Neowin News Feed for: Thin

Handsets like iPhone Air are trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist

Usama Jawad — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 20:00:18 +0000

With its latest iPhone Air, which is the thinnest iPhone ever made, Apple is trying to solve problems that don't really exist, and that's a problem by itself. Read more...

Dawn of the Chinese micro-bezel smartphones: a look at two upcoming 'bezel-less' handsets

Steven Johns — Sun, 22 May 2016 11:48:01 +0000

How small can bezels go? Really small, apparently, as a couple of different smartphone manufacturers have shown us. Here we check out two phones in particular that have almost non-existent bezels. Read more...

Huawei's new aluminium Windows Phone expected to début at CES

Andy Weir — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 10:14:48 +0000

Huawei's third Windows Phone, the imaginatively named Ascend W3, could début later this week, featuring a HD display and thin aluminium body, with design cues taken from the 6.18mm-thick Ascend P6. Read more...

Side-by-side: Nokia's Lumia 925 vs Lumia 920

Andy Weir — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 06:53:58 +0000

Nokia's thin and light Lumia 925 may essentially be a Lumia 920 in new clothes, but how does it compare with its chunkier, heavier brother? We put Nokia's two flagship Windows Phones side by side. Read more...

Review: Nokia Lumia 925

Andy Weir — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 08:27:46 +0000

Nokia has tackled the major criticisms of its Lumia 920 with the launch of its thin, light, aluminium-bodied Lumia 925. But is the new flagship Windows Phone any good, or is its beauty only skin-deep? Read more...

Toshiba unveils world's thinnest 10-inch tablet [Update]

Andy Weir — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 10:21:19 +0000

Toshiba's Excite X10 - its new Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich tablet - is both thinner and lighter than the iPad 2. Could this finally be the device to dethrone the iPad as king of the tablets? Read more...

Dell unveils ultra thin laptop dubbed Adamo

Brad Sams — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:21:18 +0000

Dell has been hard at work to create a notebook that would compete with Apples offering of the MacBook Air. Today dell showed off its hard work with the Adamo branding, think Inspiron, and... Read more...

Macbook Air: What a rip off or is thin really that in?

Steven Parker — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:28:52 +0000

When Steve Jobs unveiled the Macbook Air at his keynote, Dave Legg (our coder here at Neowin) immediately contacted me and showed me the link to the demo of this wonderful product, my jaw dropped.... Read more...

Sharp Readying Thin Solar Cell Output For 2008

Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:08:07 +0000

Sharp Corporation, the number one maker of solar cells in the world, plans to increase production of thin-film silicon solar cells over the next year at one of its plants located in the Nara Prefecture,... Read more...

Brown University Researchers Create Paper Thin Battery

Christopher Vendemio — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 05:09:10 +0000

Researchers at Brown University in the US have created a prototype rechargeable battery that is as thin as a plastic transparency and as powerful as 100 alkaline batteries. The plastic battery, created by engineers Tayhas... Read more...

Digital Clock as Thin as Paper

Steven Parker — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 08:02:25 +0000

Just when you thought watches couldn't get any more advanced, Citizen Watch has created a digital clock that is as thin as paper! Utilizing the electronic paper display technology, Citizen Watch... Read more...

Ziff Davis Media Crosses the Thin Red Line

Marcel Klum — Sun, 11 Jan 2004 12:53:29 +0000

In one of the more bizarre and tasteless uses of a photo in many years by a gaming magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly, which is published by Ziff-Davis Media, hits a new low. For their coverage... Read more...

Making a video screen out of thin air

Mon, 15 Sep 2003 18:19:14 +0000

In a museum in Tampere, Finland, Ismo Rakkolainen's fog machine conjures up the Mona Lisa on an invisible sheet of water particles. Thousands of miles away in Hermosa Beach, California, a graduate... Read more...

.org registry vanishes into thin air

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 19 May 2003 13:54:12 +0000

The registry for all .org domains appears to have collapsed - meaning that all the details of who owns any .org domain are unobtainable. We can't be sure when it vanished but it would have... Read more...

AMD confirms thin and light Athlon XPs

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 12 Mar 2003 08:51:07 +0000

CHIP FIRM AMD got its first strike in against the Centrino blitz here in CeBIT by announcing its first chip for the so called thin-and-light market. It has a total of 12 notebook processors used... Read more...