dell and Toshiba but it can be considered a true contender when you look at their N220 netbook that's got the features everyone else has got but offers twice the battery power in nearly the same size.

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