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Monday, May 30, 2011

ARM hopes to strengthen grip on mobile PCs, take 50 percent of the market by 2015

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/arm-hopes-to-strengthen-grip-on-mobile-pcs-take-50-per-cent-of/

We've already heard rumors that chip designer ARM has been trying to get its wares into the Macbook Air. While we can't add anything to that particular story, we do have further evidence that ARM is going beyond smartphones and tablets in order to target bigger form factors. The company's president, Tudor Brown, has just appeared at Computex to declare that ARM wants to conquer the "mobile PC market", where the company currently only has a 10 percent share. He's aiming for 15 percent by the end of this year, and an Intel-provoking 50 percent by 2015. "Mobile PC" is a pretty ambiguous category, but we think it's safe to assume the focus is on low- and mid-power netbooks and ultraportables. Such devices could potentially run off ARM's forthcoming multi-core chips -- like perhaps the quad-core beast inside NVIDIA's mind-blowing Kal-El processor, or the more distant Cortex-A15. It's hard to imagine these tablet-centric chips ever competing with Intel's top performers, but four years is a mighty long time in this business.

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Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use [Video]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5806487/top-10-simple-privacy-tricks-everyone-should-use

Protecting your privacy on the internet these days seems like a hefty undertaking, but there are a few things you can do to protect your privacy with just the click of a button. Here are our favorite super-simple tricks.

We've talked about our 10 favorite privacy hacks before, but a lot of times inducing a privacy-oriented overhaul on your workflow is time consuming, and sometimes it just might not fit the way you work (it's not imperative, of course, that everyone quit Facebook without quitting Facebook, and your less tech-savvy friends and relatives may not have the patience for the more involved set-ups. These tweaks are, instead, very simple tricks that we think everyone should use, whether you're a tin-foil hat wearer or you just want to reduce the spam in your email inbox. They're so simple, in fact, that even the less tech-savvy should have no problem setting them up with a few clicks.

10. Use Temporary Credit Cards to Avoid Repeat Billing

Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use Whether you want to add some extra security to your online purchases, or you just want to save yourself from overbilling, temporary credit cards are a great help. Most card issuers have them (usually called "safe shopping" cards or "gift cards"), and you can choose the card's spending limit, expiration date, and more. That way, you can make sure that automatic billing doesn't kick in unless you absolutely want it too (after all, it can't charge you if there's no money left on the card). Plus, if anyone ever gets a hold of your account information, all they have is a gift card with a spending limit, not your real credit card. Photo by _Dinkel_.

9. Leave Your Home Address Off Your GPS Unit

Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use If you aren't into everyone knowing where you are at all times, you'll want to make sure any given app doesn't share your location. Usually this is pretty simple: don't use services like Foursquare, turn off Facebook Places, etc. But don't ignore the obvious, either: the "Home" button on your smartphone or navigation unit, for example, could lead any car thief right to your home. Instead, use a nearby landmark as your "home" location—that way, your navigation unit will always lead you close enough so you know how to get back, but won't lead any ne'er-do-wells right to your front door. Photo by D'Arcy Norman.

8. Use a Fake Birthday for Web Signups

Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use Most of the information web sites ask for when you sign up is unnecessary, and sometimes even unsafe. Identity thieves can do quite a bit of damage with just your birthday. Make sure you don't post both the date and the year of your birthday on anything public like Facebook, and if you're required to use it for a web signup, just use an un-birthday to keep their demographic data in place, but without giving out all your personal information.

7. Change Your Gender for Less Annoying Ads

Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use If the ads on your favorite web site are particularly obnoxious, an easy way to avoid them is to try changing the gender on your account. Spotify, for example, seems to only advertise Spotify features and music albums to women. Similarly, setting your gender as male can help you escape the annoying diet or motherhood ads on certain sites if you're a woman. It differs from site to site which ads are less annoying, too. I don't really need the birth control pills Pandora's selling me, but those ads are far less intrusive than the giant, animated Bud Light ads it had when my account was "male".

6. Use HTTPS Whenever Possible

Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use HTTPS is a super easy way to stay safe on the net, and a lot of services will use it by default with a quick settings tweak. You can enable it on Facebook, Twitter, and Gmail by just ticking a checkbox. For everything else, there's the HTTPS Everywhere extension, which will use HTTPS on any site that allows it.

5. Use AdBlock, Even if You Don't Block Ads

Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use You may have heard a lot about extensions like AdBlock Plus, but ignored them because you want to support the sites you visit (and we thank you for that). However, AdBlock extensions are great privacy tools, even if you aren't blocking ads. They can keep you protected from known malware spreaders, and even keep sites like Pandora from hijacking your Facebook login. All you need is a few simple filters in place to put another brick on the privacy wall.

4. Save Yourself from IM Distractions and Annoyances

Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use There's nothing more annoying (or distracting) than getting an instant message from someone you don't want to talk to. Luckily, there are quite a few things you can do to keep your IMs more private, like only allowing your friends to message you, go invisible on a schedule, or only show your online status to the Facebook friends you actually like.

3. Use Disposable Email Addresses to Avoid Spam

Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use One of the best ways to wipe out spam in your inbox is to use a disposable email address for the internet's sketchier sites. If you visit a site that requires an email address but that you don't fully trust, using a service like previously mentioned Trashmail or the simpler 10 Minute Mail, you can use a quick temporary email address to get the necessary "confirmation email" and ignore any future spam that might come your way.

2. Create Secure, Easy-to-Remember Passwords

While the most secure password is one you can't remember, there are a lot of tricks to creating easy, memorable passwords without making them easy to guess. We've shared many password-creation tricks before, like storing your passwords in a dictionary, or making sure you use multi-word phrases for better protection. Even just adding a space or two to your passwords can make it much harder to break—just make sure you have a good system in place so you can easily remember them all.

1. Keep Your Security Questions as Private as Your Passwords

Top 10 Simple Privacy Tricks Everyone Should Use Strong passwords are important, but they're utterly useless if your "security question" is something anyone can answer. Instead of going the traditional security question route, you could use a formula to create a memorable, yet indecipherable security question, or even shift your hands on the keyboard. In addition, you could just use word association to make the question easy for you, but hard for others—e.g., "What's your mother's maiden name?" could be answered with your favorite Iron Maiden album instead.

Got any of your own favorite one-click privacy tricks? Share them with us in the comments.

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MAFIAA Fire Gets You Around Shut-Down Domains to Their New Homes [Add-ons]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5806455/mafiaa-fire-gets-you-around-shut+down-domains-to-their-new-homes

Firefox/Chrome: When government officials seized ownership of a number of domains last month, a lot of people suddenly found their favorite torrent tracker shut down. Many owners of the seized domains simply moved to new URLs. If you're looking for them, the MAFIAA Fire extension uses a crowd-sourced database of alternative domains to connect you.

The MAFIAA Fire extension, once installed, will take you around any seized domain to an alternative operated by the same owner, if one is available. The extension maintains the list of alternatives and IP addresses so you can type in the name you know and be routed around the seized domain until you get to the site you're looking for.

To the extension developer, this is a matter of privacy and censorship, but to law enforcement officials it's an anti-piracy campaign that they've said will continue for years. Have you tried MAFIAA Fire, or miss your old torrent tracker after it was shut down? Let us know your thoughts on the issue in the comments.

Update: The developer's web site, which hosts the Chrome version of the MAFIAA Fire Redirector, has had its hosting suspended this morning. We've linked to the Firefox add-on below, which is still up at Mozilla.org.

MAFIAA Fire Redirector | Mozilla Add-Ons via TorrentFreak

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Chronolapse Creates Time Lapse Videos Using Your Screen or Webcam [Downloads]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5806458/chronolapse-creates-time-lapse-videos-using-your-screen-or-webcam

Windows: If you've ever watched a tutorial or walk-through that's been sped up, or a minutes-long video that seems to span hours or days, you've seen a time lapse video. They look great, and while they're usually created by stitching together hundreds or thousands of snapshots, Chronolapse is an app that makes it easy.

Chronolapse can help you create time lapses and stop motion videos using images taken periodically from your screen, or snapshots from your webcam, or both. The app supports picture-in-picture videos, so you can show off your screen in your video, and then superimpose your webcam in a corner so your viewers can see what you were doing at the time.

The app also has support for dual monitors, and gives you tools to annotate your video with comments for your viewers to see while the scenes speed by. Even if you took your snapshots in a different application or on an actual camera, Chronolapse can help you stitch the images together into your final product. Best of all, it's completely free for personal and commercial use.

Chronolapse | Google Code via Keeyai

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Five Best Set-Top Boxes for On-Demand Video [Hive Five]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5806570/five-best-set+top-boxes-for-on+demand-video

There are more ways than ever to watch television on your own terms. With the set-top boxes available today, you can save your favorite shows to watch later, stream them from the Internet, and even download video anytime. Here's a look at five of the most popular set-top boxes that cater to your entertainment needs.

On Thursday, we asked you which set-top boxes you preferred to give you the entertainment you want when you want it. You responded, and we tallied the votes. Now we're back to highlight the top five set-top boxes you nominated. Photo by Andrew Currie.

Boxee Box

Five Best Set-Top Boxes for On-Demand Video The Boxee Box is a set-top streamer built by D-Link that runs the Boxee media center software. The Boxee Box was a long time coming, but now that it's finally on store shelves, one can be yours for $199 at retail. The box has all of the same features the software does, and lets you stream shows from the web, from Boxee's own massive library of movies and TV shows, and access Netflix, Vudu, Pandora, Major League Baseball and National Hockey League games. If you're not sure whether you should buy a Boxee Box or build your own, check out our article on how to get the best Boxee Box for your money.

Xbox 360

Five Best Set-Top Boxes for On-Demand Video In addition to being an incredible gaming console, the Xbox 360 supports Windows Media Center as a media extender. If you're an Xbox Live subscriber, you can stream Netflix, Last.fm, ESPN, and Zune music. The Xbox 360 also makes a great DVD player, even though it doesn't have a Blu-Ray drive. For most people, the Xbox 360 may as well be a free media center they already have in their living room, or that they get with the purchase of their game console. Depending on the one you want, you can expect to spend $199 to $399 for an Xbox 360.

Roku

Five Best Set-Top Boxes for On-Demand Video Roku started out as just a set-top box that brought Netflix streaming off of your computer and to your television. The market's changed since then, but the Roku has grown with it. Roku boxes offer Hulu Plus, Amazon Instant Video, Pandora Radio, Crackle, MOG, live sports, and hundreds of other channels and video podcasts on a tiny, easy-to-configure box. Roku's only weakness is that it can't stream video from shares on your home network. Roku boxes start at $59.99 and max out at $99.99.

Apple TV

Five Best Set-Top Boxes for On-Demand Video Apple's approach to the TV experience has been described as "magical" and "a hobby," depending on who's discussing it. The second-generation Apple TV retails for $99. It's the only device in the roundup that supports wireless audio and video streaming from other devices on your home network using Airplay, Apple's own protocol for it. The Apple TV also brings Netflix, Major League Baseball, YouTube videos, Flickr photos, and more to your HDTV. It also gives you access to video rentals and purchases from iTunes. Unfortunately, the Apple TV only supports 720p video, unlike some of the other devices in the roundup. Still, it's ideal if you live in a mostly-Apple household.

HTPC

Five Best Set-Top Boxes for On-Demand Video You also have the option of rolling your own home theater PC (HTPC) and configuring it to do whatever you choose. Building your own gives you the ability to run whatever set-top box software you choose, and frees you from the limitations of all of them if you build it to do what you need. Some of you suggested building an HTPC to install Boxee, others suggested installing XBMC. Whatever you choose to install, building your own HTPC is likely the most expensive of the options, but the price you pay gives you the most possible control over your media experience. If you want a primer on building your own, check out our guide to building a powerful HTPC for less than $500. Photo by Karen Dalziel.

Now that you've seen your favorites, it's time to vote on the winner.

What's the Best Set-Top Box for On-Demand Video?online surveys

This week's honorable mentions go to the PlayStation 3 and the Mac Mini. The PS3 gives you many – if not all – of the same media center features that the Xbox 360 has, with the benefit of a Blu-Ray player as well. The Mac Mini gives you a form-factor that fits well in an entertainment center, HDMI output, and all of the same features the Apple TV has with the bonus of being a real computer with a full OS you can tweak and modify.

Which one do you prefer? Did your favorite not get enough nominations? Let us know your thoughts in the comments.

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DIY Surveillance Camera Responds to Your Email with Photos [Video]

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5806566/diy-surveillance-camera-responds-to-your-email-with-photos

Keeping an eye on your home when you're away doesn't have to be an expensive project. We've shown you several ways to turn your PC into a home surveillance system. If you don't want to leave a computer running or would just rather check in on your home periodically than monitor it with a live stream, here's how.

This surveillance camera looks like a Death Star and is designed to sit quietly somewhere in your home until you send it an email. When you do, the camera will take a snapshot and respond to your message with the image as an attachment. It's not a live security camera, but it does satisfy the occasional "I hope everything is okay back home" thought that comes up when you're away.

If you build it the way the project describes, you'll need a tiny JPEG camera, a microSD card for storage, a micro-controller and integrated circuit (get your soldering iron ready,) and a GSM modem so the end-product can communicate without relying on your home network. The breadboard layout and steps involved are laid out at the Google Code page for the project, including the source code required to make the camera work.

Sure, the builder could have used a Wi-Fi card instead of a GSM modem, and they could have chosen a different, more secretive form-factor, but that's a matter of taste. It might be a little overkill, but peace of mind when you're on vacation can be priceless. Have you built your own DIY home surveillance system? How did you go about it? Let us know in the comments.

Surveillance Camera | Google Code

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The First of Lady Gaga's Polaroid Range is Up For Pre-Order [Photography]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5806694/the-first-of-lady-gagas-polaroid-range-is-up-for-pre+order

Club-goers and porn-pushers are still awaiting the glasses Lady Gaga modelled at CES (and supposedly designed), but one product from her Grey Label collaboration with Polaroid is available for pre-ordering, for $170/£120.

Photos can be sent over Bluetooth from smartphones (excluding iPhones) and other devices, or over USB, and they'll be printed in under 45 seconds. If you happen to have an Android phone, you can download the free Android app and customize your Polaroid photo borders, or print with or without the white Polaroid border.

Available for pre-ordering from Firebox for £120 or $170 from Polaroid's own website, the GL10 printer will ship out in June. [Polaroid and Firebox]

You Can Run Either MeeGo or Windows 7 On Asus' Eee PC X101 [Laptops]

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5806697/you-can-run-either-meego-or-windows-7-on-asus-eee-pc-x101

This is novel—Nokia may not have released any MeeGo phones in the end, but Asus' Eee PC X101 dualboots both Nokia and Intel's beleaguered MeeGo OS, or Windows 7. No ubiquitous Android or Linux here, folks.

Weighing 1kg, the X101 runs on Intel's 1.5GHz Oak Trail processor and has a GMA 600 graphics card. Measuring 10-inches, the laptop will also come in red and gold, and will cost $199 upwards. [NetbookNews via SlashGear]

NVIDIA's new wired 3D Vision glasses give up some freedom for a lower price

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/29/nvidia-new-wired-3d-vision-glasses-give-up-some-freedom-for-a-lo/

NVIDIA has been pushing its 3D Vision platform for a couple of years and at this year's Computex it is looking to pull in more PC users with new wired LCD active shutter glasses. The original wireless specs rely on the same IR sync tech and battery power seen in glasses for many HDTVs, but these get power and data over a 10-foot USB cable. While that might not work for living room viewing, a single user application like PC gaming or watching a Blu-ray 3D on a laptop doesn't suffer for the cable restriction. Besides foregoing the sometimes finicky IR sync these are also cheaper, with a $99 MSRP when they go on sale in "late June" compared to $149 for the wireless version. The company hopes the combination of a lower entry price and ability to be secured to the PC make it a viable option for gamers who may already have a compatible LCD and GPU, or gaming cafes that want to run a few Starcraft II tournaments in 3D -- check the rest of the details in the press release after the break.

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NVIDIA's quad-core Kal-El used to demo next-gen mobile graphics, blow minds (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/29/nvidias-quad-core-kal-el-used-to-demo-next-gen-mobile-graphics/

You might think yourself too grown-up to be wowed by shiny, glittery things, but we doubt many will be able to watch NVIDIA's new Glow Ball tech demo without a smidgen of childlike glee. Built to run on the company's quad-core Kal-El processor, it shows us the first example of true dynamic lighting on mobile devices and also throws in some impressive physics calculations like fully modeled cloth motion. Instead of the pre-canned, static lights that we see on mobile games today, NVIDIA's new hardware will make it possible to create lighting that moves, fluctuates in intensity, and responds realistically to its environment -- all rendered in real time. The titular glow ball can be skinned with different textures, each one allowing a different amount and hue of illumination to escape to surrounding objects, and is directed around the screen using the accelerometer in your tablet or smartphone.

NVIDIA demoed the new goodness on a Honeycomb slate with 1280 x 800 resolution and the frame rates remained smooth throughout. In order to emphasize the generational leap that we can expect with Kal-El, the company switched off two of the four cores momentarily, which plunged performance down to less than 10fps. That means the simulations we're watching require a full quartet of processing cores on top of the 12-core GPU NVIDIA has in Kal-El. Mind-boggling stuff. Glow Ball will be available as a game on Android tablets once this crazy new chip makes its way into retail devices -- which are still expected in the latter half of this year, August if everything goes perfectly to plan. One final note if you're still feeling jaded: NVIDIA promises the production chip will be 25 to 30 percent faster than the one on display today. Full video demo follows after the break.

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Linaro and Samsung roll out Exynos 4210-based Origen development board for $199

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/29/linaro-and-samsung-roll-out-exynos-4210-based-origen-development/

You may recall a little group of Linux-loving chums called Linaro, which was formed almost a year ago in the hopes of speeding up Linux development. Today at Computex, the company's taking one step further with the announcement of the Origen development board. Based on Samsung's beefy Exynos 4210 dual core chipset, the kit packs all the essential ports -- including HDMI, USB 2.0 host, SD slot, etc. -- for keen developers to get their hands dirty on, and its base board is also removable to accommodate future chipsets. Potential buyers are told to keep an eye on Insignal, which will soon be offering the basic Origen package for $199, along with optional parts at an extra cost.

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CUPP PunkThis hands-on (video)

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/cupp-punkthis-hands-on-video/

It's not the first time we're run into CUPP Computing's unique ability to blend the x86 and ARM platforms into one device -- at least in prototype form -- and just before the start of Computex 2011 here in Taipei we got a chance to experience the company's latest iteration called PunkThis. The product is meant to replace your computer's 2.5-inch SATA hard drive with a board featuring a complete ARM-based system along with a mini-PCIe socket -- the latter capable of accommodating a physically smaller SATA SSD to handle the missing storage for the x86 host. PunkThis is built around a Texas Instruments DM3730 ARM CPU with 512 MB of RAM and includes a WiFi radio, as well as connectors and cables to interface the board with existing video, audio, and USB facilities on the host computer (no soldering required).

The netbook we got to play with was running Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) but was lacking WiFi support. It ran perfectly alongside Windows 7 which was powered by the existing Atom processor. Switching OS-es is just a hotkey away, and battery life is supposedly doubled when the main x86 CPU is shut down and the only the daughter board is operational. PunkThis also provides two microSD card slots -- one for system storage used by the ARM-based OS (Android in this case), the other for mass storage visible to both environments (shared space). Pricing is supposed to remain below $200 and availability is expected in 8 weeks. That's pretty hardcore, but with a name like PunkThis would you expect anything less? Feast your eyes on our gallery and peek after the break for our hands-on video along with the obligatory PR.

Gallery: CUPP PunkThis hands-on

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Samsung teases 4G tablet for 2011, Galaxy S III in first half of 2012

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/samsung-teases-4g-tablet-for-2011-galaxy-s-iii-in-first-half-of/

Don't expect a lawsuit or two to keep a good chaebol down. Not if J.K. Shin has his way. The president of Samsung's mobile communication division is telling us to expect an "enhanced" 4G Galaxy Tab (without providing any detail) sometime later this year, following the launch of the company's 8.9-inch Tab this summer and 10.1-inch Tab next month -- the latter priced between $499 and $599. He also teased a third version of the wildly popular Galaxy S handset series for the first half of 2012. A proclamation arriving on news that the delectabled Galaxy S II has just set a record for the fastest selling smartphone in Korea after unloading one million handsets in the first month of domestic sales.

Naturally, Shin also had a bit to say about Samsung's ongoing legal battle with Apple. "We didn't copy Apple's design," he said bluntly, adding that Apple's allegations "will not be legally problematic." Sure Sammy, tell it to the judge.

Update: The Wall Street Journal updated its story calling for the 8.9-inch Galaxy Tab to launch this summer, not in June as originally stated.

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ViewPad 7x aims to become world's first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet, adds HSPA+ for good measure

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/viewpad-7x-aims-to-become-worlds-first-7-inch-honeycomb-tablet/

Guess who's sneakily beating the pack to the title of having the globe's first 7-inch Honeycomb tablet... why, it's none other than ViewSonic! The ViewPad 7x (1024 x 600 resolution) managed to leak out earlier this month, but now it's fully official with Google's Android 3.0.1 OS, HSPA+ connectivity, and a pair of cameras, one on the front and one on the back. A Tegra 2 dual-core processor plus an HDMI-out have also been included inside a featherweight 380g package. Ironically, ViewSonic's neglected to provide a release date for this "world first" tablet, but we'll be hitting up its booth here at Computex for some more hands-on time and making sure to collect that and every other salient detail about the ViewPad 7x.

Gallery: ViewPad 7x hands-on

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ViewSonic ViewPad 10Pro boots an Intel Oak Trail CPU into either Android or Windows 7 Pro

Source: http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/30/embargo-viewsonic-viewpad-10pro-boots-an-intel-oak-trail-cpu-i/

The ViewPad 10 era is over, here comes the epoch of the ViewPad 10Pro. Beyond the introduction of Intel's Oak Trail Z670 1.5GHz processor, the new Windows 7 Pro / Android 2.2 dual-boot tablet throws in a 3G radio, 32GB of onboard storage (expandable via MicroSD or USB), and a 3500mAh battery that's rated to last for 4.5 hours of 1080p video playback. It's one of Intel's promised 10+ Android tablets coming at this year's Computex, though it has the appreciable advantage of being able to switch over to Windows 7 pretty much instantaneously. Check it out in the gallery below and you can expect a more in-depth look from us later on during the currently ongoing Computex 2011 trade show.

Update: Calling this a dual-boot tablet may have been a little ambitious, as it's running the Bluestacks virtualization software, which turns Android into a Windows app, rather than allowing true dual-booting capabilities.

Gallery: ViewPad 10Pro hands-on

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