Gadgetory

it's time for your computer to have a split personality I'm Bridget Carey and this is your cnet update when you can't decide between an Android tablet and a Windows 8 laptop now a sous put both in one with the transformer book trio in its laptop form the trio can switch between windows 8 and Android but if you separate the screen it acts as an Android tablet the keyboard half can be docked to any monitor to boot up windows it's said to get up to 15 hours of battery life in tablet mode but asus hasn't said how much this would cost or will go on sale it's just one of the many new devices were seen this week at the Computex computer Expo in Taiwan also at the expo acer announced a new all-in-one desktop computer and get this it runs Android 4.0 this 21 and a half inch touchscreen is loaded with Android instead of Windows the list price is four hundred and eighty dollars but you can find it for around four hundred or less at other resellers and a sous showed off a sleek-looking ultrabook the zenbook affinity which is encased in gorilla glass 3 it's a material that's tough and resistant to scratches and scuffs but we'll have to wait until later this year for more details about the zenbook infinity it'll come out by September we're seeing more laptops lately with Gorilla Glass including the Acer Aspire s7 and that's not the only gadget news samsung announced its coming out with more sizes for the galaxy tab 3 along with the already announced 7 inch version there will be an 8 inch and a 10 inch model these new tablets will run Android 4.2 and they'll have two cameras for the front and back sides they'll come with either 16 or 32 gigs of storage and there will be versions for Wi-Fi as well as wireless 3g and 4g when it goes on sale sometime this month and an apple news cnet has learned that apple's much closer to launching a free streaming radio product it has just made a licensing deal with warner music group and it reached a deal with universal last month but negotiations are still going on with Sony this streaming radio product perhaps called I radio would compete against services like Pandora Apple may unveil it next week at its developers conference android users can now jump in on the quirky video sharing trend that is the vine app Twitter six second looping video app is now available on Android it launched in January for people with iphones and ipads and it gained 13 million users what makes vine a little different is that you can start and stop the recording multiple times so you create stop motion animations that's your tech news update you can find more details on these stories at cnet com / update from our studios in New York I'm Bridget Carey