In recent years, I’ve seen a few dual display devices like MSI’s 10-inch dual display netbook or the 7-inch version but most, if not all of these never get pass the prototype stage. Very few that I’m aware of have made it to market like…
Archive for July, 2010
Augen Android Tablet Gets Hands On Videos, Compared to iPad
Augen’s 7-inch tablet that was announced for sale at Kmart yesterday has already found it’s way to a couple of users. Just to recap, it’s running Android 2.1, has a resistive touchscreen, an 800MHz processor, 256GB RAM, 2GB storage, b/g Wi-Fi and an SD card…
Toshiba Portégé R700 Powerful Ultra Portable Hands on
At the 25th Anniversary Toshiba Press conference in Taipei, we were able to get our hands on the Portégé R700. Toshiba has decked out the Portégé R700 with several options with regular Core i3, Core i5 or Core i7 CPUs. Initially there will be five…
US Gets Cheap Android Tablets from Kmart for $150 (Hands On Update)
Update: The Android Blog has spotted one of these at Kmart and posted up a hands on video. The experience is summed up in two words – slow and unresponsive. As with the GenBook smartbook, you get what you pay for! Hands on video below:…
$99 Smartbook Spotted At Kmart, Bought & Tested
Kmart is back in the spotlight! Yesterday a company you’ve most likely never heard of until now – Augen – made an announcement that they would be selling $150 Android tablets in the US (though no one has spotted any in stock yet) although they…
Ramos W7 4.8-inch MID with access to the Android Marketplace
Our friends over at Shanzai.com have unboxed the Ramos W7… last week and put it through the paces to give us their review. The Rockchip video performance was solid enough at 480p but fell short on handling 720p. If YouTube is what you are after,
ASUS Eee Box EB1012P and EB1501P ION 2 Nettops Product Pages Live
ASUS’ latest nettops – the Eee Box EB1012P and EB1015P (one with a DVD drive) are still not on sale but they at least have product pages up on ASUS’ global product pages.
As we’ve seen previously, both these nettops have different designs but share…
Hands on with the Toshiba NB250
Toshiba has recently presented a new netbook which we were able to do a hands on with at their 25th anniversary press conference here in Taipei. The Mini NB250 which is already available for purchase online with a starting price of $290.
In the inside…
AMD Fusion May Be USB 3.0 Ready By Launch
Right now ASUS is leading the pack when it comes to USB 3.0 adoption on netbooks and Ultra…-thin notebooks, but only for Intel based systems. With AMD’s Ontario based Fusion chips (combining GPU and CPU) re-scheduled earlier for a Q4 2010 release this year
Malata A1011 Tablet to launch as “InterPad”
We took a look at the Tegra 2-powered Malata A1011 at Computex earlier this year, and although it wasn’t perfect, it was certainly one of the better models out there. Now the A1011 has been picked up by German outfit E-Noa, and is due to…
Hannspree Hannsbook SN10 Netbook w/ N450/N470 & Non Glossy display
The Chinese Manufacturer Hannspree has come out with the Hannsbook SN10, a new 10-inch Netbook that is available UK via mobile phone retailer Carphone Warehouse. The device has a matte 10-inch display and is the familiar Intel Atom N450 or N470.
In addition to the…
LG X140 – 10″ Netbook That’s Ready For a Relationship with Your Phone
LG has come out with a new netbook, the LG X140 it has and HD-ready 10.1-inch (1,366 x 768) display and comes with an anti-glare layer that makes it easier to use outdoors. LG has realized that netbooks and smartphone are mobile devices that are…
AMD Fusion CPUs with DX11 graphics for Nettops in Q4 2010
We’ve already got AMD processors with integrated ATI graphics for netbooks on the market. These new processors are apart of the “Fusion” platform and have Intel in their sights we now have word that they are expanding this line up into nettops. The projections indicate…
Dell Inspiron M101z Launched, 11-Inch and AMD Powered (Update)
Update: The M101z will be launched in the US next month in August. Brad over at Liliputing has an unboxing video with a few shots – check ‘em out. Video after the break.
This announcement caught me totally off guard – Dell has launched the…
Toshiba AC100 Smartbook Reviewed, Full Experience Lacking
The world’s first real 10-inch smartbook is still a month away from going on sale (at least in Japan’s case) but there’s already a Russian review up of an early model over at mail.ru (I am sure you’ve seen plenty of spam from this address…
