BETT is billed as one of the world’s largest Education Technology conferences and it has historically taken place around the end of January or the beginning of February. That changed when COVID-19 decided to derail nearly everyone’s plans for the better part of two years. Canceled last year, BETT 2022 has been pushed back to […]
Continue ReadingUpcoming Devices
One of the primary focuses here at Chrome Unboxed is future hardware. After all, our early days were all about new devices! What is coming feels just as important as what is here now, so we will continue looking for the latest and greatest developments in the Chrome OS ecosystem.
New leak suggests an actual release date for Pixel Watch
At this point, I don’t think any of us are doubting the existence of the Pixel Watch. Sure, for years we all expected Google to get in the wearables game with a Pixel-branded watch and were constantly let down, but the leaks and proof of this yet-unreleased device are too overwhelming to ignore at this […]
Continue Reading‘Banshee’ emerges as a potential Dell XPS Chromebook candidate
For as long as I’ve been a Chromebook fan, I’ve waited for Dell to make an XPS Chromebook. For Dell, XPS is the top-of-the-line laptop and all their best, newest, most innovative ideas get funneled into this line each year. One the first XPS innovations I remember drooling over was the XPS 13’s tiny bezels […]
Continue ReadingMediaTek’s new Kompanio 1380 ARM processor is really, really fast [VIDEO]
As a part of CES 2022, we have the new Acer Chromebook Spin 513 in the office and inside this handsome Chromebook is an SoC that we’ve been very, very excited to see in action: the MediaTek Kompanio 1380. To be fair, we thought the Kompanio 1200 was the model we would be looking out […]
Continue ReadingHP unveils “Fortis” brand for blended learning with two Chromebooks in tow
Welcome to 2022 where CES might as well have been 100% virtual and most PC makers are content to simply launch new products on their own schedules. Personally, I’m all for it. As much as I like attending in-person events, a good majority of Chromebook-related releases require far less fanfare and a virtual press event […]
Continue ReadingThe Google Pixel Fold might be called the Pixel…Notepad?
In a move that looks likely to happen, the device we’ve been colloquially referring to as the Pixel Fold may be going by a completely different name: the Pixel Notepad. Yep, that’s really what it might go by. While I’m already not a fan of this naming, I can kind of see what Google might […]
Continue ReadingLogitech gets in the USI Chromebook stylus game with an EDU-focused pen
Logitech has unveiled a new USI pen that is directly focused on the education sector. Dubbed the Logitech Pen, this interesting stylus has a few nice tricks up its sleeve and is one of those accessories who’s thoughtful design makes me excited to see where the USI initiative will go over the coming months and […]
Continue ReadingGoogle’s Pixel Fold may improve on the Galaxy Z Fold 3 in one very key way
Google’s Pixel Fold (the name we’re giving it until we have something else) has been a hot topic of discussion for quite some time. At one point we thought it would arrive by year’s end and would likely be at least hinted at in Google’s October hardware event, but that clearly didn’t happen. Then we […]
Continue ReadingCES 2022: Hands-on with Acer’s new MediaTek Kompanio 1380-powered Spin 513
We were as bummed out as anyone with the rise in the Omicron variant that forced us to forego this year’s in-person CES event. We knew a few great Chromebooks would be at the show and that made us all even more upset that we’d likely not get our hands on them until a later […]
Continue ReadingCES 2022: HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook early hands-on and impressions
Every year with CES is a bit different for us. With Chromebooks, you just never know which companies are going to show up what, and it is sometimes hard to know which companies are going to bring anything Chrome OS-related at all. As for HP, as long as we’ve been attending CES – in-person or […]
Continue ReadingAcer’s latest Chromebooks, announced last fall, all get dedicated landing pages
I know we’re in the middle of CES 2022, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the tech world just comes to a halt outside of that event. As a matter of fact, more so than ever, there are interesting things going on outside the walls of the CES 2022 confines this week. Though Acer […]
Continue ReadingMore details emerge for Acer’s new MediaTek Kompanio 1380 Chromebook at CES 2022
Yesterday, we sat down virtually with Acer’s team on the ground at CES 2020 and 90% of our time was spent asking questions about the new Acer Chromebook Spin 513 that was recently announced. Sure, Acer announced 3 Chromebooks in total this week, but the star of the show is clearly the one with the […]
Continue ReadingHP unleashes the beast in the Elite Dragonfly Chromebook with two world’s firsts
Today, HP is taking the wraps off their latest high-end, flagship Chromebook for both consumers and enterprise users in the HP Elite Dragonfly Chromebook. We’ll get into the specs and features this one brings to the table in just a moment, but I think it is safe to say at this point that the Dragonfly […]
Continue ReadingAcer unveils world’s first MediaTek Kompanio 1380 Chromebook at CES 2022
This is one of the devices we’ve been very, very eagerly awaiting. Powered by a previously-unknown MediaTek Kompanio 1380 SoC, this device is ready to be the first MediaTek Kompanio-powered Chromebook that sits closer to the higher-end of the market. In case you weren’t up to speed, MediaTek has three tiers of SoCs for Chromebooks […]
Continue Reading5G is coming to 12th-gen Intel Alder Lake Chromebooks, too
We’ve known for months at this point that Chromebooks were coming with 5G built in. With new silicon from Qualcomm and MediaTek on the way, it felt like a foregone conclusion that we’d eventually see this connectivity option in ARM-based Chromebooks. With ARM-based silicon in every single phone out on the market, it should come […]
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